OscailtMay Day organisers condemn repression of Polish protestsWe are the real Europeans, say Grassroots group
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2004-04-28T16:11:06+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=64622http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifEnglish language reports on the WA29 activitieshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/64622#comment713442004-04-28T16:11:06+00:00variousPolice against activists
http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5135.shtml#english
...Police against activists<br />
<a href="http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5135.shtml#english">http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5135.shtml#english</a><br />
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A day before the summit<br />
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Report from the surrounded city<br />
<a href="http://poland.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5242.shtml#english">http://poland.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5242.shtml#english</a><br />
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Free expression zone in central Warsaw<br />
<a href="http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5320.shtml">http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5320.shtml</a><br />
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Several people and groups of activists have been stopped from entering Poland - no [en] yet.<br />
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Some very nice photos - no need for translation.A sample of Polish harassmenthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/64622#comment716132004-04-29T16:47:50+00:00JoeThe house of a Polish activist from the Coalition of Anti ?
authoritarian Group...The house of a Polish activist from the Coalition of Anti ?<br />
authoritarian Groups was raided by police yesterday evening. The<br />
police started their visit on 28th April just before 10pm. There<br />
were 4 police cars seen from the house, and some other 6?7 visible<br />
further away. The house of the activist is situated outside of<br />
Warsaw; there were 11 people in the house at the time of the visit.<br />
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The policemen entered the house without any warning, they came in<br />
with weapons. They did not give any legal justification of their<br />
visit, nor any of their names or identification numbers, which they<br />
should do according to the Polish law. Although there were several<br />
girls in the house, the policemen made personal searches of everyone<br />
present there. The policemen were joking about "choosing the<br />
prettier one" etc. One person was kicked several times by the<br />
police, another was brutally thrown on the wall. Everything happend<br />
according to a silly action movie scenario ? the policemen were<br />
shouting "fucking bastards" etc.<br />
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Handcuffs were put on everyone present in the flat. Than everyone<br />
was led outside ? and the search [of the flat] took place without<br />
any witness ? again illegally, because at least one inhabitant and<br />
one witness should stay at the place [while it is being searched].<br />
The other people coming to the flat from outside were not let in.<br />
The car of some Bielorussian friends of the activist was searched too.<br />
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At least 4 person will file a lawsuit against the police tomorrow.<br />
The police did not have any order from prosecutors to search the<br />
house. One of the most known Polish lawyers, prof. Rzepliñski, the<br />
president of the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights, came to the<br />
place just after the police left.Update from Polandhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/64622#comment717542004-04-30T12:55:43+00:00AgnieszkaHi, Just wanted to let you know what is going on in
Warsaw, Poland. This is the...Hi, Just wanted to let you know what is going on in<br />
Warsaw, Poland. This is the second day of the<br />
Alternative Summit and the protests surrounding the<br />
WEF. Polish Police staged a show that the Davos police<br />
would admire. Many stores and streets were shut down,<br />
and many activists from abroad were stopped at the<br />
Polish border. But in spite of repression, the activists<br />
did manage to stage numerous demos, blocked streets,<br />
organized alternative meetings, conferences, street theater.<br />
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The new polish IMC (which has been around for less<br />
than two years and has very scarce or no resources)<br />
has been important in disseminating information,<br />
coordinating actions, and providing alterative<br />
information exchange. You can only imagine what spin<br />
Polish mainstream media took on the WEF! We tried to<br />
keep the site updated and to have it translated into<br />
more than two languages. Below are a few quick pix and<br />
some text in English.<br />
Please check out Polish IMC for more info.<br />
Peace,<br />
Agnieszka<br />
IMC PL<br />
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<a href="http://www.pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5417.shtml">http://www.pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/04/5417.shtml</a>More on Polandhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/64622#comment717552004-04-30T12:57:02+00:00Mainstream mediaThousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators marched through
central Warsaw on...Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators marched through<br />
central Warsaw on Thursday as the city hosted an economic<br />
summit marking the reunification of Europe.<br />
Flanked by police in riot gear, some 3,000 young leftists,<br />
accompanied by a sprinkling of radical trade unionists and<br />
laid-off miners walked down one of Warsaw's main streets,<br />
chanting anti-globalisation, anti-capitalist and anti-war slogans.<br />
Rolling slowly among the marchers was a float draped in a<br />
