Syllabus/content/session/challengetherulings.md

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Challenge the rulings!

Purpose

  • Understanding of ways how criminalization of solidarity operates through state and judicial practices
  • Sharpening personal lenses for recognition of state and police violence
  • Reading legal texts with confidence and disrupting the inaccessibility of the legal language

Method: Discussion

...(in a human rights organization, in a classroom, at a coffee shop, round table, workshop, conference...) based on the analysis of the court ruling

Time: 90 minutes and possibly more

Materials:

Guiding Questions for Analysis:

Questions of Comprehension:

  • What are the facts entailed in this ruling?
  • How this ruling relates to the Aliens Act and its provision on criminalization of solidarity?
  • What is hidden in the ruling? What can we not read here? (personal motivation of Dragan i.e.)

Critical Questions

  • Why the Aliens Act does not protect Dragan? What kind of message are the courts delivering with this ruling?
  • How does criminalization of solidarity look like in this particular case? What are the consequences Dragan and Are you Syrious must bare?
  • Why is criminalization of solidarity harmful broadly and not just for Dragan and Are You Syrious?
  • What are the ways to stand against such criminalization?
  • What are the ways that more groups and individuals act similarly to Dragan and support migrants on their perilous journeys?