Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels/day-of-protest
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 Information
Basics
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, costums 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.
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)
- Rena Tangens (de, FoeBuD)
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)
Police Contact
Michael and Kiki are taking care of that. Notification has taken place on 4 July 2011. Some details (route of protest march) yet need to be discussed with the police.