blood-red banner with white lettering proclaiming: "The<br />
world is for the people, not for (U.S. President George W) Bush."<br />
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Protesters carried placards and banners reading "People are<br />
more important than profits".<br />
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Almost 1,000 business leaders and government representatives<br />
are in town for the European Economic Forum, discussing<br />
issues of EU integration as Poland prepares to enter the<br />
European Union with nine other states on Saturday.<br />
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Although black-clad, long-haired anarchists predominated,<br />
the protesters included a group of laid-off miners forced to<br />
dig coal out of illegal makeshift pits to feed their families.<br />
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The crowd crawled along major Warsaw thoroughfares flanked<br />
by shops, cafes and other businesses boarded up in<br />
anticipation of the kind of rioting that had erupted at<br />
other Economic Forum sites including Seattle, Genoa and Prague.<br />
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The heavy police presence, which included water cannon<br />
tucked away in side streets and a helicopter clattering<br />
overhead, was dismissed by many protesters as a typical<br />
example of politicians and the media inciting public hysteria.<br />
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"They have been building up the tension for weeks and<br />
inciting public panic, but the only reason is to score<br />
political points," said a 30-year-old lawyer from the<br />
so-called "Legal Team", a police-brutality monitoring group.<br />
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"And the media have to have something to show on television<br />
and write about. It's all about profits," he added.<br />
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The march is due to move past the Finance Ministry, the<br />
American Embassy and end outside the Polish government<br />
headquarters in the early evening.<br />
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"The media reported that football hooligans from all over<br />
Poland were coming to start trouble, but fortunately so far<br />
they have not been heard of," said one policemen surveying<br />
the march.Poland. and the other 386,000,000 Europeans a "less than 1000 word side ways glance"http://www.indymedia.ie/article/64622#comment731272004-05-05T20:09:01+00:00IosafGreat big place, lovely people. really been around a long time. Been through the...Great big place, lovely people. really been around a long time. Been through the wars.<br />
Been right in the middle of the wars. This connection to the wars, accounts for Poland's constantly changing borders through history.<br />
Perhaps the poles could have all moved somewhere else, and settled down to living in peace and prosperity. But they didn't get it together. Despite all the train lines conveniently going West and East they never managed to all get the same train ad the same time and go away into exile and find that peace and prosperity deal.<br />
Oh no, what happened to the tardy poles instead? Well they got squeezed between Prussia and Russia. But they were pronounced to similarly, so they suggested changing the name of at least one neighbour. The Prussians pulled the short straw, and opted at Beethovan's suggestion one storm evening to call themselves Germans. And the rest is of course history.<br />
The Russians however, felt a bit out-done by this crafty name-changing thing, and decided to excell themselves over a period of a century and a bit (centuries always come with at least one bit) at changing the names of the gemeinschaft, ört, and stadt. <br />
lesen sie bitte:-<br />
<a href="http://www.zeit.de/2004/19/sonnendeck">http://www.zeit.de/2004/19/sonnendeck</a><br />
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The Pope is from Poland.<br />
He's great. His spokesperson, (another statement from the pontiff, without the great man appearing) has softened the line on single sex relationships. Now this doesn't mean everyone in the church booking in for a night in a central city sauna, but rather that single sex relationships do not necessarily merit burning at the hypocritical stake.<br />
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And it happened in Madrid. Where everyone, like everyone is looking forward to the jolly pleasant wedding. We are all getting cake.<br />
And just like it says in the cartoon in the local paper, as a family of happy peasant types looking a bit mullet haircutted and gypseyish, look on at their beautiful little babies, one says "we're getting married", next one quite tubby "we're giving everyone cake", and the last lad, "our cousin doing security". Now no-one but no-one from the Atlantic to the Urals, from the Atlantic to the urinal is going to spoil that gig.<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1209663,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1209663,00.html</a><br />
And as I told you the eclipse passed over Burlusconi to mark his 1060 day, the same day that one of his TV companies TV5 issued a video of Dublin Mayday in Spain, I thought to tell you a second high ranking official has quit his media empire in Italy.<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1209596,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1209596,00.html</a><br />
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Meanwhile, the people who gave us the Lock Out in 1913, before the russichergemeinschaft name changing, the Irish Independent want us all to know Carlos the Jackal is on hunger strike. Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez is being held in Paris for being a right prick consistently over a really long period of time and then regrettably incoherent at the end and he stopped eating and drinking yesterday. Newsworthy no?<br />
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- but what has this got to with Poland,<br />
or why the trains don't leave on time?