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Gallery - contents See photo gallery See gallery of prizes,awards and medals Films Signing of the Gdansk Agreement MPG ZIP Presidential Inauguration MPG ZIP Photo gallery Page 1 Lenin Shipyard, August 1980 picture In front of the BHP Room, August 1980 picture Signing the August Agreements, August 1980 picture The Agreement signed, August 1980 picture BHP Room, August 1980 picture The Holy Mass during the strike, August 1980

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ON THE FOUNDER Lech Walesa trade union activist, politician ; born September, 29 1943 in Popowo, Poland; son of Boleslaw and Feliksa Walesa; married to Miroslawa Danuta, 1969; children: Bogdan, Slawomir, Przemyslaw, Jaroslaw, Magdalena, Anna, Maria-Victoria, Brygida. PhD (hon.) Author of "A Way of Hope", 1987 and "The Struggle and the Triumph", 1991, "Everything I do I do for my country" 1995. Columnist in "Wprost" weekly 1996 - 2000. Currently Lech Walesa is heading Lech Walesa Institute Foundation , established in December 1995, which in today's Poland, occupies a special and exceptional place. The Institute attains the goals that Lech Walesa has been faithful to all life, of which the major ones are: safeguarding of national heritage and the tradition of independence and solidarity;

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ENTERTAINMENT RESOURCES COMMUNITY 80's GEAR Lech Walesa September 29, 1943 N/A Polish Labor Leader/Nobel Prize Winner/President of Poland Lech Walesa was born in village of Popowa, Poland. He began working as an electrician in 1961. In the 1970's, when he was working at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, he joined protests against the government which eventually led to his being fired from the shipyard. In 1980 he returned to the shipyard to join in a protest. He soon became the leader of the Solidarity movement. Solidarity soon gained millions of members across Poland and became a national labor union. At first the government negotiated with Solidarity but the organization was banned in December of 1981. Walesa was arrested and later released. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Solidarity was re-legalized in 1989 and excercised its poitical muscle by winning a national election in June of that year. Walesa became President of Poland in 1990 and remained in office until 1995. Wojciech Jaruzelski Nobel Prize Winner, Lech Walesa Poland AudioOutfitter.com Your source for Home Audio Car Audio ElectronicsOutfitter.com

24. Walesa, Lech. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourth 2000. walesa, lech. SYLLABICATION Wa·le·sa. He won the 1983 nobel PeacePrize for his leadership of the independent trade union Solidarity. http://www.bartleby.com/61/40/W0014000.html

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25. Walesa, Lech walesa, lech , 1943–, Polish labor leader. He 1981. He was releasedin Nov., 1982, and in 1983 was awarded the nobel Peace Prize. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0851315

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26. News.boisestate.edu: August 7, 2002: LECH WALESA TO SPEAK AT BOISE STATE DISTING lech walesa, the Solidarity labor movement leader who was instrumental in championingdemocracy The 1983 nobel Peace Prize laureate will speak as part of the http://news.boisestate.edu/newsrelease/082002/0807walesa.htm

LECH WALESA TO SPEAK AT BOISE STATE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES Lech Walesa, the Solidarity labor movement leader who was instrumental in championing democracy in Poland and went on to serve as the country's president, will speak at Boise State University at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in The Pavilion. The 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate will speak as part of the university's Distinguished Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public. Trained as an electrician, Walesa assumed leadership of the 10 million-member Solidarity labor movement in 1980 and negotiated with the communist government to legally recognize Solidarity and labor unions. The next year the Polish government declared martial law, suspended the activities of labor unions and arrested thousands of leaders including Walesa. After his release from prison in 1982, Walesa continued to plant seeds of democracy by leading Solidarity as an underground movement. For his heroic efforts Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. After years of labor unrest, the government eventually invited Solidarity to participate in a coalition government. Walesa became the first democratically elected president in 1990 and set Poland firmly on the path to a free market economy. He now heads the Lech Walesa Institute, which champions democracy and free market reform in Eastern Europe and throughout the developing world. For more information about Walesa visit www.apbspeakers.com

