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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CARPENTERS FOR A DEMOCRATIC UNION INTERNATIONAL, UNITED AUTO WORKERS CONCERN, WARZONE FOUNDATION, LABOR EDUCATORS, LABOR ACTION CENTER hold protests of union busting.
AGENDA: Highlighted events:
11 a.m. - Department Of Justice
1:30 p.m. - AFL-CIO corporate offices
4 p.m. - Grassroots Gathering, Washington City Church of the Brethren, 337 North Carolina Ave SE, Washington, DC
DATE: March 3, 2003
CONTACT: Ken Little, 253-576-8950 or
Pat Meyer 269-998-4609
TIME: All Day
EVENT: BLACK ADMINISTRATORS IN CHILD WELFARE holds its annual conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Keynote Address
Reverend Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant, Women's Missionary Society of the African American Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, California.
Morgan State University Choir
3:30 p.m. - Afternoon Plenary
"How are the Children? Policy Issues Affecting Black Children"
Leonard Burton, Assistant Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services
Toni Oliver, President & CEO Roots Inc.
Yvonne Gilchrist, Director, Baltimore City Department of Social Services Dr. David Sanders, Director, Children and Family Services, Hennepin County, St. Paul Minnesota
Dr. Ray Winbush, Benjamin Hooks Professor of Social Justice at Fisk University and Director of the University's Race Relations Institute.
6:30 p.m. - Gala Dinner and Awards Presentation: Champions for Children honoring those who have dedicated their lives to see that all children have an opportunity to succeed in life
Marian Wright Edelman, CEO, Children's Defense Fund
Maxine B. Baker, CEO, Freddie Mac Foundation
Ruth Massinga, CEO, Casey Family Programs.
Gala Entertainment
Metropolitan Opera Soprano, Angela Brown
New York City opera Soprano, Kishna Davis
Pianist "Three MO' Tenors," Victor Simonson...Maestro
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency , 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Nekida Burns, 202-662-4284,
WEB ADDRESS: blackadminstrators.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES holds its legislative conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
7:30 a.m.- Early Childhood Development and School Readiness Peer to Peer Network
8:30 a.m.- General Session
10 a.m.- Large Urban County Caucus Membership Meeting
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-393 6226
WEB ADDRESS: naco.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WHITE HOUSE PROJECT presents a program on The Future of American Politics: Will More Women Take Their Seats at the Table?
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:45 a.m.- Experiences of Women In Power
Laura Liswood, Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders
Judy Woodruff, Anchor, Inside Politics, CNN
Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Marjorie Mowlam, Member of Parliament, Great Britain
Christine Pintat, former Officer in Charge of the Programme on the Status of Women, Inter-Parliamentary Union
Debbie Walsh, Director, Center for American Women and Politics
11:15 a.m. - Lessons from Abroad
June Zeitlin, Executive, Director, Women's Environment and Development Organization
Michel Martin, Correspondent and Guest Anchor, Nightline, ABC News
Anita Gradin, former European Union Commissioner, Sweden
Ranjana Kumari, Director, Centre for Social Research, India
Pippa Norris, Professor and author, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, United States
Yvette Roudy, former Minister for Women's Rights, France
Sheila Sisulu, former Ambassador to U.S. from South Africa
12:30 p.m. - Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of
State
2:15 p.m. - The Next Steps for the U.S.
Beverly Neufeld, Executive Director, The
White House
Pat Mitchell, President, PBS
Linda DiVall, President, American Viewpoint
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Political Science Chair, Beloit College
Donna Edwards, Executive Director, ARCA Foundation
Heidi Hartmann, Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Swanee Hunt, Director, Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School
Celinda Lake, President, Lake Snell Perry & Associates
Ruth Mandel, Director, Eagleton Institute for Politics
Karen Narasaki, President & Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
Rob Richie, Executive Director, Center for Voting and Democracy
Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation
Linda Tarr-Whelan, Partner, Tarr-Whelan & Associates
Melanne Verveer, Chair, Vital Voices
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212-260-1520
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds a program on Covering the War From the Homefront" -- a panel discussion, addressing how to ferret out local angles, keep in touch with sources and understand where the story is headed in advance.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sumana Chatterjee, Knight-Ridder Newspapers; Chuck Holmes, Cox Newspapers
Bryan Whitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Jack Cushman, weekend editor, New York Times
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Constitutional Issues and Federalism: Ethnicity and Justice in Post-Saddam Iraq. Is Iraq ready for a constitution that would vest all Iraqis in their nation, but divest ethnic and religious leaders of their traditional political and economic powers? What role will Islamic law and legal traditions have in the new constitution?
WHO: The speakers are:
Rend Rahim Francke, Iraq Foundation
Efraim Karsh, King's College, University of London
Salem Chalabi, lawyer
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY will conduct Patient Safety Media Briefing
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Pat Carmack, 301-594-6113
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Politics of U.S. Policy toward Russia with Sarah Mendelson, Senior Fellow, Russia\Eurasia Program, CSIS.
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE presents Taishi Sugiyami, of Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, will address the salient issues for Japan, i.e., the perceived shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol and possible remedies.
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: World Resources Institute, 10 G Street, NW Suite 800, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-729-7750
WEB ADDRESS: wri.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring Ambassador of El Salvador to the United States, Rene A. Leon, discussing the "Work Permits Renovation Program for El Salvadorans under the Temporary Protection Status and other Immigration Issues."
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a film screening of The Game of Their Lives. This film documents success of the 1966 North Korean soccer team, the first from Asia ever to reach the quarterfinals of World Cup. South Korean fans at the 2002 Japan/Korea World Cup held up signs saying "Again 1966" in recognition of this historic feat.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dan Gordon, Director and Producer, The Game of their Lives
Nick Bonner, Associate Producer, The Game of their Lives
Katharine H.S. Moon, Wellesley College and current Woodrow Wilson-GWU Asian Policy Studies Fellow
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "India as an Emerging Market" with Narayanan Vaghul, chairman of ICICI Bank Ltd.
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS featuring Poet, storyteller, composer and educator Ken Waldman presenting his poems sung to old-time fiddle music, Appalachian tunes and his own original songs.
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-467-4600
WEB ADDRESS: kennedycenter.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE AND COFFEEHOUSE presents Erik Larson discussing and signing copies of The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. It is a fascinating recounting of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, juxtaposing chief architect Daniel Burnham with serial killer H. H. Holmes, the "Devil" of the book's title.
DATE: March 3, 2003
LOCATION: Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politcs-prose.com
