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EVENTS ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT:INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK holds a meeting on Food Security and Rural Development Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. meeting, will explore initiatives to achieve food security by coordinated activities on several fronts - agricultural production, education, technology, distribution and sustainable economic growth.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - CAN Presentation and the Food Security Situation in the Andean Zone
Gabriel Montes, Principal Agriculture Specialist, Andean Zone Region, IDB
Carlos Gustavo Cano, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Colombia
Gillermo Fernández de Soto, Secretary General of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN)
Eduardo Zegarra Mendez, Director General of Agricultural Information, Ministry of Agriculture, Peru
10:30 a.m. - MERCOSUR Plus Presentation and the Food Security Situation in the Southern Cone
Juan Notaro, Executive Director Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, IDB
Gonzalo González, Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Uruguay
Carlos Mermot, Uruguay
Jorge Echenique, President, Foundation Chile
José Graziano da Silva, Brasil
2:30 p.m. - Rural Development and Food Security Strategies in the Region
Gustavo Gordillo, Assistant Director General y Regional Representative of FAO, Latin America and the Caribbean
Antonio Ruiz, Viceminister for Rural Development, Mexico
Juan Lucas Restrepo, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Colombia
Eduardo Zegarra Mendez, Director General for Agriculture Información, Peru
José Graziano da Silva, Brasil
Jesús de los Santos, Viceminister for Agriculture, Dominican Republic
4:15 p.m. - Conclusions
Ruben G. Echeverría, Chief Rural Development Unit, IDB
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: IDB, 1300 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-9002
WEB ADDRESS: iadb.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Business Morning Forum
entitled Processes and Technologies: The e-Business Needs of Manufactures and Suppliers featuring Tom Orlowski, Vice President for Information Systems of the National Association of Manufacturers.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: SAIC Conference Center, 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS:nvtc.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference on After The Attack On Iraq: Economic Consequences.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:00 A.M. -- 9:15 a.m. - Introduction: The President's Decision
John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO
9:15 a.m. - Possible Military Outcomes and Geopolitical Ramifications
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy
Jon Alterman, Former Member of Planning Staff, U.S. State Department
Alina Romanowski, Director, NESA Center, National Defense University
11 a.m. - Oil Markets Panel
Larry Goldstein, President, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation
Herman Franssen, Senior Fellow, CSIS
Adam Sieminski, Director & Global Oil Strategist, Deutsche Bank
Bob Ebel, Director, Energy Program, CSIS
2 p.m. - Implications for the U.S. and World Economies
Laurence Meyer, Distinguished Scholar, CSIS
Joel Prakken, Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisors
Chris Varvares, President, Macroeconomic Advisors
Stefan-B Schneider, Chief International Economist, Deutsche Bank
3:45 p.m. - Implications for Financial Markets
Bill Dudley, Chief U.S. Economist, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Bob DiClemente, Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney
Stefan-B Schneider, Chief International Economist, Deutsche Bank
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program with U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan discussing "Reviewing U.S. Saudi-Relations: How Longtime Allies are Managing New Challenges."
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN holds a news conference to release a report, In the Name of God, documenting a clear evidence of global patterns of behavior and tactics by church officials that has resulted in "global human trafficking" of sexual predators and their victims under the guise of protecting the Priesthood, the image of the Catholic Church, and avoiding legal and financial liability for their actions.
WHO: The speakers are:
Christine Dolan, Author of In the Name of God. CEO/Founder, International Humanitarian Campaign Against the Exploitation of Children
Richard Seziberra, Rwandan Ambassador to the U.S.
Father Thomas P. Doyle, O.P., J.C.D.,
Pat Roddy, Former ABC News Executive Producer
Father John Bambrick, Priest Survivor of Clergy Sexual Abuse
Homayra Sellier, Pres., Innocence in Danger--Geneva, Switzerland, Child pornography Internet expert
Linda McDonald, R.N. and Jeanne Sarson, R.N., Ritual abuse-torture experts, Nova Scotia, Canada
Michael Skinner, American non-Catholic survivor
Ben Johnston, American- DynCorp trafficking whistle-blower
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: David Roscow, 703-276-2772, ext. 21 or Scott Treibitz, 703- 276-2772, ext. 11
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a program on the "Political Situation in the Ukraine" featuring Olexander Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party of the Ukraine.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Book Forum on National Economic Policy on How Economies Grow and How to Get Growth Going Again or Where Were The Dems On The Economy?
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Reed, President, Democratic Leadership Council and former Domestic Policy Advisor to President Bill Clinton
Karen Kornbluh, Fellow, New America Foundation and former Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Treasury
Maya MacGuineas, Fellow, New America Foundation and former Social Benefits Advisor to Senator John McCain's 2000 Campaign
Steven C. Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Coming in From the Cold: Are Sudan and Libya Leaving Terrorism Behind?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Timothy Carney, consultant and former U.S. ambassador to Sudan
William Lewis, consultant and professor emeritus at George Washington
University
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a news conference to introduce a retrofit that will solve the instability problems of 15-passenger vans, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has determined are three times more likely to roll over in single vehicle crashes when loaded with 10 or more occupants.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joan Claybrook, president, Public Citizen
C. Tab Turner, attorney
Ben Hogan, attorney
Victims (or their relatives) of 15-passenger van crashes in Arkansas, Utah, Pennsylvania and North Carolina
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: Public Citizen, 1600 20th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Shannon Little, 202-588-7742 or Angela Bradbery, 202-588-7741
WEB ADDRESS: citzen.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: AEI-BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER FOR REGULATORY STUDIES holds a Forum featuring Steve Ballmer, CEO Of Microsoft discussing "Microsoft Looking Forward." Ballmer will discuss Microsoft's plans for the future, particularly where it plans to focus its innovation. He is also expected to outline the company's future relationships with its customers, the government, and other players in the software and computer industries.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, Daniel L. Dreisbach
Matthew Spalding, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law holds a program on Dramatic Changes in Corporate Governance in Japan.
