[govinfo] Plan a Sunshine Week program! We want more sites.
- From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "GOVDOC-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <GOVDOC-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:29:36 -0500
My apologies for coming back to you, but we really do want to have more sites
participating. It is going to be a great conversation on secrecy, openness,
science... I promise I won't come back with this again.
Sunshine Week 2007 (March 11-17, 2007) is coming quickly, but it's not too late
to participate in the national webcast, "Closed Doors; Open Democracies?"! The
event will be held on Monday, March 12, 2007 1:00pm- 2:30pm Eastern Daylight
Time (please note that Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins at 2 a.m. on March
11, 2007) and webcast to sites around the country. The press release is below.
We are accepting site registrations until Friday, 9 March.
For those of you thinking about hosting or co-sponsoring a program or already
planning one, we have added material to our Resources page. Visit
www.openthegovernment.org for more information! You can get to the resources
page directly here:
http://openthegovernment.org/article/articleview/240/1/94?TopicID.
Thanks, and please let me or Emily Feldman efeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx know
if you have any questions.
Patrice McDermott, Executive Director
OpenTheGovernment.org
pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
202-332-OPEN (6736)
www.openthegovernment.org
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OpenTheGovernment.org
Americans for Less Secrecy, More Democracy
Contact: Emily Feldman or Patrice McDermott, (202) 332-6736,
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MEDIA ADVISORY
Second Annual National Event Will Explore Government Secrecy and Openness
Closed Doors; Open Democracies? A national dialogue with government openness
experts
Join Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of NPR's Science Friday, and two
panels of government and other experts in a national dialogue addressing issues
of access to government information, including the impact of government
suppression and manipulation of scientific information on public health and
safety - and accountability at the federal and the state and local levels. The
event will begin with a lively discussion of the issues and end with ideas for
action.
This dialogue with government openness experts - which will feature video
segments and a question-and-answer period, followed by local programs at sites
across the country - kicks off Sunshine Week 2007. The event is being hosted by
the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association,
Association of Research Libraries, League of Women Voters, National Coalition
Against Censorship, National Freedom of Information Coalition,
OpenTheGovernment.org, Special Libraries Association, Sunshine Week, and Union
of Concerned Scientists
Speakers:
Ira Flatow (moderator), host and executive producer of NPR's Science Friday
Gary Bass, executive director, OMB Watch
Dorothy Biggs, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) librarian, National
Enforcement Investigations Center
Jay Dyckman, director of The Knowledge Project at the National Coalition
Against Censorship,
Francesca Grifo, Senior Scientist and Director of Scientific Integrity Program
at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor, the Washington Examiner
Rick Piltz, Founder and Director of Climate Science Watch and former
whistleblower at the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)
Bill Wolfe, Director, New Jersey Chapter of Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility (PEER)
Susan Wood, Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health and former FDA official who quit over the delay of Plan B
WHEN/WHERE: March 12, 2007 1:00pm- 2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time, webcast from
the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to sites around the country,
Visit www.OpenTheGovernment.org for a list of venues, registration information,
and more.
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