Katarzyna Augustinek is 1 of the most celebrated grandmothers in Poland. The 69-year-old is called Granny Kasia, though she has no grandchildren or children. My only loved ones are friends and street friends. I don't have a family. I haven't had anyone in 11 years, the last associate of my household died in 2009 - she spoke to "High Obcas" in 2021.
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Who's Grandma Kasia? That's what she did before.
In the same conversation she emphasized that she was not associated with any organization or organization, although she frequently appears on various shares alongside women from the Polish Grandma Association. In 1981, however, she enrolled in "Solidarity", although this adventure did not last long. She was born and inactive lives in Warsaw. He's been retired for a fewer years. She had previously been a teacher and taught languages, worked in banking, NGOs. - I did teaching in England and Spain. And by the way, I graduated from law school, she mentioned. In another interview, she revealed that she besides began studies in art history, but did not finish them. She repeatedly stressed that she "did various things" but never worked for government institutions.
Fig. Sławomir Kamiński / Wyborcza.pl Agency
So why share in protests, marches, and manifestations? - I could take all of my calendars and number 'cause I'm writing down these events, but there were hundreds of them - she emphasized in "High Space." It started in 2015, erstwhile she accidentally learned about the protest held in Warsaw before the seat of the Constitutional Court. "I didn't have a smartphone at the time, I wasn't on Facebook, on any social media, and I don't have a computer until now," she stressed.
Not all Poles know who Grandma Kasia is. The right says "provocator"
Poland heard about it a fewer years later during the 2020 National Women's Strike. He inactive regularly appears at demonstrations, protests, even joining the Last Generation action. It appears before the Sejm, offices, courts, churches. This does not make her popular among the Polish right hand, which calls her a recidivist, patotactist and provocateur, and has frequently been the origin of her conflicts with the law. He has respective indictments on his record, including for violating the physical integrity of a police officer (the impact of a flag's tree), a soldier (drawing behind the belt, names). any of the charges were acquitted, others ended with convictions.
The loudest incidental involving her occurred in October 2020 under the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw. It was then that members of the independency March Association forcibly removed women protesting there. According to the court, Robert Bąkiewicz present there violated the physical immunity of Granny Kasi, throwing her down the stairs. The court sentenced him to a year of community service, reimbursement of the costs of the trial and payment of PLN 10 1000 to the activist. On 15 July, the President's Office informed that Andrzej Duda "partly pardoned" Robert Bąkiewicz. The law of grace applies only to those who are charged with social work.
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