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title: Challenge the rulings!
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# Purpose
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- Understanding ways how the criminalization of solidarity operates through state and judicial practices
- Sharpening personal lenses to recognize state and police violence
- Reading legal texts with confidence and disrupting the inaccessibility of legalese
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# Method: Discussion
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(in a human rights organization, in a classroom, at a coffee shop, round table, workshop, conference...) based on the analysis of a court ruling
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Time: 90 minutes and possibly more
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# Materials
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- A court ruling
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- video of [Are You Syrious's reaction at the European Parliament ](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=421640735307159 )
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# Guiding Questions for Analysis
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## Questions of Comprehension
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- What are the facts entailed in this ruling?
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- How this ruling relates to the Aliens Act and its provision on the criminalization of solidarity?
- What is hidden in the ruling? What can we not read here? (personal motivation of Dragan, for instance)
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## Critical Questions
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- Why does the Aliens Act not protect [Dragan Umičević ](https://www.portalnovosti.com/dragan-umicevic-kazna-meni-je-poruka-drugima )? What kind of message are the courts delivering with this ruling?
- How does the criminalization of solidarity look like in this particular case? What are the consequences Dragan and Are you Syrious must bare?
- Why is the criminalization of solidarity harmful broadly and not just for Dragan and Are You Syrious?
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- What are the ways to stand against such criminalization?
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- What are the ways that more groups and individuals can act similarly to Dragan and support migrants on their perilous journeys?
