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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WOMEN'S HEART DAY a new kind of health fair focusing on healthy habits for the heart. "Woman's Heart Day" was created to increase awareness of heart disease and cardiovascular ailments, and to encourage American women to adopt heart-healthy lifestyles.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Grand Opening Mayor and Mrs. Anthony Williams, other dignitaries
9 a.m. - Heart Walk - Led by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-MD, and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-DC
9:30 a.m. - Panel Presentation: Heart Disease Awareness - Presented by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Claude Lenfant, MD, Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Andrea Pennington, MD, Medical Director/Spokesperson, Discovery Health Channel
Jerome D. Cohen, MD, Director, Preventive Cardiology Programs, St. Louis University
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: MCI, 601 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-557-0821
WEB ADDRESS: sistertosister.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WILBERFORCE AND COUNCIL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY POLICY present a Christian Worldview Conference entitled A Christian Vision for the Biotech Century.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: Holiday Inn Capitol Hill, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: 703-478-0100
WEB ADDRESS: Wilberforce.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a health policy discussion on The Economics of Health Reform: Can We Do Better Next Time?
WHO: The speakers are:
Jesse S. Hixson, American Medical Association
Warren Greenberg, George Washington University
Stephen Zuckerman, Urban Institute
Robert B. Helms, AEI
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL holds a breakfast briefing to discuss information on the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development and release of Call to Action letter urging President Bush to attend the summit.
WHO: The speakers are:
John Adams, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
Christopher Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute
Robert Musil, CEO and Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility
John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Kathleen Rogers, President, Earthday Network
Stephen E. Roady, President, Oceana
Fred O'Regan, President, International Fund for Animal Welfare
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: The Willard Hotel, Holmes Room, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-5200 X233
WEB ADDRESS: nrdc.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW holds a forum to explore the issue of incitement to violence and school textbooks in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Shibley Telhami has served on the American delegation of the Trilateral Anti-Incitement Committee established under the Wye River Memorandum
Dr. Nathan Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: Room 2255 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Lewis Roth, 202-728-1893
WEB ADDRESS: peacenow.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Dr. Zhang who discusses allegations that Falun Gong practitioners in BeiJing's Tiananmen Square were arrested and beaten by the police. The government outlawed Falun Gong more than two years ago, branded a threat to social order and communist rule.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: INTERNATINOAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE holds a news conference to discuss the ideas for democratic change in Cuba.
WHO: The speakers are:
Maritza Lugo Fernandez, former vice president of the Democratic Party of Cuba
Dr. Ramon Humberto Colas Castillo, Pinos Nuevos Movement of Cuba
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: 1225 I Street 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 United States vs. Alex Mishulovich: A Case Study of a Prosecution Under the Involuntary Servitude Statute, 18 U.S.C. 1584" with Terry Kinney, a federal prosecutor from Chicago.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: Room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a briefing on The Intifada and Refugees: Competing Priorities? with Rex Brynen, associate professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and coordinator of Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet.
DATE: February 21, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 1:15 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Gamelan Wrhatnala of Boyds the dance troupe is composed of elegant and exquisitely costumed dancers and musicians playing the gamelan instruments, consisting of drums, gogs, flutes and cymbals.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Nigger: The Strange Career of A Troublesome Word Randall Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard University and author; Commentator: Marilyn McKenzie, Founder and Interim Director, African American Studies Program, George Mason University.
DATE: February 22, 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: CAPITAL EXPO CENTER holds the Capital Home and Garden Show featuring more than 600 exhibits on remodeling, pools/spas, baths, kitchens, decorating and gardening products and services.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, VA
CONTACT: 703/802-0066 or 202/969-2976
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL AND THE ELLIOTT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS hold a panel discussion on the legal rights of alien detainees.
WHO: The speakers are:
Leon Fuerth, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor of international affairs
Associate Professor of Law Sean Murphy
University Professor Amitai Etzioni.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: Moot Court Room, The George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: (202) 994-3087
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture with Prof. L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General At The Court Of Justice Of The European Communities discussing "European Financial Integration After The Euro."
DATE: February 22, 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 The American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.
DATE: February 22, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
