Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels/day-of-protest

Saturday, 17.9.2011 - Day of protesting

Day of protest

We do not like to accept the practical reduction of fundamental rights anymore and we want to tell that to the responsibles in brussels - friendly, peaceful but definite, destinct and perseveringly also.

Therefore we will have a small walk through Brussels at saturday in order to spread our concerns and knowledghe about what's going on.

When?

Saturday, 17.9.2011

Starting time: 2pm

Expected end: sometime between 5pm and 6pm

Where?

We are starting at Place Louxemburg (Houses of European Parliament). Having an intermediate stop at Place Schumann (European Commission and European Council) we will promenade/walk/protest towards the Grande Place in the city of Brussels.

The following route has consensus in our group, but was not allowed by Brussels police:

Here three new proposals for the route, if even grand place would not be allowed:

And one more alternative proposal having a different order of stops:

The route at googlemaps.

Total length of the route: almost 5 kilometres

There is also a proposal for plan B: Google maps

(Former proposals had been this and that.)

Saturday evening

We are thinking of offering a meeting place for those ones who like to spend the evening after the protest together. More informations will follow.

Important Informations

Basics

We like to bring our concerns to politicians and public.

Therefore it could be useful if you bring anything with you to show, what our protest is about. Signs, banners, flags, cctv-dummies, clothing, costums or anything else might help.

But please: Do not use flags or signs of political parties, that do not contain any (more or less senseful) substantial message.

It's up to you if you like to shout, cry, sing, hug or remain in silence at all. Feel free to do anything like that, but please respect the dignity of people passing by. Affronting or flaming doesn't help at all and ist not solidary.

Article 12 of the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, article 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and also article 26 of the Belgium Constitutional Law are giving us the fundamental rights to assemble and demonstrate in a peaceful way. That's, what we gonna do.

For further juristical informations about the basics have a look here, much more informations about the german rules and backgrounds have been collected here.

Speeches

We invited some interesting people to join our protest, to give us some inside-informations and to find the right words for our concerns. People with connection to any political party are not allowed to speak.

Invited

• Caroline de Geest (be, Liga for Mensenrechten)
• Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen (no, Stopp Datalagringsdirektivet)
• Katitza Rodriguez (us/es, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Simon Davies (uk, Privacy International)
• Knut Albrecht (de, AEDH)
• Malcolm Hutty (eu, EuroISPA)
• Raf Jespers (nl, Progress Lawyers network)
• Rolf Gössner (de, Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte)
• Christina Zaba (uk, journalist)
• Becky Hogge (uk, open rights group)
• Twister alias Bettina Hammer (at, journalist)

Confirmed

• Patrick Breyer (de, AK Vorrat)
• Tony Bunyan (uk, Statewatch)
• J.M.T. (Miek) Wijnberg (nl, Vrijbit)

Not fixed, but willing to come with us

• Jeremie Zimmermann (fr, La quadrature du net)

Not able to join

• TJ McIntyre (ie, Digital Rights Ireland)
• Anne Roth (de, annalist.noblogs.org)
• Axel Arnbak (nl, Bits of freedom)

Police Contact

Michael and Kiki are caring for that. Announcement has been done on 4 July 2011. But some things (route) needs to be discussed with the police.