http://torun.indymedia.org/2719 IMC Torun / prawa człowieka (Focus) http://torun.indymedia.org//favicon.ico http://torun.indymedia.org/2719 http://torun.indymedia.org/5949 <p><strong>Włochy: katolickie pismo zarzuca rasizm szefowi <span class="caps">MSW</span></strong></p> <p>Największy włoski tygodnik katolicki “Famiglia Cristiana” w ostrych słowach wystąpił przeciwko ministrowi spraw wewnętrznych Roberto Maroniemu nazywając “rasistowską” i “nieprzyzwoitą” jego propozycję pobierania odcisków palców od dzieci romskich podczas spisu powszechnego w obozowiskach Romów w całym kraju. – Najpierw jednak odciski palców parlamentarzystów i ich dzieci – postuluje sarkastycznie poczytne katolickie pismo w najnowszym numerze.</p> <p>Pyta następnie, czy premier Silvio Berlusconi “pozwoliłby na to, by funkcjonariusze policji pobrali odciski palców od jego dzieci i wnuków”.</p> <p>– Dzisiaj, wraz z odciskami palców, państwo policyjne ukazuje swą najbardziej okrutną twarz małym Romom, chociaż są obywatelami włoskimi – stwierdza tygodnik zakonu paulinów.</p> <p>Pismo wyraża przekonanie, że dla włoskiego rządu nie liczy się w ogóle Konwencja Praw Dziecka, a “umieszczanie w kartotece romskiego dziecka, które nie popełniło przestępstwa, n…</p> pl 2008-07-01T17:54:14+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/5948 <p>Krakowska prokuratura domaga się ukarania lekarki, która wypisywała leki dla biednych. Zarzuca jej wyłudzenie w ten sposób z Małopolskiej Kasy Chorych 100 tysięcy złotych. – Nie mam się czego wstydzić. To były leki dla biednych i bezdomnych – odpowiada oskarżona lekarka.</p> <p>Janosikowa – wypisywała tysiące darmowych recept, żeby ratować biednych</p> <p>Prokuratura skierowała do sądu akt oskarżenia przeciwko niej. Ilona Rosiek to bohaterka naszego zeszłorocznego reportażu pt. “Janosikowa”, w którym opisaliśmy jej dramatyczną historię. Kobieta od 14 lat prowadzi działalność charytatywną, pomaga biednym i bezdomnym. Wcześniej jako lekarz pracowała w zakładowej przychodni Krakowskiej Spółdzielni Niewidomych.</p> <p>Prokuratura twierdzi, że właśnie wtedy między 1998 a 1999 rokiem, wystawiła ogromną liczbę darmowych recept na leki. Pisała w nich, że osoby, na które figurowały są inwalidami wojennymi. Według śledczych to fikcja i ówczesna Małopolska Kasa Chorych straciła w ten sposób ponad 100 tysięcy zł…</p> pl 2008-07-01T17:50:00+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/5825 <h2><acronym title="Anarchist Black Cross">ABC</acronym> <span class="caps">POZNA</span>Ń REPORT: The arrest and charges against the participants of the demonstration against U.S. missile base in Poland, Słupsk, 29-30 March 2008</h2> <p><a href="http://www.rozbrat.org/ack_raport_08.htm">source in html format</a></p> <h3>The Demonstration</h3> <p>On the 29th March a demo against U.S. missile base in Poland took place in Slupsk (northern Poland). More about the demo: <a href="http://www.tarcza.org">http://www.tarcza.org</a> and <a href="http://www.m29.bzzz.net">http://www.m29.bzzz.net</a>.</p> <p>Huge police forces were mobilized before the demo. Few days before the demonstration, policemen intruded on the demonstration organizers asking about the details of the protest and were trying to intimidate them. During the demo itself, where from 500 to 800 people took part, the police was not offensive. The police units were not visible, that’s why the demonstration was peaceful. At the square where the hydepark took place, there was a big police car with video cameras.</p> <p>The atmosphere got more tense when some of the activists (100-200 people) went …</p> en 2008-04-07T23:48:55+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/5049 <p><a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/topics/Labor">workers’ rights</a></p> <p><em>source: <a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/topics/Labor">ZCommunications</a> (but you can add, correct, ...):</em></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://bari.iww.org/" title="Industrial Worker">Industrial Worker</a></li> <li><a href="http://labor.net.au/workers/magazine/latest/" title="Workers Online">Workers Online</a></li> <li><a href="http://metalab.unc.edu/hardmile/" title="Hard Miles Music">Hard Miles Music</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cgeu.org/" title="Graduate Employees Union">Graduate Employees Union</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.directa.force9.co.uk" title="Direct Action">Direct Action</a></li> <li><a /></li> </ul> en 2008-01-27T17:53:19+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4861 <p><a href="/4825"><img src="/content/guest/4860.png" alt="Tibet Autonomous Region" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <ul> <li><strong>What film?