These pictures are what happened in poland following the arrest of Margot from anarcho queer collective @stopbzdurom (on ig) translated to “stop bullshit” for fighting homophobic and pro life propaganda in Poland.
For context: After the Re-Election of Andrzej Duda, from the conservative, corrupt, nationalist party PiS, who made his whole campaign about fighting LGBT “ideology” and dehumanising lgbt people in poland, things have quickly become worse than ever for us here. Its not unusual to see trucks with anti lgbt and pro life propaganda on them, calling gay people p*dophiles who want to adopt children to r*pe them. Me and my girlfriend stumbled into an anti gay protest like that in Kraków a month ago, one of polands most progressive cities. The protest was backed and protected by a police car and the protestors were holding a banner calling LGBT people pedophiles. Margots organisation was fighting these state backed initiatives by destroying public propaganda, organising lgbt dance events in places of white nationalist rallies and organising anti homophobic protests.
After Margots organisation destroyed pro life propaganda in Warsaw a few months back, she got arrested for the first time, taken from her house by undercover police men into an unregistered police car, without shoes or clothes. Nobody knew where she was for a few days and there was no information about her. She got found through a big social media action.
You may have seen the pictures of religious and significant statues in warsaw being clad with pride flags on social media, this was margots initiative. This is why she has been arrested again.
Margot is facing 2 months arrest in a polish men’s prison, which could mean death and hard physical abuse to her. All of that for hanging gay pride flags in public places. This is a textbook political arrest. Lawyers and politicians from leftist parties have been trying to help her, but the police wont let them reach her. The polish prime minister is on twitter saying she deserves this for “the profanation of national and religious symbols”.
Please spread this throughout social media and dont let it go unheard. Public outrage is the only way we can free her and fight polish governments political repression of anyone disagreeing with the current regime and real time descent into a dictatorship. Public outrage and bad press for poland is the only thing the government is afraid of.
If youre in Poland, join todays protest in Warsaw (plac Defilad) at 18:30 in solidarity with Margot.
follow and support her collectives page on instagram @stopbzdurom and follow @grupastonewall for updates on her situation and protests.
#freemargot
Margot’s collective has a legal fund you can donate to here rest of the proceeds will go to their actions to stop homophobic propaganda and spreading pro-lgbt information in Poland
