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Hey everyone! If you have a moment this weekend, please follow events that are about to unfold in Poland. It's most probably going to get really ugly and we need your eyes! Let me explain in a couple of tweets what is going on here. Bear with me! 1/
Last week the Polish Supreme Court ruled that women are to be forced to carry pregnancies to term even if the fetus is malformed and has zero chance of survival. Needless to say, this sparked protests. They've been going on for a week now. 2/ https://twitter.com/Sosowski/status/1321004847748009984
The head of the ruling party, Jarosław Kaczyński answered by a call to arms. Ina statement he said that we need to "protect Poland" "at all cost". It's all in polish, but he pretty much is just calling for violence on the streets. 3/
A lot of people protesting are young people and obviously women. Today, the biggest protest so far is about to take place in Warsaw. Here is an interview with a guy claiming that over 10k strong force is mobilised and half of them is trained to fight. 4/ https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/nawet-10-tysiecy-narodowcow-mobilizowanych-w-warszawie-na-najblizszy-weekend/m738nxh,79cfc278
Somewhere in the meantime they passed a law that allows for military on the streets. Here is a video by a Polish MP showing a mobilised military force waiting for the protests to unfold. The protest is about to start 5PM CET, that's 90 minutes from now 5/ https://twitter.com/JoankaSW/status/1322147937267470337
Additionally, organisers of the protests in some cities are already being prosecuted. https://twitter.com/RMF24pl/status/1322130556767920130 I feel as if the democracy is slipping through our fingers right before our eyes. Please keep your eyes peeled! Poland needs your eyes right now! 6/
Apologies that all of the sources are in Polish, and sorry for talking politics again. I'm just afraid for my country! Thank you for bearing with me! And have a nice weekend (at least better than we're about to have). I really hope nothing bad will happen, though. 7/7
