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NPC Newsmaker: NACCHO Official on Preparing for Coronavirus at the Local Level
George Roberts Jr., president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, will discuss how county and city health officials across the country are preparing for the coronavirus at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on Friday, March 6 at 11 a.m. Roberts has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Northeast Texas Public Health District since November 2006 and has 35 years of healthcare experience, mostly in hospital administration. Roberts will make brief remarks followed by a question-and-answer session. This news conference will take place in the Club's Zenger…
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Lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump for war crimes
PRESS CONFERENCE: Lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump for war crimes What: Why are Palestinian plaintiffs seeking to declare Bibi Netanyahu to be a war criminal? What role did he play in the establishment of an apartheid regime in the OPT? When: Wednesday, March 4, 1:00-2:00PM Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington DC, Zenger Room Topic: Palestinian nationals, Palestinian Americans, and ordinary American citizens have filed suit against Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump for denationalizing the Palestinian civilian population in…
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NPC Board of Governors
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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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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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“Son-of-a-Bitching My Way Through Life” with Andy Parker
Andy Parker, author of “For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and her Father’s Fight for Gun Safety”, will speak about “Son-of-a-Bitching My Way Through Life” at the National Press Club on February 10 at 6:30. Vowing to do whatever it takes, Andy turned his anger and lifelong quick temper into outspoken activism and action. From branding the NRA a terrorist organization to publicly calling out legislators for their cowardice, to testifying before Congress about Google’s sociopathic behavior, Andy is willing to say what others only think because, as he says, “I’m a SOB. It’s not easy,…
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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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NPC Headliners Book Event: Reporter Jerry Mitchell - "Race Against Time"
Reporter Jerry Mitchell, who spent years investigating the most infamous murders of the civil rights movement, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners event on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 about his upcoming book, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Race Against Time chronicles Mitchell’s quest to unearth the truth behind some of the most gruesome and harrowing unsolved murders of the civil rights era. Mitchell’s reporting is credited with helping to bring killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of…
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