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Poland - government has to go!

Arrow | 28.09.2006 11:20 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Around 200 people demonstrate in a front of parliment builidings in Poland asking the government for leave...

hence! the government! hence the corruption of... no for liberals of...
hence! the government! hence the corruption of... no for liberals of...

'for Poland' adver banner of Citizens' Platform being burned
'for Poland' adver banner of Citizens' Platform being burned

Govenrment? - go! Enough of polititians of corruption, liberalism and war!
Govenrment? - go! Enough of polititians of corruption, liberalism and war!

PiS ('Law and Justice' party) - 'Positions and Seats'
PiS ('Law and Justice' party) - 'Positions and Seats'

Racja (Polish anti-catolic fraction)
Racja (Polish anti-catolic fraction)

Kaczynscy to the bin
Kaczynscy to the bin

STOP - for prostitution in politics...
STOP - for prostitution in politics...

We_saying_thanks_to_those_ladies_and_gentelmens
We_saying_thanks_to_those_ladies_and_gentelmens



Demonstration at Wiejska Street (Country Road) was started yesterday around 10am by the members of municipial (self-government) entente 'Our City'.

'We protest here against political corruption. We'll be here for very short period: just as we will receive information that Mr J Kaczynski [president] resigned, we'll stop' - said representant of 'Our City' to one of the medias.


In early afternoon (1 pm) polititians of SLD, SDLP, PD ('Left' and left 'out of party order' opposition) joined togehter with their youth clubs members, They brought banner 'PiS[1] - Paranoia and Schizophrenia'. One minute of silence was celebrated in the name of IVth Polish Reich death (main PiS catchword during the elections).

The demonstration was populated by PO (Citizens' Platform - Polish liberals), Self-defence (former co-governing rural-conservative party), Zieloni 2004 (Greens 2004), Rationale (anticatolics), Workers Democracy and Anarchistic Federation.

Protesters held banners "Fuck of duffer" [2], "PiS - Criminals and Ratters", "Parties - thanks", "Enough!", "Ducks [3], Zoliboz [their district] is ashamed of you!".
The demonstration is peaceful. The only 'incident' was burning the banner of the PO by editor of Critical Politics (leftish free thought magazine), Sławomir Sierakowski and Olek Pawłowski, activist of Schools' Pupils Initiative. There were also some smaller verbal arguments...

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'They came to raise their objection against corrupted government. They met a lot of from PO and SLD. Luckly there was aslo opposition of neoliberals (PO AND SLD) from Greens 2004, Rationale, Workers Democracy and anrachists. Those who did not want to stand with PO and SLD had opportunity to stand with someone else.

[...]

It is a pity that there is no more of lefts, anit-capitalists or/and alterglobalists. [...] We should not give the field to liberals.

From:
 http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23470.shtml

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short explanation:

The whole 'brrr' was made after revealing the secret record from the meeting of the prime minister secretary wih one of the Self-defence party prominent (former ruling coalition party being dragged appart) where the ministry and financial parliments' guarantees were offered in exhange for joining the ruling party...

The PiS is trying to hold the power at any price but with very dictating attitude rather tearing apart other for their own terms then bending towards anyone else.

The PO (Citizens' Platform) uses it (the scandal) as the argument for earlier elections Now, when the polls are in favour of it (in the voting for the earlier elections during the earlier this years crisis voted 'No').
The whole case is much well displayed as a first news (lot of the medias are held by the cricles as if PO.


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More on Polish indy sites:

- orginal invitation -  http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23452.shtml
'Gathering next to the parliment: Government has to go! IVth Polish Reich has to go!'

-  http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23457.shtml

-  http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23469.shtml

-  http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23470.shtml

-  http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23489.shtml

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Today in the evening next to the Office of Ministries
the counter demonstration of support fr the government is organised (usual Polish shisofrenia)
'against medias' battue'
not too many participants (in my opinion) expected:
 http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2006/09/23506.shtml
 http://www.galba.net.pl/blog/_archives/2006/9/27/2365821.html


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[1] - PiS - Law and Justice - Polish conservative party, set up by some of the former solidarity movement people; won last (year) elections and playing now in the parlimant to hold the power (very facist approach);

[2] quite catching phrase - made up before the elections, but after the local elections - when Kaczynski, the presidnet was the president of Warsaw; even t-shirts and being updated website, against both - president and the prime minister - brothers and their government, was set up:  http://www.spieprzajdziadu.com

[3] current president of Poland and prime minister are twins working within the current ruling PiS party; known also from the tale for kids in which they were playing as the 'two who stolen the moon'; their surnames relate to the ducks - so now they are called ducks; it is so common that they were trying last days to use this phrase for their own party local elections campaign;

Participants:
municipial (self-government) entente 'Our City' - initiators;
SLD (Alingment of Left Democracy - comming straight form members of the governing party before the 1989), SDLP (Polish Social Democracy - last year split from mentioned earlier co-created by one of their main polititians before the last year elections when SLD was loosing a lot points); PD (Workers Democracy - not well known but well active on the streets formation); Democratic Party (one of the liberal splits made after their almost dissapeared from the mainstream politics); PO (Citizens' Platform - liberal sp[l]it coagulated before last elections from polititians coming from different parties and won last year second position in the number of seats - made of well 'mainstreamed' heads and full of funding; related to big business;); Greens 2004 party - set up in 2003 made of various environments, but mostly supported by sexual minorities and bit mainstream but still bit radical environmentalists; keeping below the election limit quite active on the streets and in actions - lot of the members are involved in other activities in everyday life; lost a lot by joining the coalition with SDLP for the elections; especially lot of people whishing to deattached themselves from clasicall current corrupted politics - in specific youth - left them after and before that move); 'Rationale' - polish anticatolic movement; Anarchists (Anarchists' Federation)

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