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| | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 – EVENING BBQ
Silent Auction & End of Year BBQ Party Celebrate the close of a busy season of great programs and exciting events. This event is open to prospective members and those who just want to learn about the WNDC! Enjoy barbecued ribs, chicken, & hamburgers with a selection of traditional sides. We'll have good beers, wines, and a nice Sangria. We will auction furniture from our past that we no longer use. Most need minor repairs, but are of excellent quality. Please reserve!
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost: $25 for Members, $30 for Non-members, $15 for kids under 16
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| | News from the PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 :: PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING
Time: 10:30 am
We will be discussing PPC campaign plans, events and publications. All are welcome, contact Betsy Clark at epsclark@rcn.com with any questions.
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| | UPCOMING EVENTS | | | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 – EVENING BBQ
Silent Auction & End of Year BBQ Party Celebrate the close of a busy season of great programs and exciting events. This event is open to prospective members and those who just want to learn about the WNDC! Enjoy barbecued ribs, chicken, & hamburgers with a selection of traditional sides. We'll have good beers, wines, and a nice Sangria. We will auction furniture from our past that we no longer use. Most need minor repairs, but are of excellent quality. Please reserve
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost: $25 for Members, $30 for Non-members, $15 for kids under 16
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| | Thursday, July 12, 2012 - LUNCHEON
Mark Kennedy Shriver
A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father "A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver," was listed on the Washington Post best-seller list as #1 in Nonfiction! Can a great man also be a good man? Mark Shriver's talk and his book on his father, Sargent Shriver, will clearly answer YES. Family relationships can be complicated enough, but when one's father is R. Sargent Shriver, admired around the world for his energy and exemplary life of public service, how does that impact family life and the interactions between father and son? Mark Shriver's touching tribute to his dad sheds powerful, bright light on this question. His book takes us back to the early days of the Kennedy Administration, including the funeral, which his father was charged with arranging -- through his father's experiences with founding the Peace Corps, fighting the war on, serving as Ambassador to France, and running for Vice President and then President of the United States – to the end of his father's life – dying of Alzheimer's disease in 2011 at age 95. Along the way, Mark captures the goodness of the man – his optimistic outlook – his caring attention and thoughtful, tender guidance in times of Mark's and others' joyful and difficult moments. For those of us who were fortunate to meet or work with Sargent Shriver, this is an opportunity to reminisce. For others, it is an opportunity to be moved.
Shriver is a politician and activist. He is the Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs to Save the Children. The book will be available for purchase and signing. PLEASE NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME FORMAT.
Time: $10 Lecture only: Presentation and Q & A - noon -1 pm Bar opens at 11:30 am Lecture Only: Presentation, Q & A, and book signing at noon Lunch at 1:00 pm
Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members (includes lunch); Register. |  |
| | Friday, July 13, 2012 – CINEMA NIGHT
"The Hedgehog" (Le Herisson), 2009, 1 hour, 40 minutes The Hedgehog, a French film based on the French international best-seller "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," by Muriel Barbery, gives an intellectual gloss to a story of three main characters in a posh Parisian apartment building. Paloma, the narrator, is a highly precocious 11-year-old disgusted with the hypocrisies of bourgeois life; Renee, a lonely, working-class widow who is the erudite but chilly concierge of the building hiding a sensitive soul; and Mr. Ozu, an elegant, tactful, 60-ish Japanese businessman new to the residence. Through their encounters, "filled with quiet, almost wordless grace," the defenses of Paloma and Renee are subtly and powerfully "chipped away." First-time director Mona Achache impressively captures the subtlety of the book, creating a memorable, enjoyable cinematic experience. PLEASE RESERVE. This is a MUST SEE!!!! Guests and nonmembers welcome.
Time: Bar opens and light supper at 6:00 p.m. Film screening at 7 p.m.
Cost: $5 film ; $15 light supper Register. |  |
| | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - LUNCHEON
Robert McCan
Citizen's Guide to the Affordable Care Act Dr. McCan shows how the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), called "Obamacare" by some, creates a health care system that includes every citizen, improves health outcomes, and reins in escalating costs. Learn about the most far-reaching legislation of our time--as important for every American as Medicare is for senior citizens. Understand how the reforms build on the existing components of our system and provide for continuous improvement. He provides the political context and background of the legislation and compares it to other countries' health care systems. Dr. McCan tells how to help prevent co-option of the reform legislation by special interests and how to detect misinformation and duplicity. Hi presents complex information in a clear, factual, yet highly engaging way. By inviting citizens to become informed and serve as advocates, he reminds us that a Republican victory in November would probably lead to repeal of this historic and life-giving legislation.
Robert L. McCan is a graduate of Yale University Divinity School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburg, Scotland and continued his education as a Visiting Scholar with
status at Harvard University. Dr. McCan is an ordained Southern Baptist minister and began his career holding pastorates in three churches. He founded and served as President of Dag Hammarskjold College. With a majority of students, faculty and Board from other countries, the international college created a miniature world community on campus. His career in government included executive positions in four federal agencies: the Office of Economic Opportunity; U.S. Office of Education; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. McCan's previous books include A Vision of Victory, World Economy and World Hunger, and Justice for Gays and Lesbians: Crisis and Challenge in the Episcopal Church. He will be available to sign books after his presentation.
