Welcome to Guerilla Codes 2.0

 

Close your eyes and be prepared to censor everything you've ever said. Guerilla Codes are the ultimate tool for quiet protest. They utilise 2D barcodes and new mobile phone technologies to bring you a new age of protesting to match a new age of 'democracy.' The system is a direct response to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) 2005; a piece of British legislation that prohibits protest within a 1km exclusion zone around the Houses of Parliament (HoP) in Westminster, London:

In October 2005, Maya Evans was arrested and charged under SOCPA after standing by the Cenotaph in Whitehall and reading out the names of the 97 British war dead in Iraq in a 'remembrance ceremony.' Another woman was also threatened with arrest for eating a cake that had the word 'peace' iced onto it. Wearing red poppy badges or red noses within the exclusion area is also prohibited. In effect, this absurdity is a ban on our right to freedom of speech.

 

Guerilla Codes are a way for people to take power back, a way of sharing a political ideology, a way of reclaiming freedom of expression from SOCPA. With your 2D barcodes, you can exercise your voice where and when you want to. They are new tools for protest, unexpected, unfamiliar, and can be anything you want them to be - a concept, a movement, a way of sharing thought, a way of connecting, a form of creative expression, a revolution, an act of rebellion...a way to say no.

 

 

 

 

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