</strong> “TIBET: <span class="caps">THE HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY</span>” is a film critical of the human rights violations in the <em>Tibet Autonomous Region</em> of P.R.China.</li> </ul> <p>Is the Free Tibet movement just a British/CIA plot to divide P.R.China up into 30 or 40 different independent ethnic-based states? Britain and Russia have used military action againt China since over a century in order to try to control Xinjiang and Tibet.</p> <p>Will a patriarchal, hierarchical, religious government in Tibet independent of P.R.Chinese capitalist, “all-China” (ogólno-chińskie) methods of government be an improvement for the people of Tibet? Do they want partial autonomy or total independence?</p> <p>Come along and discuss after the film.</p> <ul> <li><strong>where?</strong> At the LaLucza Alternative Space (ul.Podmurna 30/4 in Torun town centre)</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>when?</strong> Thursday 10 Jan at 19:00</li> </ul> <ul> <li>after the film there’ll be discussio…</li> </ul> en 2008-01-06T18:37:47+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4832 <p><a href="/4825"><img src="/content/guest/4828.jpg" alt="dead refugee conforming to European Union standards" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <h2>How many victims among African refugees? <span class="caps">FRONTEX</span>: between Warsaw and the Canary Islands</h2> <p>What’s <span class="caps">FRONTEX</span>? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex">FRONTEX</a> is the French abbreviation for « frontières extérieures » (external borders). The full name says more: <span class="caps">FRONTEX</span> is the <em>“European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union”.</em> According to official government information, the agency, which started on 3 October 2005 is responsible for coordinating, supporting and training services responsible for the “security” of external borders. On the surface, it looks like just another EU super-structure, intended to support local agencies. However, both the specific aims of the agency (control of and blocking immigration) and its wider powers (semi-tra…</p> en 2007-12-30T14:48:48+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4512 <p><a href="http://amnesty.wikidot.com">Amnesty International Toruń</a> – spotkania wtorek 20.11.2007 18.30g w <a href="/3127">LaLucza</a></p> <ul> <li>kalendarz: <strong>8-10 grudnia</strong> <a href="http://maratonamnesty.blox.pl/2007/10/JUZ-WKROTCE-STARTUJE-VIII-MARATON-PISANIA-LISTOW8.html">Maraton pisania listów</a></li> </ul> pl 2007-11-20T00:10:02+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4564 <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Contra Doxa: <a href="http://contra-doxa.com">http://contra-doxa.com</a></strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://romania.indymedia.org">http://romania.indymedia.org</a></strong></p> <h2>Call for an anti-NATO Protest in Bucharest</h2> <em>source: Czytelnik <a href="http://cia.bzzz.net/call_for_an_anti_nato_protest_in_bucharest">CIA, Śro, 2007-11-07</a> 06:42 English | Ruch anarchistyczny</em> <h3>20th <span class="caps">NATO SUMMIT BUCHAREST</span></h3> <pre> <code><a href="/4562#id4563"><img src="/content/guest/4563.jpg" alt="image 4563" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></code> </pre> <p><em>“We are here to thank the Government of Romania and the Romanian people for the support they have offered to us on several occasions. We are allies in the fight on terror, generally, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are allies in promoting democracy and we appreciate the support of Romanian President.”</em> Stephen Hadley, Bush’s National Security Advisor, October 23, 2005</p> <p>On 21st of September the Romanian Vice Foreign Minister Victor Micula and North-Atlantic Council Secretary Berndt Götze signed the memorandum for *hosting the N…</p> en 2007-11-11T15:46:06+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4575 <p style="float:left"><a href="http://contra-doxa.com"><img src="content/guest/4563.