DC PROTEST TODAY: NED Awards Dinner for Anti-Cuba "democracy" Advocates

[magbana]

DC PROTEST TODAY, WEDNESDAY, 5-6 PM in front of the Cannon House Office Bldg., Independence and First Streets, SE, Wash., DC 20003, NED AWARDS DINNER
Take orange line to Capitol South (355 First St, SE) and walk west a few blocks until you get to Independence.


Much more fun than any happy hour, starring Jose Miguel Vivanco, Marifeli Perez-Stable and attending accomplices, Ros-Lehtinen, Mel Martinez, and Lincoln Diaz-Balart!

I also posted this to the DC list.

magbana


June 24, 2009 Wednesday

THE WEEK AHEAD

EVENT: DISCUSSION - THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY (NED);

LOCATION: 345 Cannon House Office Building -- June 24, 2009 3:30 pm

SUBJECT: The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) holds a discussion, annual Democracy Award ceremony and reception to honor five Cuban democracy activists.

AGENDA: Highlights: -- 3:30 pm: Jose Azel, senior research associate at Institute for Cuban and Cu-ban-American Studies at the University of Miami; Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division at Human Rights Watch; Janisset Rivero Gutierrez, directorio of Democratico Cubano; Marifeli Perz-Stable, vice president of democratic governance at the Inter-American Dialogue; and Miriam Kornbluth, NED director of Latin America and the Caribbean, participate in a discussion examining the prospects for democracy in Cuba -- 5:30 pm: Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.; House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman, D-Calif.; House Foreign Affairs ranking Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.; Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., board member at NED; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla.; and former Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., chairman of NED, participate in the annual Democracy Award ceremony and reception.

[EFerrari]

1. So Gephardt is NED chair. I didn't know that. n/t

[magbana]

2. Yeah, and he looks so innocent.

[roody]

3. When is the last time these 5 activists were in Cuba?