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Winter 2017-18 Action Alert
Specifically Directed to PAC Divisions in CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA, and WI, as well as TX which aspires for PAC Division membership, all of whom have Congressmen/women on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, (and all Congressmen/women in our PAC...
INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The Polish American Congress (PAC) is an umbrella organization representing 3,000 Polish American organizations, ranging from national fraternal benefit societies, such as the Polish National Alliance, Polish Women's Alliance, Polish Roman Catholic Union,...
PAC Participates in VOC Roll Call of the Nations
On Friday, June 8, 2018 The Polish American Congress (PAC) participated in the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s (VOC) 11th Annual Roll Call of Nations Wreath Laying Ceremony. Its purpose was to commemorate the over 100 million victims of Communism since the...
President Spula’s Statement on why the JUST Act of 2017 (S.447) is Unjust to Poland
The Polish American Community is disappointed with the vote, which took place, in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, which voted up SENATE RESOLUTION 447- THE JUST ACT of 2017. The Polish American Congress (PAC), since December 2017, has been...
Part 3 – 1995-2009
Milestones in the story of The Polish American Congress Part III - 1995-2009 1995: The PAC backs voter registration efforts in the Polish American community and responds to a tragic fire in Gdansk, Poland by sending special supplies to the many burn victims. 1996:...
Part 2: 1981 – 1994 – The first 50 years
Milestones in the story of The Polish American Congress The First Fifty Years - 1944 - 1994 [trx_dropcaps style="1"]1981: In June, President Mazewski attends the funeral of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw and later meets with the leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa....
Part 1 – Creation of the PAC and 65-Year Overview
Milestones in the story of The Polish American Congress The First Fifty Years - 1944 - 1994 [trx_dropcaps style="1"]1944: Founding of the Polish American Congress at a massive rally in Buffalo, New York, May 28-June 1, 1944. Some 2,600 delegates from Polish American...
Origins of the Polish American Congress
by Donald Pienkos [trx_dropcaps style="1"]The Polish American Congress (PAC, or Kongres Polonii Amerykanskiej, KPA) was established at a massive gathering in Buffalo, New York at the end of May 1944 in what proved to be the last year of the Second War. (The great...
Former intern’s reflections
My Summer with the Polish American Congress by Jessica Hillyard, 2005 I can say with confidence that I have never learned so much as I have in the past two months I have spent in Washington D.C., interning with the Polish American Congress. I came here hoping to pass...
Congressional Immigration Dilemmas
Prepared for the Polish American Congress by Joshua Holshouser, Intern May, 2007 Currently, immigration is a hot-button topic for Congress, with great pressures to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Wisely, the House Subcommittee on Immigration,...