September 29, 2017
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — When striking college students rallied on Thursday in Barcelona to defend a vote on whether Catalonia should secede from Spain, Josep Lago headed in the opposite direction, to his Law class.
The 24-year-old has little sympathy for the political struggle that many of his fellow students have embraced. Catalonia as it is now, a prosperous region of northeastern Spain, suits him well. Like most of those who agree with him, he doesn't plan to vote in Sunday's referendum.
What moves him to protest, though, is what he sees as the refusal of his right to dissent in a society where the separatists' is the loudest voice. Lago has taken legal action against the harassment and threats that his group of non-nationalist students received when they started to speak up.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — When striking college students rallied on Thursday in Barcelona to defend a vote on whether Catalonia should secede from Spain, Josep Lago headed in the opposite direction, to his Law class.
The 24-year-old has little sympathy for the political struggle that many of his fellow students have embraced. Catalonia as it is now, a prosperous region of northeastern Spain, suits him well. Like most of those who agree with him, he doesn't plan to vote in Sunday's referendum.
What moves him to protest, though, is what he sees as the refusal of his right to dissent in a society where the separatists' is the loudest voice. Lago has taken legal action against the harassment and threats that his group of non-nationalist students received when they started to speak up.
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