The Spanish government has agreed to require a clarification from Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on whether he declared independence in yesterday’s plenary session of the Catalan Parliament. Spanish president Mariano Rajoy has said this is a “previous requirement” to any measure his government could adopt in accordance with Article 155 of the Constitution, which allows the Spanish government to directly run Catalonia’s affairs from Madrid, which could amount to a de facto suspension of Catalan autonomy. Keep reading

All 72 pro-independence MPs that hold the absolute majority in the Catalan Parliament signed yesterday 10 October a declaration of independence that the Catalan government considers to be "suspended" until options for dialogue and mediation between Barcelona and the Spanish government can be alive. Keep reading

Native women across North America are disproportionately vulnerable to violence. According to the US-based Indian Law Resource Center, “One in three Native women will be raped in their lifetime, and three in five will be physically assaulted. Native women are more than twice as likely to be stalked than other women and, even worse, Native women are being murdered at a rate ten times the national average.” Keep reading

According to provisional official data released by the Catalan government, yes to independence won yesterday’s vote with 2,020,114 ballots for (90%), 176,566 against (7.8%), 45,586 blank votes (2%) and 20,129 null votes (0,89%). Turnout reached 42.6% of the census, but the government said 770.000 people could not vote as their polling stations had been closed by the police, or their votes could not be counted because police officers seized the ballot boxes. Keep reading