February 18, 2005
I Forgot Poland
PoliticsOnline subscriber Jerzy Celichowski (Former President of Poland Active on Internet Forums) recently emailed to inform us that we have been neglecting ePolitics outside of Western countries.
To make up for the gap I'm posting a blurb that Jerzy sent us regarding some very interesting eActivism taking place in Poland:
Lech Walesa, the legend of the Solidarity movement and the former president of Poland, has recently staged a minor comeback through active participation in discussion forums of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. Using nickname of "lwprezydent" Walesa has commented on several articles published by the paper. When this was noticed and publicised by the editors of Gazeta, his e-mail account was flooded by messages by internauts.
Walesa is using the internet to present his views on the recently hot topic of the former communist secret police agents. An open letter addressed to a right-wing catholic radio, which he had written outraged by a program by the radio on former agents, published in Gazeta attracted a record number of comments. lwprezydent followed the discussion posting his reactions to some of them. "I am an active internaut" he told the paper. "I know a thing or two about computers, noone is helping me. I am using a laptop" he added.
Thank you Jerzy, and with help from readers like you I think we can do a better job of searching the globe more for interesting ePolitics in ALL countries.
Posted by Buzz Webster at February 18, 2005 08:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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