The Amnesty International report “Under Protected and Over Restricted” on the state of the right to protest in 21 European countries highlights many of the restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly that we currently face. As an organization, we believe it is crucial to protect popular protest tools in the pursuit of our civil rights. From the Spanish context, after almost 10 years of the “Gag Law” (Organic Law for the Protection of Citizen Security), we continue to observe a reduction and persecution of our freedom of expression, which we are not willing to accept and against which we continue to position ourselves.

As a choral group, we are excited to contribute to this “Conversation with the Report” by Amnesty International through our artistic perspective with two performances and musical proposals:

• To celebrate and claim the historical memory of our collective and our ancestors, highlighting what has been achieved through popular organization and asserting that “pride” is protest.

• To show our solidarity and alliance with other oppressions, focusing on the violations of freedom of expression faced by expressions of support, protest, and solidarity for the Palestinian people, while we witness a viralized genocide.

Both cases aim to highlight solidarity, protest, and civil disobedience as a tool for generating change.

To achieve this, we aim to continue developing and amplifying two choral activities that, with some support, could have more potential in their artistic production as well as in their reach and public dissemination:

• Performances and recording of the show "La pasión de Marsha," an oratorio about the legacy and struggle of Marsha P. Johnson and other activists involved in the Stonewall riots, which gave rise to the LGBTIAQ+ Pride as we know it today. We seek resources to support this content with the goal of celebrating her figure and achieving greater dissemination through social media and YouTube.

• Performances, recording, and publication of "Ya tal3iin el jabal," offering the musical arrangement to other choral groups in a global call for justice and solidarity.