27. News.boisestate.edu: September 10, 2002: TICKETS FOR LECH WALESA LECTURE AVAILAB For his heroic efforts walesa was awarded the nobel. walesa now heads the lech walesaInstitute, which champions democracy and free market reform in Eastern http://news.boisestate.edu/newsrelease/092002/0910walesa.html

September 10, 2002 TICKETS FOR LECH WALESA LECTURE AVAILABLE STARTING FRIDAY, SEPT. 13 Tickets will be released beginning Friday, Sept. 13, for a lecture by former president of Poland Lech Walesa slated for 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 at The Pavilion at Boise State University. The public may obtain free tickets at the Student Union and Pavilion ticket offices. Tickets will also be available for a small service charge at all other Select-a-Seat outlets, online at www.idahotickets.com or by calling 426-1494. Seats for Walesa’s lecture will be held until 6:45 p.m. for ticketed guests. After 6:45 p.m. guests with or without tickets will be admitted for the remaining seats. "We’ve already had many inquiries from the public about Mr. Walesa’s upcoming lecture, and we’re anticipating a large crowd," said Chris Loucks, an economics professor who is chair of the committee that is organizing the event. "We encourage everyone to get a ticket so they can be assured of being seated." Walesa will speak on "Solidarity: The New Millennium" as part of Boise State’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate will speak through a translator.

28. Academy Of Achievement lech walesa nobel Prize for Peace INTERVIEW October 28, 2000 London, England. (Mr.walesa's interview was conducted with the assistance of an interpreter.). http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wal1int-1

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31. Walesa, Lech walesa, and in 1983 awarded the nobel Peace Prize He now heads the lech walesa Institutewhose aim is to advance the ideals of democracy and free market reform http://www.dartmouth.edu/~montfell/biographies/o_z/walesal.html

Montgomery Fellows Home About Us Biographies... Biographies by Date ... Steering Committee Walesa, Lech April 2001 An electrician by trade, Lech Walesa sparked the infamous Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdansk, Poland. Christened "Solidarity", the strike became a social revolution. He was named Man of the Year by Time magazine, The Financial Times, The London Observer, Die Welt, Die Zeit, L'Express, Le Soir. Walesa, and in 1983 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government re-legalized Solidarity and invited it to join the Communist Party in forming a coalition government. Walesa became Poland's first democratically elected President. His term in office set Poland firmly on the path to becoming a free market democracy. Mr. Walesa made Poland a model of economic and political reform for the rest of Eastern Europe to follow and earned it the honor of receiving one of the first invitations to join an expanded NATO. He now heads the Lech Walesa Institute whose aim is to advance the ideals of democracy and free market reform throughout Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. Additional Biography Information courtesy of Google.com

32. Lech Walesa - Wikipedia lech walesa. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. lech walesa (b. September29 1943, Popowo, Poland), Polish trade union activist, political leader, nobel http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Walesa

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33. Science In Poland - Nobel Prize Laureates 1981, Roald HOFFMANN, Chemistry. 1983, lech walesa, Peace. 1985, Klaus von KLITZING,Physics. ? ? ? ? Results from searching of The nobel Foundation's database. http://main.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/pl-nobel.html

Polish-origin Nobel Prize Laureates Year Person Discipline Maria SKLODOWSKA-CURIE Physics Henryk SIENKIEWICZ Literature Albert Abraham MICHELSON Physics Maria SKLODOWSKA-CURIE Chemistry Walther Hermann NERNST Chemistry Wladyslaw Stanislaw REYMONT Literature Tadeus REICHSTEIN Physiology or Medicine Maria GOEPPERT-MAYER Physics Shmuel Yosef AGNON Literature Andrew V. SCHALLY Physiology or Medicine Isaac Bashevis SINGER Literature Menachem BEGIN Peace Czeslaw MILOSZ Literature Roald HOFFMANN Chemistry Lech WALESA Peace Klaus von KLITZING Physics Georges CHARPAK Physics Shimon PERES Peace Józef ROTBLAT Peace Wislawa SZYMBORSKA Literature Günter GRASS Literature Günter BLOBEL Physiology or Medicine WHO NEXT? Results from searching of The Nobel Foundation 's database Please also visit page Famous Polish discoveres, travelers and scientists Physics 1903 The prize was divided, one half being awarded to: BECQUEREL, ANTOINE HENRI, France, École Polytechnique, Paris, * 1852, + 1908: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity" the other half jointly to: CURIE, PIERRE, France, École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles, (Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry), Paris, * 1859, + 1906:

