Jan 19, 20184 min readBeyond the Café WindowBeyond the café window, there’s a young girl squeezing her schoolbooks between her clasped arms. Her round glasses sit low on her nose, and her long brown hair swings from side to side. She’s waiting …
Oct 16, 20173 min readPanAm Podcast: Yael Ossowski Suggests Greater Political Autonomy Might Avert Catalonia CrisisA recent podcast conducted with PanAm Post. This past weekend, the world watched as Mariano Rajoy‘s government deploy the national police to the Catalonia region in what proved to be a violent attempt …
Oct 5, 20173 min readHow do you build a successful independence movement?By Yaël Ossowski In Scotland’s 2014 referendum, what I really learned is that a successful independence movement must be cultural and all-encompassing. A minority language helps. For many years, …
Oct 3, 20175 min readWe are all Catalonians now: Why the Spanish crisis matters for all nationsIn scenes straight from a 1984-esque dystopian thriller, armed policemen from the Spanish Guardia Civil descended into the streets of the Catalonian region over the weekend to halt a planned …
Sep 24, 20135 min readWhat the Québec Independence Movement Can Learn from CataloniaLeaving National Secession to Politics Alone Is a Mistake On September 11, the National Day of Catalonia, an estimated 1.6 million Catalans joined hands across the vast territory they’d like to call …
Apr 15, 20135 min readThe Stateless Man: As Europe Centralizes Power, Catalonia Yearns to Break FreeBy Yaël Ossowski | The Stateless Man “Catalunya no és Espanya.” More than just a slogan, it’s become a rallying cry for the nearly 7.5 million Catalans who wish to demonstrate to the world that their …