#barbara nowacka

[tomorrowusa]

In Poland, Donald Tusk (the GOOD Donald) was formally sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday along with the rest of his government. He gave a speech in the Sejm, parts of which you can see with subtitles above.

He has promised to undo much of what the previous rightwing PiS government had done for the past eight years.

Expect Poland to play an increasingly important role in EU affairs.

Things may be bumpy into mid 2025. Lame duck President Andrzej Duda, associated with PiS, will remain in office until the next presidential election set for May of 2025.

Tusk is pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Europe, pro-Ukraine, pro-US, anti-Putin, and anti-bigotry. What's not to like? 😁

This is the new cabinet.

Several notable ministers...

Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz - A Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. He's from Trzecia Droga (Third Way), one of Tusk's coalition partners.

Krzysztof Gawkowski - Another Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs. He's from Nowa Lewnica (New Left), Tusk's other coalition partner.

Adam Bodnar - Minister of Justice. An anti-racist who previously served as Commissioner of Human Rights.

Barbara Nowacka – Minister of Education. She is an advocate of separation of church and state and leading opponent of the strict anti-abortion law passed by the recently defeated PiS government. IMHO, she's one of the best speakers in Polish politics.

Radosław "Radek" Sikorski - Minister of Foreign Affairs. A veteran colleague of Tusk who served as Foreign Minister and Defense Minister in previous governments. His wife happens to be American historian and journalist Anne Applebaum.

Speaking of Sikorski, he's already spoken with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba who invited him to Kyiv.

This government has hit the ground running.

[lady-nightmare]

Miażdżąca reakcja Nowackiej na exposé Morawieckiego w Sejmie

[revelstein]

Szkoła to nie kościół!

Decyzja pani minister Nowackiej o lekkim otrzepaniu szkolnych planów z lekcji religii, nie mogła oczywiście zakończyć się inaczej, niż to w tej chwili obserwujemy. Słychać wycie, to dla mnie przynajmniej brzmi znakomicie i czemu kibicuję, bo lubię to wycie o pranku, niczym podpułkownik William “Bill” Kilgore lubił o poranku zapach napalmu. W sprawę na prośbę kościelnych, zaangażowała się nawet…

[adamostrogoth]

[zeroz2ro]

az általános iskolákban nem lesz többé otthoni házi feladat

változni fog a hittanórák száma - gondolom lefelé

tantervben szereplő tananyag mennyisége 20%-kal csökken

kötelező olvasmányokon változhatnak mert a jelenlegi lista idejétmúlt

bónusz: van oktatási minisztériumuk oktatási miniszterrel. Aki amúgy nő.

Így veri szét Soros Lengyelországot! Lehet sivalkodni!

[maaarine]

Poland election: exit polls point to Law and Justice defeat as Tusk hails ‘rebirth’ (Shaun Walker, The Guardian, Oct 16 2023)

"Poland’s ruling populists appear to be heading for electoral defeat, in what would be one of the most consequential European political turnarounds of recent years, if exit polls showing a victory for an opposition coalition led by Donald Tusk prove correct.

The exit polls suggested that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party received the most votes, but that Tusk’s Civic Coalition together with two other opposition parties should have a route to a parliamentary majority. (…)

The official results have been slow to come in amid a record turnout of more than 70%, the highest since the fall of communism in the country.

There were long queues at polling stations across the country and some voters in the city of Wrocław stood in line until nearly 3am waiting to vote, six hours after the official close of polls.

If the exit polls are confirmed, the result is likely to transform Poland’s domestic political scene and restart relations with Brussels, which had frayed over PiS’s attacks on the independent judiciary and other rule of law issues.

It comes after months of vicious campaigning, in which Tusk highlighted the damage done to Poland over the past eight years while PiS claimed he was a foreign stooge who would destroy the country.

PiS apparently failed to convince enough voters to support them despite control over public media and the introduction of a referendum on the same day as the election with a series of leading questions on migration and other issues, aimed at motivating its base to vote. (…)

Many progressive Poles celebrated the exit poll results late into the night on Sunday, with the probable end of PiS rule seen as positive step for the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people.

Barbara Nowacka, a Civic Coalition MP who has been fiercely critical of the PiS crackdown on abortion rights, said it was clear the opposition had won and that it was an important day for Polish women.

“Young women won’t be afraid to get pregnant, young women won’t be afraid to go to the doctor,” she said."

[srebrnafh]

42 years now.

And we're redefining the meaning of December 13th.

