Comments on: Solidarity 2.0? Cyber and Street Protests in Poland

By: Tomasz Kitlinski

Tomasz Kitlinski — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000

@Kasia Correct! An attempt to explore this anti-woman, anti-queer, anti-social system:
http://www.tokfm.pl/blogi/zmiana/2012/02/where_are_we_queers_in_the_world_protests__an_lgbt_dispatch_from_poland

By: Kasia Murawska-Muthesius

Kasia Murawska-Muthesius — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:02:00 +0000

I fully agree, and join in. But why do we blame the brutality of post-communism instead of the brutality of late capitalism?
Kasia Murawska-Muthesius

By: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:13:00 +0000

What I find most interesting is the breadth and depth of the protests. I wonder how the un-mobilized public is responding, whether the left of center is really being popularly occupied and whether the silenced issues of social justice are now appearing on the political agenda. I am hopeful for Poland and for my country, the U.S., but know that it is a question of action and maintaining the visibility of action, which is not always possible to sustain, as is evidenced now in OWS.

By: Elzbieta Matynia

Elzbieta Matynia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:13:00 +0000

What a rare insight into a set of problems that — although articulated before — have now surfaced more powerfully when galvanized by ACTA! This very problematic international agreement, especially when it comes to the possibility of policing and censoring Internet content, gives politicians (and “experts”!) free rein in reinforcing borders, closing windows to information, and further removing citizens from the democratic equation. No wonder that the protests are so massive in Poland, where the very opposition to the pre-1989 authoritarian regime was built around freedom of speech, self-governance, and social justice. Solidarity 2.0 indeed.