Holograms for Human Rights

The right-wing People’s Party in Spain has passed a series of draconian security laws that criminalize the following:

• Protesting the government without the government’s permission.

• Carrying out meetings

• Taking photographs or videos of police without the permission of the police.

• For “being present at an occupied space” (like a social center or an apartment, apparently)

• Meeting or gathering in front of Congress

• Appealing fines for any of the above.

The laws also make it legal for police to stop and search without reason, perform random identity checks, prohibit any protest without reason, perform body searches without reason, and create blacklists of people for any reason whatever.

So how do you protest a law that prohibits protest?

You protest holographically.

The protestors are not physically present at the protest.  They can’t be stopped, arrested, searched, or beaten.  Yet they’re still visible, and they’re protesting.

I have a feeling that holography won’t be legal for long . . .