Report from The Biotic Baking Brigade .....coming soon to a pie-o-region near you" (June 12, 2005):
Activists from the Anarchist Federation Praga (Warsaw) pied the Vice President, Andrzej Urbanski, in response to the city's homophobic actions and statements and banning of the gay pride parade for the second year in a row.
The President of the city, Lech Kaczynski, is a raging homophobe who openly says that we will not promote homosexualism and such sick social deviance by allowing a gay march to take place in Warsaw. Officially, he tries to find many pretexts not to allow these marches which had, before his reign, taken place in this city without incident. Last year he banned the gay parade and was pied with a nice vegan berry creation upon which he started yelling about faggots and threatening our friends. He pretended to even by hurt by the pieing, wore a neck brace for a few days and took off of work.
This year, Kaczynski started up again. At one point, he started to get in a little trouble, which he doesn't really need being he's the forerunner presidential candidate. So he sent in his vice-president to take over and make up some more pretexts for not allowing the parade. In amazing streams of creativity, he even came up with the pretexts that parades cannot be held unless the organizers pay the city money to reroute all the buses. When a lesbian activist from Lambda pointed out that other protests didn't pay this fee, the vice-president called her a liar. In a few interviews and TV, Urbanski spun homophobia and bullshit and pissed people off.
The organizers of the gay parade decided not to obey the ban and about 2500 people showed up, despite heavy counterprotests. There was some violence organized by the youth branch of League of
Polish Families who even paid for hooligans to come to Warsaw from Krakow. Lots of eggs flew, there were some small scuffles and, unfortunately, two women were hospitalized when fascists threw bricks into the crowd.
In all, about 20 applications for counter-demonstrations were made and the city legalized a few. The Law and Justice (Guilianiist) Party (Kaczynski's) wanted to make one too but officially stated that they were too afraid of anarchists and leftists to go out in public.
At the end of the march, a very strange thing happened; the head of the security services and the vice president appeared and stood in the middle of a small group of anarchists. Most people didn't recognize them but a few did. The pie action, which was totally unplanned, happened in an amazing way. One person actually went up to the vice president, asked him if he'd be standing there long and then in that case they were going to get a pie and pie him. (It was totally surreal because even if the vice president couldn't recognize the anarchists, the security chief knows everybody.) I suppose that the anarchists probably couldn't even believe that they'd return after finding the cake to find the guy still standing there, but there he was, so he got pied with a cream pie. The second pastry, a large doughnut, never made its target as the anti-terrorists woke up and two people were arrested.
In an statement made to the press, the anarchists call on pie-throwers of the world to great Kaczynski and his people whereever they might go with such sweet success.
We also are happy that friends held solidarity demos with the gay parade at Polish embassies in different countries.
Homophobia, discrimination and repression - your days are numbered!
Activists from the Anarchist Federation Praga (Warsaw) pied the Vice President, Andrzej Urbanski, in response to the city's homophobic actions and statements and banning of the gay pride parade for the second year in a row.
The President of the city, Lech Kaczynski, is a raging homophobe who openly says that we will not promote homosexualism and such sick social deviance by allowing a gay march to take place in Warsaw. Officially, he tries to find many pretexts not to allow these marches which had, before his reign, taken place in this city without incident. Last year he banned the gay parade and was pied with a nice vegan berry creation upon which he started yelling about faggots and threatening our friends. He pretended to even by hurt by the pieing, wore a neck brace for a few days and took off of work.
This year, Kaczynski started up again. At one point, he started to get in a little trouble, which he doesn't really need being he's the forerunner presidential candidate. So he sent in his vice-president to take over and make up some more pretexts for not allowing the parade. In amazing streams of creativity, he even came up with the pretexts that parades cannot be held unless the organizers pay the city money to reroute all the buses. When a lesbian activist from Lambda pointed out that other protests didn't pay this fee, the vice-president called her a liar. In a few interviews and TV, Urbanski spun homophobia and bullshit and pissed people off.
The organizers of the gay parade decided not to obey the ban and about 2500 people showed up, despite heavy counterprotests. There was some violence organized by the youth branch of League of
Polish Families who even paid for hooligans to come to Warsaw from Krakow. Lots of eggs flew, there were some small scuffles and, unfortunately, two women were hospitalized when fascists threw bricks into the crowd.
In all, about 20 applications for counter-demonstrations were made and the city legalized a few. The Law and Justice (Guilianiist) Party (Kaczynski's) wanted to make one too but officially stated that they were too afraid of anarchists and leftists to go out in public.
At the end of the march, a very strange thing happened; the head of the security services and the vice president appeared and stood in the middle of a small group of anarchists. Most people didn't recognize them but a few did. The pie action, which was totally unplanned, happened in an amazing way. One person actually went up to the vice president, asked him if he'd be standing there long and then in that case they were going to get a pie and pie him. (It was totally surreal because even if the vice president couldn't recognize the anarchists, the security chief knows everybody.) I suppose that the anarchists probably couldn't even believe that they'd return after finding the cake to find the guy still standing there, but there he was, so he got pied with a cream pie. The second pastry, a large doughnut, never made its target as the anti-terrorists woke up and two people were arrested.
In an statement made to the press, the anarchists call on pie-throwers of the world to great Kaczynski and his people whereever they might go with such sweet success.
We also are happy that friends held solidarity demos with the gay parade at Polish embassies in different countries.
Homophobia, discrimination and repression - your days are numbered!
kg2u - am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005, 18:36 - Rubrik: Torten - Pies - Tarts
