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EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 22, 2001
October 23, 2001
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA holds a briefing on Pharmaceutical Industry and the WTO Ministerial.
DATE: October 23, 2001
LOCATION: 1100 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Grayson, 202-835-3465
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled presents The War In Afghanistan.
WHO: The speakers are:
David Isby, Author, "War In A Distant Country: Afghanistan Invasion And Resistance"
Jim Phillips, The Heritage Foundation
Dan Fisk, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: October 23, 2001
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Washington Redskin and Founder of the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation discussing "The ICO Factor - Inspiration, Conviction and Organization."
DATE: October 23, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
October 24, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ECONOMIC STRATEGY INSTITUTE holds a program on "Japan Relations: Past, Present, and Future."
WHO: The speakers are:
Steve Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation
Ed Lincoln, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Koji Murata, Associate Professor, Doshisha University
Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute
Richard Samuels, Professor, MIT
Michael Schaller, Professor, University of Arizona
Kiyoshi Sugawa, Planning Director, the Democratic Party of Japan
Bruce Stokes, Columnist, National Journal
Alan Wolff, Managing Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 2168 Gold Room, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-8573
WEB ADDRESS: econstrat.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a "Toward a Global Initiative On Basic Education."
WHO: The speakers are:
Sebastian Mallaby, Member of the Editorial Board and Columnist, The Washington Post
Gene Sperling, Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution; Director of the Brookings Forum on Universal Education; Former Director of the National Economic Council
Lene Buchert, Senior Program Specialist-UNESCO
Robert Prouty, Lead Education Specialist-World Bank
Andre Roberfroid, Deputy Executive Director-UNICEF
Phil Twyford, Global Advocacy Director-Oxfam International
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 797-6000
WEB ADDRESS:brookings.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Academic and Media Freedom in China with Richard P. Madsen, Professor of Sociology, University of California-San Diego.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
October 25, 2001
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a town hall meeting on "Are Americans at Home in the Global Village?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center on the People and the Press
William Spriggs, director of the National Urban League, Institute of Opportunity and Equality
Cheryl Peterson, director of the American Nurses Association's
International Nursing Center
Frank Sharry, executive director, National Immigration Forum
Susan Aaronson, senior fellow, International Programs at NPA
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Senator Bob Graham, D-FL.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Empowering through Victimization: Moscow's Homeless Children with Clementine Fujimura, Associate Professor, Department of Language Studies, U.S. Naval Academy, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
October 26, 2001
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM presents a program on "The Uninsured: An Update
A Briefing on How the Latest Surplus Estimates May Impact Proposed Programs for the Uninsured."
AGENDA: Almost 39 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2000, even after the Census Bureau refined its measurement of the number of uninsured. In an attempt to further reduce that number, the Administration's budget proposal included funds for tax credits to allow the uninsured to buy private insurance.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jack Meyer of the Economic and Social Research Institute
Steve Zuckerman of the Urban Institute
Jeanne Lambrew of George Washington University
Judy Waxman of Families USA
James Frogue of Mutual of Omaha
Ed Howard of the Alliance
DATE: October 26, 2001
LOCATION: Columbus Club, 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Meg Booth or Bill Erwin, 202-466-5626
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Dennis Archer Mayor of Detroit and President of the National League of Cities.
DATE: October 26, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
