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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:02:15 GMT -7
Yesterday in Wrocław
Strajk kobiet w Poznaniu | Piekło kobiet | 26 okt. 2020
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:06:21 GMT -7
The seventh day of protests against the verdict of the Constitutional Tribunal is underway - and the general women's strike. Many women - today did not go to work and some employers even encouraged to take time off. Also, some universities will not take any consequences for absence from classes or introduce rector hours. This is criticized by the new minister of education. And it threatens to draw conclusions. About the still very tense situation - Emil Górny.
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:09:25 GMT -7
Protest in a Polish Roman Catholic church
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:10:27 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:12:41 GMT -7
Polish police arresting demonstrators during the protests a few days ago
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:14:37 GMT -7
Protests day 7 Bielsku-Białej
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:23:30 GMT -7
Warsaw today, wednesday
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:29:13 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Oct 28, 2020 15:40:32 GMT -7
October 2020 Polish protestsProtests started in Poland on 22 October 2020 against the rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal, consisting mainly of judges rightfully appointed by the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), which effectively tightened the law on abortion in Poland, making abortion illegal in almost all cases, including severe and irreversible disability or incurable and life threatening disease of foetus. A wave of mass protests of people opposing the ruling and supporting more abortion rights began on the afternoon of the same day.The protests opposed the intermixing of the Church with politics in Poland, and opposed the judiciary, executive and legislative powers held by PiS.ProtestsStreet protests started on Thursday 22 October 2020 following the ruling and continued throughout the weekend. Street protests took place in 60 Polish towns on the night of 23 October, and again on 24 October, in the town centres, in front of PiS offices, and in front of the office of religious administrations.[4] On 25 October, protesters staged sit-ins in Catholic churches, disrupting Sunday Mass in several cities, including Katowice and Poznań[5] and churches across the country were vandalized.On 26 October, women and men in 150 Polish towns and cities participated.Female demonstrator faces Female Police officer in WarsawOn 27 October 2020, Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet [pl] (All-Polish Women's Strike) presented a list of demands (fixing the situations of the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court and the Ombudsman, amending the budget – with more funds for health protection and assistance for entrepreneurs, full women's rights – legal abortion, sex education, contraception, stopping the financing of the Catholic Church from the state budget, the end of religious instruction in schools and the resignation of the government) and announced the creation of a Consultative Council – to be modelled on the Belarusian Coordination Council – a platform for dialogue to resolve the sociopolitical situation in Poland.On 28 October 2020, there was a nationwide women's strike under the slogan 'Nie idę do roboty' (I'm not going to work), many workplaces and offices allowed their employees to take part in the protest. Some universities and independents media and companies i.a. Newsweek Poland, Gazeta.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza, NaTemat.pl, mBank also took part in the protest.International protestsInternational demonstrations were organised in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Bochum, Bristol, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Göteborg, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kyiv, Leeds, Leipzig, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Malmö, Manchester, Mexico City, Munich, Nottingham, Paris, Porto, Prague, Reykjavík, Sheffield, Sydney, Stockholm, Tartu, and Vienna.Jarosław Kaczyński statementJarosław Kaczyński, who is considered Poland's de facto leader (formally he is holding the posts of Deputy Prime Minister and president of PiS), issued on 27 October a several-minute statement. In the statement he called for the "defence of the churches, Poland and patriotism", stated that "the authorities have the full right to oppose these protests" and called "all PiS members and our supporters" to "defend [the churches] at all costs" (Polish: Musimy ich bronić za każdą cenę.). Kaczyński's speech was compared to Wojciech Jaruzelski's address declaring martial law in 1981. Many commentators and journalists interpreted the speech as a call for civil war and a declaration of war on society, based on Kaczyński's expression "at all costs".Relations with the Catholic ChurchSlogans in the protests included swear words opposing the Catholic Church, physical disruption of church services by holding up banners in the churches, and painting of graffiti on church and cathedral walls throughout Poland. The New York Times described the protests as breaking a "longstanding taboo against challenging the [Catholic] church".
During the October protests, enquiries regarding the procedure for apostasy (deregistering from the Polish Catholic Church), which requires a personal visit to a parish priest who is obliged to try to persuade the apostasy candidate to change his/her mind, increased in popularity. Web search engine queries showed high frequencies for "apostasy" (Polish: apostazja) and "how to do apostasy" (Polish: jak dokonać apostazji), and a Facebook event titled "Quit the church at [Christmas]" was followed by 5000 people.A women's rights activist with a poster of the Women's Strike action protests in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 against recent tightening of Poland's restrictive abortion law. Massive nationwide protests have been held ever since a top court ruled Thursday that abortions due to fetal congenital defects are unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)www.bu.edu/articles/2008/why-poland-is-afraid-of-feminism/For Polish readers you have this Polish wikipedia section with the same subject: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesty_przeciwko_zaostrzeniu_przepis%C3%B3w_dotycz%C4%85cych_aborcji_w_Polsce
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Post by Jaga on Oct 28, 2020 21:00:52 GMT -7
Hello Pieter, thank you for doing such a thorough search with videos showing Polish protests. You also showed women with the lightening sign which was also a symbol of "fighting Poland" during WW II. The PIS accused them of using swastica... here is a cbs report about what is going on: www.cbsnews.com/news/poland-abortion-ban-women-national-strike/
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Post by pieter on Oct 29, 2020 1:04:34 GMT -7
You’re welcome Jaga. Thank you for your reply with the news and info in it which is valuable.
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Post by pieter on Oct 29, 2020 1:06:15 GMT -7
Hello Pieter, thank you for doing such a thorough search with videos showing Polish protests. You also showed women with the lightening sign which was also a symbol of "fighting Poland" during WW II. The PIS accused them of using swastica... here is a cbs report about what is going on: www.cbsnews.com/news/poland-abortion-ban-women-national-strike/The red lightening sign seems to be the symbol of the protest movement of Polish women and their supporters (also men and youth and students).
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Post by pieter on Oct 29, 2020 15:26:42 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Oct 29, 2020 15:27:34 GMT -7
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