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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGENCE The People's Strike: A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance.
AGENDA: Highlighted events:
7 a.m. - March to Put the Squeeze on Capitalist Greed. Sponsored by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence. Franklin Square Park, 14th and K St NW.
7:30 a.m. - The Bike Strike. Bike ride through the streets of DC in protest of various corporate and governmental institutions. Sponsored by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence. Meet at Union Station.
9 a.m. - Beat the Anti-War Drums: Percussion Protest - No War on Iraq, Freedom Plaza, 14th and Penn.
10 a.m. - Civil Disobedience Die-In to resist the war on Iraq. 866-860-9311
2 p.m. - Gap Protest and Strip Action, starting with a mini People's Summit. Sponsored by Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap and UNITE's Global Justice for Garment Workers Campaign. At the Georgetown Gap, 1258 Wisconsin Ave NW. 415-731-7924
4:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion on Venezuela and the Emergence of Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization in Latin America. Fundacion Venezolana para la Justicia Global. Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 Fifteenth St NW, Ballroom East side of Malcolm X Park. contact: Marya Murray Diaz, 202-293-5380 ext. 208.
5 p.m. - Mobilization for Global Justice Action Spokescouncil Meeting, St. Stephen's Church, 16th and Newton NW.
7 p.m. - Peacemaking in a Post 9-11 World: Learning to Coexist. Gathering and worship followed by presentations. Continues Saturday and Sunday. Washington City Church of the Brethren, 337 North Carolina Ave SE. Alice at 202-547-5924
-- The Role of Faith in the Middle East Crisis: Is Non-violence a Way to Peace? Speakers include Mubarak Awad, Palestinian-American Peace Activist; Sis Levin, Educator among Israelis and Palestinians, Jerry Levin, Christian Peacemaker Teams; Mark Brown, Public Policy Advocate for ELCA; Ken Giles, Jewish-American Peace Activist. Sponsored by: Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Metro Washington DC Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Continues on Saturday. Virginia Theological Seminary, 3737 Seminary Rd, Alexandria.
DATE: September 27, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WORLD BANK AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND hold the annual meetings. The Annual Meetings bring such a large number of member country officials together, they provide opportunities for consultations large and small.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - G-24 Meeting
9:30 a.m. - Trade and the Developing World, press conference with Nicholas Stern, World Bank Chief Economist, Uri Dadush, Director of Trade, and Bernand Hoekman, Research Manager
TBA - G-24 Ministerial press conference
11 a.m. - Keystone Roundtable: From Trade Round to Development Agenda
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-473-1000
WEB ADDRESS:worldbank.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S. ARMY, AND WOODROW WILSON CENTER Center's Division of International Studies hold Eisenhower National Security Conference. The intent of this effort is to identify and promote new ways to focus national power to meet the full range of security challenges confronting America in the 21st century.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Morning Address: The Challenge of Managing Change
Dr. Daniel Goure, Senior Fellow, Lexington Institute
Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army
9:30 a.m. - Panel III: Building Capabilities - Realizing Military Transformation
Dr. Loren B. Thompson, Chief Operations Officer, Lexington Institute
Historical Perspectives on Military Change
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Perspectives on Defense Transformation
Dr. David Johnson, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND
Transforming America's Military
Dr. Hans Binnendijk, National Defense University
Joint Implementation of the Transformation Vision
Major General James M. Dubik, Director for Joint Experimentation (J9), Joint Forces Command
11:30 a.m. - Panel IV: Building Capabilities for International Efforts
Opening Remarks and Introduction: Mrs. Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Board of Governors,
Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith, National War College
International Means
General Montgomery C. Meigs, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army
Non-Governmental Means
Roy Williams, President and CEO, Center for Humanitarian Cooperation
Public Security
Ambassador Robert B. Oakley, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for International and Strategic Studies,
National Defense University
2 p.m. -- Closing Address: Transformation of the Military Instrument of National Power
General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Introduction by:
General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, United States Army
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: eisenhowerseries.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ESRI, THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY'S SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS present the Mapping the News Conference. The conference focuses on how understanding a place -- its culture, demographics, geography, and history -- make telling news stories richer, more vivid, more engaging, and more understandable. It will opens new lines of communications among the news media and experts in environmental matters, cartography, human rights, geography, imaging and public safety.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: American University, Ward Circle Building, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Washington, DC
CONTACT: James Cox at 909-793-2853, ext. 1-2678
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: NEW MILLENNIUM RESEARCH COUNCIL holds a panel discussion on which is worse: The fact that WorldCom did what it did to go into bankruptcy or that it might emerge from bankruptcy as a debt-free,
reorganized entity with significant advantages over struggling competitors.
