61. Biografía - Walesa, Lech Translate this page Político polaco nacido en Popow ,Bydgoszcz, el 29 de septiembre de 1943. Presidente desde 1990 hasta 1995. Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1983. http://www.artehistoria.com/historia/personajes/7475.htm

FICHA Nacionalidad: Polonia Popow 29-9-1943 A finales de los años sesenta (1967), se trasladó en busca de oportunidades a la región industrial del Báltico, en concreto a la ciudad de Gdansk, donde empezó a trabajar en los astilleros Lenin . Walesa, con innatas cualidades de dirigente, se dedicó desde un primer momento a la actividad sindical: en la protesta obrera de 1970 ya formó parte del Comité de Huelga de su empresa. A partir de este momento, la lucha por los derechos de los trabajadores marcó toda su actividad. Además de ganarse la vida como electricista, prosiguió su actividad sindical y en 1978 intervino activamente en el desarrollo dei Sindicato Libre de la Costa. Cuando estalló la crisis de 1980, Walesa fue elegido presidente del Comité Interempresarial de Huelga. Desde este cargo coordinó la protesta obrera de todo el país y logró que las autoridades aceptasen el Protocolo de veintiún puntos. En virtud de todo ello, sus compañeros de lucha convirtieron a Walesa -un genuino producto de la base en el gran líder nacional de los años ochenta: elegido presidente de " Solidaridad ", el sindicato más fuerte, en el Congreso fundacional de septiembre de 1980 -reelegado un año después-. Fue internado una vez proclamada la Ley marcial 13 de diciembre de 1981. En 1983 recibió el Premio Nobel de la Paz y en 1990 gana las elecciones y se alza con la presidencia del país. Desde este cargo ha tratado de mejorar la situación económica y en política exterior acercarse a Estados Unidos. En 1995 volvió a presentar su candidatura pero no salió elegido.

62. Ludzie Wprost - Sylwetka lech walesa zgolil wasy. Dla wielu Polaków wizerunek wasatego polityka to jeden z symboli lech walesa otrzymal propozycje kierowania grupa negocjatorów, http://ludzie.wprost.pl/sylwetka/?O=32535

63. Lech Walesa Profile -- Academy Of Achievement In the 1970s, lech walesa was an electrician at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. In 1990 lech walesa, the former shipyard electrician, http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wal1pro-1

The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Baseball Player Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like Lech Walesa's story, you might also like: Elie Wiesel Mikhail Gorbachev Desmond Tutu and Shimon Peres Related Links: Lech Walesa Institute TIME Nobel Prize Select Achiever Albright, Tenley Ambrose, Stephen E. Angelou, Maya Ballard, Robert D. Bannister, Roger Barak, Ehud Bezos, Jeffrey P. Bhutto, Benazir Brown, J. Carter

64. Lech Walesa Biography -- Academy Of Achievement lech walesa was born in Popowo, Poland. His father died shortly after World In 1990 lech walesa was elected to a fiveyear term as President of Poland. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wal1bio-1

The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Baseball Player Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like Lech Walesa's story, you might also like: Elie Wiesel Mikhail Gorbachev Desmond Tutu and Shimon Peres Related Links: Lech Walesa Institute TIME Nobel Prize Select Achiever Albright, Tenley Ambrose, Stephen E. Angelou, Maya Ballard, Robert D. Bannister, Roger Barak, Ehud Bezos, Jeffrey P. Bhutto, Benazir Brown, J. Carter

65. Solidarity.htm Solidarity s leader, lech walesa, led Poles to defeat communism and pave the way This image portrays lech walesa speaking to shipyard workers at Gdansk http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Baker_00/2001_p6/baker_jl_al_sh_p6/solidarity.h

Introduction Background Strikes in Gdansk Results ... Bibliography Introduction The Solidarity movement, which began in Gdansk, Poland, served as a frontier in the fall of Eastern European communism. Poland's poor economic and political situation, which had increased since the rise of communism, fueled this revolt. In pursuit of democracy, Poles came together to form "Solidarnosc," or the Solidarity trade union, which fought for equal rights and better conditions for Poles. Although Solidarity faced opposition, it eventually led to the downfall of communism in Poland and also inspired other Soviet satellites to revolt. Thus, the uprisings in Gdansk served a frontier in the fall of the iron curtain throughout Eastern Europe. Top of Page Background The deteriorating economic conditions and the Poles' overall exasperation with communism led the Polish working class to stage as series of demonstrations in 1956,1968,1970 and 1976. However, these revolts were unsuccessful because the Poles weren't united in their fight to end communism. Top of Page This diagram depicts the rising tensions in Poland. The uprisings and revolts the workers performed in 44, 56, 68, 70, 76, and 80 led to the formation of Solidarity.

