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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a conference on "The Palestinian-Israeli Impasse: Has U.S. Policy Run Its Course."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. -- Professor Hisham Sharabi
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
Chair, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine
8:45 a.m. -- Ambassador William Burns Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
9:30 a.m. - U.S. POLICY AND THE PALESTINIANS
11:15 a.m.- U.S. POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA
1:45 p.m. - Rep. John J. Conyers, D-MI
2:30 p.m. -- International And Grassroots Initiatives
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS:palestinecenter.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION holds its National Diversity Summit In The Teaching Force.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12:30 p.m. - Keynote Address with Dr. Francisco Rios, University of Wyoming discussing "Affirming the Cultural Capital and Political Consciousness of Ethnic Minority Teachers."
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-7230
WEB ADDRESS: nea.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Minister of Economy And Foreign Trade of the Arab Republic of Egypt Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali.
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law, University of Maryland School of Law hold a discussion on the impact of culture and socialization on race and racial formation in the U.S. and Latin America.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m.- Introduction and Welcome
Taunya Lovell Banks, visiting professor, AU Law?
Tanya Hernandez, Rutgers University
9:15 a.m. - Keynote Address
Isar Godreau, University of Texas, Austin
10 a.m. Comparative Perspectives on How Race is Manifested
Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland
Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law
Ariel Dulitzky, Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Lourdes Martinez Echazabal, University of California, Santa Cruz
Charles Venator Santiago, Ph.D candidate, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
12 p.m. - Luncheon Speaker
Kevin Johnson, UC-Davis School of Law
1:30 p.m. - Growing U.S. Shift to Latin American Approaches to Race
Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
James Early, Smithsonian Institute
Sherrilyn Ifill, University of Maryland School of Law
Miriam Jimenez Roman, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
3:30 p.m. - Challenges to Community Organizing and Efficacy of Anti-Discrimination Lawmaking
Rosa Clemente, F.R.E.E. Youth Empowerment, Central Brooklyn Partnership
ob Cottrol, George Washington University School of Law
eth Racusen, Ph.D candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
brahim Sundiata, Howard University
5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY holds a news conference to discuss Forecasting The Broadband Future: Three Views on Keeping the New Networks Open and Competitive
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-2872
WEB ADDRESS: democraticmedia.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents a program discussing "Update On The Kosovo Report."
WHO: The speakers are:
Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa
Carl Tham, Secretary General of the Olof Palme International Center in Stockholm Richard Falk, Professor of International Law and Practice, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-777-2206
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PEW CENTER ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE holds a news conference and report release entitled "Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets."
WHO: The speakers are:
Eileen Claussen, president, Pew Center
Doug Russell, author, Global Change Strategies International
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-516-0606
WEB ADDRESS:pewclimate.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a luncheon event on " Radical Center: The Future of American Politics."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ted Halstead, President, New America Foundation
Michael Lind, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOMENS FOREIGN POLICY GROUP features Zanny Minton Beddoes, correspondent, The Economist discussing "New Challenges To Foreign Policy, Security And Economy: The Impact Of Terrorism On The Economy Worldwide."
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-884-8131
WEB ADDRESS:wfpg.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on "Less Health Insurance And Better Health Care: Two-Tiered Health Benefits Models."
WHO: The speakers are:
Lawrence H. Mirel, District of Columbia commissioner of insurance and securities regulation
Kenneth J. Linde, Destiny Health Insurance Company
Helen Darling, Washington Business Group on Health.
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program with AEI scholar Michael Greve explaining how it has become necessary to distinguish between legitimate goals and interests that are politically motivated.
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a presents a program on "House Party Leadership: Yesterday and Today."
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert H. Michel, former Representative from Illinois, Senior Adviser, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Barbara B. Kennelly, former Representative from Connecticut, Partner, Baker and Hostetler LLP; Ronald M. Peters, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Dan Balz, Political Writer, Washington Post
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features author Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and advisor to presidents, to talk about his memoir, Vernon Can Read!
DATE: November 2, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
