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The
Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Ballot
Initiative Strategy Center Present: Minimum Wage: The
Way Forward In the States - February 16, 2006
Minimum
Wage: The Way Forward in the States is the first event
of the American Progress Action Fund in conjunction
with the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center's Measuring
Progress Series. Efforts to raise the federal minimum
wage have been blocked since the last increase in 1996.
Since then, eighteen states have taken the matter in
their own hands and moved to raise their minimum wage
above the federal level. How have these state-level
increases of the minimum wage affected families and
communities? What is the impact of a minimum wage increase
on small businesses? Does the existence of a minimum
wage initiative on the ballot impact voter turnout?
As we turn to the 2006 election season, please join
us for this important discussion on the future of minimum
wage battles amidst the growing trend toward state ballot
initiatives and referenda.
DATE: Thursday, February 16, 2006
TIME: 10:00 am - 11:30 am (Light refreshments will be
served.)
COST: Free.
LOCATION: Center for American Progress Action Fund,
1333 H Street NW, 10th Floor Washington, DC 20005
METRO: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line
to Metro Center RSVP: Please visit www.americanprogress.org
or call 202-741-6246 to RSVP.
Opening Remarks will be made by U.S. Senator Edward
M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Congressman Ted Strickland (D-OH).
The panel will feature: Paul Booth, Executive Assistant
to the President, American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees; Celinda Lake, President, Lake
Research Partners; Tameka Pierce, State Chair, Florida,
ACORN; Beth Shulman, Co-Chair, Fairness Initiative on
Low Wage Work; and Kristina Wilfore, Executive Director,
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. The discussion will
be moderated by John D. Podesta, President & CEO, Center
for American Progress Action Fund.
School of Asia Studies: "The Politics
of Anti-Corruption: Democracy And Transparency In India"
Efforts
to combat corruption provide a useful lens to examine
changes in the nature of Indian democracy. Movements
attempting to expose cases of corruption - as opposed
to advocacy groups proposing policy measures to address
its causes - offer a revealing glimpse into the processes
through which, over the past twenty years, civil society
has been reconstituted and democratic rights redefined.
This seminar explores these issues with the aid of case
studies from several Indian states, while also assessing
key constraints on anti-corruption activism, not least
the extent to which corruption itself has obtained a
degree of popular legitimacy. Rob Jenkins is Professor
of Political Science at Birkbeck College, University
of London, and (during 2005-06) a fellow at the Dorothy
and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
at the New York Public Library. His research has focused
on Indian politics and political economy - including
work on the politics of liberalization, India's engagement
with the WTO, and the politics of Rajasthan. He is the
author of Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in
India (Cambridge, 2000), editor of Regional Reflections:
Comparing Politics Across India's States (Oxford, 2004),
and co-author of Reinventing Accountability: Making
Democracy Work for Human Development (Macmillan/Palgrave,
2005).
DATE: Friday, February 17, 2006
TIME: 12:30pm - 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Rome 812, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University,
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20036
RSVP: Please email asharan@jhu.edu and include your
contact details and affiliation.
V-DAY (Prevention of Violence again
Women) Performances at Cramer Center
Neelam
Patel is performing in a production of Eve Ensler's
script of Vagina Monologues. She plays the character
of an Indian woman who shares her feelings about her
own femininity with women from various cultures throughout
the world. The show will be a double feature (each about
an hour and a half) starting with a play called Stop
Kiss followed by Vagina Monologues, performed with a
unique setting on a classic performance.
DATE: Feb. 17-18 2006
TIME: 7:30 pm
COST: If tickets are purchased through Neelam Patel
(neelam.patel@gmail.com), NetSAP Members can get 10
% off ticket price. The regular price tickets are $15
for discounted admission (Seniors/students= w/College
ID) and $20 for regular admission.
LOCATION: The Cramer Center, 9008 Center Street, Manassas,
VA 20110 DIRECTIONS: From 66 West, Take 28 South all
the way to Old Town Manassas (28 south changes name
to Centreville Road, then to Church street). As soon
as you enter Old Town Manassas, turn left on East Street
or wherever you can. Then, turn left on Center Street.
Parking is on the right side across the street from
Cramer center (the theater is on the left, adjacent
to the fire station).
South Asian Law Students Association:
Serving the South Asian Community Here and Abroad
Join
us for an informative and exciting event that will explore
the numerous ways in which South Asian professionals
have used their skills and resources to respond to the
needs of the South Asian community, both here and on
the Indian subcontinent. The event will consist of two
panels with a break for lunch. The first panel, Legal
Strategies that Worked: How Local Legal Groups Engaged
in Effective Problem Solving and Addressed the Needs
of the Community will include local South Asian organizations
that have achieved great success. The second panel,
How to Give Back: Adoption, Disaster Relief, Domestic
Violence, Reversing the Brain Drain, will focus on a
variety of South Asian organizations and professionals
who have successfully transcended international boundaries.
Please register for the event at this site: http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm.
DATE: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 TIME: 10:00 am - 2:00
pm (Lunch will be served.)
LOCATION: American University, Washington College of
Law, 6th floor Student Lounge, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW.
Should you have any questions, please contact Ena Marwaha
at enamarwaha@yahoo.com.
Dakshina / Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company
- Modern Dance Show
Dakshina/Daniel
Phoenix Singh & Company will kick off an eclectic 2006
season with its annual spring show at American University's
Greenberg Theater. The program will feature the company
premiere of renowned choreographer Eric Hampton's masterpiece,
By the Light; Daniel Phoenix Singh's Ghosts at Dinner,
Cycles, and Yet to Be; and will be followed by a folkloric
company by Ashe Moyuba, DC's leading Afro-Cuban dance
company.
Please visit their website www.dakshina.org for full
details or call 202-885-2587 if you have any questions.
DATE: Saturday, February 25, 2006 & Sunday, February
26, 2006
TIME: 7:00 pm
COST: Tickets range between $20.00 - $50.00.
LOCATION: Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theater, American
University
South Asia Foundation for Art and Literature:
Call For Submissions
South Asia Foundation for Art and Literature (SAFAL)
is pleased to announce the new journal Karmabhoomi.
In this issue of Karmabhoomi we will feature poems by
South Asian writers living in the United States, Australia,
UK, Russia, Middle East, Europe and elsewhere. This
work will be published at the end of 2006. The deadline
for submission is March 15, 2006. Please contact akrursharma@gmail.com
for specific criteria and guidelines, for submissions,
or any questions.
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