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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS holds a summit on security and safety issues
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial, President, U.S. Conference of Mayors
Washington Mayor Anthony Williams
Ruben Barrales, White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley
New Orleans Police Superintendent Richard Pennington
Denver Mayor Wellington Webb
9:30 a.m. - U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Assistant Majority Leader
The Role of Infrastructure Investment in Job Creation
10 a.m. - Opening press conference with morning speakers and U.S. Conference of Mayors leadership
10 a.m. -Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Dr. Tara O'Toole, Deputy Director, Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Rex Archer, Director, Kansas City Health Department
Dr. Kem Bennett, Director, National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center
11:15 a.m. Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
12 noon - Press availability with morning speakers, members of Federal-Local Law Enforcement Task Force, and USCM leadership
12:30 p.m. Tommy Thompson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Reports from the Homeland
Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton
Charlotte Mayor Patrick McCrory
2 p.m. - Press availability with afternoon speakers, members of Emergency Preparedness
Task Force, and USCM leadership.
2:30 p.m. - St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman: Improving Intergovernmental Communication Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill: Ports and Cargo Security
Lynn Mayor Patrick McManus: Cities' Role in Protecting Our Water Supply
Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer: Cities' Role in Protecting Our Water Supply
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer: Borders - Safe Access for Economic Security
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-861-6719
WEB ADDRESS:usmayors.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS holds its 14th annual conference themed "New Developments In Partnerships: Changing Opportunities A The Federal And State/Local Levels.
AGENDA: Highlights:
1:30 p.m. - Board Forum
Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, US Department of Interior, will participate in an informal discussion of the future directions of outsourcing and partnerships.
3:30 p.m. - NCPPP Board of Directors Meeting
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-467-6800
WEB ADDRESS:ncppp.org
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: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY School of Foreign Service holds a conference on The Bush Administration's Policy Towards North Korea: prospects for Inter-Korean Relations.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-6626
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION hold a special conference examining the far-reaching impact of the September 11 attacks on U.S. defense and proliferation policy.
WHO: The speakers are:
9 a.m. - The Transformation of Defense Policy - A discussion of nuclear forces, NATO, military posture, and homeland defense.
Bruce G. Blair, President, Center for Defense Information
John Newhouse, CDI Senior Fellow and former advisor to Undersecretary Strobe Talbott
Frank Hoffman, Marine Corps consultant and former staff, Hart-Rudman Commission
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Stephen H. Baker, CDI Senior Fellow and former Navy test director
11 a.m. - The Transformation of Proliferation Policy - The future of treaties, threat reduction programs, South Asia and chemical/biological regimes,
Joseph Cirincione, Director, Carnegie Endowment Non-Proliferation Project
Robert Einhorn, Senior Advisor, CSIS and former Assistant Secretary of State
Lee Feinstein, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former Deputy Director, Policy Planning
Amy Smithson, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marshall Breit, 202-939-2296
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PEW INITIATIVE ON FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY holds a program entitled "Are The US And Europe Heading For A Food Fight Over Genetically Modified Food?"
WHO: The speakers are:
David Hegwood, Trade Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Julia A. Moore, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who has written and spoken extensively about consumer attitudes in the US and in Europe toward biotechnology
Tony Van der haegen, Minister/Counselor for Agriculture, Fisheries and Consumer Affairs, the European Commission Delegation
Fred Yoder, president-elect of the National Corn Growers Association, who will discuss how the EU proposal would affect American farmers
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: DJ Nordquist, 202-347-9132
WEB ADDRESS:pewagbiotech.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US holds a news conference to discuss the Federal Manatee Lawsuit.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Howard White @301-258-3072
WEB ADDRESS: humans
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE holds a news conference to charge that House Ways and Means Committee stimulus plan will divide the country and prove ineffective against growing recession.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Borosage, Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future
John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women
Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, National Council of La Raza
Iris Lav, Deputy Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tasha Spindler, 202 955-5665
WEB ADDRESS: ourfuture.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE presents former Presidential Candidate Dr Francisco Arias Cardenas discussing The Future of Democracy in Venezuela.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 1212 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-408-9450
WEB ADDRESS:iri.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Ranking Levels of Official Corruption and Its Relation to Trafficking of Women and Children" with Peter Eigen, founder and chairman of the Board of Transparency International.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program entitled "Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Dead?" With The Israeli journalist, writer, and peace activist Uri Avnery discussing the events of the past year and the future of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Loyalty Amidst Treachery: Austrian-Hungarian Relations During the 1956 Revolution," with Bianca Adair, Fulbright Scholar - Austria and Hungary, and former EES Research Scholar
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE presents a program on "Succeeding Kyoto: A No Cap But Trade Approach to Greenhouse Gas Control."
With David F. Bradford, Princeton University and the NYU School of Law
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE holds a roundtable on "Struggle For Democracy In Cuba."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Lincoln Diaz Balart, R-FL
Georges Fauriol, IRI
Javier De Cespedes, The Cuban Democracy Revolutionary Directorate
Orlando Gutierrez, IRI
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 1212 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-408-9450
WEB ADDRESS:iri.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: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS ASSOCIATION holds a news conference releasing a Broadband study on the "Middle Mile" which focuses on the costs of transporting Internet traffic from an Internet provider in a rural telephone company's territory to an Internet Backbone Provider.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 973-984-3100
WEB ADDRESS:neca.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Academic And Media Freedom in China."
WHO: the speakers are:
Perry Link, Princeton University
Chin-Chuan Lee, University Of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Yongming Zhou, Niversity Of Wisconsin-Madison And Wilson Center
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, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "U.S.-China Relations" with J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Hawaiian performers George Kuo, Martin Pahinui, Danny Akaka Jr., Alan Akaka, and Greg Sardinha celebrate the history of Hawaiian musical traditions.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Women & Politics Institute presents Eleanor Clift, Journalist-In-Residence, AU's Women & Politics Institute and contributing editor, Newsweek discussing "In Search of Executive Leadership: Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling" based on her latest book.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: Ward Circle Building, Room 1, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features author Richard Reeves who
Uses newly discovered and declassified documents, which immerses us in the secrets, deceptions and paranoia that characterized Nixon's tenure in President Nixon: Alone in the White House.
DATE: October 24, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com