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Headquaters of Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP) will make decision about protests in school in Tuesday. The score of survey made by ZNP among teachers shows that 80% of them want one day's strike.

Unionists want from government to present some plan of significant salary rises.Union wants also possibility to retire at previous rules.

Irish anti-war activist Damien Moran, acquitted in Dublin Circuit court 18 months ago by jury trial of doing €2 million damage to a U.S. military plane at Shannon airport as a protest against the Iraq war, was deported from the U.S.A.Sunday by Homeland Security agents at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

As well as a a ploughshares acquittal to his name Damien Moran now has the privilege of being sent packing on a one-way flight from Chicago airport to Warsaw just 5 hours after he had landed.

Moran stated that he was "immediately detained and questioned by Homeland Security officers about our Ploughshares action at Shannon in February 2003 where we did $2.5million damage to a U.S. Navy plane."
More info. here(WarOnTrial)

He continued: "I informed them about our action and acquittal with pleasure. They were none too pleased. When the idiotic Officer Bock shouted out that deportation was the least of my problems I decided there was no point of pushing his buttons too far. I made my anti-war statement, explaining that I was en route to visit my brother in Virginia, then planned going to Colorado Springs and Nebraska to speak at anti-militarism conferences/panels and demonstrations."

Moran says that he has lost $350 dollars in flight expenses while the Global Network (www.space4peace.org) Against Weapons in Space that invited him have been setback over $1,000. Compared to the U.S. spending on the Iraq war, over $2 trillion, it's a drop in the ocean. But the fascists that control U.S. borders couldn;t give two shits about wasting working citizens and peaceful organisations finances.

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
SLUPSK, Poland: Residents of this northern Polish town are up in arms at the prospect of being placed once again in the front line of power plays between Moscow and Washington.

A nearby communist-era military base could soon host a disputed US missile shield that has enraged Poland’s former overlord Russia, sparking a war of words between the Cold War superpower rivals.

Lubelskie province demonstrated solidarity with Tibet

In Lublin, 30 of March , there was action of solidarity with Tibet.People from Krasnystaw, Chelm and Lublin came. Despite the fact that most of participants don't know each other action happened well. There weren't concrete organizers.

Participants distributed few hundreds of handbills about Tibet's situation now and history, and tens of "Opornik" magazine included also articles about tibet.They colected 400 signs under petition to Polish Prime Minister.

Apart from catchwords from megaphone like always it is, there were many spontaneous disccusions iniciated by passer-bies.

Participants thanks all who were and who signed petition.

On Monday begun next round of negotiations between Post workers unions and Polish Post's headquarters.They talked about wages' rises.Last negotiations which took place at the end of february ended by fiasco.

Meanwhile workers inform that as much as 86 % support start of the strike.It's a score of referendum from 14-22 march days.73,78% of workers participate in vote from 102 478 employed in Polish Post.

The Common Voice from the anarchists and anti-militarists who gathered in Bucharest in April 2008 to protest against the NATO summit

As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception.

In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest.

UPDATE April 2: Everybody expect one guy has been released.

There has been some mass repression in Bucharest. 46 Anti-NATO activists were arrested at the Convergence Center a couple of hours ago. People were beaten while being transported to the jail. (Of course Romanian TV showed some parts of a "civilized looking" arrest. No guns and batons on camera.) At least one person is hospitalized and others require medical attention.

At least some of them are at the police station called "section 11". A small picket is going on there now.

These are the phone numbers and address:
021/313.69.45 / 021/321.72.12
Address: Politia Municipiului Bucuresti, sectia nr. 11. Calea Vitan, nr. 43.

There is unconfirmed information that other activists may be held at the section 10 station.

Prior to this, numerous repressive actions were carried out by the police, including intimidation, arrests and barring people from the country.

A report from activists which was sent earlier today:

Massive Repression during the NATO Summit in Romania

One day before the start of the Nato summit in Bucharest the situation gets worse. Hourly alternative looking people are detained by the police for no reason. Afterwards the police construct absurd offence, for example carrying a pocketknife amounting to possession a weapon. Every person coming to or leaving the convergence center is in danger of getting detained (some simply for walking to a nearby shop). The detained are interrogated, photographed and fingerprinted in police stations, and held for up to 24 hours.
At the Romanian border several groups of activists, as well as others, have been denied entry into the country.

The most involved Romanian activists around the country have at this point been visited or called by either the local police or SRI (Romanian information service) to be warned against participating in any anti-nato protests or to have their families intimidated.

27000 police officers, military, snipers and secret police are occupying the city. The security alert code yellow has been announced, meaning that all demonstrations are forbidden in the whole city amongst other restrictive laws.

In the face of this repression the actions of the few activists present are severely limited. Therefore we urgently need your solidarity. Please make solidarity actions in your cities.

