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In 1996, according to a Polish poll, the three most popular people in the country were Pope John Paul II, Mr. Jurek Owsiak, and then-Polish-president Mr. Kwasniewski.
Who is this Jurek Owsiak? At the time, Owsiak was the director and founder of Poland’s biggest charity, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Help. Every year during the Christmas period, the charity would put on television benefit programs, during which the public phone in pledges to buy medical equipment for children’s hospitals. In 1995, the Orchestra raised one million dollars, no small amount for an Eastern European country.
In the mid-1990s, Owsiak had also arranged a folk-rock festival in the summer, called Woodstock. The festival, which is based on the concepts of the original Woodstock in America, is attended by tens of thousands of young people. His original reasoning behind organizing the festival was “so that all of the people who took part in the winter fundraising can come together for a summer meeting of love, peace, and music.”
Our monumental three day Ratha Yatra festival was celebrated in June of 2019, with a kirtan pilgrimage Tompkins Square Park, underneath the famous Hare Krishna Tree; a kirtan experience at the major commercial intersection known as Times Square, the crossroads of the world where anywhere between 30,000 — 50,000 pass through per day; a Ratha Yatra Parade down New Yorks most well known street, fifth Avenue; and, finally a flower festival at ISKCON New York Citys Sri Sri Radha Govinda Temple