Dozens of Swampys desperately needed to save Rospuda Valley, Poland

Peo­ple who will defend the val­ley are need­ed. Do not leave Pol­ish eco-war­riors alone. Pol­ish ultra­catholic gov­ern­ment is build­ing a road through primeval for­est. An inquiry into the prepa­ra­tion of this invest­ment shows that the deci­son process was unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, a vari­ant called Chodor­ki vari­ant of the pro­posed bypass that was avoid­ing the val­ley alto­geth­er was exclud­ed from the appraisal pro­ce­dure, as well as the East­ern vari­ant, which was the cheap­est.

Rospuda 1Rospuda 2Rospuda 3Peo­ple who will defend the val­ley are need­ed. Do not leave Pol­ish eco-war­riors alone. Pol­ish ultra­catholic gov­ern­ment is build­ing a road through primeval for­est. An inquiry into the prepa­ra­tion of this invest­ment shows that the deci­son process was unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic, a vari­ant called Chodor­ki vari­ant of the pro­posed bypass that was avoid­ing the val­ley alto­geth­er was exclud­ed from the appraisal pro­ce­dure, as well as the East­ern vari­ant, which was the cheap­est.

Swampys in all qual­i­ties and quan­ti­ties are need­ed in Poland to stop, or slow down the inwest­ment, and to cre­ate the much need­ed media cov­er­age of this prob­lem. As by now, no one of the nation­al media report­ing on the prob­lem have not arrived to the core of the prob­lem, that is the manip­u­la­tions of the author­i­ties with the choice of the vari­ants and manip­u­lat­ed trans­port invest­ment appraisal process. The gov­ern­ment-owned TVP (kind of Pol­ish BBC, alas ultra­catholic and neona­tion­al­is­tic) is so biased when report­ing on the issue, that it des­pereat­ed­ly tries to show ecol­o­gists as men­tal­ly ill peo­ple that pos­sess even no capa­bil­i­ty to speak in their own name.

Here are the direc­tions to Rospu­da Val­ley.

The Val­ley is here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=53.896045,22.934303&spn=0.146468,0.3162&om=1

The camp is over the riv­er. Easy to find if arrived to Augustów no lat­er than in the mid-day as it might be 4 hours walk from the town.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rospuda

From Kau­nas to Augustów you might take a bus or a train. There is one train con­nec­tion dai­ly from Kau­nas to Augustów, the train departs at 13:01 with change in Ses­tokai and arrives at 15:56. The sched­ules (also con­nec­tions from oth­er Euro­pean cities to Augustów) are here:

http://rozklad.pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en?

Nights are cold. Please check the weath­er fore­cast before depart­ing. Get ready for more than minus 10 degree in the night.

plea for inter­na­tion­al sup­port and pub­lic­i­ty, let every­one you know, know. peo­ple need­ed to sup­port camp with peo­ple pow­er. if you plan to go to rospu­da from u.k in mid march, con­tact piotr-dziedzice@gmail.com.

Rospu­da Protest Camp — Films for view­ing

Use the links below to watch the most recent films from the Rospu­da Protest Camp. This will give you an idea of the con­di­tions and tem­per­a­tures being endured by the activists. Dia­logue is in Pol­ish lan­guage, but the images speak for them­selves:

The camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZiKfyRLdM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_fWfQ2mjo&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IySFbtmGc&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW41XY4eofQ&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS41nBvZcM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVlnNVb6jM&mode=related&search=

Olecko town feeds the pro­test­ers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQJeoAdtJo&mode=related&search=