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Republic of Vietnam Leadership Committee
NPC Members Monthly Happy Hour
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: original Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to streets, parks, and auditoriums to protest environmental degradation. This first Earth Day sparked the creation of the EPA and passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Twenty years later, one of Earth Day’s original organizers Denis Hayes appeared at the National Press Club to announce the launch of Earth Day as a global organization, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries. On Monday, April 22, 2019 Denis Hayes will return to the National Press Club to announce major global mobilizations ahead of Earth Day’s…
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Pedro Biaggi-La Red Hispana
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NPC Press Briefing: "NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE"
The National Press Club and it's Free Austin Tice Coalition partners will be joined by Marc and Debra Tice, Austin Tice’s parents, for a special press briefing on Friday, April 5 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the progress of NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE -- a campaign announced this past November to raise reward money for information leading to the safe return of Austin Tice, the award-winning journalist who was taken hostage in August of 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria. This briefing will take place in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club, located at 529 14th Street NW (13th…
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NPC Board of Governors
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NPC Board of Governors
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National Press Club to Make Announcement on the Case of Jailed Journalist
Livestream will begin 3/6 at 2:00pm ET. The National Press Club will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 6 to discuss a new development in the case of jailed Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto. Gutierrez, whose reporting in his home country made him a target of death threats, accepted the Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom award o behalf of Mexico's journalists in October. Two months later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement threatened to deport him. When the Board of Immigration Appeals stayed that action, ICE took Gutierrez and his son into custody. The National…
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NPC Board of Governors
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NPC Board of Governors
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