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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS holds its Defense 2002 Conference: Excellence.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Rudy F. de Leon, Senior Vice President, Washington Operations
The Boeing Company
Philip M. Condit, CEO, The Boeing Company
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-264-7500
WEB ADDRESS: aiaa.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: SAMARITAN'S PURSE holds its Prescription For Hope conference on HIV/AIDS. More than 22 million people have died from AIDS (UNAIDS). It is estimated that more than 36 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. Every minute, 11 people are infected with HIV.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-939-4090
WEB ADDRESS: DeMossNewsPond.com/pfh
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT:INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE hold a conference on "Western Hemisphere Trade negotiations."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:15 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue
8:30 a.m. - Assessing Trade Promotion Authority
Gary Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics
Paulo Sotero, O Estado de Sao Paulo
9:30 a.m. - The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Rubens Barbosa, Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics
11 a.m. - The WTO Round
Peter Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Sylvia Ostry, Munk Centre for International Studies
Paula Stern, Stern Group, Inc.
12:30 p.m. - Working Lunch
Ted Posner, Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee
Everett Eissenstat, Minority Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee
2 p.m. - The Chile Free Trade Area
Andres Bianchi, Ambassador of Chile to the United States
Jon Huenemann, FH/GPC
Regina Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas
3 p.m. - The Central America FTA and Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
Richard Bernal, Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery
Rene Leon, Ambassador of El Salvador to the United States
Jose Manuel Salazar, Organization of American States
4 p.m. - The Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)
Brenda Jacobs, U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles & Apparel
Luis Alberto Moreno, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States
5 p.m. - The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Luis de la Calle, Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations of Mexico
Sidney Weintraub, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jaime Zabludovsky, Inter-American Development Bank
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: IDB, 1300 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Peter Hakim, 202-822-9002
WEB ADDRESS:iadb.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE holds a briefing on "Triple Jeopardy: Low Income, Chronically Ill and Uninsured in America."
AGENDA: A diabetic who doesn't receive regular eye and foot exams, for example, has a much higher risk of blindness and amputation. A new national study provides the latest information about working-age Americans with chronic conditions and examines how various policy proposals to expand health insurance coverage would affect them
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., HSC president
Ha T. Tu, M.PA., HSC health researcher
Marie C. Reed, M.H.S., HSC health research analyst.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-264-3484
WEB ADDRESS:hschange.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS holds a news conference to release of 2001 National Environmental Scorecard.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Scott Stoermer, 202-785-8683 x 599 or Dan Vicuna, 202-785-8683 x573
WEB ADDRESS:lcv.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES holds a conference call briefing to discuss continuing legislative controversy over a stimulus package. The House and Senate again passed rival packages February 14 before leaving for a week-long recess.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Greenstein, executive director
Wendell Primus, director, income security
Joel Friedman, senior fellow
DATE: February 20, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS holds a roundtable on the outlook for capital spending.
WHO: The speakers are:
NAM President Jerry Jasinowski
Martin Baily, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
James Glassman, Senior U.S. Economist, JP Morgan Chase
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Director, Corporate Economics and Strategic Issues, Ford Mother Company
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Association of Manufacturers, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC
CONTACT: Hank Cox, (202- 637-3090
WEB ADDRESS:nam.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: TRUST FOR AMERICA'S HEALTH hold a telephone news conference to discuss its new report: Birth Defects Tracking and Prevention: Too Many States Are Not Making the Grade. While birth defects remain the # 1 cause of infant mortality in the United States, the report says most states are doing a poor job of tracking and preventing them. It gives each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, a letter grade based on the state's efforts to monitor, research and uncover possible causes of birth defects.
AGENDA: DIAL-IN:1-800-354-6885
DATE: February 20, 2002
CONTACT: 202-777-3504
WEB ADDRESS: healthyamericans.org
TIME: 11:15 a.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE holds a rally for school choice.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bert Holt, Former Program Administrator, Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program
Virginia Walden-Ford, Executive Director, DC Parents for School Choice
Kaleem Caire, President and CEO, Black Alliance for Educational Options
Fannie Lewis, Councilwoman, City of Cleveland
Christine Suma, Cleveland School Choice Parent
Roberta Kitchen, Cleveland School Choice Parent
Eulanda Johnson, Cleveland School Choice Parent
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: U.S. Supreme Court, 1 First Street NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-1300
WEB ADDRESS:ij.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: COALITION OF LABOR UNIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS hold a news conference to call for dramatic action to combat global warming while protecting economic security for workers and the economy.
