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The protest was organized by a former JW elder and pioneer couple - Alex and Iza. Around 60-80 former JWs and people who are interested in the subject came to the city square in Wrocław (population of about 600k - 1M in metro area). There held signs and posters saying "Protect your family from Jehovah's Witnesses", "Give us our families back", "You will not learn from JWs what does the Bible really teach", "In JW congregations victims of abuse are silenced" and "Read the confession of former Governing Body member". Additionally on this weekend a radio ad was ran telling people in Wroclaw about the protest, and a 6x3 meter mobile banner with the phrase "Protect your family from Jehovah's Witnesses" and some Ex JW Youtube channel names was driving across the streets. Hundreds of flyers were also distributed. All those materials pointed to a website - www.przerywamymilczenie.pl ("breakingthesilence") - which contains more information about shunning, blood ban and links to other resources both in polish and english.

A small group also went to a local Kingdom Hall complex of 4 halls and spent some time there with the signs and banners, standing silently near the entrance. Hundreds of JWs were passing by in disbelief because it was probably the first time in their lives they saw something like this.

As an effect in the following week this topic was discussed in almost every JW congregation and online groups. Even though they were laughing at it (because what else could they do) I am convinced that some of them probably were curious how Jehovah could let something like this happen. Plus the main reason the protest was held was to educate the general public about the JW practices, which with the help of local media was a big success. There was also another TV report which was even more damning, because at the end they've reached to the JW press representative. And guess what - they've declined to comment.

A longer report with interviews with former JWs is in the making. Also, there are already plans for another protest which will be held this summer in Poland's capitol - Warsaw. Everyone is invited, even if you don't speak Polish. If you want to participate, you can write to [email protected].

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Taped Broadcast of March 10, 2017 ARC hearing - youtube

by OrphanCrow in

thank you to john redwood for making this available so quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzqvj0z7_ya.

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If anyone wishes to download the hearings in a bit higher quality for further processing, they can be found here in 720p: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6x59Q9rx60odThNYTFMWUd6SjA?usp=sharing

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ARC Live Streaming site ?

by Gayle in

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what is the exact live streaming site for the arc today in sydney?

i hope someone or more here will be watching and giving info/quips throughout the case.

also, will someone here or elsewhere be able to 'save' a video of this (all or part).

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The hearing starts at 10am in Australia (AEDT), 3pm PST, 6pm EST, 12am CET. It will be streamed on the ARC website: http://childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au (30 minutes before the event a video player will show up on their main page).

You're welcome to join our ExJW Chat to comment on it live - https://chat.wtsarchive.com

And yes, several folks will be recording this, myself included.

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

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tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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You have every reason to reserve judgement because while I can assure you I didn't exaggerate or made up anything, I was repeating what I was told. So there is room for error here, though I found this lady very believable with the backstory and all the details she gave me (which I didn't include in the original post because there were just too many).

One thing that I might got wrong though is the newspaper's name. She told me that it's the Telegraph so I assumed the nation-wide one, but later I found out that there is also the Evening Telegraph local newspaper in Dundee. At this point I don't know which is the one that will cover the story, but I suppose it's the local one unfortunately. Still good that this gets some coverage, but not as big as I hoped it to be.

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

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friends

tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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Ruby456: The case is already ongoing and we'll see how the judge see's it. In my opinion she has a very strong case against them, but we both can just sit here and discuss, while it will be the judge who decides what happens :).

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

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friends

tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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Or has the Society changed the rules re a working environment?

No, at least I am not aware of such changes. They did raise the bar though at this year's conventions with telling people that it's ok to shun even the inactive ones, and even not to answer the phone from your own DF'd daughter. Anyway, this is just a case of individual JWs being overzealous even by their own standards, which is something I observed a lot in last 2-3 years.

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

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friends

tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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There's a huge difference between saying "I'd like some more information" and "that is definitely untrue".

To be honest many of comments in this topic were more like the latter than the former.

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

jw
friends

tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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I'm sure the OP doesn't see how strange the story seems hence the replies on here but do not take offence at it.

I see the points that are being made and to be honest, I'm quite surprised. I had many more bizarre experiences like this so those kind of things don't seem strange to me anymore (shocking - yes, but not really surprising), and I would be surprised to know that it's not a "norm" when it comes to JWs you guys were affiliated with. It's like when I hear another child abuse story among JWs, elders even. It still does give me chills, but it doesn't surprise me anymore, because there are so many of stories like that already.

do you know if the case is being held in Dundee courts or Glasgow/Edinburgh? Do you know which date? Is it just one exjw person involved?

Like I've said many times already when I will have a date or place of where the next hearing will take place I will post it. She is the only exjw involved in this, her husband never was a JW and she doesn't know any others in the area, hence my call for helping her out if someone lives nearby.

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HELP needed from folks in UK, esp. in Scotland!

by WTS Archive in

jw
friends

tl;dr: if you live either in scotland or in other parts of uk and you don't mind traveling, you might be able to help a fellow ex-jw by being present during a courtcase where she alone has to face more than two dozens of jws who have ruined their business.

please contact me directly for details on when and where the court case will be held (i will know these details in few days probably).

ps.

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Dundee Clepington congregation has "some meetings" in Polish

And that's the one she was in. It's also probably the reason why there were some Scottish people at the initial dinner, because the congregation is bilingual (or because it's only a Polish speaking group, not a whole Polish-language congregation).