34. Lech Walesa To Speak At Darton College lech walesa To Speak at Darton College. lech walesa, former president of Polandand nobel Peace Prize Winner, will speak at Darton College Tuesday, Oct. http://www.darton.edu/NewsEvents/newsarchive_01/lech_walesa.htm

Resources for... Lech Walesa To Speak at Darton College Lech Walesa, former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, will speak at Darton College Tuesday, Oct. 2, as part of Darton’s Distinguished Lecturer Series 2001. President Walesa will speak on “Democracy: The Never Ending Battle” at 11:45 a.m. The presentation is free and open to the public. The community is invited to greet President Walesa when he arrives at the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany on Monday, Oct. 1, at 8:30 p.m. Lech Walesa burst into the world spotlight in 1980 during the infamous Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdansk, Poland. He led the 10 million-member Solidarity Labor Movement that inspired fear in the hearts of communist leadership and hope in the hearts of those starved for freedom. Despite the crackdown of martial law and repeated imprisonment, Walesa prevailed to see the end of communist rule in Poland and Eastern Europe. For his heroic efforts, Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. He received praise from leaders worldwide for his honor, including these words from President Reagan, “It’s a victory for those who seek to enlarge the human spirit over those who seek to crush it.”

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LECH WALESA       Lech Walesa was born on September 29, 1943 in Popowo, near Wloclawek, Poland. The son of a carpenter, received only primary and vocational education and in 1967 began work as an electrician at the huge Lenin Shipyard in Gda n sk. He witnessed the 1970 food riots in Gdansk in which police killed a number of demonstrators. When new protests against Poland's Communist government erupted in 1976, Walesa emerged as an antigovernment union activist and lost his job as a result. On Aug. 14, 1980, during protests at the Lenin shipyards caused by an increase in food prices, Walesa climbed over the shipyard fence and joined the workers inside, who elected him head of a strike committee to negotiate with management. Three days later the strikers' demands were conceded, but when strikers in other Gdansk enterprises asked Walesa to continue his strike out of solidarity, he immediately agreed. Walesa took charge of an Interfactory Strike Committee that united the enterprises of the Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia area. This committee issued a set of bold political demands, including the right to strike and form free trade unions, and it proclaimed a general strike. Fearing a national revolt, the Communist authorities yielded to the workers' principal demands, and on August 31 Walesa and Mieczyslaw Jagielski, Poland's first deputy premier, signed an agreement conceding to the workers the right to organize freely and independently.

37. TIME 100 Leaders Revolutionaries - Lech Walesa Danuta walesa, on his 1983 nobel Peace Prize. QUIZ After lech walesa lostthe Polish presidency in 1996, what became his official occupation? http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/walesa2.html

Teddy Roosevelt V.I. Lenin Margaret Sanger Mao Zedong ... Nelson Mandela When the Polish communists made this concession, which was without precedent in the history of the communist world since 1917, the new union was christened Solidarnosc (Solidarity). Soon it had 10 million members, and Walesa was its undisputed leader. For 16 months they struggled to find a way to coexist with the communist state, under the constant threat of Soviet invasion. Walesaknown to almost everyone simply as Lechwas foxy, unpredictable, often infuriating, but he had a natural genius for politics, a matchless ability for sensing popular moods, and great powers of swaying a crowd. Again and again, he used these powers for moderation. He jokingly described himself as a "fireman," dousing the flames of popular discontent. In the end, martial law was declared. Walesa was interned for 11 months and then released. Yet Solidarity would not die, and Walesa remained its symbol. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. With support from the Pope and the U.S., he and his colleagues in the underground leadership of Solidarity kept the flame alight, until the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin brought new hope. In 1988 there was another occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, which Walesa again joinedthough this time as the grand old man among younger workers. A few months later, the Polish communists entered into negotiations with Solidarity, at the first Round Table of 1989. Walesa and his colleagues secured semifree elections in which Solidarity proceeded to triumph. In August, just nine years after he had climbed over the shipyard wall, Poland got its first non-communist Prime Minister in more than 40 years. Where Poland led, the rest of Central Europe soon followedand the Soviet Union was not far behind.

