Hi, Product Hunt! 👋🏻 We are hundreds of thousands of citizens from Tsunami Democràtic (@tsunami_dem) based in Catalonia. We're excited to start sharing this first version of our Android App and getting your feedback. While technology has made our lives easier and more manageable in many ways, it is just in the last couple of years that we have seen its impact in helping citizens organize protests around causes to achieve change faster. Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. She has shown that it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change. Over the past few months, we’ve been building a set of civic technology tools to empower citizens to organize more efficiently and achieve change faster. This week we’ve launched and tested the first version of our Android app. It has successfully helped tens of thousands of Catalans to protest by blocking the Pyrenees border highway with concerts, dinners, and camps. Join us as we build and test #civictech in Catalonia to empower its citizens to protest peacefully and effectively towards change. Happy to answer any questions you might have!

While Spain is just able to use police force against democratic aspirations, technology is helping people to organize themselves against repression and persecution.

When the violence of the establishment and old-fashioned states is used sistematically against citizens that only claim to apply basic human rights, then you are morally obliged to stand up and react. If not you are following a path to XXIst century slavery and oblivion. Tsunami is a technology and a tool to raise non-violently in defense of human rights

Great tool to empower civic society to peacefully push for democracy and civil rights.

This is a global need and important product. Thank you!

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this product, specially as a decentralization advocate. Complete lack of transparency combined with a potentially massive mobilization power. No source code available and users should grant location and mic permission. All collected data can be then used by an unknown group of administrators providing them instructions about the actions they have to carry out. In practice, a tool to build a human botnet... very scary

New tech for new era of peaceful human rights protests. It was a matter of time that tech would be central to stop injustice.

Just a right tool. One that is simple to use and reliable. It combines the best of it cience and the old mouth to mouth safety spreading within the community that is build for. Very, very excited by what the near future holds for us.

Visca Catalunya lliure!!

As our right are being taken away Tsunami has created an app to help and organize ourselves to protest against this violation of our first amendment rights. This is an app for and by the people that can bring everyone together to fight for the same cause. We are all tsunami, and tsunamis can't be stopped.

Fantastic

Please, read all the comments here. They're hiding/flagging the comments which disagree with their opinion.

Of course I would recommend it! Very helpful, amazing the work done here! Thanks Tsunami!

Great App! It's very useful and it let you to recieve messatges quickly. It's important because spanish state spies our activity in Internet and could close Webs, APPs or whatever they think contains information that are not same believes of the spanish goverment

Go Catalonia! Go democracy!

I would. It makes the organisation of our demonstrations quicker, well coordinated, flexible and more efficient. A great app.

Catalonia is not spain

Hi, I used the application, it has been very useful. When I left I was informed of the different actions that were carried out in other places. I am waiting for new actions. Thank you for making it possible

The Best app of Catalonia! Thank you Tsunami! ✊🏼 #BeWater

We can show the real harm this app has made to Catalunya. I love Catalunya.