As you know, there are different languages and cultures in Spain, the dominant one being Castile. They've tried to wipe out the others since the 17th century, and repression has often been brutal. Today, extremists can't behave the same way an authoritarian regime would allow them. They are though, fully devoting themselves to all kinds of political manoeuvering, including corruption, sabotaging and public opinion intoxication (scaremongering, disinformation, namecalling of minority
leaders, fostering ethnic hatred, etc): everything to ensure that (1) political autonomy of non-castilian peoples doesn't really develop and (2) they can't efficiently implement legitimate policies to reinstate their languages and cultures. In places like the Valencian Country, they are doing so from the regional government and from local administrations.

   If you know a little about the Basque Contry you might know the `maketo' insult. The word applied derogatorily to spanish immigrants and is very much in disuse because it's become too offensive. In Catalonia there was a similar word: charnego. Creating a political newsgroup under the soc.culture label and under that name is as disruptive and malicious as one can be in Usenet. These people we have known for several years and are basically right wing agitators with a special hatred for Catalonia. We don't want to deprive them of their right to speak (lie, really), but we have a right to ask that the newsgroup falls in a different category than soc.culture, and under a different name than charnego. We've asked to no avail, obviously, and are just using our right to vote NO on this proposal of newsgroup creation as it is.

   We are introducing a problem that is likely to affect you in your country as it affects us in ours. We hope you'll be sensitive to the logics of this call and some of you will follow suite out of  survival instinct (not just out of sympathy).

 1. The Problem

 2. Catalonia and Spain

 3. Soc.culture.charnego

 4. Mutual Support Network

 5. Pointer to the Call for Votes (CFV)

 6. How to vote

   We expect to set up a NETWORK, a network that you are invited to join. A network that will raise the alarm, coordinate our efforts and launch and INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE AS A BLOCK, automatically, to every subsequent attemp to attack a minority culture on Internet. Your country could be next.