Michnik and Brzezinski

 

Democracy: Traps and Question Marks
3 December 2009, 4:00-6:00pm Reception to Follow

 

Adam Michnik, political activist, founding member of the Committee for the Defense of Workers, member of Poland’s first non-communist parliament, and Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s largest daily newspaper, will deliver a talk entitled Democracy: Traps and Question Marks.

 

The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinsky, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter will provide introductory remarks.

via Polish-Global-Village : Message: Wilson Center: Michnik and Brzezinski.

 

 

Brits still in the dark

It was there that Solidarity, a highly effective civil resistance movement, sat down at a round table with communist officials and hammered out a transition to free elections and a multiparty democracy. After Solidarity then went on to win the June 1989 elections, it provided the basis for a new government, formed in August, headed by a non-communist prime minister. Such a transition away from Communist Party rule had never happened before.

via Adam Roberts: The peaceful revolution of 1989 – Commentators, Opinion – The Independent.

Timothy Garton Ash: Poland has made a humiliating farce out of dealing with its red ghosts | Comment is free | The Guardian

Red Ghosts Haunt Eastern Europe by Eric Margolis

Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port

 

Great, for years the Polish have been looking for a way to get back at us for all our Polish jokes, now they have one. How many Americans does it take to clean a machine gun? 10. One to clean it and the nine who got shot.

 

 

via Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port – CNN.com.

 

 

Not-for-profit Chamber of Commerce?

 

CHICAGO, IL (October 26, 2009) –The PACC October 20th Business After Hours meeting was hosted by Euro Marble & Granite, Inc. Located in the near NW Chicago suburb of Schiller Park, the company is a PACC corporate member. The networking evening was attended by a diverse crowd representing businesses and institutions from across Chicagoland. PACC President Henry Kazmierczak, who welcomed all members and guests in attendance, also thanked Wojtek Rajch of Euro Marble for hosting the event.

 

via Networking, Celebrating, Integrating with Others:.