"28.08.2020, Poznań: insults thrown at two Armenians and assault of the Pole defending them"
"28.08.2020, Poznań: insults thrown at two Armenians and assault of the Pole defending them"
"13.12.2019, Warsaw: a Ukrainian beat up, because he asked for a proper work contract"
"13.12.2019, Warsaw: a Ukrainian beat up, because he asked for a proper work contract"
"01.09.2020, Warsaw: insult and assault of a citizen of India"
"01.09.2020, Warsaw: insult and assault of a citizen of India"
"19.10.2019, Lublin: brutal assault of a Nigerian"
"19.10.2019, Lublin: brutal assault of a Nigerian"
"15.10.2019, Łódź: an Egyptian attacked with a knife"
"15.10.2019, Łódź: an Egyptian attacked with a knife"
"Solidarity our defense"; "21.06.2019, Aleksandrów Łódzki: a citizen of India insulted and beaten with a stick"
"Solidarity our defense"; "21.06.2019, Aleksandrów Łódzki: a citizen of India insulted and beaten with a stick"
"23.12.2019, Sępólno Krajeńskie: a Chechen beaten for having darker skin color"
"23.12.2019, Sępólno Krajeńskie: a Chechen beaten for having darker skin color"
"We remember"
"We remember"
"We remember"
"We remember"
"We remember"
"We remember"
"Maxwell Itoya Square, city district: without borders"
"Maxwell Itoya Square, city district: without borders"
"All refugees welcome"
"All refugees welcome"
"Racism kills"
"Racism kills"
"We regret to inform you that on 19 September 2021,  Wafaa Kamal died. She was 38 years old. She studied applied art at the University of Baghdad. She dreamed that her daughter would become an architect and her son a doctor. In a Polish forest she started to get sick and could barely breathe. Border guards transported her to the Belarusian side of the border, where she died of hypothermia. Your brother's blood cries loudly to me from the ground! (Genesis 4:10)"
"We regret to inform you that on 19 September 2021, Wafaa Kamal died. She was 38 years old. She studied applied art at the University of Baghdad. She dreamed that her daughter would become an architect and her son a doctor. In a Polish forest she started to get sick and could barely breathe. Border guards transported her to the Belarusian side of the border, where she died of hypothermia. Your brother's blood cries loudly to me from the ground! (Genesis 4:10)"
"Let's save human life"
"Let's save human life"
"Enough of racism and fascism!"
"Enough of racism and fascism!"
Above: "Glory to the heroes"; Below: "Border Guards murder people on the border, in a country under the rule of law murder has become an everyday occurrence"
Above: "Glory to the heroes"; Below: "Border Guards murder people on the border, in a country under the rule of law murder has become an everyday occurrence"
"Enough of the racism of those that govern, no to the wall!"
"Enough of the racism of those that govern, no to the wall!"
"Human rights, bitches"
"Human rights, bitches"
"Stop the politics of cruelty and death! Open the borders!"
"Stop the politics of cruelty and death! Open the borders!"
Following the outbreak of the Black Lives Matter protests in the US in 2020, a protest was organized in front of the US embassy in Warsaw on 6 June 2020 under the slogan, "United Against Racism in Warsaw – Solidarity with the US Anti-Racist Protest Movement." The protest also highlighted issues of racism in Poland, sparking a debate over long held, casually racist views and vocabulary that Polish people of color no longer were willing to tolerate. 
On 20 March 2021, a demonstration was organized for UN Anti-Racism Day. Activists formed a human chain from the offices of the European Commission and EU information center to the nearby headquarters of state television TVP. Each person held a card describing a recently documented racist or xenophobic attack in Poland.
A demonstration in remembrance of Maxwell Itoya, an immigrant from Nigeria who was shot and killed by police in 2010, was held on 23 May 2021, at the sight of his murder near Warsaw's national stadium. The police officer who fired the shot was never convicted and the prosecution dismissed the case, despite documented allegations of racially motivated aggression towards the immigrant shopkeepers near the stadium by the police. 
On 18 of March 2023, another demonstration was organized for UN Anti-Racism Day, highlighting the racial character of the Polish government's anti-humanitarian refugee pushback policies on the Polish-Belarusian border.

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