Committee in Support of Solidarity

The Committee in Support of Solidarity (CSS) was an organization created on December 14, 1981 in New York City[1] to facilitate publication of information about martial law in Poland.[2]

The committee created its first Information Bulletin in New York City on December 22, 1981, during the period of martial law in Poland.[3] Spokesmen for the committee as of December 12, 1982, were Miroslaw Chojecki, Jakub Karpiński, Wojciech Karpiński, Agnieszka Kolakowska, Irena Lasota, Piotr Naimski, and Eric Chenoweth. Press spokesmen were Crhstopher Wilcock and Agneszka Kolakowska.[2] To attract funding in support of Solidarity activity the committee was helped by the group of American-Polish scientists organized by Professors Stefan Niewiarowski of Temple University and Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.The committee would later become the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.[4]

References
  1. Gregory F. Domber (2008). Supporting the Revolution: America, Democracy, and the End of the Cold War in Poland, 1981--1989. ProQuest. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-549-38516-5.
  2. Archival Fond no. 137/10, Biuletyn Informacyjny / Information Bulletin Solidarity. Wyd.: Committee in Support of Solidarity / Komitet Pomocy Solidarności.. Nowy Jork, Information Bulletin no. 3.
  3. Archival Fond no. 137/10, Biuletyn Informacyjny / Information Bulletin Solidarity. Wyd.: Committee in Support of Solidarity / Komitet Pomocy Solidarności.. Nowy Jork, Information Bulletin no. 1.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-16. Retrieved 2014-11-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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