Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Wake Up, Poland!: Thousands Take To Warsaw Streets In Antigovernment Protest


'Tens of thousands of people marched through the capital of Poland on Saturday in protest over government reforms and a new law that raises the retirement age, and in solidarity with the Catholic Church, which was recently stripped of its TV station.

­Dubbed ‘Wake Up, Poland,’ the rally was organized by the country’s conservative Law and Justice opposition party, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the trade union Solidarity and other groups. The event was Poland’s biggest demonstration in several months.'

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