Because today, a new Prime Minister will be sworn in by the president. A new Prime Minister, for the FIRST TIME in the history of our current constitutional state, when it's not the parliamentary majority PARTY that chooses one, but a COALITION created AGAINST such a party.

"Law and Justice" won, but lost. They have the most seats (~184) but they have no voting majority by themselves. All centrist and leftist parties banded up together and said a clear and strong NO MORE.

And so, over the last two days, the lower chamber of our Parliament choose Donald Tusk, who once held that seat. A historian from Gdansk. A politician. A son and grandson of a family of mixed origins. A man with, obviously, some bad choices on his CV, but also a bunch of very good ones. A reasonable, even-tempered, just person who is not prone to flights of fancy (or fury) and sees a much bigger picture than some little local frogs who had never moved they asses from the local pond.

We gain a chance for re-opening a variety of topics closed and dead under the control of the "Law and Justice" party. Like, the way they fucked up the law, and they way they used justice for their own particular benefits.

What was the VERY FIRST thing voted in by the new Parliament, when it was first called, a month ago? To provide public funding for in-vitro fertillisation procedures which had been taken away by "L&J" and given to the quacks who peddle naprotechnology (not sure you'll be able to google English sources for this, but it's a scam).

We can only hope that it means reopening many, many, many topics that had been a pain for our society in the last 8 years.

Tusk is not a perfect man. But he is the best we can have now, and the best man for the job that needs to be done - a huge fucking cleanup to be done after these 8 years of Some People doing whatever the fuck they pleased with rule of law, police, common decency, courts and the rights of citizens.

The Martial Law [politics][history]

37 years ago, at 6 AM on the 13th of December 1981, a Martial Law was introduced on the territory of then Polish People’s Republic. It was done in violation of the constitution, in order to control the political opposition.

For us children it was the Sunday on which the Sunday morning kids programme wasn’t shown (so-called “Teleranek” - “TV morning”). We didn’t understand what the weird looking military man in big glasses was saying. All we knew that they took away the morning show. With one and a half TV channels, everyone watched the same stuff. And now it was taken away.

Later we learnt other things - depending on our age, of course. Some of our parents’ friends got arrested. Various places were closed. There was a curfew, shortages, weird things on the news, tanks on our streets, protests and the military police everywhere. Speeches on the radio. The TV news read by people in military uniforms. Posters on the walls told our parents what were the rules. 

I was 2 and change when it all started, barely turned 4 when it ended. I was to young to get it, but I saw that there were strange things happening all around us.

Do you know what tear gas smells like? I was 3 when I learnt it. I was just a kid. A three year old shouldn’t know how it feels to have her eyes washed in order for her to be able to see again.

Rationing cards? We had them. Protests being crushed by the militia? Under my windows. People being jailed for being too outspoken against the regime? My parents’ friends. 

I sit now at my networked laptop, in a block of flats built in the 90′s and I play this song, that contains snippets of the “Martial Law Decret” that had ruled our lives for over a year and a half. And I’m happy that my son has absolutely no idea what it all means.

It is forbidden, it is forbidden: Calling and participating in all manner of gatherings All manner of marches All manner of public meetings

It is forbidden, it is forbidden: Organising and running artistic events Entertaining events Sports events Public performance of artistic works

It is forbidden, it is forbidden:  Using of any kind of printing implements Distributing any manner of publications Possession and usage of broadcasting and receiving devices

I hope that this time will never come to pass again. In any country in the world.

[beardedmrbean]

Compulsory, graded homework will be abolished in Poland’s primary schools from April, education minister Barbara Nowacka has announced, fulfilling a pre-election election promise by her party. She hopes that in future secondary school pupils will also no longer receive homework.

Nowacka, who took office last month as part of the new government led by Donald Tusk, also reiterated earlier pledges to slim down the curriculum and focus more on “critical thinking, not learning everything by heart”, as well as to reduce the number of Catholic catechism classes and increase teachers’ pay.

The pledge to abolish homework in primary schools was included in the 100 promises announced by Tusk last September ahead of elections and was then included in the coalition agreement his Civic Coalition (KO) signed with two other groups in November, paving the way for them to form a new government.

In an interview today with news website Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka, who is from KO, confirmed that the plans are moving ahead.

“What is needed is a move away from compulsory and graded homework and from the beginning of April such a regulation will be in place,” she said, referring to primary schools, which in Poland children usually attend between the aged of 7 and 15.

