abortions – The Barricade

Feminism in Poland – an ongoing battle against individualism and conservatism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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In 2016, Poles took to the streets to protest a total ban on abortions imposed by the Law and Justice Polish party that took power in 2015. The movement was called “The Black protest” and...

A reunion with Bimbușca

Doina Popescu
Gender issues
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A nurse from a disabled children’s orphanage who worked there during Ceaușescu's reign tells her story. This is the first chapter in the story of Doina Popescu's confessions, a well-known Romanian writer and journalist who...

Poland: A student is expelled from school for opposing Catholic fundamentalism

Boyan Stanislavski
Citizens Movements
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Teachers with a favorable attitude toward the government, it turns out, could also be used for the same purpose. According to Polish media, a Catholic school in Białystok, north-eastern Poland, expelled a 17-year-old female student...

Polish right-wingers are getting carried away. They now want to outlaw abortion in the Czech Repub..

Boyan Stanislavski
Czechia
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There does not appear to be a more appropriate way to describe the Polish embassy's March letter to the Czech Ministry of Health. It was signed by Antoni Wręga, the Polish chargé d'affaires in Prague....

Poland: Banning abortions is not enough, some more state violence is welcome!

During the last six months, Poland witnessed one of the largest protests in its modern history. Polish youth took to the streets, en masse, against the barbaric ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, which nearly ruled...

The Polish madhouse continues!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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The right-wing hardliners in power are unable to rule, so instead of that, they have to create one outrage after another to keep the society under full stress and to spark all kinds of artificial...

Poland’s war on women continues

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The recent ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland is the latest episode in the 30-year long war on women in that country. It is disgusting and outrageous but it is a part of a...

Poland: Time to abolish the codgerstate

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The ongoing protests in Poland are not merely a breath of fresh air. They have already made a significant imprint on the entire public sphere and thrown the ruling elites into panic and desperation; not...

Over 100 people protested before the Polish embassy in Bucharest

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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More than 100 people, most of them Poles, protested before the embassy of their country in Bucharest on Friday evening, 30 October. At that time, Warsaw saw more than 100,000 people demonstrating against the Constitutional...

Polish society reacts against catholic fundamentalism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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In their 25 October 2020 podcast "On the Barricades" Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discussed the Polish top court ruling to ban abortions due to fetal defects and how the public has reacted. Boyan Stanislavsky...