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anti-missile protest in Slupsk - live report
аўтар bush go to hel, дата 2008-03-29 17:16
anti-missile protest in Slupsk - live report
аўтар bush go to hel, дата 2008-03-29 23:33

anti-missile protest in Slupsk – live report

source (polish), by Czytelnik CIA, Czw, 2008-03-27 17:33:

http://cia.bzzz.net/demonstracja_antytarczowa_w_slupsku

partial translation – wikified

translation – wikified

On Saturday 29 March in Slupsk, demonstrators from around Poland went to protest against the installation of parts of the u.s.-american so-called “Anti-missile Shield” in Redzikowo

LIVE REPORT – all times are GMT+1
  • 16.10 – more and more Redzikowo residents have joined the demonstration in front of the main gate – now there are a few tens of people from Redzikowo, of various ages, both families and children.
  • 19.00 – the person detained after 17.00 was given a fine of 650 zł [160 euro, a little under one month’s minimum wage] “for loitering and swearing”.
 
  • 19.30 – Our reporter informed us that at the end of the protest in front of the main gate in Redzikowo another two people were detained. One of them was taken as a result of what happened at the gate. Both people have already been freed.
  • 17.15 – on Tuwima Street in Słupsk one person was detained, according to witnesses, the person behaved peacefully, the pretext for the detention could have a beer held in the person’s hand. The person was taken to a police station (it’s unknown which one). Police in an unmarked, grey car with a Gdańsk licence plate threatened a friend of the detained person: “Shut up because you’ll be arrested too.”
  • 16.35 – the demonstration is slowly finishing. Final discussions with the residents are taking place, flyers are being distributed. Most people are heading towards Słupsk.
  • 16.20 – a few symbolic attempts at forcing through the gate were made. A few dozen police stood in front of the gate with shields and dogs.
  • 16.10 – more and more Redzikowo residents have joined the demonstration in front of the main gate – now there are a few tens of people from Redzikowo, of various ages, both families and children.
  • 15.55 – the demonstration, after going through Redzikowo, got to the main gate. Some of the local Redzikowo residents have joined the march. The protestors are hanging anti-Shield banners on the gate and calling out “We won’t give up Redzikowo”.
  • 15.35 – demonstrators are going towards the main entrance of the base.
  • 15.30 – guards with shields are trying to remove demonstrators from the grounds of the base. Protestors are slowly withdrawing from a position seen from above.
  • 15.25 – protestors remove the barricade and got into the base
  • 15.20 – protestors got to the side entrance to the base, which is blocked by wood and “drut kolczasty”. There are police cars in front of the barrier.
  • 15.15 – demonstrators are already close to Redzikowo and going towards the entrance of the military base. On the way a dozen or so heavy police vans and a “polewaczka” appeared, also going to the base. Two secret police/provocateurs tried to enter the demonstration, but were discovered.
  • 15.05 – police stopped the march for a moment with the aim of “informing participants how they should move in a column along the road”.
  • 15.00 – above the marchers there’s a police helicopter. An unmarked minibus appeared for recording [videotaping] the protestors
  • 14.35 – demonstrators are marching in the rain. They’ll be in Redzikowo in a dozen minutes or so. Some people are going there by car.
  • 14.20 – a column of about 200 protestors has started moving towards Redzikowo, where elements of the so-called “anti-missile missiles” would be placed.
  • 14.15 – some of the demonstrators are going now to Redzikowo, in order to continue the protest.
  • 14.05 – the march returned to the point where it entered, i.e. the Town Hall. Demonstrators are calling out: “Father, mother, I don’t want Guantanammo in Słupsk.” [in Polish this rhymes]
  • 13.55 – the demo moved to the train station. People are walking now along Wojska Polskiego Street.
  • 13.45 – our reporter said that in front of the Town Hall there’s a not so big group of Young Socialists and Greens 2004, who were “offended” that demonstration organisers didn’t let them show their party logos.
  • 13.40 – many demonstrators have got to the train station. A few tens of police are at the station, but for the moment things are calm. Drummers from Poznań and Tri-City. People are calling out: “Don’t bush Redzikowo.”
  • 13.30 – the march through the streets of Słupsk is taking place. Our correspondent says that many passers-by of various ages are spontaneously joining the demonstration

