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The most recent news is that the Constitutional court has ruled in favor of all protests, but I doubt this is the end of it.
One thing is clear: the organizers of this are legally and politically savvy.
On Wednesday they told people to not bring any alcohol into the crowd in order to avoid being removed by application of the anti-botellón municipal ordinance [which was enacted to prevent groups of youths having inpromptu drinking parties on streets and public squares].
Yesterday, after the electoral commission banned the protests for allegedly interfering with the electoral campaign, the organizers told people to not talk about political parties.
Today, they're saying that they won't officially call for a demonstration but people are individually free to do what they want. Economics is politics by other means
I can't help but think that these guys would do good to adopt some techniques like bikelocking. You put a large u-loop lock around your neck and connect it to another persons, and then sit down. It makes it impossible for the police to move you without risking breaking your neck. The video I took when we did it at my university explains it pretty well:
And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
This is not the US: the Constitutional Court doesn't make law. Economics is politics by other means
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