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World In Outrage
Economic crisis is wreaking havoc all over Europe and the world, the unemployment is rising, the Euro zone countries are taking increasingly drastic measures to fight the recession. All over the world the crisis brings mobilization and social change; from the very beginning of the year rebellions – predominantly youth rebellions, have steamrolled through Arab [...]
The “No for Acta” Movement
The “No for Acta” Movement. Young Poles take to the streets not to defend jobs and wages, but in the name of the freedom of the Internet.
Is the government building by its arrogance a generational experience that young Poles lack? Perhaps, from the passive generation Side by Side, we are becoming a very active ANTI [...]
Sentence on the youth
Without hearts, souls, these are the skeletal people.
Add me the wings, adolescence!
Beyond lifeless world let me float,
paradise domain spectacle!
We have to come to grips with the unemployment problem among young people if we do not want to lose hope for the better future of hundreds of thousands of citizens of this country, and not to [...]
Lithuanian and Polish People: Traditions and Stereotypes*
Lithuanian and Polish People: Traditions and Stereotypes*
Old standing stereotypes become reinforced in public by both the attitude of politicians and the public words. Such lines show revival of constructs “treacherous, unreliable Polish guy” and “stubborn Lithuanian guy that may be prostrated by force only” that were at place in early 20th century. These constructs come [...]
Moral victors after eviction? There could not be a better end to the Occupy protest
The City of London Corporation finally won its High Court case to evict protesters from outside the St Paul’s Cathedral. This decision marks a symbolic end to the encampment that has risen in early autumn at the steps of London’s landmark church. But perhaps, it not the worst news for the [...]
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Why Palestinian stories matter … (to me anyway)
From the university classrooms to the random coffee – shop conversations I always sense the sound of surprise as I try to explain why I, a daughter of a ‘Polish soil’, with no obvious connection ‘the Palestinian’ decided to research the Palestinian diaspora in Europe. And every time, to my own [...]
Polish citizens of Europe
Please, pay your attention to the fact that in Poland, when we talk about Europe or about the European Union, scarcely do we use the name which should be natural, the name “we”. Instead of that we use the name “they”, is it not true? It means that we feel in the European Union a [...]
Project: the European
But although a thousand of athletes came,
And each would eat a thousand of chops,
And each would make a great effort,
They will not carry it – it’s such a weigh!
J.Tuwim, The Locomotive
Crisis of the euro zone resulted in the disappearance of all the symptoms of euro- enthusiasm. Future of the further integration is strongly [...]
The Arab Springtime of Nations: challenge for the EU and Poland
The Arab Springtime of Nations provoked a change in the policy of neighbourhood of the EU towards the South from the paradigm of stabilization to democracy.
About equality
If it is possible, by means of social redistribution of resources (the use of e.g. tax measures or social welfare), to minimize the negative impact on our lives by certain factors that are beyond our control, such a strategy realizes the liberal ideal of freedom. It provides deep justification for this ideal of freedom.
