ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the consequences of counter‐secessionist repression and surveillance on secessionist protest and its organizational basis. It focuses on how organizers made sense of the repressive sequence triggered by the secessionist crisis. Describing the organizing processes of the Llibertat Presos Polítics campaign and the March 2018 protests, I demonstrate how repression and surveillance impacted organizational practices in three ways: it shifted communication from messengers to face‐to‐face meetings, disrupted deliberation and meetings, and led to declining interorganizational collaboration. In contrast, organizational structures provided some resilience against repression, which suggests that organizational practices are more vulnerable to the intensification of conflict between challengers and authorities.
