Die-In For Life-In Gaza, 18th May 2024, Old Town in Warsaw, Poland
Organized by the collectives Wschód and Kefija, it was a die-in protest commemorating 76th anniversary of Nakba - the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the war in Palestine in 1948. Particularly significant in the context of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
I'm not Rafał Milach and I'll cut my usual irrelevant yadda-yadda to say this: if you know enough of history, either of your own country or theirs, it's very hard not to feel sympathy to those folks. Listening to their stories was incredibly heart-wrenching.
18 May 1583: Olbrecht Łaski palatinate of Sieradż #Poland arrives at Mortlake meets with John Dee for the 2nd time during his #English trip to work on alchemy & angelic sessions #otd (Bodleian)
The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
President Zelensky and Poland's Prime Minister Tusk agreed to immediately start preparing a security agreement.
The conversation focused on the situation in the Kharkiv region, where Russian forces have launched a new offensive, and Ukraine's air defense needs "to protect Kharkiv and other regions."
According to the president, he and the Polish prime minister also discussed the threat posed by Russia to gas infrastructure in western Ukraine and ways to counter it. #AureFreePress#Poland