Transcript- Interview with Kazimierz Nietupski of PAC

Kazimierz Nietupski, Vice President of the Long Island chapter of the Polish-American Congress and the Polish Friends of Copiague

[00:00] SIENKO: Why don’t you tell me a little bit about yourself and a little about the meeting today.

[00:05] KAZIMIERZ: My name is Kazimierz Nietupski, I represent two organizations now: Polish-American Congress chapter on Long Island and also Polish friends of Copiague. It was the fourth meeting of Polish organizations on Long Island, first three meeting was…first meeting was seven years ago, next meeting, second meeting was six years ago, and third meeting was last year when we made the decision about, about the establishment of the Polish-American congress on long island. Now we have the first meeting as the Polish-American congress, full organization…actually was not all organization, we invited about 25 Polish organizations on Long Island, but was only 10 of them. I think we are gonna’ work together and invite them for next meeting, and work at our meeting of organizations. Our goal is unite all of the organizations and help them on Long Island. It’s a very difficult job, a lot of work you know on this program.

[01:47] SIENKO: What are some of the most important issues for the Congress now or the Polish community here?

[01:53] KAZIMIERZ: Now its most important in this year, is to establish this organization, establish and make stronger in this area, and also voter registration on long island. It’s a very important thing that we do, that we’d like to do, on Long Island in Polish community.