38. Walesa 1999). The nobel Foundation. lech walesa The Electronic nobel Museum Project1999. URL http//www.nobel.se/laureates/peace1983-1-bio.html (17 Nov. 1999). http://www.needham.mec.edu/NPS_Web_docs/High_School/cur/Baker_00/baker_modern/ba

blue Lech Walesa and Poland's Battle to Bring Down the Iron Curtain (The Soviet Union Collapses) Katie Kilkelly and Sarah Miller Soviet power swept across Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s, imposing Communist governments. The leadership of Lech Walesa helped bring down the Communist government in Poland, which influenced reforms against Communism throughout Eastern Europe. Walesa led an anti-Communist organization, formed in 1980, which fought for political, economic and civil rights to improve conditions. The collapse of Communism brought down the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War, as democracy and prosperity rose in Poland. In 1946, Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Britain, spoke in Fulton, Missouri. He commented on the rising danger of power of the Soviet Union. Churchill said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" (Beers 713). The "iron curtain" that he mentioned separated Eastern Europe from the world as Soviet power took over. Churchill's prediction was proved true as the Cold War began between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. This war was a political and economic struggle between the two sides and did not involve armed hostility. Winston Churchill introduced the term "iron curtain" in his speech in Fulton, Missouri, 1946.

39. Lech Walesa At SUNY Fredonia May 14, 2001. Download the photo nobel Laureate and former presidentof Poland lech walesa will speak at SUNY Fredonia Thursday, Nov. http://www.fredonia.edu/prweb/releases/lechwalesa.htm

Office of Media Relations State University of New York College at FREDONIA Fredonia, NY 14063 Director: Christine Davis Mantai Lech Walesa will be Williams Professor in November May 14, 2001 Download the photo Nobel Laureate and former president of Poland Lech Walesa will speak at SUNY Fredonia Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. as a Williams Visiting Professor, in honor of the college's 175th anniversary. Mr. Walesa will also spend some time with faculty and students prior to the lecture in the afternoon. Tickets for the lecture, which are $10 to the general public, will go on sale at the Central Box Office on campus in the fall. Lech Walesa burst into the world spotlight in 1980 during the infamous Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdansk, Poland. Workers, incensed by an increase in prices set by the Communist government, were demanding the right to organize free and independent trade unions. An electrician who had long been active in the underground labor movement, Walesa arrived at the barricaded shipyard just as the dispirited workers were on the verge of abandoning their strike. Scaling the shipyard walls, he delivered a stirring speech from atop a bulldozer. Revitalized by his passion, the strike spread to factories across the nation. Christened, "Solidarity," the strike became a social revolution. Walesa entered into negotiations with the government, convincing it to grant legal recognition to Solidarity, and to the right of workers to form independent unions and to strike. This became the Gdansk Agreement, which Walesa signed on Aug. 31 of that year.

40. The Leader Online : 09-10-2001 : News Professor. lech walesa, former president of Poland and a nobel Laureate,will speak at 730 pm on Nov. 8 in King Concert Hall. It's http://www.fredonia.edu/leader/2001/09102001/news.html

Volume CII, Issue 2 - Monday, September 10, 2001 World leader to visit Fredonia Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, to give speech By JEREMIAH GRIFFEY Contributing Editor A prominent world leader will speak this semester as the Williams Visiting Professor. Lech Walesa, former president of Poland and a Nobel Laureate, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 in King Concert Hall. "It's been about 11 years since commmunism ended in Poland and Lech Walesa was really the man at the head of this as it was going on," said Chautauqua County Legislator Steven M. Sweeney, R-District 15. "A lot of younger people don't realize the extent of what was happening in the Communist Bloc nations." Sweeney, also a junior political science major, cited Walesa, the Pope, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as leaders who helped bring about the end of the Cold War. In 1980 Walesa made a name for himself during the Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdansk, Poland. Workers, incensed by an increase in prices set by the communist government, demanded the right to organize free and independent trade unions. Poland's future president - just as the workers were about to stop their protest - climbed atop a bulldozer and gave a rousing speech. His intensity spread to other factories across the nation and the movement was dubbed "Solidarity."

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