On July 8, 2017, next to the Warsaw Kordegarda, a picket for support of an application regarding delegalization of ONR was held. The event was organized by Democratic RP Association, and Open Republic was one of the supporting organizations. On June 29, 2017 the Management Board of the Open Republic wrote a letter of support to the organizers of the picket. During the gathering, Damian Wutke – the secretary of the Management Board of the Open Republic was one of the speakers.

“I am representative of the Open Republic Association against Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia. I am sure that both, for us and for you, Open Republic is not just a name of an association. It is a certain ideal which we aim at. It is embodiment of a society free from prejudice, hatred, violence, a society respecting a fellow man and struggling for his dignity. And in such a society, in this Open Republic, there is no room for existence and activity of the National-Radical Camp [ONR]. This is why we strongly support the initiative of delegalization of the organization, which is founded on prejudice, violence and hatred. The organization, which is more and more visible in the public space, and which should not exist.

Our gathering is not very big, but I believe that there are more of us and there will be even more – the people who do not agree to the victory of hatred; the people, who do not turn around, when evil acts. Because ONR attacks not only the persons with a different skin color, religion, ethnic or national origin or sexual orientation. It attacks all of us. So let’s not forget about solidarity. When they attack gays and lesbians – let’s be with gays and lesbians. When they attack Jews – let’s be with Jews, when they attack refugees- let’s support refugees, and when they attack women – let’s support women.

Let’s simply be decent, because, as Marek Edelman, the last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising used to say: “Delegalization of all nationalist and chauvinist parties and organizations is the issue of our responsibility for the future and image of Poland”.