13.15 – demonstranci przemieszczają się uliczkami centrum, obecnie znajdują się na Starym Rynku. Gra grupa samby, ludzie skandują: Nic o nas bez nas; Bez tarczy bez wojen jesteśmy za pokojem; Tarcza w Słupsku – wrzód na dupsku; USA – Ha, ha, ha. Jedzie także samochód z nagłośnieniem, więc demonstracja zwraca na siebie uwagę.
  • 13.15 – demonstrators are moving along the central street area, right now they’re in the old Town Square. Samba groups are playing, people are calling out: “Nothing about us without us; Without anti-missile shields, without war, we’re for peace; Anti-missile Shield in Słupsk, pain in the butt; USA – Ha, ha, ha.” A car with a loudspeaker is moving, so the demonstrators is paying attention to it.
 

13.10 – Ruszył marsz ulicami Słupska. Na czele wspomniany Marsz kajdaniarzy w którym na łańcuchu trzymanym przez George W. Busha idą Donald Tusk i Jarosław Kaczyński z tarczą antyrakietową, za którymi przykuci do łańcucha idą robotnicy. Całość konwojowana jest przez Władimira Putina z karabinem

13.00 – trwają przygotowania do “Marszu kajdaniarzy” realizowanego przez osoby ze Stowarzyszenia “Kolektyw Autonomistów”/Federacji Anarchistycznej Toruń

12.45 – rozdawany jest ciepły posiłek w ramach akcji Jedzenie Zamiast Bomb

12.35 – Po napomnieniu ze strony organizatorów Zieloni 2004 zwinęli flagi ze swoim logo, jednak Młodzi Socjaliści nadal trwają przy swoich

12.30 – kolejni przemawiający: Jakub Gawlikowski ze Związku Syndykalistów Polski, Maciej Muskat z Greenpeace, Piotr Ciszewski z Lewicowej Alternatywy, Filip Ilkowski z Inicjatywy Stop Wojnie

12.25 – trwają przemówienia, m.in. wystąpił przedstawiciel ruchu antytarczowego z Czech

12.15 – do mikrofonu podszedł zwolennik tarczy antyrakietowej i próbował przekonywać zgromadzonych, ale został “wybuczany”

12.10 – Na transparentach widnieją takie hasła jak: Precz z tarczą, parasole wystarczą; Ani kroku dalej w wyścigu zbrojeń; Wasza tarcza – nasze zagrożenie; Nie chcemy być tarczą USA

12.00 – Grupa 200 aktywistów z dworca dotarła pod Ratusz. Wiec został otwarty. Młodzi Socjaliści i Zieloni 2004 nie uszanowali prośby organizatorów o nie eksponowanie swoich nazw partyjnych (“no logo”).

11.55 – Pod słupskim Ratuszem na placu Zwycięstwa zgromadziło się kilkaset osób w dużym stopniu “zwykłych” mieszkańców.

11.50 – Nasz korespondent informuje, że ok. 200 osób przemieszcza się z dworca w kierunku Ratusza, gdzie ma rozpocząć się zgromadzenie. Grają bębniarze.

Według ostatnich sondaży około 60 procent mieszkańców Słupska i okolic jest przeciwko amerykańskiej bazie w Redzikowie.

Pikiety solidarnościowe z polską akcją odbędą się pod polskimi ambasadami w Pradze, Waszyngtonie, Londynie, Dublinie, Berlinie i Hamburgu oraz pod wojskową bazą w Fylingdales w Wielkiej Brytanii.