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Statement on 11 December Jersey City Referendum on the Katyń Monument
The purpose of this statement is to correct several wrong views about the coming referendum on the future of Andrzej Pityński’s Katyń Monument, which proudly stands in Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey. On December 11, 2018 approximately 25,000 Jersey City...
Speech of October 14 at the Katyń Monument, Jersey City stating the PAC’s position
Thank you for your kind words, Mr.Sporek. Good afternoon fellow activists. Mr. Frank J. Spula, President of the POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS, can NOT be with us today due to an emergency. President Spula asked me to make the following points. My name is John Czop,...
2018 Council of National Directors Meeting Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Annual Meeting of the Polish American Congress Council of National Directors in Chicago, October 18-20, 2018. Besides business matters and reports by national officers, there were informational sessions that provided information to those in...
PAC Intern visits office of Rep. Ro Khanna
On July 13, 2018, PAC National Office Intern Kim Stepien visited the office of Rep. Ro Khanna, and gave him a scholarly history of Poland titled "Intermarium - The Land Between the Black and the Baltic Seas" by Professor Marek J. Chodakiewicz. Additionally, Rep. Ro...
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...
International Visitor Leadership Program Guests at PAC
On March 8, five Polish participants of the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program visited the Washington DC office of the Polish American Congress to talk about the organization and the Polish American community in general. Participants...
Polish Americans ask NBC to stop promoting old Hitler WWII theories
NEWS from THE POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESSANTI-BIGOTRY COMMITTEE 177 Kent St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222 - (516) 352-7125 New York, N.Y., October 14 2015... It appears the producers of NBC’s Saturday Night Live Show have come to the conclusion that mean-spirited nasty jokes...
Petition to the Obama Administration to disavow and correct the mistruths said by FBI Director Comey characterizing Poland as a Nazi collaborator
The Polish American Congress and the Polish American community it represents demand that FBI Director James B. Comey publicly disavows and corrects the mistruths that he advanced in his speech of April 15, 2015 wherein he characterized Poland as an accomplice of Nazi...
Report on Hearings on US-Poland Tax Treaty before Sejm Committee on Contacts with Polonia
On, February 7, 2013, as Polish American Congress Vice President for Polish Affairs, I addressed Poland’s Sejm Committee on Contacts with Polonia and Polish People Abroad. The Thursday session, chaired by the Committee’s Chairman, Sejm Deputy Adam Lipinski, heard...
Zjazd Polonii Świata, Warsaw – Pułtusk August 24 – 26, 2012
Report by Bozena Kaminski, VP for Polish Affairs The Fourth (IV) Meeting of World Polonia, which was held from 8/24/12 - 8/26/12 in Warsaw and in Pułtusk, Poland proved to be a great success for all of Polonia. A total of 266 delegates from 44 countries attended three...