66. Lech Walesa Bio lech walesa (pronounced Vahwen-sah) was born as the son of a carpenter in a clay lech walesa was prominent in a leadership role amongst the workers in http://mywebpage.netscape.com/walesa43/lech1.html

htmlAdWH('93097763', '234', '60'); Lech Walesa Profile Born September 29, 1943 Lech Walesa (pronounced Vah-wen-sah) was born as the son of a carpenter in a clay hut located in the village of Popow, between Warsaw and Gdansk, Poland, on September 29, 1943. The Second World War was in operation with Nazi Germany being an occupying power. Lech Walesa's father, Boleslaw, was conscripted to dig ditches and died in 1946 from the exposure and beatings he suffered. His mother, Feliksa, seemed to have the most effect on Walesa. The parish priest remembers her as "the wisest woman in the parish." Walesa was only an average student at his parish school and after graduating from the state vocational school in Lipno, where he learned the electrician's trade, worked as a car mechanic at a machine center from 1961 to 1965. He served in the army for two years, rose to the rank of corporal, and in 1967 was employed in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk as an electrician. Poland has had a rather turbulent and unfortunate history in its position amongst powerful neighbours. Once an extensive country, but one which was apt to suffer serious domestic turbulences, by 1800 Poland had been partitioned out of existence with its former provinces being allocated to the Russian and Austrian empires and to Prussia. At several stages in Poland's history the Roman Catholic Church there has served as a focus through which efforts were made to preserve a Polish, and Catholic, nationality. Although Poland had been reconstituted as an independent state between 1921 and 1939 the aftermath of the Second World War saw a Poland with revised frontiers and under the ideological control of Soviet Russia.

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68. Commanding Heights : Lech Walesa | On PBS Picture of lech walesa. lech walesa. (b. 1943) Trained as an electrician, lech walesa assumed leadership of the independent trade union Solidarity and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/prof_lechwalesa.html

Interview Profile Video Print PDF Lech Walesa (b. 1943) Trained as an electrician, Lech Walesa assumed leadership of the independent trade union Solidarity and played a key role in leading Poland out of Soviet domination. Walesa won the presidency in 1990 and held it until 1995. Profile Polish labor union activist, Nobel laureate, and president of Poland (1990-1995), Lech Walesa rose to international fame in August 1980 as the leader of the independent trade union Solidarity. Solidarity played a decisive role in bringing down communism not only in Poland but throughout Eastern and Central Europe. Walesa was one of eight children born into a Catholic worker-peasant family in Popowa, a village between Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and Gdansk, on the Baltic coast. He received a primary education, trained as an electrician in a local agricultural-machinery college, and began work in 1961. In 1967 he left home to find work as an electrician at the huge state-owned Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. In December 1970 Walesa participated in protests that erupted along the Baltic seaboard after the Polish government imposed drastic increases in food prices. In the months that followed, open debate between Solidarity, the Communist Party, and the Roman Catholic Church blossomed while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its aging leadership under Leonid Brezhnev looked on anxiously. In Poland the economic situation deteriorated so much that rationing of basic foodstuffs had to be introduced. On December 13, 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's head of government, declared martial law. Solidarity was banned and Walesa was arrested and interned. He was released in November 1982 and martial law was lifted in July 1983. That December Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, partly to maintain pressure on the Polish authorities. Afraid that he would not be readmitted if he left the country to collect the prize, Walesa remained in Poland. His wife Danuta traveled to Oslo, Norway, on her husband's behalf.

69. OpinionJournal - Featured Article BY lech walesa Friday, June 11, 2004 1201 am EDT. GDANSK, PolandWhen talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005204

70. Wired News: Lech Walesa: Tech Freedom Fighter When former Polish president lech walesa pops into a chat room to discuss politics, people have a hard time believing they re debating issues with the man http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53299,00.html?tw=wn_story_relate

71. Walesa, Lech, 1943- Books by Source Collection Subject. walesa, lech, 1943. Poland, Solidarity, walesa / Michael Dobbs, KS Karol, Dessa Trevisan http://www.osa.ceu.hu/lbi?idx=subject&id=767&value=Walesa, Lech, 1943-

72. Walesa, Lech, 1943- walesa, lech, 1943. Obshchestvo i vlast´, 1930-e gody povestvovanie v dokumentakh / otvetstvennyi redaktor AK Sokolov ; sostaviteli, SV Zhuravlev et http://www.osa.ceu.hu/lbi?idx=subject&id=667&value=Walesa, Lech, 1943-