WHO: The speakers are:
Professor Ito, Chuo University,
Professor Kusumoto, Saga National University
Yoshihiro Sato, Lepon, Holzworth & Kato, Washington, D.C.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WASHINGTON WOMEN IN PUBLIC REALTIONS holds its Woman Of The Year Luncheon honoring woman in the PR field featuring Andrea McCarren, WJLA's co-anchor of Good Morning Washington.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-310-1027
WEB ADDRESS: wwpr.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Assessing the Kaliningrad Question with Richard Krickus, Professor Emeritus, Department of political science and International Affairs, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: IPF WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER holds a luncheon program featuring Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon, discussing Coping With Uncertainty: The Current Challenges To Israel."
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 10 30 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-842-1700
WEB ADDRESS: israelpolicyforum.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER holds a seminar entitled "Islamic Political Thought and Democracy" A conversation with Khaled About El Fadl, professor, UCLA School of Law.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1015 15th Street NW, Washington
CONTACT: 202-216-0855
WEB ADDRESS: eppc.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Danny Glover, Actor and Chairman of the Board of TransAfrica.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Ambassador Soemadi Brotodiningrat, Republic of Indonesia Ambassador Paul Cleveland, President, US Indonesia Friendship Society discussing Indonesia facing exceptionally difficult security, legal, and political-economic challenges
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR AND PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY hold Medical Consequences of Attacking Iraq news conference and release of "Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq," a major new report by medical and public health professionals estimating the likely casualties from a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Amy Sisley, MD -- Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon
at the University of Maryland Medical System, and Director of the
Violence Prevention Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility
Bob Musil, Ph.D., M.P.H., Executive Director and CEO of Physicians
for Social Responsibility and Adjunct Professor in the Nuclear Studies
Institute of American University
Michael Christ, Executive Director, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Bob Schaeffer, 239-395-6773
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs will host representatives from Zimbabwe's Shadow Government and the Save Zimbabwe campaign to discuss the critical need for the immediate restoration of democracy in Zimbabwe.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ephraim Tapa, chief spokesperson for Save Zimbabwe campaign, former president, Civil Service Employees Union and a prominent civic leader and outspoken critic of the Mugabe regime;
Moses Mzila Ndlovu, Shadow foreign minister;
David Coltart, Shadow justice minister in the Zimbabwe Parliament and senior partner with Webb Low and Barry, Legal Practitioners; and
Arnold Tsunga, national chairman, Zim Rights.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-3087
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Reforming Congress for a Safer Homeland: The Need for Congressional Committee Reorganization."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Jim Ryun, R-KS
Chuck McCutcheon, Newhouse News Service
Peter Brookes, The Heritage Foundation
Michael Franc, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Crisis in the Hinterland: Rural Discontent in China.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Bernstein, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University (invited); Jean C. Oi, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Yawei Liu, Associate Director, the Carter Center
Melanie Manion, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring South Korean Human Rights Activist, Pastor Chun Ki-Won, who will provide eyewitness testimony on the situation facing North Korean Refugees in China and the harsh treatment of Humanitarian Workers by Chinese Police.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 4:45 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Jewish and Muslim Student Associations come together for an Iftar (breaking of the fast) to mark the end of Ramadan.
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president, The George Washington University;
Jonah Zinn, president, Jewish Student Association;
Amna Arshad, president, Muslim Students Association; and
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-9023
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES holds an awards ceremony for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan, who will receive the International Visionaries Award. "This award recognizes Kofi Annan as a leader who possesses that rare combination of compassion and common sense, whose vision is putting people at the center of every aspect of the United Nations' work, and whose straightforward tenacity is making the United Nations a more effective institution."
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-272-3606
WEB ADDRESS: nbm.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION holds an award ceremony honoring Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris who will receive the Patrick J. Leahy Humanitarian Award for her tireless efforts to focus attention on the plight of landmine survivors worldwide.
AGENDA: Many of the artists who will perform at the benefit awards ceremony/concert -- including Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Nancy Griffith, Buddy and Julie Miller, Jamie O'Hara, and John Prine
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia
CONTACT: 202-557-7586
WEB ADDRESS:vvaf.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Recent Turkish Elections and Their Larger Implications" with Omer Taspinar, SAIS European Studies Program adjunct professor and visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Salon Orchestra of Washington, a chamber music ensemble that focuses on the music of nineteenth century Austria.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: AFRICA SOCIETY OF THE NATIONAL SUMMIT ON AFRICA presents Ambassador Andrew Young lecture series on Africa featuring the Andrew Young discussing "Africa's Rising and America's Future."
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 3519 International Court, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-232-3862
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN NEWS WOMEN'S CLUB presents Hearst Newspaper Columnist Helen Thomas, discussing her latest book, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 607 22nd Street NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-332-6770
WEB ADDRESS: anwc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Michael Lowenthal discussing and signing copies of "Avoidance." Lowenthal's second novel takes its title from the Amish practice of punishing unrepentant disobedience with shunning.
DATE: November 12, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