WHO: The speakers are:
David E. Lynn, attorney, law firm of Docter, Docter & Lynn, "Bankruptcy Law - Fresh Start for Dishonest Debtors?"
Shing Yin, senior analyst at the telecommunications consulting firm,
RHK, Inc., "Should WorldCom be Rescued? For Better or Worse?";
Janice Aune, president and CEO of Onvoy, Inc., a leading Minnesota
telecommunications provider, "An Industry Perspective: How Bankruptcy
Affects the Solvent"
Todd J. Zywicki, associate professor of law specializing in bankruptcy
and contracts at George Mason University, "Does the Bankruptcy System
Need Revision?"
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Contact Christine Kraly, 703-276-3258
WEB ADDRESS: newmillenniumresearch.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE health policy discussion entitled Are Consumers Smart Enough to Pick Their Own Health Plan?
AGENDA: Highlight:
9:15 a.m. - Lee N. Newcomer, Vivius
Jon Gabel, Health Research and Educational Trust
Paul Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System Change
Robert B. Helms, AEI
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HOWARD UNIVERSITY holds its 135th Opening Convocation featuring Rep. John Lewis, D-GA. Lewis will receive the degree of doctor of humane letters honoris causa during the ceremony.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: Cramton Auditorium, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Raoul Dennis, 202-238-2332
WEB ADDRESS: howard.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SHAMBAUGH LEADERSHIP GROUP'S Executive Forum presents Ivonne A-Baki, Ecuadorian presidential candidate and former Ambassador from Ecuador to the United States.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: The Tower Club, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna Virginia
CONTACT: Robin Buckley, 703-533-9805 or Isabel Kaldenbach, 703-979-3076
WEB ADDRESS: buckleykaldenbach.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds Talkers Forum on "Election 2002: Policies & Politics."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jerry Agar, WPTF-AM, Raleigh, N.C.
Jim Bohannon, Westwood One Radio Network
Blanquita Cullum, Radio America Network
Barry Farber, Talk America Radio Network
Dom Giordano, WPHT-AM, Philadelphia
Jason Jarvis, Syndicated Radio Host
Victoria Jones, Syndicated Radio Host
David Lawrence, WGOP-AM, Washington, DC
Armstrong Williams, Syndicated Radio Host
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Vietnam's Economic Revolution" with Nguyen Thi Canh, director of Economic Development Studies at the Institute for Economic Research in Ho Chi Minh City.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: BRUCE RICH, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE, DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM, JEFFREY WINTERS, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND BRUCE JENKINS, BANK INFORMATION CENTER, POLICY DIRECTOR hold a news conference on Reinventing the World Bank, the findings of a series of papers from leading academics at the University of London, Harvard, Northwestern and the University of California that conclude that the World Bank is failing and can only be reformed through increased accountability and scrutiny from the outside.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212 505-2100
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Cathy Krier a young pianist from Luxembourg, who has achieved remarkable success at home and abroad, plays a selection of Chopin, Prokofiev and Liszt.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Olivia Judson fulfilling the promise in Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation. Written in mock-advice column style-with various creatures asking about curiosities, which they encounter, and Dr T. reassuring (or not, Mr. Mantis) that everything is natural, okay, and explaining why things are the way they are-this book has a lot to offer.
DATE: September 27, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
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