The “Batory Foundation” awarded further grants as part of the “Democracy Support” project in Poland. Significant sums of money went into the accounts of organizations supporting the LGBT community, including Minister Przemysław Czarnek and Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski’s “History and Present” handbook. Money was also given to the extremely politicized association of insurgent prosecutors, to which Ewa Wrzosek belongs.
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We support civil society organizations working to create and disseminate civil society recommendations and postulates to strengthen democracy in areas such as protection of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary, fairness and integrity of the electoral process, freedom and responsibility of the media, women’s rights, civil society development, rehabilitation of the education system
– we read on the website of the project “Batory Foundation”.
Party of accusers at the Owsiak festival
That was the theory, because the reality is very political. Only Lex Super Omnia, who has been at war with the Ministry of Justice and necessary reforms in the field of justice for several years, has received PLN 100,000 from the Stefan Batory Foundation. zloty. What were these funds used for? Mainly for the street and festival activities of prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek’s colleagues.
Distribution of the draft law on the prosecution, media workshops for members of the association participating in citizens’ meetings, preparation and promotion of the annual report on the state of the prosecution and translations of material, views and opinions presented by the association, participation of representatives of the Association in the “Pol’and’ Rock Festival 2023”
– we read on the website of the Batory Foundation project.
Another receiving organization is the “Space for Education Foundation” from Warsaw. 200 thousand zlotys from the “Batory Foundation” were supposed to “support actions to improve the education system carried out as part of the SOS for Education coalition and the Free School initiative”. Again lofty slogans and a slightly less lofty reality. On the social media of “Space for Education” we found a video in which attitudes polemicized with the LGBT ideology and mocking the Minister of Education, Prof. Przemyslaw Czarnek.
** We joined the #wolnaszkola activities because we care about a safe school that gives an equal start and equal opportunities. We want a school that is open to dialogue and child-friendly. We do not agree with education calling discussions and positions other than those presented by the Ministry of Education and Science “ideologization”
– writes the foundation.
HIT fight
Another beneficiary is “Stowarzyszenie 61”, which won 809 thousand. zloty.
Civic HiT – creating and distributing materials for teaching recent history and civic education for teachers and high school students
– we read on the website of the program.
Civic HIT is in fact an organization that campaigned for months together with politicians against the handbook “History and Present” and its author, Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski. The attack on his person was associated with a bold presentation of Polish history, including post-1989.
300 thousand scholarship
A huge amount of PLN 300,000 (institutional grant for 2023-2025) was awarded to the “More in Common Poland Foundation” (MiC), which is engaged in “carrying out activities to strengthen democracy, the civic culture of dialogue and building societies resilient to threats posed by political polarization and social division”. This organization also deals with LGBT communities.
The ruling party has pursued a policy of discriminating against this group.
– argued the More in Common employee on Tok.FM radio.
Until July of this year, if the “MiC” website is to be believed, the foundation published only one report on “Poland after winter” (March 2023), in which it “significantly” states that “reality has shown that the worst scenarios that have failed The Dreaded Poles.”[publikowałatylkojedenraportdotyczący“Polskipozimie”(marzec2023)wktórym“odkrywczo”stwierdzaże“rzeczywistośćpokazałażenajczarniejszescenariuszektórychobawialisięPolacyniesprawdziłysię”[publikowałatylkojedenraportdotyczący„Polskipo zimie”(marzec2023)w którym„odkrywczo”stwierdzaże „rzeczywistośćpokazałaże najczarniejszescenariuszektórychobawialisięPolacyniesprawdziłysię”The MiC research would show that “Polish women and men were critical of the government’s actions in response to the energy crisis. 47% of respondents said that the government has not properly prepared for the 2022/2023 heating season. We have found nothing in this report about the enormous state support for Poland’s energy problems (winter 2022/2023).
Money from the Batory Foundation has for years supported the activities of similar organizations, as well as street opposition and highly politicized judges. This is the role of “Batory”. It is unfortunate that under this supposedly apolitical envelope the political goals and intentions of the “Batory Foundation” can be seen.
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Source: wPolityce