Current State of Censorship & Surveillance in Spain

Welcome to Valencia!

Land of oranges and Paella!

Oct. 2014

Corruption has been imputed to more than 120 politicians in Valencia.

Data

23 % unemployment 50 % unemployment in Youth

136 % of unemployment in Journalism284 media have closed in Spain376 new media have been created

Themes of this talk - #leymordaza / Gag Law

- Historical and Political Background · From the Spanish Civil War to the Indignados movement

- The Violents and The Terrorists · Cesicat (The Catalan Prism)· #OperationPandora

· #OperationMate

- #Ciutatmorta “ Dead City” Documentary

What will now be illegal in Spain:

Ley Mordaza / Gag Law

But the Spanish President went to Paris

Indignados Movement

Suggested documentary:

The Square, the seed of occupy movement

Link to video about PAH (Platform people affected by mortgages)

Timeline

1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War (and the International Brigades!)

1939 - 1975 Franco Dictatorship

“Political Transition”

2004 - Bombing Attack in Madrid - Al Qaeda. (The government at first said it had been made by the ETA not Al Qaeda)

2008 The case of activist Enric Duran (Robin Hood of The Banks) 2 days before Lehman Brothers colapsed. Beginning Economic Crises

2011 Indignados Movement

2014 Ley Mordaza / Gag Law

“The Violents”

and

“The Terrorists”

“The violents” 2012 website

Cesicat created 2009Cybersecurity government - PRISM “monitorization for the control of political-social actions”

Anonymous attack 2013 reveals they are spying activists, lawyers, protesters, journalists.

“The terrorists”

Mate Operation “ETA”

Pandora Operation “Terrorists Anarchists”

Control of squats

Documentary Ciutat Morta “Dead City”

Public Opinion is now talking about police corruption and torture in Catalonia and in Spain.

Is this a turning point for “activist”/”squatter”/”protester” profiling ?