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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES holds its Congressional City Conference
AGENDA: Highlight:
11 a.m. -- Opening news conference discussing the fiscal conditions of the American cities
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-626-3000
WEB ADDRESS: nlc.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES holds its "Leader to Leader" meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Leaders Issue Summit Breakfast
Rep. John Spratt, South Carolina, Assistant to the House Minority Leader
10:15 a.m. - White House Program
Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff (Invited)
Peter Fischer, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of Treasury
Roderick Paige, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
12:30 p.m. - Leaders Plenary Luncheon: Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement Implementation
Senator Angela Monson, Oklahoma, President NCSL
Senator Steve Rauschenderger, Illinois
Co-Chair, NCSL Task Force on State and Local Taxation of Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-624-5400
WEB ADDRESS: ncsl.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES holds a its symposium.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Who Are the Current Consumers of Child Care and Early Education? What Options Do They Use? Leo Estrada, University of California, Los Angeles and Gina Adams, Urban Institute
8:45 a.m. - Children of Color: What Do We Know About Their Child Care Patterns and What Does It Mean? Jeffrey Capizzano, Urban Institute
9:15 a.m. - Defining and Measuring Early Learning and School Readiness Richard Clifford, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4:30 p.m. - Plenary Session - Funding the New Agenda: Foundation Strategies - Panel of funders, moderated by Joan Lombardi
6:30 p.m. - 15th Anniversary Gala Celebration & Silent Auction at the National Press Club, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg invited speaker
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Carmen Rivera, 202-393-5501 x141.
WEB ADDRESS: naccrra.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: 43rd ANNUAL WASHINGTON HOME AND GARDEN SHOW.
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 900 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-823-7960
WEB ADDRESS: washingtonhomeandgardenshow.com
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL holds program on Leveraging a Board for the Most Impact - How CEOS Can Ensure that they get the Experienced-Based Input they Need to take their Company to the Next Level.
WHO: The speakers are:
Brian Hayhurst, Managing Director, The Carlyle Venture Partners
Jim Tholen, COO & CFO of Netsec, Inc.
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton, 1700 Tyson's Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HOWARD UNIVERSITY holds its 136th Charter Day Convocation themed "The Importance of Access to Higher Education."
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 2400 Sixth Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-238-2332
WEB ADDRESS: hu.edu
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: HUDSON INSTITUTE holds a program on Discourses on Democracy - After Iraq: Can Lebanese Democracy be Revived?
AGENDA: Highlights:
11 a.m. - Lebanon - The Road to Democracy
Dr. Walid Phares, Senior Fellow, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Ziad K. Abdelnour, President, U.S. Committee for Free Lebanon
Dr. Jean Aziz, Director, Freedom and Human Rights Foundation in Beirut
1 p.m. - U. S. Foreign Policy and the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY)
General Michel Aoun, former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. , Director, Center for Security Policy
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 1015 18th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202- 223-7770
WEB ADDRESS: hudson.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on "Assessing the Threat: Security Challenges in the Middle East and South Asia."
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul Pillar, National Intelligence Council
Judith Kipper, Middle East Forum
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents International financier and philanthropist George Soros discussing "America's Role in the International Arena."
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: RESCUE CHARLES holds a rally. On January 22, American medical doctor, Charles Li, flew to China to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his elderly parents. Chinese police seized Charles at the airport. Charles was taken to one of the Chinese detention centers.
AGENDA: Highlight:
6:30 p.m. -- Candle Light Vigil, National Mall, Washington Monument
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: In front of U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520
CONTACT: Al Whitted, 610-656-8281 or Keith Ware 202-256-4705
WEB ADDRESS: RescueCharles.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE observes International Women's Day
with a luncheon program entitled "Women and Orphans - the Face of AIDS in Africa."
WHO: The speakers are:
Grace Sempala, Ugandan Ambassador to the United States
Dr. Jendayi Frazer, Special Asst to President and Sr. Director for Africa at the NSC
Dr. Desmond Johns, Director of the UNAIDS New York office
Stephanie Urdang, Advisor on Gender and HIV/AIDS, UNDP/UNIFEM
Laurie Garret, Newsday, Moderator
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-454-2101
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE holds a briefing on What We Know About Mercury Part II: Regulatory and Legislative Policy Options Being Proposed to Deal with Mercury Contamination.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ellen Brown, Policy Advisor, Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy, Analysis, and Review
Larry Parker, Specialist, Energy and Environmental Policy, Congressional Research Service
Steve Wordelman, Chair, Water Environment Federation's Government Affairs Committee
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Josh Alban, 202-662-1885
WEB ADDRESS: eesi.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Congress and Homeland Security: Politics, Process, and Prospects.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.)
Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.)
Forrest Maltzman, associate professor of political science, George Washington University
Martin Kady, reporter, CQ Weekly.
Don Wolfensberger, Director, The Congress Project
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Cyril Svoboda, discussing "Czech American Relations in Light of the Iraq Crisis."
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950.
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles K. Armstrong, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, and author, The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
(Cornell University Press, 2003);
Dr. Katharine Moon, Jane Bishop Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Visiting Scholar with the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Gaston Sigur Center of George Washington University;
Selig S. Harrison, Director of the National Security Program of the Center for International Policy and former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia
Dr. Kathryn Weathersby, Coordinator of the CWIHP Korea Initiative.
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents the choral ensemble for mixed voices Hiram College Madrigal Singers performing vocal chamber music from the Renaissance.
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents human rights lawyer and journalist William Pepper who spearheaded an effort to clear James Earl Ray of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the process, Pepper earned the support of King's wife and family, and brought to light reams of evidence indicting the highest levels of the government, law enforcement, and organized crime. Pepper has compiled the details of the probe into King's death in An Act Of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King.
DATE: March 7, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
