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went on a walkabout. As the half-hour evening news began, the streets
would fill with Swidnikians, who chatted, walked, and loafed. Before
going out, some placed their switched-off television set in the window,
facing uselessly onto the street. Others went a step further. They
placed their disconnected set in a stroller or a builder’s wheelbarrow,
and took the television itself for a nightly outing.
“If resistance is done by underground activists, it’s not you or me,”
one Solidarity supporter later noted. “But if you see your neighbors
taking their TV for a walk, it makes you feel part of something. An aim
of dictatorship is to make you feel isolated. Swidnik broke the
isolation and built confidence.”
The TV-goes-for-a-walk tactics, which spread to other towns and
cities, infuriated the government. But the authorities felt powerless to
retaliate. Going for a walk was not, after all, an official crime under
the criminal code.
Eventually, the curfew was brought forward from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
thus forcing Swidnikians to stay at home during the 7:30 news, or risk
being arrested or shot.
The citizens of Swidnik responded by going for a walk during the earlier edition of the news at 5 p.m. instead.
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- Freeranger May 16, 2011 20:02:17
A good thing to be sure. However, do that in say.....Detroit and you come home and find the contents of your house cleaned out----ha!reply -
LMAO!! I hear ya! but its pretty cool in worked for them back in the day! I've never even heard of a 'walkabout'!!reply
