BRIGA

BRIGA
Founded 2004
Headquarters Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
Ideology Galician independence
Socialism
Feminism
Anti-imperialism
Mother party Nós-Unidade Popular
Website
briga-galiza.info

Briga (Fight or Struggle in Galician language) is a Galician independentist political organization formed by young people founded in 2004 as a split of the Assembleia da Mocidade Independentista.[1] It is the youth wing of the political party Nós-Unidade Popular and defines itself as a socialist, antipatriarcal, ecologist, antiautoritaritarian, antimperialist and Internationalism[2] organization. It also defendes social monolingualism and linguistic reintegrationism in Galiza. BRIGA has AGIR as its reference in student unionism.

History

BRIGA was created in 2004 after a rupture in the Assembleia da Mocidade Independentista (AMI) between the supporters of remaining an independent youth organization and the supporters of becoming the youth wing of Nós-Unidade Popular, which eventually left AMI.

In May 2005 3 BRIGA militants were arrested for an attempt to remove a statue of the fascist military Millán Astray in A Coruña.[3] At the same year the organization was almost banned when they were accused of supporting violence. 5 militants of BRIGA were arrested by the Spanish police and were accused of unlawful association. They were later absolved and the organization was fully legalized. Later in the same year the police arrested again 3 militants of BRIGA that were accused of hitting a cop during a demostration.[4]

During the following years BRIGA made numerous campaigns reasons such as speculation, the defense of Galician and low wages of youth. One of the most importat was the campaign in 2008 to paint a political mural every of the 366 days of that year, a goal that was finally reached.[5] In 2009 during a BRIGA demostration in Santiago de Compostela the police charged against the demostrators, which left several militants BRIGA wounded and sparked riots in the Old Quarter of the city.[6] In 2010 and 2011 the police dissolved again the tradicinal demostrations of BRIGA on the 24th of July (the day before the Día Nacional de Galicia) in Santiago de Compostela.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Briga: 10 años de lucha juvenil por la independencia, el socialismo y el feminismo en Galiza | HerriKolore". herrikolore.org. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
  2. ↑ "Quem somos?". briga-galiza.info. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
  3. ↑ http://www.primeiralinha.org/destaques6/astray.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.vieiros.com/nova/59092/piden-cinco-anos-de-cadea-para-tres-persoas-por-bater-na-policia-un-1-de-maio
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I42l0ywaUI
  6. ↑ http://old.kaosenlared.net/noticia/galiza-mobilizacom-da-jornada-rebeliom-juvenil-09-carga-policial
  7. ↑ http://esculca.gal/sites/default/files/pdf/Dossier24-25Xullo.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucS5i6Zfk0w

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