Word: solidarnosc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walesa, Lis, about 100 supporters and some foreign newsmen elbowed their way through. Regrouping, the police kept the main body of the demonstrators from advancing. A little farther down the street, the Walesa group pushed through a second police line as the rest of the demonstrators began to chant, "Solidarnosc! . . . Solidarnosc!" By then, Walesa had encountered a third group of police, this time elite ZOMO riot cops; helmeted and armed with batons and shields, the troopers stood several rows deep. Walesa stopped and, dropping his bouquet to the ground, muttered, "Do what you want with this." A riot policeman kicked...
With familiar chants of "Solidarnosc!"the crowd joined Walesa in defiantly flashing the V sign and singing the patriotic hymn God Who Watches Over Poland, as hundreds of grim-faced policemen looked on. But Walesa was seeking no showdown. After leaving his bouquet at the base of the monument to workers killed during antigovernment riots in 1970, he quietly thanked his supporters for coming and drove away...
...Pope's first direct mention of the banned trade union drew a delirious response. Chants of "Solidarnosc! Solidarnosc!"and "Long live the Pope!" resounded across the airfield. When the crowd burst into another chorus of May You Live a Hundred Years, John Paul finally motioned for silence. "I am still alive," he quipped, "and would like to go on delivering my speech." After calling for "a true dialogue between the authorities and society," he concluded with a tribute to seven miners who were killed during a confrontation with the police at a nearby mine during the opening days...
...portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome, a wave of emotion surged through the crowd. Some Poles openly wept. Others thrust their fingers defiantly into the air in a V sign and chanted "Solidarnosc"and "Walesa...
...slogans like "Harvard Loves Walesa. Hates Local 26" frustrate cold war liberals like Mike Anderson, but any class conscious worker knows something's fishy when Harvard honors Lech Walesa while busting Local 26. Solidarnosc is the only "union" loved by Ronald Reagan. Harvard, Wall Street, and the Apartheid regime of South Africa because it is a movement to bring Poland back to the "free world" of capitalist exploitation...