Her pledge was also later repeated by Tusk, who shared a video clarifying that for grades 1 to 3 in primary school there would no longer be any homework and for older age groups only those who want to do extra work at home would be given it and it would not count towards their grades.

Nowacka said that currently primary school pupils have “an excess of things to learn, to memorise, also at home, at the expense of free time, at the expense of extra-curricular activities, at the expense of meeting friends”.

The minister also noted that often parents are expected to help with large projects given to their children that have to be completed by the next day.

Nowacka said that, in the case of high schools, which pupils attend from age 15 to 19, homework would be maintained for the time being. But she added her belief “that after a few years of no homework in primary schools, in secondary schools this too will be abolished”.

Her ideas were, however, criticised by former education minister Anna Zalewska, from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party. Abolishing homework would reduce teachers’ freedom to choose their methods and would fail to prepare students for the realities of the labour market, said Zalewska.

In her interview with Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that other work was also underway to ease the burden on students and teachers, including slimming down the core curriculum because “recent years have seen an exponential overabundance of information”.

“Twenty percent of what has been forced on children to know will be removed, because most of this knowledge is redundant and unnecessary,” Nowacka told Wirtualna Polska. “Critical thinking is needed today, not learning everything by heart.”

Initially, the reduction in the school programme will apply to subjects such as Polish, history, social studies and natural sciences, but the education minister assured that this does not mean a reduction in the number of hours. _________________________________

Submitted by @thejdog2000

This looks wonderful, "exponential overabundance of information" is a good phrase to describe where we are at currently. I don't think there's ever been a point in my life where knowing that Albany is the capital of NY was needed, but boy howdy they made sure I knew that along with all the others for some reason.

Get the kids equipped for life and if they want to learn other stuff on their own, the internet is there as is the library.

She underlined that what would be removed from the core curriculum would be decided by experts, not her. “The days of one-man decisions by the minister are over,” she said, referring to her controversial predecessor Przemyslaw Czarnek.

The burden on pupils is also supposed to be eased by reducing the number of Catholic catechism classes in schools, said Nowacka.

Last month, on the day she took office, the new minister outlined plans to halve the number of such classes, which are optional but taken by most children, from two hours to one hour a week, to ensure they always take place at the start or end of the school day, and to remove them from end-of-year grade averages.

Speaking today to Wirtualna Polska, Nowacka said that she personally is “in favour of a secular state” where religious classes do not take place in public schools.

“But after hundreds of conversations with parents, I am able to accept that it is convenient for some of them that their children can attend religion at school,” she said. “The task of a minister is not to implement all his or her views, but to take care of social dialogue.”

The minister also said in the interview that teachers would get the promised 30-33% increases, which were included in the government’s 2024 budget, from March, not February as previously planned.

She blamed the delays on the decision by President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, to “toy with vetoing a budget-related law” last month. But she said that once the pay rises are introduced they will be backdated to January.

Raising teachers’ pay was another of the pre-election pledges made by Tusk. Research published by the European Commission in 2022 showed that Polish teachers are among the lowest paid in the European Union, even when taking into account the cost of living.

[mirandamckenni1]

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[korrektheiten]

Das polnische Schulsystem wird nach links gerückt

Tichy:»Polens neue Bildungsministerin, die selbsterklärte Feministin, Pazifistin, Abtreibungsbefürworterin und LGBTQ-Aktivistin Barbara Nowacka, hat in Absprache mit Ministerpräsident Tusk eine umfassende Reform des polnischen Schulsystems in Aussicht gestellt, die im Kern schon dieses Jahr in Kraft getreten ist. Das Programm ist schockierend, wenn auch für einen Westeuropäer schmerzlich vertraut – und das Ziel, nämlich eine massive Der Beitrag Das polnische Schulsystem wird nach links gerückt erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick. http://dlvr.it/T32yQL «

[news24fr]

