At least one train and more than 1,000 coaches were chartered to bring supporters from all over the region to the march. The mob filled the streets with red and yellow Catalan flags, rallying under the slogan "Catalonia, a new European state," chanting “what do the crowds want? A new European state! What do the people want? An independent Catalonia!"
A swelling unemployment rate combined with financial instability have fueled the secessionist spirit. Polls published on Tuesday show that 46.4% support the independence bid – twice as many as in 2008, when the financial crisis began, writes The Guardian.
The autonomous Spanish community, whose economy is bigger than the entirety of neighbouring Portugal's, accounts for a fifth of Spanish output.
But it is burdened by the austerity cuts put forth by the Spanish and European governments in response to the global economic crisis that has left one in four Spaniards jobless. http://rt.com/news/catalonian-national-day-protest-independence-925/
Take to the streets: To gather together in the public
streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or
opposition. (salir a la calle)
Face: meet , be confronted by (afrontar)
Crippling: disabling (agobiante, paralizante)
Mob: a riotous or disorderly crowd of people
(muchedumbre)
Rally (under the slogan) : gather (mobilizándose bajo
el lema)
Chant: to intone (a slogan) rhythmically or
repetitiously (corear)
Polls : the casting, recording or counting of votes in
an election /survey of people, voting (votación, encuesta, sondeo)
Fuel: support, stimulate (alimentar)
Swelling: growing (elevado, que va en aumento)
Unemployment rate: tasa de desempleo
Bid: an effort to gain an end / attempt (intento, petición -de independencia)
Account for: explain ( representar)
Output: what comes out, the production ( producción)
Burdened: oppressed (agobiado)
Put forth: present, propose (proponer)
