Klementyna Suchanow (
[suxa'nɔf],
née Czernicka; born February 26, 1974) is a Polish
writer,
editor,
translator, and
activist. She is the co-founder of the movement
All-Poland Women's Strike.
Activism
Suchanow has been participating in street protests. Since 2016 she has been a member of the All-Poland Women's Strike, organizer, and participant of protests against the restriction of
human rights and
women's rights in Poland, on the
judicial independence, and
freedom of assembly.
In 2017, the investigative journalism website
OKO.press has placed her on the list of "17 Women Who Rocked
PiS". After she threw eggs at the limos leaving the
Presidential Palace, the
Internal Security Agency entered her house. In July 2018, on the wall of the
Sejm, she wrote with a spray: “Time for a final judgment. Get the fuck out," (
Polish:
Czas na sąd ostateczny. Wypierdalać) after which the police handcuffed her.
In May 2018, Suchanow was among activists who stopped the march of
neo-fascists in Warsaw. In November 2018, together with other women, she was attacked by militants during the Independence March.
OKO.press is a Polish
investigative journalism website created on 15 June 2016. The name is a
word play on
oko, Polish for
eye, and an
abbreviation for "Ośrodek Kontroli Obywatelskiej" (
Centre for Civic Control).
OKO.press is funded by a mix of individual donations and grants, with no revenue from advertising.
In 2020, the website received the
Index on Censorship journalism award.
Creation
OKO.press was created in June 2016, through the Fundacja Ośrodek Kontroli Obywatelskiej "OKO" editors originating from the Polish media company
Agora, as a non-profit investigative journalism website, claimed to be the first in Poland. The founding chief editor was
Piotr Pacewicz [
pl], former deputy chief editor of
Gazeta Wyborcza and the founding deputy chief editor
Bianka Mikołajewska [
pl], formerly of
Gazeta Wyborcza and
Polityka.
OKO.press journalists initially included journalists from
Gazeta Wyborcza,
Polityka,
TVN, and from the Agora regional news station Tok FM.
Editorial line
OKO.press describes its aims as
investigative journalism,
fact-checking of public debate and stimulating discussion of important themes in the
Internet. It states that it promotes democratic values, human rights and government transparency. OKO.press says that it follows twelve fact-checking principles
modelled on the United States project PolitiFact. According to
Jarosław Kurski [
pl], OKO.press was created in the context of a government that was successively removing checks and balances that protected citizens' rights and state institutions from government oppression, and it was
intended to be independent of political parties and independent of the
Committee for the Defence of Democracy.
In September 2020, OKO.press received the Equality Crowns media award from
Campaign Against Homophobia for "analyzing the events concerning the LGBT community in Poland carefully and with dedication".