Le ministre polonais de la Santé s'est prononcé sur une affaire de viol très médiatisée, affirmant qu'il était "inacceptable" qu'une jeune fille de 14 ans handicapée mentale ait eu du mal à obtenir un avortement légal.L'affaire, dans laquelle les médecins de plusieurs hôpitaux ont utilisé une clause de conscience pour éviter d'effectuer la procédure, a suscité de nouveaux appels pour assouplir les lois sur l'avortement du pays catholique, qui sont parmi les plus strictes d'Europe."Nous sommes consternés par cette affaire, ici notre réponse est sans équivoque", a déclaré à la presse le ministre de la Santé, Adam Niedzielski.Depuis qu'une interdiction quasi totale est entrée en vigueur en 2021, l'avortement en Pologne n'est légal que si la grossesse résulte d'une agression sexuelle ou menace la vie ou la santé de la femme.Mais comme le montre l'affaire actuelle, même les avortements légaux sont parfois difficiles à obtenir dans le pays de l'UE.L'adolescente, qui n'a pas été identifiée publiquement, est tombée enceinte après avoir été agressée sexuellement par son oncle, selon le groupe de défense des droits des femmes Federa.Federa, qui a signalé le cas pour la première fois, a déclaré que l'adolescente souffrait de troubles mentaux et n'était pas au courant de la grossesse jusqu'à ce que sa tante découvre ce qui s'était passé et tente de l'aider à se faire avorter.Les Européens sont majoritairement pro-choix, mais cela ne signifie pas que les droits des femmes sont en sécurité | Anna Grzymala-BusseLire la suiteMais les médecins de plusieurs hôpitaux de l'est de la Pologne ont refusé d'interrompre la grossesse, invoquant une soi-disant clause de conscience qui leur permet de ne pas pratiquer un avortement s'ils estiment que cela va à l'encontre de leurs convictions.Un avortement a finalement été pratiqué à Varsovie après l'intervention de Federa."Aucun mot de dégoût ne suffit pour un tel comportement … mais pour nous, le plus important était d'aider la fille", a déclaré Federa.L'affaire a incité les politiciens de l'opposition à demander une modification de la loi.« La clause de conscience est une loi barbare et inhumaine… et devrait être supprimée », a déclaré la députée de gauche Katarzyna Kotula aux journalistes.La législatrice de centre gauche Barbara Nowacka a déclaré que l'opposition rédigerait un projet de loi restreignant l'utilisation de la clause par les médecins.Le médiateur du gouvernement, Marcin Wiacek, a déclaré que l'affaire montrait des lacunes dans le système judiciaire, affirmant que l'adolescente aurait dû être informée des hôpitaux disposés à pratiquer l'avortement.L'avortement est devenu un champ de bataille politique en Pologne depuis que sa plus haute cour s'est rangée du côté du gouvernement de droite à la fin de 2020 pour déclarer que les licenciements dus à des malformations fœtales étaient inconstitutionnels. Au Royaume-Uni, Crise du viol offre un soutien en cas de viol et d'abus sexuels au 0808 802 9999 en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles, 0808 801 0302 en Écosseou 0800 0246 991 en Irlande du Nord. Aux Etats-Unis, Pluie offre une assistance au 800-656-4673. En Australie, une assistance est disponible sur 1800Respect (1800 737 732). D'autres lignes d'assistance internationales sont disponibles sur ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html

[tomorrowusa]

The nightmare is (almost) over in Poland! 🇵🇱

The ruling PiS (Law and Justice Party) did not win enough seats in the Sejm in October's national election to form another government.

Poland's PiS President Andrzej Duda tried to slow down the departure of his Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki by dragging out the transfer of power. Duda even asked Morawiecki to try to form a new government despite the obvious mathematical impossibility of doing so.

But time ran out for PiS. Morawiecki lost a vote of confidence in a 10+ hour meeting of the Sejm on Monday. With 456 members voting and 229 needed for a governing majority, Morawiecki lost by a margin of 266 to 190.

After that fiasco, a three party pro-democracy coalition led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a vote of confidence by 248 to 201.

After nine years out of power, Donald Tusk is back — securing the support of the Polish parliament on Monday evening to head a new government.

The vote was 248 in favor and 201 against, cementing his return nearly two months after a coalition of opposition parties led by the former European Council president delivered a surprising win in the October 15 national election.  “I want to thank the Polish people,” Tusk told cheering MPs. “Thank you Poland, this is a great day, not for me, but for all those who for these long years deeply believed that it will still be better, that we will chase away the darkness, chase away the evil.”

The new coalition government officially takes power on Wednesday.

I don't understand much Polish, but went out of my way to see Barbara Nowacka's speech in the debate leading to the votes. She had no qualms about calling out members of the outgoing government by name.

The PiS losers could only listen grimly as she excoriated them and compared them with the autocratic Viktor Orbán régime in Hungary.

Pani Nowacka will likely be the new Minister of Education in Poland.