Time: $10 Lecture only: Presentation and Q & A: 1-2 pm Bar opens at 11:30 am Lunch 12:15 pm
Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members (includes lunch); $10 Lecture only Register. |  |
| | Thursday, July 19, 2012 :: LUNCHEON
Peter Bergen
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search For Bin-Laden It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. Now, in Manhunt, Bergen picks up the thread with this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin Laden.
Here are riveting new details of Bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him, and of the fugitive leader's attempts to find a secure hiding place. As the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before the Pakistani government demolished it, Bergen paints a vivid picture of bin Laden's grim, spartan life in hiding and his struggle to maintain control of al-Qaeda even as American drones systematically picked off his key lieutenants.
Half a world away, CIA analysts haunted by the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 and the WMD fiasco pored over the tiniest of clues before homing in on the man they called "the Kuwaiti"--who led them to a peculiar building with twelve-foot-high walls and security cameras less than a mile from a Pakistani military academy.
Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the COAs (courses of action) presented by his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change history--and then inside the Joint Special Operations Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last words, Manhunt reads like a thriller.
Time: $10 Lecture only: Presentation and Q & A: 1-2 pm Bar opens at 11:30 am Lunch 12:15 pm
Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members (includes lunch); $10 Lecture only Register. |  |
| Thursday, July 19, 2012 :: EVENING PERFORMANCE
Kennedy Center Theater Tickets
The Addams Family brings the darkly delirious world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and, of course, Lurch to life. It's a "classic, full-tilt, fast paced, old-fashioned musical comedy!" (Chicago Tribune).
The tickets are 20% off
Please contact Patricia Fitzgerald by Thursday, July 12th to reserve tickets.
(202) 232-7363 ext. 3003
pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org |  |
| | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - LUNCHEON
Loretta Neumann
Civil War Forts of Washington DC on the 150 year anniversary On forested hills surrounding the nation's capital are the remnants of a complex system of Civil War fortifications. Built by Union forces, these strategic buttresses transformed the young capital into one of the world's most fortified cities. In 1860, Washington, D.C. was a sleepy city of approximately 62,000 residents. The city sat almost completely unprotected, with Fort Washington, the lone fortification, being 12 miles south. By 1865, the city was surrounded by68 forts. Not only did the defenses serve their purpose by deterring Confederate attack on the capital, but they impacted the city culturally, socially, and politically. On Tuesday, you will get a first-hand view by slide show and description of the remains of these interesting forts from one of the premier historic preservationists in Washington, DC.
Loretta Neumann has a long history and many successes in preserving the history of the U.S. and the Washington, D.C. area. From 1973 to 1987, she worked for Rep. John F. Seiberling (D-OH) handling national parks, public lands and historic preservation legislation. She was appointed by President Clinton to direct the President's American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She is a founder of the American Cultural Resources Association, a national organization of businesses involved in archaeology and historic preservation. She is a former board member and vice president of the DC Historic Preservation League and is active in civic and historic preservation affairs in Takoma Park, including current president of the Takoma Theatre Conservancy. She also currently serves as a trustee of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, the oldest citizen planning organization in Washington, D.C. To many of us her most important activity is as a Democratic activist, especially in Ward 4.
Time: $10 Lecture only: Presentation and Q & A: 1-2 pm Bar opens at 11:30 am Lunch 12:15 pm
Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members (includes lunch); $10 Lecture only Register. |  |
| | Thursday, July 26, 201 - LUNCHEON
Aquila Ismail
Of Martyrs And Marigolds Of Martyrs and Marigolds is an elegantly written, powerful story of a young Pakistani woman, caught in the throes of revenge in the after birth of Bangladesh. Suri is born in the eastern part of Pakistan to parents who chose to migrate to it from India in 1947, when the British Empire dissolved its colony in the Indian subcontinent. She is considered to be a 'Bihari', a migrant from India, who speaks Urdu and therefore has no place in Bangladesh.
At its center is the defiant love between Suri and Rumi, which blossoms in Dacca University. The campus is the focal point of the resistance to the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army as it was of the 1952 Bengali Language Movement. Adapting real history into page-turning fiction, Ismail captures an important era in South Asian history with intelligence and grace. Part historical drama and part romance, Of Martyrs and Marigolds is testament to fiction's unique power in documenting the complexities of human conflicts.
Aquila Ismail was born in East Pakistan and moved to Karachi in 1972 following the creation of Bangladesh. She has worked as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the NED University, Karachi, and as Development Engineer for Glaxo Laboratories Pakistan. She has written extensively on literature, women's issues as well as development concerns of Karachi in leading Pakistani newspapers and magazines. Ismail continues to document the work of Karachi based development NGOs, the Orangi Pilot Project and the Urban Resource Center. She has edited and written several non-fiction books including, The Microcredit Program of the Orangi Charitable Trust, and articles in the international magazine Environment and Urbanization. She currently lives in Abu Dhabi with her family. She will be available to sign her book.
Time: $10 Lecture only: Presentation and Q & A: 1-2 pm Bar opens at 11:30 am Lunch 12:15 pm
Cost: $25 Members; $30 Non-members (includes lunch); $10 Lecture only Register. |  |
| | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 :: BUFFET LUNCHEON
Koch Brothers Exposed Lunch & Documentary Screening Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Kochs' two of the world's richest and most powerful men-is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs' corruption-and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.
Time: Bar opens and buffet lunch at 11:30 a.m. Film at 12:15 p.m.
Cost: $15 (includes lunch)
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for Lunch Service at the Club!
Wednesday & Friday Buffet Lunch
11:30am-1:30pm
$15 includes coffee, tea, and desserts
Please make a reservation 24 hrs. in advance
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