Repression Update list:

19th of March - Calafat checkpoint 6 anti-nato German activists; searched for 19 hours

26th of March - four of the 6 tried to cross again at Giurgiu check-point

27th of March - Tatiana Duplei was run over

28th of March – "Die Young" hardcore group from Texas Cenad check-point denied entry

29th of March 7am - 5 anti-nato activists in Bucharest were stopped by the sector 3 police and taken to police station 11 for verification. They refused to have photos taken or be
fingerprinted, and were only let go once they started making phone calls to the mass media

31st of March - 7 Czech activists tried to cross the border and were detained at the border
for 8 hours after which they were denied entry into Romania. One of the activists was carrying some information from the Czech anti-radar base movement. They were all searched and some cd's and leaflets were found

1st of April c 00:30 3 activists were stopped by sector 3 jandarmerie when they were coming back from the market. They were stopped for 2 hours outside and then taken to section 14. a penal case has been opened against them for carrying 'white weapons' (Swiss army knife)

1st of april in the morning 4 polish activists tried to cross the border. After their license
plate number was checked they were told by the police that they knew that they were going to Bucharest to protest against nato and were denied entry.

1st of April c. 12:30 1 person was stopped by sector 3 jandarmerie for suspicion of having stolen goods on his person and taken to the section 3 police for verification and checking after 1.5 hours on the street. he was released at around 6 pm. big backpack

1st of april a bus of anti-nato activists from Berlin was stopped in Pitesti. the activists were taken to the police station and after some interrogation, were escorted out of Pitesti and started driving towards Bucharest. They reached Bucharest late on the 1st of april along with the police escort but are constantly with the police escort and cannot come to the convergence center.

1st of april in the late afternoon a group of 4 anti-nato activists passing out flyers were
detained and taken to section 8 and 4 other anti-nato activists were detained and taken to section 8 as well...

1st of april in the late evening several anti-nato activists were stopped and searched by police while on their way to the convergence center, but eventually were let go

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We will see you on the streets of Bucharest: Promised is promised!

Here in Berlin we have heard last days that for some reasons some clever people sitting at the power position in Romania are trying to antagonise the common Romanian people and the anarchists by spreading rumours about an arrival of the “bus with Berlin anarchists” to Bucharest for the anti-NATO protests. If this is a fact, we, anarchists from Berlin, would like to confirm the information about the arrival from our side, but what is much more important, is to explain our motivations behind visiting Bucharest at the beginning of April to the people in Romania.

On Saturday March 29th over 700 people attended a protest at noon in the city of Slupsk, Northern Poland, against the Polish government's plans to permit the construction of a US missile base, part of their notorious 'Star Wars' program. On Friday and Saturday solidarity vigils were held with Polish activists in Prague, Dublin, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Moscow, Washington and the U.S. spy base at Fylingdales in England.

The demonstration was organised by a wide range of Polish anarchist groups working together as the Polish Campaign Against Militarism. A variety of representatives from other political groups and anti-militarist campaigns attended the demonstration. The 'No Logo' guideline helped keep focus on participants opposition to the missile base and avoided a space which merely provided a marketing opportunity for political parties to promote themselves.

We Urge Poland to Reject US Missile Base Plans in Poland

Nine people took part in today's vigil outside the Polish Embassy in Dublin where a letter was handed in to the Polish Ambassador, Dr Tadeusz Szumowski.

We vigilled from 12 noon to 1.15 pm when the rain became very heavy. The letter, signed by all nine and handed in by Fintan, read as follows.

On Poznan's walls and billboards appeared big posters ----
On one of them we can see Chinsee soldier in Tibet and Polish soldier in Iraq. "Find the diffrence" encourge authors.On others there is voice of protest against instalation of american shield in Poland ("We don't want be America's shield!")

fotos:
https://cia.media.pl/antymilitarne_banery_na_poznanskich_murach_1

Approximately 60 per cent of Slupsk region inhabitants are against the possible deployment of anti-missile shield elements in nearby Redzikowo, northern Poland.
Only 31 per cent would support hosting the American anti-missile shield, some with reserve, according to a poll carried out on commission of the Centre for Civic Initiatives in Slupsk. Redzikowo, a village near Slupsk, is still the unofficial site of the US anti-missile shield. The Polish government is in the process of negotiating the installment with its American counterpart.

Workers of Breslau's posts participated in strike referendum about intercountry strike.Referendums took place at Friday at all post outposts.Postmens from all 45 workers unions demend rises.

First off all workers demend higher pays.Salary for begining work on the lowest position is some 1400 pln brutto.Unionists demand average 700 pln rise.
Postmans nor earn small but work above standards.
Last year some employees had to work even 400 hours.
Standard is 150.

Dziennik Baltycki newspaper wrote that workers of Tesco on Gdynia( district Chylonia ), Poland , will earn more money due to menacing strike

From April cashiers ( most of them are women ) will get 300 PLN more, and storekeepers - 150 pln on hands. Additionally they struggled bonds for shopping inside supermarket market of 200 pln value and one more holiday's day. - We were consistent and that's why we could achieve desired aim - tells leader of Workers of Trade Union ( Związek Zawodowy Pracowników Handlu ) Jan ciborski - " And it's not end.In April we'll sit to other negotiations when we'll demand next rises.

Strike readiness state was on last November. Cashiers and storekeepers, which earned 800 pln per month were demenading rise of 200.At October there should be the strike's referendum, which could end general strike. Finally during negotiations estabilished that rises will conceded in April this year.

At the end of January unionists met with bosses again and stand by preavious demends and redeem from last year's promises.

-Now both sides are glad.If employees would than in April there will be next negotiations - tells Przemysław Skory , Tesco's press officer.