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <ul> <li>2008 April 4 anti-NATO Romania – <a href="http://contra-doxa.com">http://contra-doxa.com</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://romania.indymedia.org">http://romania.indymedia.org</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>2007 Jan – Seville anti-NATO protest – <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361561.html">http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361561.html</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>2007 Feb – Munich anti-NATO protest – <a href="http://www1.autistici.org/g8/eng/siko/no-nato-2007/">http://www1.autistici.org/g8/eng/siko/no-nato-2007/</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_anti-NATO_protests_of_2006">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_anti-NATO_protests_of_2006</a> – anty-NATO 2006r. – Ukraina</li> </ul> <ul> <li>2004 June – Istanbul anti-NATO protest – <a href="http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7992.php">http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7992.php</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>2002 Nov – Prague anti-NATO protests – <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/278096.html">http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/278096.html</a></li> </ul> en 2007-11-11T15:20:43+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4278 <p><a href="/2891"><img src="/content/guest/2891.jpg" alt="akcja Amnesty Guantanamo Bay" width="200" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Spotkanie toruńskiej grupy Amnesty International (powakacyjna reaktywacja)</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Wtorek, 16.10.2007r. godz.18.00 w sali nr 24</strong> (seminaryjna katedry Praw Czlowieka) na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji, <span class="caps">UMK</span></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Zapraszamy wszystkich zainteresowanych!!</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://amnesty.wikidot.com">http://amnesty.wikidot.com</a></p> pl 2007-10-13T20:53:25+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4271 <p><a href="/4268#id4269"><img src="/content/guest/4269.jpg" alt="image 4269" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <p>A happening for the <a href="/4233">Day Against the Death Penalty</a> took place at 15:00 on Thursday afternoon 11 Oct 2007 in Toruń: photos</p> <ul> <li>“Death penalty – not in my name” <em>(“Kara śmierci – nie w moim imieniu”)</em></li> </ul> <ul> <li>“Death penalty – legal murder” <em>(“Kara śmierci – legalne mordowanie”)</em></li> </ul> <p><a href="http://lalucza.bzzz.net/lalucza/galeria.html">http://lalucza.bzzz.net/lalucza/galeria.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://LaLucza.bzzz.net">LaLucza</a>, Toruń</p> en 2007-10-12T21:00:05+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4240 <p><a href="/4233#id4234"><img src="/content/guest/4234.jpg" alt="image 4234" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <p><em>The Day Against the Death Penalty is on 10 October but in Toruń this will take place on Thurs <strong>11.X</strong> .</em></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>We start at 15:00 at Copernicus’ statue</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;">The action will be street theatre type action</p> <p><a href="http://LaLucza.bzzz.net">LaLucza</a>, Toruń</p> <hr /> <ul> <li>in Warsaw: <ul> <li>09.10 at 13:00 at the President’s Palace</li> <li>10.10 at 18:00 at the Centrum Metro</li> </ul> </li> <li>in Lodz 09.10 at 17:30 at the Pasaż Schiller</li> <li>in Lublin 10.10</li> <li>in Torun <strong>11.10 at 15:00 at Copernicus’ statue</strong></li> </ul> en 2007-10-09T23:25:50+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/4144 <p>The miners of “Belaruskaliy” salt mines are preparing to picket against changes already applied to the Labour Code and against the new law “About pension insurance” which is going to be considered by Parliament. In accordance with the law, they made the appropriate registration with the local state bodies.</p> <p><strong>The picket will occur on October 2nd—on the day, when a session of Parliament will be opened.