[lady-nightmare]

Barbara Nowacka: Konferencja prasowa ws odwołania kurator Barbary Nowak

[revelstein]

Wyczyścić te złogi

Żyjemy póki co wydarzeniami, które dzieją się wokół telewizji (ciekawe którego głąba zrobią dziś prezesem), oraz tzw. Powolnej Agencji Prasowej, w skrócie PAP, i zupełnie zapominamy o innych, równie ważnych kwestiach. Dla mnie osobiście, choć sądzę, że nie jestem w tym odczuciu odosobniony, sprawą równie istotną, tak samo kluczową jak odbicie mediów publicznych z rąk narodowo-faszystowskich…

[zyciestolicy]

Macierewicz przeprasza za publikację zdjęć ofiar katastrofy smoleńskiej

Macierewicz przeprasza za publikację zdjęć ofiar katastrofy smoleńskiej

Zdjęcia ofiar katastrofy smoleńskiej zostały opublikowane wbrew jasnej decyzji, że nie można tego robić; wyjaśniamy teraz jak do tego błędu doszło, ale bez względu na to ja ponoszę za to odpowiedzialność – mówił w Sejmie szef podkomisji smoleńskiej Antoni Macierewicz. Podkomisja ds. Ponownego Zbadania Wypadku Lotniczego pod Smoleńskiem opublikowała w poniedziałek raport ze swoich prac, a wraz z…

[rapeculturerealities]

A contentious near-total ban on abortion in Poland went into effect late Wednesday, despite rampant opposition from hundreds of thousands of Poles who began protesting in the fall in the largest demonstrations in the country since the 1989 collapse of communism.

Thousands of outraged women, teenagers and allies returned to the streets Wednesday night bundled up against the cold after word that a ruling that halts the termination of pregnancies for fetal abnormalities — virtually the only kind of abortion performed in Poland — would come into force.

The decision had been made in October by the Constitutional Tribunal, but its implementation was delayed after it prompted a month of protests. On Wednesday the government abruptly announced that the ruling was being published in the government’s journal, meaning it came into effect.

The protesters chanted slogans like “I think, I feel, I decide!” and “Freedom of choice instead of terror!” In Warsaw, they marched to the headquarters of the governing Law and Justice Party to songs including “I Will Survive.”

“We are dealing with incompetence, corruption, a total decay of the state, so these men are doing what they know best — taking away rights and freedoms from the citizens,” Marta Lempart, a protest organizer, told the television station TVN24 on Wednesday. “This is about women, but also about all other minorities and majorities that Law and Justice hates.”

Opposition lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the decision to suddenly announce that the ruling would be published in the Official Journal. The government had previously delayed publication of the ruling in an apparent answer to the protests, a move that legal experts have called unconstitutional.

“It’s not only women whom you’re bringing to the streets, it’s the whole nation that has had enough,” said Rafał Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, adding the decision to publish the ruling “against the will of Poles” was a “conscious and calculated acting to the detriment of the state.”

Others did not mince words in their discontent. “Bastards. #pseudo-ruling #pseudo-tribunal,” Barbara Nowacka, a center-left opposition lawmaker, said on Twitter.

The decision by thousands to protest, despite a surge in coronavirus cases, was another sign of discontent from a wide array of groups that believe human freedoms are being eroded under the Law and Justice Party, which is growing increasingly autocratic. It also comes as public anger is rising over the government’s handling of the pandemic — extending restrictions to the end of January — and a sluggish vaccination rollout.

Poland already had one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, with the procedure legal in only three instances: fetal abnormalities, pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and threats to a woman’s life. The latter two remain legal. But with 1,074 of 1,100 abortions performed in the country last year because of fetal abnormalities, the ban would outlaw abortion in most cases, and critics say many women will resort to illegal procedures or travel abroad to obtain abortions.

Even without the ruling in force, some hospitals had pre-emptively instructed doctors to stop performing abortions for fetal abnormalities, fearing the legal ramifications for their doctors, according to local media.

European lawmakers, who have accused the government of influencing the court’s decision, also criticized the announcement.

“Many of us cannot be in the streets with you to march in defense of our fundamental rights,” Terry Reintke, a Green lawmaker from Germany who is in the European Parliament, said on Twitter. “But know this: In every village, in every city in Europe there are women following your struggle. Never forget you are standing on the shoulders of brave and courageous women who have fought this fight for many years.”

“For them it is not about protecting life,” said Donald Tusk, an opposition Polish lawmaker and former president of the European Council said of the Law and Justice Party. “Under their rule more and more Poles are dying, and less are being born.”