Catalan defence committees ready to take to the streets

When teachers, students, parents and activists turned up to defend polling stations against police in Catalonia's banned independence referendum, it became evident that a well-organised grassroots movement had emerged. Many were part of "committees to defend the referendum", or CDRs -- neighbourhood groups set up about a month prior, at times with the help of well-honed activists, to ensure the vote went ahead on October 1 despite a court ruling it unconstitutional. Now, scattered across Catalan town and cities, driven by their quest for independence, they are ready to take to the streets against Spain's central government -- and pressure their own regional separatist executive if they back down.

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