Ómnium Cultural is a non-profit organization that has more than 165,000 members and 58 years of history. The Catalan Association was started on July 11, 1961, at the height of 40 years of Franco dictatorship, Òmnium Cultural emerged to combat censorship and persecution of Catalan language and culture. Currently, Òmnium Cultural is one of the main non-profit entities of the Spanish State. Since 2010, Òmnium Cultural is the entity that has promoted the most massive peaceful mobilizations in Europe , with the help of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), for Catalan Independence and, more specifically, in favor of the right of Catalans to freely and democratically choose their political future through a referendum of self determination. Despite not holding a position in any government, the non-profit organization still has their own campaigns and projects that revolve around political, social and cultural issues, such as the fight for Catalan independence.
Jordi Cuixart is the 10th president of Òmnium Cultural and a 43-year-old Catalan businessman and activist. Cuixart is in prison for having exercised basic rights such as the right to protest and the right to freedom of expression in defense of the Catalan referendum on October 1, 2017. In June 2018, coinciding with the eight months in prison, he was re-elected president in the most massive general assembly in the history of the entity. He has been a member of Òmnium since 1996. Ómnium Cultural is an organization very focused on its main goal, Catalan independence.
Madison's Catalan Culture Experience 