A general strike of all women and those who are supporting women’s rights is announced for entire Poland for Wednesday 28 October. It is set to be the highlight so far of almost a week of protests on the streets and unprecedentedly even in churches against the Polish conservative government PiS party, its leader and […]
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Stranded in Corona times. Act 2: The Confrontation
During the COVID19 pandemic I got stranded in Warsaw. Coming from a Northern European nation with a lot of freedom, even in Corona times, all of a sudden I was living in a country where a very conservative government was making sometimes very questionable attempts to control its citizens, and me. Act 2 of my […]
Stranded in Corona Times. Act 1: Love in a crisis, does it work?
During the COVID19 pandemic I got stranded in Warsaw. Like most other European countries Poland implemented strict movement control of its citizens, in an attempt to limit the spreading speed of the virus. Six weeks later I sailed back to Sweden across the Baltic Sea. What I found there was both a shocking negligence of […]
Polish Apple Trees Area is in Trouble
Rows and rows of fruit trees dot the otherwise flat landscape just south of Warsaw. Once frequently travelled by Communist government workers to their state holiday resorts, road 801 on the eastern bank of the meandering Vistula river is much more quiet these days. Poland is in semi-lockdown, and this area is in trouble. Who […]
While Europe Fights Corona, Polish Fight for Women’s Rights
(UPDATED 17 April 2020, 09:20 Warsaw Time) Fight the virus, not the women. With this slogan at least hundreds of Polish were protesting on Tuesday 14 April against their conservative PiS government party putting a total ban on abortion on the agenda again, in the height of the Corona virus pandemic battle. The ban is […]