A-Infos (en) Poland, Anachistic Federation p. Poznan: WE ARE STRONG, STRONGER TOGETHER![machine translation]

On December 6, 2020, another Women's Strike took place on the market in 
Pobiedziska under the slogan "Common Anger in Pobiedziska", which was hosted by 
MEP Katarzyna Ueberhan, who discussed the rule of law of the European Union in 
the context of the human rights crisis in Poland. As Poznanians Against Hunters 
and the Gniezno Anti-Hunting MovementWe raised the problem of breaching European 
standards in the context of women's social and animal rights, referring to the 
abuses related to hunting organized by hunting clubs. During the speeches we made 
an attempt to connect the issues of women's rights, ecology, animal rights and 
anti-fascism. Our speeches were warmly received, which does not change the fact 
that our aim was not to depart from the overarching topic, which is the inhumane 
prohibition of abortion, but only to shed light on topics no less important for 
local plots standing literally "on the line of fire" day after day. Activists 
from the Gniezno Anti-Habitat Movement defend women's rights on a daily basis and 
engage in the fight for animal welfare in the vicinity of Pobiedziska, in a place 
considered by hunters to be one of the best hunting grounds in Poland 
(Czerniejewo and its vicinity),
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Animal rights are violated in Poland and a policy of environmental degradation is 
pursued. Last Friday (04/12/2020), the European Commission decided to refer the 
case against Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union due to breaking 
the law during the so-called forest management. It was in 2016 during the PiS 
term of office that the late Minister Jan Szyszko, contrary to EU directives and 
the Constitutional Tribunal of the European Union, started cutting old trees in 
the Bialowieza Forest, using the argument of the bark beetle. We know very well 
that infected, diseased spruces were not cut down. Instead, healthy old 
hornbeams, oaks and beeches with huge trunk diameters were cut. For the enormous 
profit of the State Forests corporation, nature is destroyed, animals are killed 
and valuable plant species are degraded, Habitat directives are violated, birds 
are killed. Disgrace!
This year, the PiS government showed its worst face in the form of the abortion 
ban, limiting our abortion rights, which strikes the foundations of human 
existence: sense of security, health and life. He showed his worst face by 
attacking women and LGBTQiA + people and openly calls for support of fascist and 
national groups promoting such sick slogans as "death to leftists and LGBT". 
animals, old trees are cut down This is a disgrace!

The social movement called the Women's Strike has been operating in Poland since 
2016. It was four years ago that Black Protests passed through the streets of 
Polish cities. In Poznan, after the Black Protest near the PiS headquarters, 
several of our colleagues were groundlessly accused by police officers of 
violating their inviolability. They fought in court for an acquittal for four 
years. It was not easy. As usual, the scapegoat was found, and therefore the 
Anarchists were blamed. Only the district court in Poznan decided to acquit them.
We want to tell you that it is not enough to just criticize PiS, but to overthrow 
this sick government! We are fed up with the government's anti-social and 
anti-worker policies. We are fed up with exploiting cheap female labor on junk 
contracts or through temporary employment agencies.

This power has put far too many problems on the shoulders of women. Limiting the 
right to an abortion procedure is another PiS cut in medical services. The 
current situation is not only due to the neglect of a particular government, but 
also how patriarchal and classy the whole system is. We need to reorganize the 
system so that it is not oriented towards exploitation of the worker, but is 
based on social security. You will say that 500+ is a invention of Pis. Yes! 
Various sources show that 500plus made women feel safer. In Europe, however, such 
social benefits are much higher and are not subject to additional requirements. 
As usual, the poorest and needy women will suffer from the abortion ban, and as 
you know, the richer women, the easier it is for them to perform such an 
operation abroad.

Why is this happening? Why is the government mostly male, many of whom are 
hunters? Why are there daily hunts in the vicinity of Pobiedziska and why can we 
hear shots even at night? Why are hunters and priests who dictate rules to women 
and say what is good for them?

Because men, mainly hunters, policemen and priests, satisfy some need of their 
own, some hunger through the sense of belonging to the elite of guys. What? Of 
course, such a hunter or priest, when he belongs to the hunting club or the 
episcopate - and has the support of the elite - his well-being improves. But only 
for a moment. It turns out that in the world of hunters, police and priests low 
self-esteem, lack of self-respect, meaning in life and fulfillment are common, 
they are simply complex. It is a very sad and most sympathetic image of men. Male 
friendship ceased to exist. The same "dudes" are trying to do with women. They 
try to argue us and push us onto the tracks of competition in the name of 
corporate and business profit. But we will not give up!

Let the women speak for themselves!!! Women exploited for reproductive and caring 
work in households often suffer in hiding. Despite doing unpaid domestic work, 
they go into low-paid, hard-paid work. They are exhausted after work and still 
have to cook dinner for the whole family, and sometimes endure the violence of 
their husband / partner, who is also a hunter. In small towns it is more 
difficult for them to obtain psychological or legal help. Two months ago, in 
November 2020, a tragic accident happened. Despite the fact that the woman 
established the so-called "Blue card" (for domestic violence and alcohol abuse) - 
he, using his gun license, as a member of a hunting club, in the dark killed a 
16-year-old boy picking apples in an orchard by the boarding school. The hunter 
explained that ... "he mistook the boy for a boar." Often it is the hunters who 
use the advantage over women in the form of a hunting rifle and ... it happens 
that they shoot their wives. Disgrace!

For example, hunters' wives often complain that after a whole week of work, her 
husband disappears for the weekend and hunts, and she, tired of caring for 
children and the elderly, has to subordinate her life to dressing the bodies of 
the hunted animals. Unfortunately, this is how the everyday life of most women in 
smaller towns in Poland looks like, and in addition they have been denied the 
right to abortion! Disgrace!
It is said that people with rifles often have a sense of power and authority 
coupled with such a strange, pleasant tickling inside. A man wearing a rifle or 
dressed in a cassock with a clerical collar sends a subliminal signal "It's worth 
showing me respect." We are well aware of the psychological mechanism which says 
that it is very difficult to part with the received admiration and respect that 
is obtained through power and violence. We are sick of this!

In Poland, healthy animals are killed by telling the public to fight the ASF 
virus. We know very well that the shooting of healthy wild boars will not stop 
the ASF epidemic in pig farms. We know well that the vector of virus transmission 
is not the wild boar, but most of all the hunter and farmer who, not respecting 
biosecurity, infects healthy pigs in pig farms. Recent studies also show that 
coronaviruses mutate through pollution caused by industrial livestock farming. 
More and more women are starting to work in mink farms and slaughterhouses for 
very low wages. This is the exploitation of both women and nature! Disgrace!
We do not agree to any form of domination, and we wish to emphasize that it 
should not matter whether it occurs between a man and a woman or between people 
and animals. The fight for women's reproductive rights should be as strong as the 
fight for the rights of wild and industrially bred animals - animals that are 
raped and fertilized only to be milked and killed. We have enough!

Poznanians Against Hunters Anti-
hunting Gniezno Movement Anachistic
Federation p. Poznan

https://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/aktywizm/4748-jestesmy-silne-razem-silniejsze
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