Solidarity Citizens' Committee as their own candidate. This cleavage continues to shape the Polish political landscape until this day. Solidarity Citizens' Committee The Solidarity Citizens' Committee ("Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność"", acronym KO "S"), also known as "Citizens' Electoral Committee" ("Obywatelski Komitet Wyborczy"), previously named "Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa" ("Komitet Obywatelski przy Lechu Wałęsie") was an (initially semi-) legal political organisation of the democratic opposition in communist Poland. Formed on 18 December 1988 in the premises of the Divine Mercy church in Warsaw, it spontaneously evolved into a nationwide movement attracting a vast majority of supporters of radical political change in the country after
Jail solidarity movement. Jail solidarity Jail solidarity is unity of purpose of those incarcerated or imprisoned. In some mass arrest situations, the activists decide to use solidarity tactics to secure the same plea bargain for everyone. Sometimes activists also make a mutual decision to reject offered plea bargains and take their cases to trial in order to overburden the court system, or in order to otherwise mutually support one another as co-defendants; an example of this would be the Camden 28. It is generally agreed that jail solidarity works best when a plan is arranged ahead of time. One of the governing