CSPAN Schedule Friday May 6

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CSPAN Schedule Friday May 5

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07:00 AM EDT
1:00 (est.) LIVE
Call-In
Open Phones
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
08:00 AM EDT
1:00 (est.) LIVE

Call-In
Immigration Policy
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Tamar Jacoby , Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
09:00 AM EDT
1:00 (est.) LIVE

Call-In
U.S. Foreign Policy
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Keith Richburg , Washington Post
10:30 AM EDT
1:00 (est.) LIVE

News Conference
Social Security
Americans United to Protect Social Security
Dean Baker , Center for Economic and Policy Research
Christian Weller , Center for American Progress
The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than the scheduled times.
12:15 PM EDT
1:45 (est.) LIVE

News Conference
Quality of Medicare Services
Alliance for Health Reform
Edward Howard , Alliance for Health Reform
John Rother , American Association of Retired Persons
The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than the scheduled times.

07:00 PM EDT
0:55 (est.) Forum
Conflict Resolution in Africa
Close Up Foundation
Howard Wolpe , Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars
Gayle Smith , Center for American Progress

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08:30 AM EDT
0:45 (est.) LIVE
Speech
International Relations
American Jewish Committee
Bill Clinton


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07:03 AM EDT
1:35 (est.) Speech
Armageddon Averted
New School University
Steven Kotkin
Nina Khrushcheva , World Policy Institute
08:39 AM EDT

1:20 Speech
J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the American Century
New York Public Library, Science, Industry and Business Library
David C. Cassidy , Hofstra University

[paineinthearse]

1. This is the LAST CSPAN schedule in POLITICS

Starting tomorrow, it will be exclusively in GD.

The result of 2 polls indicate more interest there.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Clinton and Tsunami Relief

CSPAN
02:00 PM EDT
0:50 (est.)

Speech
Tsunami Relief
American Jewish Committee
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)

Bill Clinton, President (1993-2001), United States
David Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee


Former President Bill Clinton will speak at the American Jewish Committee 99th annual meeting. He is expected to talk about the work of non-governmental organizations, specifically his work for tsunami relief in Sri Lanka and Indonesia both as President Bush's envoy and for the United Nations. He also expected to talk about the Middle East peace process.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. BBC Newsnight sums up yesterday's Election

CSPAN
05:30 PM EDT
1:00 (est.) LIVE

Broadcast
British Newscast
BBC, Newsnight
London (United Kingdom)

The British evening television news coverage is expected to concentrate on the general election held the previous day.

link to Newsnight - Election 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/default.stm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Conflict Resolution in Africa

CSPAN
07:00 PM EDT
0:55 (est)

Forum
Conflict Resolution in Africa
Close Up Foundation
Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)

Howard Wolpe, Director, Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars, Africa Program
Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Gilbert Khadiagala, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, African Studies

The panel will discuss initiatives for resolving the conflicts in Africa brought about by the borders created by the Europeans in the mid-nineteenth century and the difficulties transitioning from colony to independent states. They will discuss some of the lessons learned by programs for rebuilding war-torn communities, quelling violence and resolving conflicts and strategies for the future. They will respond to questions from the high school students in the audience.


Howard Wolpe, (D-MI) Director, Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars, Africa Program

Africa Program Director
Expertise - Africa, American foreign policy, the management of ethnic and racial conflict
Experience - seven-term Member of Congress; Presidential Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Region; former Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution; member of the faculties of Western Michigan University (Political Science Department) and the University of Michigan (Institute of Public Policy Studies); a state legislator and city commissioner
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1417&fuseaction=topics.profile&person_id=19047

Wilson Center

Mission Statement
"...such a Center, symbolizing and strengthening the fruitful relations between the world of learning and world of public affairs, would be a suitable memorial to the spirit of Woodrow Wilson..." (PL 90-637)

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars aims to unite the world of ideas to the world of policy by supporting pre-eminent scholarship and linking that scholarship to issues of concern to officials in Washington.

