wow! Look at the numbers of Spaniards in the street, protesting the Gag Law (anti-free speech law)

[ellenrr]

Solidarity!
Today thousands of Spaniards are protesting against the draconian 'Gag Law' ‪#?LeyMordaza‬, which would limit the right to protest.
Here are some of the most controversial aspects of the law:
1. Photographing or recording police – 600 to 30.000€ fine.
2. Peaceful disobedience to authority – 600 to 30.000€ fine.
3. Occupying banks as means of protest – 600 to 30.000€ fine.
4. Not formalizing a protest – 600 to 30.000€ fine.
5. For carrying out assemblies or meetings in public spaces – 100 to 600€ fine.
6. For impeding or stopping an eviction – 600 to 30.000€ fine.

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt/photos/a.187967227937716.47329.184749301592842/808073679260398/?type=1

If somebody more computer literate than me - which is everybody, lol - could go to this site and post the photo, I'd appreciate it.

It really is a pic to warm the heart.

...some day I'll learn how to post pics here.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. delet......pic ....maybe someone can find the real protest.

or real news story.

[MADem]

3. No, no, no....that's a joke pic.... nt

[MADem]

2. You can't always pull pics off fb, but here it is in another place...

http://anred.org/spip.php?article6989

I am afraid this picture is not new, though--it s from last year.

[ellenrr]

4. oh! hmmm.. sorry about that.

[MADem]

6. Not your fault--someone on FB was bullshittin'...and they sucked you in.

The Ley Mordaza business is serious, but it's not new. If you google it and have a look at some of the .es newspapers you will see this issue goes back a few years, and has been a focus of protest for awhile.

I really do think it sucks when photos are misrepresented like that--it takes an important matter, and makes it appear as though it's less important because someone decided to post an old pic and pass it off as new.

[ellenrr]

9. I agree, people should be more careful. The post was via Occupy.net so

I figure it is an honest mistake.

It's a little embarrassing cuz I sent it to people on fb, and they said, wow that's great, and then I had to say it is not a current photo.

It IS an impressive picture however.
Wish we had these numbers in the US of A.

[MADem]

10. We can get it together when needs must....

Mike Brown protests in Times Square:


Eric Garner protests in Staten Island:





Protest against Israeli religious draft in NYC:


More pics here--ten blocks of demonstrators: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577015/Patriotism-persecution-Thousands-Orthodox-Jews-swarm-NYC-streets-protest-Israeli-armys-proposal-draft-young-men.html


And let's not forget the Million Man March and the many antiwar marches that took place during the Bush regime.

[ellenrr]

12. Agree! great pictures. nt

[True Blue Door]

5. Whoever's pushing that law is incredibly foolish.

Unjust laws only work in a non-dictatorship if disobeying them is practically difficult or nebulous. If anyone can just step out in a street and disobey a law you've made a point of imposing, all you've done is undermine your own authority.

This is especially true where there is no remotely moral justification for it, and what's being attacked is a fundamental right. It would be like if instead of the NSA spying on everyone, the GOP passed a law requiring everyone to periodically submit to physical searches of their houses without cause or warrants - too easy to resist, so they sneak in.

That's also why we don't have a military draft anymore - too much resistance to war when the cannon fodder are unwilling.

Smart authoritarians sneak into the cracks. This move is very dumb, so Spaniards are lucky to have such idiotic internal enemies.

[librechik]

7. they could get something done

Spain doesn't ignore massive protests like we do.

[starroute]

8. The photo isn't of the current protests

It's from something last winter and the banner has been photoshopped. The current protests have involved thousands of people in several Spanish cities -- but nothing as massive as the fake one.

[Brigid]

11. Can someone whose Spanish is better than mine please translate that banner?

I'm curious.

[ellenrr]

13. the web will translate it for you. put 'translate' in the search engine. and then let us know. nt

[a la izquierda]

14. Jail for Citizen Protests?

Here we are, Mariano (literally here you have us, Mariano).

I have no clue who Mariano is.