Re: More flags for the database

Hello!

Btw, what is the difference of meaning/usage of your Galician
flag, and the one currently in sodipodi gallery?

Uraeus - should we at last start non-geographic falgs section?
Until better categorizing is sorted out, maybe we just to do
2 clipart galleries:
'flags-geographic'
'flags-other'
Although it may sometimes be hard to decide, whether something is
geographic or not, the ones like pirates, navies and parties
probably do belong there?

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski

=?iso-8859-1?B?RGVu7XMgRmVybuFuZGV6IENhYnJlcmE= ?= kirjutas R,
23.01.2004 kell 13:29:
> Hello.
> 
> I have decided to add my two cents to the flag database. Enclosed in
> the rar archive go five flags, as follows:
> 
> anarcommunist.*  --- The Anarco - Communist flag.
> anarchist.* --- Classic anarchist flag.
> socialist.* --- Socialist flag. (A red rectangle, actually.)
> spain_galiza.* --- Nationalist flag of Galiza (Galicia), Spain.
> spain.republic.* --- Republic of Spain (historical).
> 
> A quick notes: 
> 
> The nationalist flag of Galiza (also called Galicia) is used nowadays.
> Galiza is a small country in the northwest of Spain, with a history, 
> culture and language of its own, and which has been occupied since the
> sixteenth century by Spain. The situation is not very different from 
> that of Great Britain and North Ireland -- but here the difference is 
> cultural and political, not religious. This flag is both a banner for 
> the nationalist identity of the people of Galiza, and for the united 
> left of that nation, for those who fight for galizan identity usually 
> also support different brands of socialism.
> 
> The flag of the Republic of Spain is that of before 1936, when a sector
> of the army started a civil war against the Republic. After the 
> fascists won the war, the cloth was changed from the three colours 
> (red, yellow and violet) to only red and yellow (in three stripes), 
> and it remains that way now -- even if the dictatorship has ended and 
> Spain is supposed to be a democracy once more.
> 
> The Anarcommunist flag gathers both the ideals of anarchism and
> communism, as Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman depicted it. 
> It was a very strong brand of anarchism in Spain before and during the
> war, and a good deal of resistance against the fascist invassion came 
> from them. Nowadays, the major anarchist sindicate, CNT, bears this 
> flag, and it is recognized worlwide as one of the flags of anarchism.
> 
> The Anarchist flag is just one of the many possible and known. Given
> the nature of anarchism ("I shall carry no flag, nor country or 
> frontiers, nor laws to live"), it is at least bold to try and 
> assignate the movement a single symbol. Still, this is probably the 
> most frequent one.
> 
> The Socialist flag, as it was originally, is just plain red. No hammer
> and sickle, no stars. Just a red cloth, which is what was carried 
> during the Paris Commune of 1870, the first socialist revolution.
> 
> Gatonegro.
> 




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