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

Saturday, 17.9.2011 - Day of protesting

Day of protest

European policy making is affecting our every day lives and civil liberties more and more. The EU is increasingly imposing unnecessary and disproportionate governmental surveillance measures on us. We will not take this any longer. Let's carry our protest into the capital of the EU!

We invite you to join us for a protest march "Freedom not Fear - Stop the surveillance mania!" in Brussels on Saturday, 17 September 2011.

When?

Saturday, 17.9.2011

Starting time: 2pm

Expected end: sometime between 5pm and 6pm

Where?

The route of our protest march in the city of Brussels will be decided on and published here after discussion with the local authorities.

Three proposals for the route to be discussed:

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

The route at googlemaps.

There is also a proposal for plan B: Google maps

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 Information

Basics

Aims and advices

We intend to voice our concerns to politicians and the public. Therefore bring anything to show what our protest is about: signs, banners, flags, cctv-dummies, clothing, costumes or anything else.

Please do not use flags or signs of political parties that do not contain any (more or less 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 people passing by. Affronting or flaming doesn't help at all and ist not solidary.

Freedom of assembly

Find some basic informations about the Freedom of assembly in the European Union and in Belgium here.

Speeches

We have invited some interesting people to join our protest in order to give us some inside information and to find the right words for our concerns. People with connections to any political party will not allowed to speak.

Confirmed

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

Possibly to join us:

• Jeremie Zimmermann (fr, La quadrature du net)

Invited (unconfirmed)

• 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)
• Christina Zaba (uk, journalist)
• Becky Hogge (uk, open rights group)
• Twister alias Bettina Hammer (at, journalist)

Unable to join us

• TJ McIntyre (ie, Digital Rights Ireland)
• Anne Roth (de, annalist.noblogs.org)
• Axel Arnbak (nl, Bits of freedom)
• Rolf Gössner (de, Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte)
• Matthias Monroy (de, telepolis)
• Rena Tangens (de, FoeBuD)
• Heiner Busch (ch, Solidarité sans frontières)

Contact with local authorities

Michael and Kiki are taking care of that. Local authorities have been notified of our protest march on 4 July 2011. Some details (route of protest march) yet need to be discussed with the police.