73. Bills And Resolutions walesa, lech. Bills and resolutions. Poland anniversary of workers strikes that led to the creation of the independent trade union Solidarnosc (see S. Con http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?i106:I12220:i106WAGE.html

74. Remarks In House walesa, lech. Remarks in House. Tribute, E1062 12JN, E1080 13JN. Statements. NATO Security in Eastern Europe, E1062 12JN, E1080 13JN http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?i104:I09449:i104VLAHOPOULOS.html

75. BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Lech Walesa The man who led anticommunist resistance in Poland during the 1980s tries to help resolve Ukraine s political crisis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/963417.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Russian Polish Polish Greek ... More Last Updated: Thursday, 25 November, 2004, 14:10 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Profile: Lech Walesa Former Polish president Lech Walesa - who spearheaded the east European anti-communist movement in the 1980s - is in Kiev to try to resolve Ukraine's political crisis. Walesa won less than 1% of the vote in 2000's presidential poll One of the founding members of Poland's Solidarity trade union movement, which emerged to challenge the communist government during strikes in the Gdansk shipyards in August 1980, Mr Walesa came to symbolise the political struggle which led to the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and in 1990 was swept to power as the country's post-communist president. But his confrontational style alienated voters, and he often embarrassed the political establishment with his bluntness and lack of sophistication. In 1995 he failed to gain a second term in office. Highs and lows Mr Walesa was born in 1943 in Popowo, Poland, to a carpenter and his wife. He attended primary and vocational school, before he left home at the age of 16 to become an electrician.

76. Resources On Lech Walensa February 2004Lech walesa Readings. This bibliography provides background sources for Mission Week s featured speaker, presenting Hope and Freedom A http://www.marquette.edu/library/information/news/2004/Walesa.html

February 2004Lech Walesa: Readings This bibliography provides background sources for Mission Week's featured speaker, presenting "Hope and Freedom: A Faith Journey of Struggle and Solidarity." Tuesday, March 2, 2004 See more about the event about Walesa Unless otherwise noted, items are located in Memorial Library. Users are reminded to check MARQCAT for circulation status. Asterisked titles are highly recommended Lech Walesa Books/Speeches by Walesa The Book of Lech Walesa (Simon and Schuster, 1982) HD 6735.7 .Z55 W3424 1982 The Path of Hope (Collins Harvill, 1987) HD 6735.7.Z55 W34 The Struggle and the Triumph : A n Autobiography (Arcade, 1992) DK 4452 .W34A3 1992 Nobel Lecture , Dec. 11, 1983 Biographical sources about Walesa Biography Resource Center (online): profiles from Online, Current Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography Lech Walesa : Biography posted at Nobel Prize site Lech Walesa and his Poland . Mary Craig (Continuum, 1987) DK 4382 .C73 1987 Lech Walesa: Democrat or Dictator?

77. Lech Walesa Quotes 5 quotes and quotations by lech walesa. lech walesa I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lech_walesa.html

Atlas Dictionary Encyclopedia Geography ... Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! Web brainyquote.com Lech Walesa Quotes He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. Lech Walesa I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. Lech Walesa The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now. Lech Walesa The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being. Lech Walesa You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? Lech Walesa Type: Activist Quotes Category: Polish Activist Quotes Date of Birth: September 29 Nationality: Polish Biography: Lech Walesa Biography Find on Amazon: Lech Walesa Related Authors: Phyllis Schlafly Jack Kevorkian Jose Marti Jesse Jackson ... RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

78. Lech Walesa Quotes lech walesa The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lechwalesa160617.html

Atlas Dictionary Encyclopedia Geography ... Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! Web brainyquote.com Lech Walesa Quotes The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being. Lech Walesa Type: Activist Quotes Category: Polish Activist Quotes Date of Birth: September 29 Nationality: Polish Biography: Lech Walesa Biography Amazon: Lech Walesa on Amazon Related Authors: Jack Kevorkian Jesse Jackson Jose Marti Michael Moore ... Phyllis Schlafly More Lech Walesa Quotations: He who puts out his... I must tell you that... The supply of words in... The thing that lies at... ... You have riches and freedom... Quote Keywords: Being Change Fellow Foundation ... Way Dictionary Links: A At Being Change ... Way Encyclopedia Links: A At Being Change ... RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

79. A-Z World Airports Online - Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport Ltd (GDN/EPGD) Gdansk lech walesa Airport Ltd (GDN/EPGD). Gdansk Airport, Poland, ul Slowackiego 200, PL80 298 Gdansk. Tel +48 (0)58 348 11 11, +48 (0)58 348 11 54, http://azworldairports.com/airports/p2310gdn.htm

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