</strong></p> <p>The registration of the picket was signed by private persons, not by the independent trade union of miners. Moreover, as reported in the newspaper “Belorussians reports and market”, <strong>the leader of the trade union, Mikalai Novik, also denies the fact of the <a href="https://belarus.indymedia.org/10493">self-organised strike, which happened on 9 September 2007</a>.</strong> Information about the Sep 9 strike was distributed via liberal opposition media by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salihorsk">Salihorsk</a> local “Helsinki Human Rights Commitee” division. According to <a href="http://praca-by.info">http://praca-by.info</a>, another ind…</p> en 2007-09-29T21:58:12+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3757 <p><a href="/3750#id3751"><img src="/content/guest/3751.jpg" alt="solidarity with striking doctors" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <p>“We support the doctors’ strike” – “No more exploitation”</p> <p>“The nurses’ and midwives’ trade union supports the protest” – ,,We’re with you”</p> <p>– Regional Children’s Hospital, Torun, 22 August 2007</p> <p>In-depth analysis from June 2007:</p> <h2>Poland’s Health Care Workers’ Strike: new challenges and old problems</h2> <p><a href="http://cia.bzzz.net/poland_s_health_care_workers_strike_new_challenges_and_old_problems">Poland’s Health Care Workers’ Strike: new challenges and old problems</a></p> <h4>The Doctor’s Strike and the Nurses’ Occupation</h4> <p>_Poland is entering the sixth week [June 2007] of a very serious doctors’ strike. Thousands of doctors around the country have been protesting the state of the health care system and one of its main problems: low wages for health care professionals and long working hours, usually compounded by the fact that most people work e…</p> en 2007-08-28T21:09:49+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3709 <h2>CONCERT: “No to fascism!” – 18.VIII.2007 (Sat.) 20:00</h2> <ul> <li><strong>APATIA</strong> (APATHY, living legend hc/punk from Poznan) <ul> <li><a href="http://www.apatia.band.pl">http://www.apatia.band.pl</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Die Last</strong> (Emo hc/punk – Gdańsk) <ul> <li><a href="http://www.dielast.band.pl">http://www.dielast.band.pl</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>365 <span class="caps">DNI</span></strong> (hc/punk, Ciechanów) <ul> <li><a href="http://myspace.com/365dni">http://myspace.com/365dni</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li>After the concert old punk &amp; disco party: K.U.L.A. (Playing till dawn!)</li> </ul> <p><strong>18.VIII.2007 (Sat.) 20:00</strong></p> <p><em>Entry 10 zł</em></p> <p><strong>PILON – Toruń, ul. Bulwar Filadelfijski</strong></p> <p>Info: <a href="http://www.pilon.pl">www.pilon.pl</a></p> <p><em>michoo77 at poczta.onet.pl</em></p> en 2007-08-16T22:20:09+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/2545 <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT</a></p> <p><span class="caps">KPH</span> – Komitet Przeciwko Homofobii – Campaign Against Homophobia</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.kampania.org.pl/torun.php">http://www.kampania.org.pl/torun.php</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.torun.kampania.org.pl">http://www.torun.kampania.org.pl</a></li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.torun.kampania.org.pl">Campaign Against Homophobia – Toruń</a></h2> <p>Most people associate Toruń with Nicolaus Copernicus, gingerbread biscuits (pierniki), the gothic old town listed by <span class="caps">UNESCO</span>. Others think of Father Rydzyk’s media empire and its loud “Radio Maria”. But now that’s not all. Toruń has become one of Poland’s centres opposing homophobia. On the 31 January 2006 the first, still unofficial, meeting of the Toruń branch of <span class="caps">KPH</span> (Committee Against Homophobia) took place.</p> <p>”...and from then on <span class="caps">KPH</span> is now also my group, organisation fighting for your and my rights, for everyone’s rights, not just for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals, but for everyone, who wants to live in his/her …</p> en 2007-08-13T23:33:55+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3554 <p>&nbsp;URGENT CALL FOR DONATIONS</p> <p>----------------------------------------</p> <p>*** PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY ***</p> <p>Dear friend,</p> <p>The mounting legal cost of the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle against the occupation is forcing us to send this urgent appeal for funds. We are asking for your support to continue the work of the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW).