International campaign StopMordaza 10th December 2014 

Hi 
activists in Spain are calling on citizens to take part in a demonstration on December the 10th in renewed protests against what they call a "gag law".
The controversial Protection of Public Safety act, proposed in 2013, is now making its way through Spanish Parliament (going to be probably approved on the 11th of December)

The bill infringes on the right to protest and it gives more power to the police force. It also includes the "legalization" of the practice of  "devolución en caliente" (immediate devolution of  migrants when caught at the borders) 

More information in this  article http://nosomosdelito.net/page/2014/09/11/who-are-we

15M groups, No Somos Delito - We are not crime (a platform with more than 70 groups and assemblies) and many other movements are encouraging international activists to join the twitter campaign on the 10th of December (there are more than 70 different groups in the platform) in order to support their action in Madrid (the funeral of human rights) and the struggle against the "gag law" 

What we ask is to use the hashtag of the campaign also to visibilize repression and criminalization of the movements all over the world. 

****IMPORTANT*****

The hashtag has not to be used before the 10th of december at 11:00 am CET time 
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Details of the campaign, hashtags and twitter examples could be found and collectively added in this pad https://titanpad.com/StopMordazainternational

"........ In Chicago, in Quebec and now in Spain, it has meant the expansion of  anti-protest laws.
In 2011, the Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel,  requested that the city council pass "temporary" anti-protest measures in response to the planned protests around the Nato and G8 summits. The  laws included a $1m insurance mandate for public protests, heavy  policing and greater obstacles to obtaining a protest permit. By early  2012, the legislation had been made permanent.
Later  that same year, as the administration of Jean Charest in Quebec sought  to deal with a tumultuous uprising of students against increased tuition  fees, it passed a piece of  emergency legislation named Bill 78.  With the support of the state's employers, it imposed severe  restrictions on the ability to protest, including banning protests  within 50 metres of a college and giving the right to change the route of a protest at short notice, with severe fines for those protesters who  did not co-operate.
The "public safety" legislation proposed in  Spain has an essentially similar basis. Demonstrating near parliament  without permission will result in steep fines, while participation in  "violent" protests can result in a minimum two-year jail sentence.  In each case, the logic is to put a chill on protest. It is not just  that it is a protest deterrent; it has a domesticating effect on such  protests as do occur." The Guardian 25/11/2013

Articles in English 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/29/us-spain-security-idUSBRE9AS0MX20131129
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/25/quebec-spain-anti-protest-laws-democracy

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