The Foundation For A Civil Society

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-zantovsky/vaclav-havel-1936%E2%80%932011

Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Bemused, often unpolished, but also unswerving, the Czech playwright, dissident, and president proved instrumental in the fall of the Iron Curtain and the creation of a new Europe.

Sad to announce..

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/europe/vaclav-havel-dissident-playwright-who-led-czechoslovakia-dead-at-75.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 As Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president after the nonviolent revolution that ended decades of repression, Vaclav Havel oversaw a bumpy transition to democracy and a free-market economy.

Please check picture from Czechoslovak Samizdat panel day 1

http://new-york.czechcentres.cz/gallery/photo/czechoslovak-samizdat-and-its-legacy/

Czechoslovak Samizdat and Its Legacy - DAY 1 - Czech Center New York

http://www.mzv.cz/us.cz.ambassadors

The Lion and the Eagle: Czech-American Relations through the Eyes of Envoys | Ministry of Foreign Af Symposium of current and former U.S. Ambassadors to the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia and Czech and Czechoslovak Ambassadors to the U.S.A.

http://www.mzv.cz/jnp/en/foreign_relations/public_diplomacy/live_video_1.html

Video archive - Czech-American Relations through the Eyes of Envoys | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of