Fall 2025. Chaos morning. Thousands of people in Łódź effort to get through the city center. any are in traffic jams, any are travelling by buses and trams. Łódź is no longer 1 of the 3 largest cities in Poland (it was overtaken by Wrocław), yet it has any of the largest traffic jams and 1 of the most costly urban communications. possibly that's why many inhabitants of Łódź commute to the stations all day to get to Warsaw as rapidly as possible, where they work besides much higher salaries. A crucial part of this Łódź category has moved or will shortly decision to Warsaw permanently. If not Warsaw, then Wrocław, Tricity or Berlin. In Łódź he keeps them apart from household and memories nothing. The city is experiencing a demographic, economical and transport collapse. The only success is summertime festival events that attract tourists from all over Poland.
Fall 2025. erstwhile again, preparations for the Freedom Games are underway in Łódź. The event is highly liberal, nevertheless
At first, she tried to show different points of view, make a climate of intellectual ferment, free communication. 1 of the first editions even read a letter from president Duda. Over time it became a place of crucial concentration of KO politicians per square metre.
Among guests invited to the 2025 edition we can find the intellectuals Stephen Hardoch, Adam Michnik, but besides Hanna Zdanowska, president of Lodz. The event was supported by the City of Łódź and was held in the area of urban institutions, so it should not be surprising. Like the information on the website that the event was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture. As is widely known, the best liberal events, which advance the free marketplace and limit state intervention, are organised with the support of public money.
Fall 2025. Residents of collapsed tenement houses in Łódź are inactive uncertain about their future. Moreover, the problematic tunnel under Łódź may endanger another buildings. The ones that have already fallen over are protected by colored tape and then rapidly blend into the city landscape. A fewer 100 metres further hang colorful announcements inviting you to “stand-up on Piotrkowska”. Residents of collapsed tenement houses can go laughing. And for free, under the sign “I Love Łódź”. Łódź has been implementing a consistent information strategy towards its residents for years. Boaters are informed by means of a paper (paid of course from the budget), social media, events and urban institutions about subsequent successes, specified as organizing dinner at the zoo or repairing tram tracks. Many events are invited by the smiling “our Hania” or Hanna Zdanowska. In the election, he has won for years in the first round, defeating the counter-candidates (including the 1 writing those words). Elections are the actual games of democracy.
Fall 2025.
W The boat is invisible war of power. This is not about parliamentary or presidential elections, it is about interior elections on the Civic Platform.
Hanna Zdanowska will not run for another term, which means uncovering a successor. but that this successor may have different preferences for the selection of co-workers, both at the level of the city office and of municipal companies. PO activists employed in these institutions are so not certain what is waiting for them. Therefore, the fight in the interior elections is silent, but very fierce. Media announces a merger of Platform with 2 parties forming the Civic Coalition, or Modern (N) and Initiative for Poland (IdP). In Łódź, specified a movement will origin people specified as Euro MP Dariusz Joński (IdP) and Alderman Marcin Gołaszewski (N) to enter the common formation, previously orbiting in a safe coalition distance. During the year, independent people specified as Krzysztof Kwiatkowski or Hanna Gil-Friday have joined the party, and now “up” wants to add Joński and Gołaszewski?
Since 2010, PO's position in the city has been certain, but by specified movements may be weakened. Democracy doesn't forgive, not even in Lodz.
Fall 2025. The boaters are waiting for George Clooney. This American star, recognized in 2006 as the sexiest man in the world, will come to grace his individual with the Freedom Games. Łódź authorities in social media advance the visit as a breakthrough event for the city. Given how the efforts for the Expo for Łódź and attempts to improvement collective transport have ended, the tactics of the image “run forward” seem justified. Only city councillors who late passed restrictions on the nightly sale of alcohol have the problem. How do you fight alcoholism erstwhile Mr. Clooeny was promoting a whisky brand that he co-owned? But those surviving in the Łódź poorness enclaves, where unemployment is inherited, do not drink costly whiskey from the US. The situation is under control.
Autumn 2025: The “Political Critic” writer writes a text criticizing the Games of Freedom in a frenzy of courage. He accuses the organizers of arrogance and detachment from reality.
Leszek Jażdżewski, co-organizer of the Freedom Games, writes that the text was "grafomański" and critics are expected to "retard", proving that it is neither arrogant nor detached from reality.
Autumn 2025: Defenders of the Freedom Games deal efficiently with marauders and haters criticizing the event. With coherent and reasonable arguments, they convince the opponents that the Games must not be criticized, due to the fact that it is the only event that remains in Łódź, Festivals specified as Cameraimage or Transatlantics moved out after smaller or larger disagreements with the authorities of Łódź, the fight for Expo Łódź lost. Why rub it? They'll take distant the Games.
Autumn 2025: In 1 of the districts of Warsaw, a group of young people organize a social action. They know each another well due to the fact that they erstwhile lived together in Łódź. After work and better quality of life they moved to Warsaw and discovered that they were their neighbours again. They consider going to the Freedom Games to Łódź and gathering friends who have not yet moved out.
Fall 2025. The president, located an hr distant from Łódź, tiny Tomaszów Mazowiecki, announces that a philharmonia will be established in the city. In Tomaszów Mazowiecki there is already a programme for the improvement of social housing and free urban communication for residents. And even PO councillors who get along with PiS politicians on key issues for the city. However, there is no Games.
