She stated that it did not have a "first secretary and committee" in the style of the Polish People's Republic, and that it was not the base for forming a political party.
[2] As of 1 November 2020[update], the Council members were Barbara Labuda, Beata Chmiel, Danuta Kuroń, Jacek Wiśniewski (Mazovian branch of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy, KOD),[7] Robert Hojda (founder of the Congress of Citizens' Democratic Movements),[7] Mirosława Makuchowska (active in Campaign Against Homophobia), Bożena Przyłuska, Dorota Łoboda, Katarzyna Bierzanowska, Monika Płatek, Michał Boni, Piotr Szumlewicz, Sebastian Słowiński, Paweł Kasprzak, Kinga Łozińska (Mazovian branch of KOD[8]), Dominika Lasota, Nadia Oleszczuk,[7][1][9] Katarzyna Pikulska, Aleksandra Kaczorek, Roman Kurkiewicz [pl][10] and Karolina Micuła.
[11] OSK states that the aims of the Coordination Council were gathered from the concerns and goals most frequently raised by participants in the October protests.
She stated that OSK did not start the protests on 22 October 2020 but instead joined them, and that the Council was needed to help the grassroots protestors implement their demands.
[12] Its strategies on how to carry out changes in Poland included:[1] Council member Nadia Oleszczuk stated on 5 November 2020 that the protest actions would not "shift online".
[15] On 22 December, Suchanow stated that the Consultative Council's work in searching for solutions to Polish problems would be extended to a public decision-making component, consisting of online discussions on proposals, using the Loomio decision-making software with the main Loomio domain name,[16] running on Cloudflare servers.
[17][18] The launch of the Council's Loomio decision-making included proposals on five themes: women's rights, work, secularisation, education and climate.
She referred to a petition signed by 90,000 people and "terror [by Czarnek] on an unprecedented scale" and "repression against university students, school pupils and teachers who participated in public demonstrations" and against those displayed the red lightning symbol of OSK.
[21][23] Przyłuska declared that the Council would support children forced to attend religious instruction classes by helping them discuss the issue with their parents.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented evidence suggesting that the threats were part of a wider campaign of repression and that police didn't respond adequately.