Congress established the Center in 1968 as the official, national memorial to President Wilson. Unlike the physical monuments in the nation's capital, it is a living memorial whose work and scholarship commemorates "the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson." As both a distinguished scholar and national leader, President Wilson felt strongly that the scholar and the policymaker were "engaged in a common enterprise". Today the Center takes seriously his views on the need to bridge the gap between the world of ideas and the world of policy, bringing them into creative contact, enriching the work of both, and enabling each to learn from the other.
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.mission

Jeez, I hope they don't follow ALL of wilsons ideals...:scared:


Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

A senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Gayle Smith has spent most of her career in international affairs in the field, based in Africa for almost 20 years as a journalist and advisor to non-governmental organizations. Her areas of expertise include African affairs, economic development, complex political emergencies, crisis prevention and post-conflict management, failed states and transnational threats. In 1998, she was appointed special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Prior to that, she served for five years as senior adviser to the administrator and chief of staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Smith negotiated a ceasefire between Uganda and Rwanda in 1999 and won the National Security Council's Samuel Nelson Drew Award for Distinguished Contribution in Pursuit of Global Peace for her role in the successful negotiation of a peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Smith has traveled extensively in active war zones, published pioneering analyses of complex political emergencies and humanitarian intervention and covered military, economic and political developments in East and North Africa for the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Globe & Mail, London Observer and Financial Times until the mid-1980s. She won the World Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council and the World Hunger Year Award in 1991. Smith has also consulted for a wide range of non-governmental organizations, foundations and international governmental agencies, including UNICEF, the World Bank, Lutheran World Relief, Dutch Interchurch Aid and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=2466


The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure our national policies reflect these values. Our policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:
• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,
• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,
• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and
• communicating progressive messages to the American public.
We work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We believe in honoring work, building strong communities, fostering effective government and encouraging free and fair markets.
Every day we challenge conservative thinking that undermines the bedrock American values of liberty, community and shared responsibility.

More…
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=3459


Gilbert Khadiagala, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, African Studies

Gilbert M. Khadiagala is Acting Director, African Studies Program and Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and African Studies. In addition to teaching the Program’s courses on East Africa, African political thought, and democracy and politics in the African context, Professor Khadiagala presents the School’s comparative national systems core and is the convenor of the comparative political economy doctoral tutorial. He is also consulting director of the Africa Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He studied in Kenya, where he also was a professorial lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Canada and the United States, obtaining his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of Allies in Adversity: The Frontline States in Southern Africa Security (1994); Meddlers or Mediators?: African Interveners in Civil Conflicts (forthcoming) and, co-editor with Terrence Lyons on African Foreign Policies: Power and Process (2001) .
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/africa/africafaculty.html

Johns Hopkins University was the first research university in the United States. Founded in 1876, it was an entirely new educational enterprise. Its aim was not only to advance students' knowledge, but also to advance human knowledge generally, through discovery and scholarship. The university's emphasis on both learning and research—and on how each complements the other—revolutionized U.S. higher education.
http://www.jhu.edu/


The Close Up Poundation

The Close Up Foundation is the nation’s largest nonprofit (501(c)(3)), nonpartisan citizenship education organization. Since its founding in 1970, Close Up has worked to promote responsible and informed participation in the democratic process through a variety of educational programs.

Each year, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and other adults take part in Close Up’s programs in Washington, D.C. Since the inception of its Washington-based programs in 1971, the Close Up Foundation has welcomed more than 600,000 students, educators, and other adults to the nation’s capital. Read our Mission Statement to learn more about our philosophy and guiding principles.
http://www.closeup.org/why.htm

[proud patriot]

5. Thanks for posting

:hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. You're welcome,

Keep your eyes out for the Book TV Schedule Thread. I'm sitting here in my PJ's after deciding I seriously needed a day off. So I have lots of time. :hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Book TV thread now up in GD...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3608990

Knowledge is Power

[CWebster]

6. About C-Span

It was replaced in our area with a fundamentalist network and moved way up the dial to a position where the reception was terrible-and we aren't out in the boondocks somewhere, but between Philly and NYCity. We called to complain and they sent out some guy who said "What's the problem, no one wants C-Span".

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. WJ Rebroadcast from this morning - Immigration

C-SPAN2
Call-In
Immigration Policy
Washington Journal
Tamar Jacoby , Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research


Tamar Jacoby will discuss the domestic news of the day including proposed changes to U.S. immigration and border security policies by President Bush and Congress. She wrote an op-ed earlier this week in the Los Angeles Times on this topic. She will respond to telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail from viewers.


