{"id":4765,"date":"2019-02-15T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:01:46","slug":"polands-democratic-spring-the-fightback-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/polands-democratic-spring-the-fightback-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s democratic spring: the fightback starts here"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Article from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/30\/poland-democratic-spring-fightback-citizens\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><em>, by Christian Davies, January 30, 2019<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Back when Anna Gryta and El\u017cbieta W\u0105s started a local campaign to preserve a town square in south-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/poland\">Poland<\/a>, they had no idea it would turn them into potent symbols of democratic revival. But almost 10 years since their success in Lubart\u00f3w, the sisters have become figureheads for thousands of Poles determined to secure the clean, democratic governance promised to them in the wake of the collapse of communism 30 years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It\u2019s a surprising revelation. Poland has become a byword for nationalist populism in recent years as the ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/oct\/25\/poland-right-law-justice-party-europe\">Law and Justice party<\/a> defies European democratic norms with its assault on the media and the courts. But away from the limelight, there is a flourishing grassroots movement against the flaws in the country\u2019s democratic culture on which the populists feed. Tight groups of civic activists are notching up success after success across the country on a vast range of different issues \u2013 from sex education to air quality and the rule of law, from cycle lanes and public spaces to transparency and participation in local decision-making processes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Read the article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/30\/poland-democratic-spring-fightback-citizens\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article from The Guardian, by Christian Davies, January 30, 2019 Back when Anna Gryta and El\u017cbieta W\u0105s started a local campaign to preserve a town square in south-east Poland, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1556,275,151,1444],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-0219-en","tag-democracy","tag-europe-en","tag-poland","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}