U Żubra @mr_zvbr na #GilotynaTV dzisiaj wywiad live z bardzo interesującą gościnią:
Janina Petelczyc
Polska Sieć Ekonomii
"Kiedy pytają mnie: dla kogo dobrowolny ZUS?
Odpowiadam: Kochani, dla nikogo. ZUS to nasze dobro narodowe, skarb i zabezpieczenie każdego, kto znalazł się w trudnej sytuacji, oparte na wartościach takich jak solidarność i wspólnotowość.
Dziękuję za uwagę. Do widzenia."
Today in Labor History December 14, 1970: Strikes began in Gdansk, Poland, and spread to Gdynia, Szczecin, other industrial centers, with widespread factory occupations. Labor resistance and protest continued in Gdansk, leading to the formation of Solidarnosc, in the early 1980s, which ultimately toppled the Communist government once and for all in 1989. However, in 1970s, the Polish People’s Army quashed the strikes, killing at least 44 people.
Machtwechsel in Polen: Donald Tusk, gewiss kein Neuling
Er war schon mal Ministerpräsident, bis er 2014 als EU-Ratspräsident nach Brüssel ging. Wer ist dieser Donald Tusk, der nun zurückkehrt in ein tief gespaltenes Land, in dem ihm alte Weggefährten aus der Solidarność-Bewegung zuwinken? Von M. Adam.
Interesting set of documents from the U.S Govt just dropped. Potentially useful for historians of Eastern Europe and the Balkans during the tumultuous 80s. Excited to check it out.
Cory Doctorow and his
Pluralistic.net could put many SF authors out of business by drawing people from fiction back into contextual understanding of the real world, with good writing to tickle the same itches of many a reader while informing them bigly:
"Before neoliberalism can destroy our lives, it must first convince us that we are all disconnected...dismantling the democratically accountable structures that can stand against industrial tyrants."
@pluralistic explique comment l'écologie unifie les luttes contre le néolibéralisme et la classe des milliardaires. Une sorte de nouvelle internationale qui transcende frontières, identités, secteurs économiques et qui a pour but commun de démanteler le pouvoir insensé qu'a le monde des affaires sur nos vies. https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/#solidarnosc
"There's something delicious about how palpably frustrated Elon Musk is by all this, as he realizes that neither his billions nor his bully pulpit are a match for workers in solidarity." Such prose from comrade @pluralistic makes me want to stand up and salute! https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/#solidarnosc
"Today, at long last, after generations of deadly corporate power-grabs, we are living through an ecology moment where all kind of fights are coalescing into one big fight: the fight to save democracy from oligarchy."
Before the term "ecology" came along, people didn't know they were on the same side. You care about owls, I care about the ozone layer - what does the destiny of charismatic nocturnal avians have to do with the gaseous composition of the upper atmosphere?
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Uwaga, długie, bo i konwój długi (ponad 5 minut video).
"Wyjazd polskich strażaków do Grecji - Kraków 19.07.2023 /Departure of Polish firefighters to Greece"
Za gov.pl: "W środę, 19 lipca br. polscy strażacy wyruszyli z pomocą do Grecji, która zmaga się z pożarami lasów w rejonie Attyki. To już 18. misja zagraniczna naszych funkcjonariuszy PSP i 7. misja ratownicza w ostatnim czasie. Bierze w niej udział 149 osób i 49 pojazdów."