May 1, 2005
Even Mollycoddlers Now Are Ready to Slap On the Cuffs

By Tamar Jacoby, Tamar Jacoby is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute.
The new mood is far from universal, and there is still little consensus on policy. But in the wake of 9/11, with the prospect of immigration reform looming larger in Washington, pro-immigrant groups on the right and left are getting increasingly serious about enforcement. Tougher enforcement alone will not solve the problem. But these advocates grasp that any reform worthy of the name must restore the public's confidence in the immigration system, and that the only way to do that is by regaining control of our borders.

more..
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/...

Another with that date in the Daily News...
http://www.nydailynews.com/05-01-2005/news/story/305194...

Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes extensively on immigration, citizenship, ethnicity and race.

Her 1998 book, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration (Basic Books), tells the story of race relations in three American cities—New York, Detroit and Atlanta. The Economist magazine called it “arguably the most important study of race relations in America since Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma was published in 1944.”

Her newest book, Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American, was published by Basic Books in February 2004. A collection of essays by a diverse group of authors – academics, journalists and fiction-writers on both the right and the left – it argues that we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage assimilation.

Ms. Jacoby’s articles and essays have been published in a variety of periodicals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, National Review, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The New York Review of Books, Dissent and Foreign Affairs.

Before joining the Manhattan Institute, from 1987 to 1989, she was a senior writer and justice editor for Newsweek, where she wrote weekly articles on criminal justice, the Supreme Court and other law-related topics. Between 1981 and 1987, she was the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page. Before that, she was assistant to the editor of The New York Review of Books.

In 2004, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

She is a graduate of Yale University and has taught at Yale, Cooper Union and the New School University. She lives and works in New Jersey.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/jacoby.htm

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

About the Manhattan Institute

“For twenty-five years, the Manhattan Institute has confronted old problems with fresh thinking. Many of the Institute’s emblematic ideas—from the notion that low taxes encourage businesses to the concept that police should be treated with respect—were originally greeted with skepticism but have since been embraced by well-run cities everywhere. Congratulations on a quarter century of making a difference.”
—Rudolph W. Giuliani

For 25 years, the Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political culture. We have supported and publicized research on our era’s most challenging public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics. We have won new respect for market-oriented policies and helped make reform a reality.

We have cultivated a staff of senior fellows and writers who blend intellectual rigor, sound principles, and strong writing ability. Their provocative books, reviews, interviews, speeches, articles, and op-ed pieces have been the main vehicle for communicating our message.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/about_mi.htm

**that site gave me a bad feeling right down in my tummie**

***...Google is our friend...***

from The Center for Justice and Democracy website..

MYTHBUSTER!
THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is an extremely conservative, corporate-funded, New York-based policy group.

The Manhattan Institute was founded by former CIA director William J. Casey in 1978. It was originally called the International Center for Economic Policy Studies, renamed the Manhattan Institute in 1980.

The Manhattan Institute is funded largely by major corporations and conservative foundations. According to the group's 10-year review, published in 1990, "by 1989, total contributions had grown to $2,113,000, 41 percent of which came from conservative and/or corporate foundations. Thirty-three percent came from Fortune 500 corporations, chiefly insurance companies and pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers including $50,000-plus each from Aetna and State From Insurance and $15,000-plus each from Prudential, Exxon, RJR Nabisco, Philip Morris, Bristol-Myers and Pfizer. Total revenue has grown to about $6 million, according to the 1997 edition of The Right Guide. See, Chesebro, "Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship," 42 Am. U.L.Rev. 1637 (1993).

Some Manhattan Institute research on the civil justice system has been heavily criticized in law journals. In 1993, attorney Kenneth J. Chesebro wrote a lengthy and scathing attack on Manhattan Institute fellow Peter Huber's book, Galelio's Revenge. After meticulous research, Chesebro found Huber's book to rely "almost exclusively on anecdotal information and inflated rhetoric, misrepresent numerous aspects of its subject matter, and present no considered, objective or empirically-based measure of the extent of the 'junk science' problem." He called Galelio's Revenge, "perfectly described with Huber's own words as a 'catalog of every conceivable kind of error: data dredging, wishful thinking, truculent, dogmatism and, now and again, outright fraud'.… Galileo would quickly become exasperated at the unsupported thesis of Huber's book, its numerous material misrepresentations and omission, and its manipulative and evasive method of argument." Chesebro, "Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship," 42 Am. U.L.Rev. 1637 (1993). See also, Hager, "Civil Compensation and its Discontents: A Response to Huber," 42 Stan. L. Rev. 539 (1990)
http://www.centerjd.org/private/mythbuster/MB_manhattan...


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