</p> <p>For the past four years, the group has supported the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and specifically against Israel`s segregation wall. Week after week, AATW joins the Palestinian popular resistance against the wall, in diverse areas of the West Bank, including the villages of Bil`in west of Ramallah, al-Ma`asara, and Ertas, south of Bethlehem, and Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.</p> <p>Activists have often been arrested and indicted for their participation in the struggle. Fortunately, the group is represented by a dedicated lawyer, Adv. Gaby Lasky. Adv. Lasky has tirelessly worked to defend activists arrested at…</p> en 2007-07-31T12:23:19+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3448 <p><em>Nazis just attacked the anti-nuclear anarchist camp in Siberia (night 21.08). They were armed with knives and guns (pneumatic?). Some activists are seriously injured. One is laying without conciousness, <a href="http://cia.bzzz.net/rosja_atak_nazistow_na_oboz_ekologiczny">Ilya Borodaenko, member of the Autonomous Action federation, died in hospital Saturday 21.07.2007</a> another one had both legs broken. The camp was totally burned.</em></p> <p>Nazi-skinheads attacked eco-camp in Angarsk (Russia).</p> <p>Breaking news! Nazi-skinheads attacked eko-lager in Angarsk (Russia). They were armed with knives, fittings, air weapons. There are seriously injured activists. One man lay unconscious with a perforated head. Two missing. Emergency has not yet arrived. The camp was set on fire. Burned virtually everything.</p> <p>Telephone +7924 621 2465</p> Keep track of incoming information: <ul> <li><a href="http://imc-siberia.org/node/36">http://imc-siberia.org/node/36</a> (ru/en)</li> <li><a href="http://piter.indymedia.ru/r%E2%80%A6">http://piter.indymedia.ru/ru/node/3006</a></li> </ul> en 2007-07-22T14:51:29+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3425 <h3>Protest against the hypocrisy of Catholic society!</h3> <p><strong>14.VII.2007 (Saturday) 14:00 at Copernicus’ statue</strong></p> <p>The action was aimed at bringing the attention of local society and the city council to the problematic nature of giving public money to a project not having an effect on the living conditions of people needing help.</p> <div style="float:right"><a href="/content/guest/3441.avi"><img src="/content/guest/3422.jpg" alt="hypocrisy" width="200" /></a></div> Taking into account the present situation of health services, as well the level of social support from the state we consider it unjustified to give public money for the building of yet another statue in the name of “Catholic values”. The neglecting of public support sector in the name of showing so-called “good catholics” doesn’t help the basic existence needs of poor families and hungry children, who the “Catholic elites” seem to care about during their speeches. <p>According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) one third of people…</p> en 2007-07-18T22:21:47+00:00 http://torun.indymedia.org/3171 <h2><a href="http://samiawad.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/we-will-play-on-our-land/">We will Play on our Land</a></h2> <p>by <a href="http://samiawad.wordpress.com/">Sami Awad</a></p> <p>Saturday, May 26, 2007</p> <p>Many may say that this is strange or outright weird, but the message was clear and strong, “This is our land and we have the right do as we want on it … even play football…” This was the statement made by Abdullah, one of the leaders of the Popular Committee to Resist the Wall in Southern Bethlehem when asked to comment on this week’s protest in the village of Um Salamona south of Bethlehem.</p> <div style="float:left"><a href="http://samiawad.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/we-will-play-on-our-land/"><img src="/content/guest/3172.jpg" alt="" /></a></div> <p>As part of the continuously growing nonviolent movement in the Southern part of Bethlehem, more Palestinians were joined by internationals and Israelis to protest the building of the Wall this Friday through a football/soccer match that was held on the exact path of the wall. Once the wall is constructed 70% of the agricultural land of t…</p> en 2007-05-29T22:22:01+00:00