WHO: The speakers are:
David Foster, director, District #11 United Steelworkers of America
Andrew Stern, president, Service Employees International Union
Kevin Knobloch, executive director, Union of Concerned Scientists
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.)
Carl Pope, president, Sierra Club
Bruce Raynor, president, UNITE
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1919 F St, N.W. Suite 200, Qwest Studios, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-265-3000
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ASIA SOCIETY presents Cinnamon Dornsife, until October 2001 the U.S. Executive Director and Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, discussing The Future of International Financial Institutions in the Asia Pacific.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: Bank of America, 730 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-833-2742
WEB ADDRESS:asiasociety.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Thinking Globally about Globalization: Economists, East-West Dialogue, and the Rise of Neo-Liberalism? With Johanna Bockman, Visiting Scholar, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University and EES Research Scholar.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Paul Collier and David Dollar of the World Bank will speak on Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building An Inclusive World Economy."
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a brown bag luncheon program on Prospects for Reform and Recovery in Japan: How is Prime Minister Koizumi Doing? with Glen S. Fukushima President and CEO, Cadence Design Systems Japan and former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Secretary of Interior Gale Norton.
DATE: February 20, 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: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a lecture on "Carbon Mitigation: Who Should Pay?" with Dick Morgenstern, Resources for the Future. Increasingly, carbon mitigation has become an issue of political feasibility with the debate is turning to the question of who pays for carbon mitigation.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "China's Economy: Turning Point Looming." Two decades have passed since China first opened its door to the outside world in the 1980s, and the country has been making progress both economically and politically. However, we should not overlook the downsides or side effects of the seemingly promising reforms.
WHO: The speakers are:
Arthur Waldron, AEI
Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Communication Culture and Technology program holds a discussion on "The Future of United States International Communications Policy."
WHO: The speakers are:
Donald Abelson - Chief, International Bureau, FCC, and former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
Jonathan Aronson - Director and Professor of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Elliot Maxwell - Senior Fellow, Aspen Institute, and former Special Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown
Jonathan Sallet - former Chief Policy Officer, MCI-Worldcom, and former Director, Office of Policy & Strategic Planning, Dept. of Commerce
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: ICC Auditorium, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE holds a program entitled "Can an Office Change a Country? The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, a Year in Review."
WHO: The speakers are:
Gregg Ivers, Professor and Chair, Department of Government, The American University
Paul Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies Program, the Brookings Institution
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Associate Director, the University of Pennsylvania Washington Semester Program, and Guest Scholar, the Brookings Institution
Jim Towey, Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-5078
WEB ADDRESS: pewforum.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: REP. CONNIE MORELLA, R-MD, AND COALITION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH THROUGH BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH hold a briefing on "Promoting Health In A Stressful World."
AGENDA: Highlight:
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Linda George, Professor, Duke University
Dr. Curtis McMillen, Washington University
Dr. Raynard Kington, NIH
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 121 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-842-2788
WEB ADDRESS: cossa.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Public Affairs Forum holds a program on Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance.
WHO: The speakers are:
Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
James N. Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs
George Washington University
Jonathan Aronson, Director, School of International Relations and
Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
J. P. Singh, Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Technology
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Black History Month celebration with a book forum on The White Architects of Black Education with author and education professor William H. Watkins.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: Kay Spiritual Life Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Emerging Technology Triumvirate: China, Taiwan and the United States" with Rupert J. Hammond-Chambers, president of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.
DATE: February 20, 2002
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 modern sounds of the fiddle, guitar, and bass that are at the core of Zar from Denmark's "new folk" scene. They will be joined by Kvarts, playing original and traditional music based on the folk heritage of their native Norway.
DATE: February 20, 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 features Jennifer Toth, Washington journalist, discussing and signing her third book, What Happened To Johnnie Jordan: The Story of a Child Turning Violent, she tells the story of a boy born to parents continually on drugs. Johnnie was moved from one foster home to another until, at 15, he murdered one of the few people who was kind to him.
DATE: February 20, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
