Showng the flag. The two women on the right led the crowd in singing the US and Polish national anthems.
A year ago today, Annissa Essaibi-George recalls, she was at the Polish-American Club in Dorchester's Polish Triangle and made a promise: If she won election as an at-large city councilor, she'd make sure the Polish flag flew over City Hall the next May 3 - Polish Constitution Day.
Essaibi-George, whose grandparents were Polish and whose mother was born in a displaced-persons camp after World War II, won that seat and made good on her promise today: Members of the local Polish and Polish-American communities sang the Polish national anthem as the red-and-white flag was raised on a flagpole outside City Hall (granted, on the same flagpole that just yesterday Mayor Walsh said would fly a transgender flag until the legislature passed and the governor signed a transgender rights measure).
Afterwards, it was upstairs to the fifth floor of City Hall for a reception with Polish food.
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How were the pierogi?
By Gary C
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 2:40pm
Did you get to sample?
Pierogi were excellent at Polish Fest on Sunday
By Nancy
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 6:03pm
Pierogi, kielbasa and beer. Good times. Good times.
Not sure they should be
By Josh
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 4:15pm
Not sure they should be flying the flag with the coat of arms. We aren't the Polish government...
The government doesn't use
By Matt_R
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 5:24pm
The government doesn't use the flag with the coat of arms, except at embassies.
Looking at the details in
By brianjdamico
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 8:13pm
Looking at the details in Adam's story for context, and from Wikipedia: "The variant with the coat of arms is particularly often used by the Polonia, or Polish diaspora outside Poland, especially in the United States," it makes sense for the flag with the coat of arms on it to be used.
Up the Poles!
By Michael Fahey
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 11:23pm
Up the Poles!
I love the Polish!
By Cabados
Tue, 05/03/2016 - 7:24pm
Great people.
Gotta love them.
Dziękuję Ci!
By Nancy
Wed, 05/04/2016 - 11:51am
Thank you!
Polish pride
By Kaz
Wed, 05/04/2016 - 2:40pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZwDx3xGpg
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