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Name Katherine Kirby Neubert Birthday 09.13.87 Email katherineneubert@hotmail.com -- writer, jolter, aspiring photojournalist.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
On Dec. 6 former dissident Barbara Jakubowska will give a lecture at 4 p.m. in 601 Herter Hall about her experiences as a participant in Poland's democratic, anti-communist opposition in the 1980s."Solidarity was organized as an independent trade union and opposition movement after a wave of strikes in 1980, leading to often violent government repressions," stated Robert Rothstein, professor of Polish Language, Literature and Culture, who helped convince Jakubowska to come to UMass and also to donate her collection. During this period of solidarity operating underground, Jakubowska was also involved in a lesser-known Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR). KOR was started in 1976 primarily to protest the firing and imprisonment of striking workers and to help their families. It was an important expression of solidarity between writers and intellectuals on the one hand and workers on the other. More importantly, Jakubowska secretly collected newspapers, leaflets, and books published illegally (without the permission of the censorship office) which she has recently chosen to contribute to our UMass Libraries this spring, among other Polish books. Professor Rothstein invited Jakubowska to speak because he believes that her account of life during this solidarity period would be of much interest to many in the UMass community and beyond. "I wasn't planning on attending this lecture because I don't know much about solidarity in general, so this didn't catch my attention," stated junior Jen Fitzgerald. Jakubowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and studied American literature, philosophy, anthropology of culture and Middle Eastern languages at Warsaw University. --- *You can view this article here. "Kat" [
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