page_title: Lluís Brines i Garcia
section_title: Antiblavers project
hierarchical_section_title: Lluís Brines i Garcia / Antiblavers project
caption_attribution_description: Català: Logo de www.antiblavers.org
context_page_description: Lluís Brines i Garcia is a Catalan researcher, whose paternal family comes from Simat de la Valldigna. He is the son of the musician Lluís Brines Selfa. He has lived in Valencian Country since 1989. He is a specialist in Francesc Eiximenis, about whom he wrote his doctoral dissertation. He is the creator of the antiblavers website and was its administrator until 2011. He is also Franciscan tertiary.
context_section_description: Lluís Brines was the ideologist and creator of the website antiblavers, whose main aim was to fight in a scientific and serious way against Blaverism. Other collaborators took care of the informatic matters.
  At the end of 2004 a group of people around the Valencian Community was very concerned about the fact that there were many Blaverist websites, such as www.elpalleter.com, www.valenciafreedom.com or www.llenguavalencianasi.com. Moreover, these websites were very aggressive and offered a biased point of view. So they had the aim of creating a serious and scientific tool in order to fight against Blaverism. This is the way that www.antiblavers.info was born in May 2005. In the beginning the website offered only information, with a part of research materials and a gallery of images. During its first year it achieved 35,000 visits. After some time, in August 2006, a forum was added.
  One of the most important milestones of the website during its first years was the gathering of old and modern evidences of the flag with four red stripes in Valencian territory. This way in February 2010 there were already 2100 evidences that had been gathered. In the research that lead to the report about the historicity of the flag with four red stripes in Valencian territory, the creators of this website had the personal advising of the prestigious Valencian heraldist Pere Maria Orts i Bosch.
  At the end of 2010 the website creators suffered an outrageous attack campaign that was made by the Blaverists, who were very upset by the task of telling the historical truth and of fighting them that this website was doing. Maybe one thing that made Blaverists very upset was the success of the campaign that was done by the website antiblavers, in collaboration with the antifeixistes website in order to avoid the presence of the GAV (Group of Valencianist Action) in the Christmas fair Expojove during the Christmas of 2010. As they acknowledged themselves, Expojove was the main attraction point for new members of the GAV.
  As a result of these immoderate attacks, in 2011 Lluís Brines ceased to be the main administrator of the website, and other people began to do this task, even though he collaborated from time to time. Moreover, the project was divided into two websites:
  antiblavers.org – The main website, that has most of the information and a debate forum.
  antiblavers.info – It was the first name of the website, before the project was divided into two websites. Nowadays it is a blog, whose content is varied and dynamic.
caption: Logo de la web antiblavers.org
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