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EVENTS ON MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2003
TIME: All day
EVENT: NATIONAL PEOPLE'S ACTION holds its 32nd Annual Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
1:30 p.m. - Briefing, entitled: "Free and Secure: A Community Response to Immigration Reform, National Security, and Economic Growth," HC 8 of the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
1:30 p.m. - Briefing, NPA leaders will testify on the current condition of school districts from around the country and will call for the full funding of educational mandates and the passage of proposed legislation for tax credit financing of school bonds, Rayburn Building 2318
2 p.m. - Senate Briefing entitled Strengthening America's Workforce: Community Based Solutions, 902 Hart Office building
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th St. NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: Aaron Wagner or Tracy Van Slyke at 312-243-3038
WEB ADDRESS: npa-usa.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Prospects and Politics of a U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Panel I: Economic Considerations
Panelists:
Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China
Lai I-Chung, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Taiwan Think Tank
Greg Mastel, Former Chief International Trade Adviser and Chief Economist, Senate Finance Committee
Claude E. Barfield, AEI
11 a.m. - Panel II: Political and Strategic Considerations
Panelists:
Wu Li-pei, Chairman, Formosa Foundation
Steven Clemons, New America Foundation
Timothy Ryan, Asia Program Director, American Center for International Labor
Moderator: Therese Shaheen, American Institute in Taiwan
12 noon - Introduction: William Kristol, Project for the New American Century
Keynote Speaker: Tom DeLay, U.S. House of Representatives
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on pension crisis in the United Kingdom.
WHO: The speakers are:
David Willetts, Member of Parliament (Conservative Party)
United Kingdom
Sylvester Schieber, Vice President and Director
Research and Information Center
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Peter Orszag, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Competition in the Postal Industry: The Presidential Commission to Study the Postal Service."
WHO: The Speakers are:
Rick Geddes, Cornell University
Bill Kovacic, Federal Trade Commission
David Sappington, University of Florida
J. Gregory Sidak, AEI
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for MARTYRS: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East with Joyce Davis who is an acknowledged expert on the Middle East and Islamic movements. Her newest book offers insights into Islam's teaching on martyrdom and its connection to the September 11 attacks on the United States.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Systemic Crises and the Prospects for Reform in Central Asian Education with Mark Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colorado College; and former Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: CLARE BOOTHE LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE holds 2003 Conservative Leadership Seminar students and interns.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado, the polling company's CEO and President Kellyanne Conway, Best Friends Foundation President Elayne Bennett, Special Assistant to President George W. Bush Tim Goeglein and American Cause President Bay Buchanan. Following each speaker, students will have the opportunity to ask the speaker questions. Additionally, Luce President Michelle Easton will present the annual Conservative Leadership Award to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave for her dedication and courage in promoting traditional values and upholding conservative
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-318-0730.
WEB ADDRESS: cblpolicyinstitute.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: FREEDOM HOUSE AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH hold a panel discussion on the impact of pending security legislation on basic civil liberties in Hong Kong featuring Martin Lee, founding chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, will consist of Hong Kong's best-known leaders representing the legal, human rights, journalistic, and labor communities.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Jennifer Whatley, 202-296-5101
WEB ADDRESS: freedomhouse.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions with author Clyde Prestowitz, president, Economic Strategic Institute.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Bradley Lecture presents "Lessons from the Demise of Détente" featuring Kiron K. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as an assistant professor of history, political science, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Young Artists of the Laurel Fund for the Performing Arts Elvi Moore launched this fund to help, promote, encourage and assist young artists in the spirit of giving back to the community. DATE: June 2, 2003
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Algonquin 20th Anniversary Reading with Christopher Castellani and Joseph Skibell. Christopher Castellani has written a family and love story set in World War II Italy, A Kiss from Maddalena. Joseph Skibell's first novel, A Blessing on the Moon, imagined the last days of his father's family during the Holocaust. His new comic novel, The English Disease, threads European Jewish history with American domestic life.
DATE: June 2, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
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