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Big Tech Vs Free Speech Forum
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Battleground Poll
Politics and Civility: Join Us for a Conversation About the First Poll from the New Battleground Poll What: An in depth conversation about the results from the first poll of the newly relaunched Battleground Poll, a national bipartisan survey of registered voters in the United States measuring voter sentiment and opinion. This reliable bellwether of national opinion will ask traditional polling questions related to U.S. electoral politics and oter attitudes, as well as gauge voter opinion on the state of civility in our national political conversation. Who: Republican pollster Ed Goeas of…
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Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve it
Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve itEmbargoed report preview, discussion with Save the Children CEO and Devex Editor-in-Chief Later this month, Save the Children will release its annual Global Childhood Report, which ranks the best and worst countries for children by examining factors that rob children of their childhoods around the world such as child labor, adolescent pregnancy, exclusion from education, and children living in and fleeing from conflict zones. The report includes an analysis of progress…
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2019 Goldziher Prize for Journalists
Master of Ceremonies:Wajahat AliJournalist, writer, lawyer, playwright 6:00 Welcome Reception 6:30 Joseph Kelley, Director, Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim RelationsMerrimack College A taste of excellence in journalism Presentations and conversation with 2019 awardeesHannah Allam, printAymann Ismail, videoLeila Fadel, audioAnd with awardees for work as journalism studentsZainab Sultan & Si Chen, videoSana Ullah, photography. 7:40 Goldziher Prize presented by John W. Kiser, Chair of the William and Mary Greve Foundation and Emily Churchill, Audience Outreach and Development Associate,…
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“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting”
“Want a Democracy? Let’s Start with Observable Vote Counting” A presentation by Jonathan Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy Please join us at the National Press Club, Tuesday April 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., for a glass of wine and a presentation on the true national emergency that is electronic voting. While voter suppression and gerrymandering are now on the national radar, the counting process itself – and the implications for our democracy of its manifest vulnerability to manipulation – continues to be given a virtual free pass. Every election…
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Nigerian Judiciary and the Imo State Election Crisis
Organization: U.S. Council on Nigeria Title: The Nigerian Judiciary and the Imo State Election Crisis - Symposium on the Collapse of Democracy”. Media Contact: Mr. Zoobee Chukwurah, (240) 308-5097; Bar. Lloyd Ukwu, +234-802-0317-4444 Speakers: Bruce Fein, Esquire, Constitutional Lawyer and Former Assoc. Deputy U.S. Attorney General; W. Bruce DelValle, Esquire, Constitutional Litigator and Nigerian Legal Expert; var. Nigerian Legal Experts to be announced; and others
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DC IP Forum Edge Computing & Cryptocurrency
DC IP Forum Edge Computing & Cryptocurrency
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Response to the Deal of the Century
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NPC Press Briefing: Debra Tice, mother of detained journalist Austin Tice
Debra Tice, the mother of detained journalist Austin Tice, will hold a news conference on Monday, Jan. 27 at 10:00 a.m. at the National Press Club to provide an update and to be part of the announcement of the second annual Night Out For Austin Tice, a national awareness campaign. Unjustly detained in Syria since August 2012, Austin Tice is a freelance journalist who worked for both McClatchy and The Washington Post. Debra Tice, who spent 83 days in Syria looking for her son, has been advocating for his release for more than 7 years. Austin is the only American journalist currently being held…
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CXL - A Different View of Geopolitics in the Gulf
[CANCELLED] What: A Different View of Geopolitics in the Gulf: Do some Arab States Promote Islamophobia in the Name of Fighting Extremism? When: Thursday, February 6. Noon to 2:30 pm (Lunch will be served) Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington DC Sponsors: Inside Arabia and Gulf States Analytics, two Washington-based organizations focusing on the Middle East Speakers: Elise Labott, former CNN correspondent Jonathan Brown, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Wajahat Ali, New York Times contributing writer Hassan Hassan, scholar, Center for Global Policy David…
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