I can't help but wonder where the red carpet was for asylum seekers who were trying to get in from Belarus?

Remember scenes like these on the border? Where Poland brought in forces to violently keep people who have left everything for a chance for a better life?

Above image from the NYT

They built a barb-wire fence to keep immigrants from war-torn countries out, as late as last year:

above image from DW

People, families, were cold and dying on the border...

Above image from the BBC

So while, yes, I am absolutely happy Poland is aiding the Ukrainians, I just can't help but think of how, and there's no way else to say this, racist Poland's aid is.

“The Jewish community in the Ukraine is in need of your assistance during these dire times. As the threat of war intensifies, Mishpacha Chabad Odessa is preparing to support the hundreds of Jews who are unable to evacuate the country including orphans, students, and Holocaust survivors. Preparations are also underway to absorb Jewish refugees from the surrounding regions of Kharkiv, Kiev, and Dnieper.

$300,000 in donations are urgently needed to purchase medical gear, protective equipment, and basic necessities such as clothes and sleeping bags. Money is also needed to help stock emergency shelters with several tons of cereal, buckwheat, sugar, rice, flour and other non-perishable staples. These donations will also help defray the costs of additional security personnel arriving from Israel to help protect the Jewish community.

Your generous donation will help ensure that the Jewish community of Odessa is prepared for all eventualities and is able to provide security, shelter, and food for everyone in need during this dangerous time. $130,000 has already been spent in food alone - but much more is still needed.”

https://www.mishpachaorphanage.org/templates/fundraising/default_cdo/aid/5405630/jewish/Campaign.htm

ua.gov.pl

Information is available in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English

Please get the help available!

You may ask what kind of reactions from ruling party were:

Kaja Godek, tied to ruling party and cult Ordo Iuris, who originally pushed her agenda of making abortion illegal and is pushing further, blaimed the death on leftists and activists and accused them of manipulating

Deputy Marek Suski commented that it is natural that women are dying when giving birth so no one's to blame

Deputy Ryszard Terlecki called a woman, who met him in a shopping centre and told him that she thinks ruling party is torturing polish women, a cretin

TVP, Polish public television funded by PiS, the ruling party, day after official information of Izabela's death, showed Ultrasound images of fetuses as a way of honouring 'children that died because of abortion'

Post by cielesne on instagram, summarizing what is happening in Poland right now (06.11.2021)

You can donate to Aborcyjny Dream Team here:

https://zrzutka.pl/55g5gx (site in Polish)

pro-lifers: if we outlaw abortion women won’t die.

on the contrary:

woman dies after being denied an abortion due to strict abortion restrictions even though the fetus was fatally ill.

Hey guys, you probably heard about the situation of queer folks in Poland. The ruling party has made homo- and transphobia into a new national virtue. Around 1/3 of local authorities adopted resolutions about fighting “gender ideology”. Gender transition in Poland is a very complicated and expensive process. All of this puts young queer people in a vulnerable situation, resulting in appalling rates of mental illness affecting them. On top of that, children’s psychiatric wards are overcrowded and one region doesn’t have such ward at all. (It’s Podlasie with a population of 1,8 million people.)

The poster above was made by the illustrator Szarosen. It reads “[Please] love me, mom and dad”. It’s a response to posters with the slogan “Love each other, mom and dad” which appeared across many towns in Poland. The organization responsible for those is known to be anti-divorce and has fundamentalist ties, advocating for married couples staying together despite home abuse. Szarosen’s drawing points to the lack of support, discrimination and even violence which many queer kids have to face, sometimes from their own families.

Anyway, here are links to some fundraising campaigns:

1 initially fundraising for the posters, now for psychological and legal help for lgbt individuals 

https://www.transfuzja.org/fundacja/wesprzyj-nas (Trans-Fusion, charity advocating for trans people)

https://kph.org.pl/kontakt/ (Campaign Against Homophobia)

https://mnw.org.pl/wspieram/ (Love Doesn’t Exclude)