We will be happy to announce any event connected in any way to Polish
community. Please make sure the organizers will inform us about event
directly at poloniasfo@yahoo.com .
Some events are not listed due to
personal preferences of the organizers. We are open to list any event.
In order to avoid mistakes the information must be submitted directly
by the organizers.
Secret communist agents in the Polish media exposed on TV
Shocking TV program about famous Polish journalists discovered
to be secret agents in the communist apparatus in Poland. This
program asks difficult question: "Do all journalists working for
communist Poland will ever be denounced?" You will see prominent
"independent" journalists of communist era and their secret files
from secret communist services archives. They always repeat "I did
not hurt anyone" - amazing coincidence in many statements to the
press. Historian from IPN described that as one of the secret agent
training points: deny involvement despite any proof and say:
"I did not hurt anyone".
Misja Specjalna TVP o lustracji dziennikarzy: http://www.itvp.pl/player.html?mode=0&channel=452&video_id=20971
Jesli powyzszy link nie bedzie dzialal, program mozna znalezc
pod adresem: http://www.itvp.pl/player.html nastepujaco:
1. Katalog => "wybierz nazwe"
2. Misja specjalna (jest jakies trzy czwarte w dol nowego okienka)
3. Pokaz
4. "Misja specjalna - Dziennikarze - konfidenci peerelowskich sluzb"
On March 18, 2007, they made a fundamental change. The news programs
are now blocked from the North American viewers. The change makes it
impossible to view current and archive news programs as before. Current
programs are available only via paid subscription at www.TVPolonia.com
but only one program for given date. There is no way of viewing any old
news casts. In my opinion this option was very important for American
viewer. Please join me in requesting from TVP to restore that function
of the Polish public television. You can write a letter from this screen: http://ww6.tvp.pl/mail/mail_do_redakcji.html
Here is what I wrote and feel free to use any portion as a sample:
Szanowni Panstwo,
Jestem wielce zaskoczony tym ze w nowym formacie Wiadomosci nie
mozna ogladac spoza granic kraju. Ogladanie Wiadomosci ze strony
TVP.PL>WIADOMOSCI> [ http://ww6.tvp.pl/119.dzialy ] bylo dla mnie
cennym zrodlem kontaktu z krajem na przestrzeni ostatnich kilku lat.
Teraz otrzymuje nastepujaca wiadomosc: "Dostep do tego materialu
nie jest mozliwy z terytorium kraju z którego sie z nami laczysz."
Apeluje o przywrocenie tych mozliwosci, zwlaszcza, ze mozna bylo
ogladac archiwalne wydania Wiadomosci, nawet na kilka miesiecy wstecz.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie,
Edmund Lewandowski
San Francisco www.PoloniaSF.org
Polish American Historical Association Annual Conference
The Polish American Historical Association will hold its Annual
Conference in conjunction with the American Historical Association in
Washington, D.C., January 3-6, 2008. The PAHA Program Committee
welcomes proposals from both PAHA members and non-members for
complete sessions and individual papers. The Committee welcomes
proposals on all historical periods and from a variety of scholarly
perspectives and disciplines.
All proposals must be submitted electronically (Word format) and sent
To Dr. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, PAHA President and Program
Committee Chair, at Please include the
following information:
1. Name of the session organizer, professional affiliation and
contact information.
2. Names of each session participant, professional affiliation, and
contact information.
3. Titles and one-page proposals of presentations.
4. Media needs (note: due to the prohibitive costs of media rentals,
those papers for which the media equipment is essential might be
grouped together for a special session).
Deadline for proposals: May 1, 2007.
PAHA will award its annual Graduate Research Paper Award, designed to
stimulate research into Polish-American history and culture and to
recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the humanities or
social sciences. The award includes the opportunity to present the
paper as part of the program of the Polish American Historical
Association's Conference. The winner will receive a stipend of
$500.00 to offset costs associated with travel to the Conference. In
addition the essay will be considered for publication in the PAHA
journal, Polish American Studies.
The Award Committee solicits either direct submissions or faculty
nominations of substantial original research papers, not longer than
approximately 35 pages (ca. 9,000 words). The candidate for the award
must be a graduate student at the time of the application or
nomination. A current c.v. and a one page summary of the essay must
accompany the submission. Deadline: April 15, 2007 (Papers received
after this date cannot be considered.) Announcement: on or about May
1, 2007. An electronic application in the Word format should be
mailed to: Dr. Brian McCook, Chair of the PAHA Awards Committee
<b.mccook@leedsmet.ac.uk
We Polish Americans shall also fight for
the principles of America, the country
we adopted when many of us escaped from the
opressive communist system.
This is my contribution in the discussion as to
"Who should be our the next President."
Please consider the following videos when you think of
who to vote for in the 2008 Presidential
elections.
We tested many calling cards which are available at
www.PoloniaSF.org
To get them you need to click on the card
picture in the upper left corner. You will see many cards to pick
from. They all deliver superb quality, but the differences are in
maintenance fees, taxes and access numbers. Some of the cards can
be used from Poland, few can be used with a web interface, where
you can connect any two phones in the world. That way you can call
from Poland to US for just 3 cents per minute - card CONTINENTAL.
There is no connection fee on any card.
Here are other recommendations depending on your calling pattern:
CHEAP STREET - Frequent and long calls - effective rate (including
taxes and maintenance fee) 1.5 to 2.5 cents per minute
JUPITER - Infrequent calls, can call from Canada and Russia - effective
rate (no maintenance fee, including taxes and rounding) 2.5 - 3.0
cents per minute
BIZON - Infrequent calls - can call from many countries in Europe,
but not Poland - effective rate (as above) 3.5 to 3.8 cents per
minute - INCLUDING ALL TAXES!!!
The best thing is that there is no obligation to continue,
no phone hookup. You have a complete freedom in your decisions.
PoloniaSF.org receives 10% of the commission. Currently it amounts
to few dollars per month. The funds help to offset the expenses
the volunteers pay in order to run the web site. Please help by
asking your friends to purchase the calling cards at
www.PoloniaSF.org
FREE web hosting for Polish American non profit organizations
FREE advertising for everyone www.polmarket.org --> darmowe ogloszenia
