The National Arts Program for the encouragement and development of artistic talent in conjunction with the Events Committee will hold its 3rd Annual Exhibit and Awards for National Press Club members, employees, and their families. It will be held this year in the lobby from November 9 - 20 each day the club is open. Prizes will be awarded for the three adult classifications of amateur, intermediate, and professional as well as the two youth/teen classifications of youth under 12 and teen 13-18. The cash prizes for each classification range from $300 for adult first place to $100 for third place, and comparatively $75 for first and $25 for third in the youth/teen classifications. Applications can be picked up at the front desk, at the Reliable Source, or online by visiting the online calendar on the date November 9th at www.press.org. Registration deadline for participants is October 30th by the close of business. Artwork is to be submitted on November 6th at the front desk from 8am until 9pm or on Saturday, November 7th from 10am and 1pm. Rules and regulations can be found on the application or at www.nationalartsprogram.org. Completed applications can be hand delivered to the front desk at the National Press Club or mailed using the integrated mailer on the application. The program was brought to the club in 2007 by Silver Owl and founder of the National Arts Program Leonard Andrews. Mr. Andrews passed away in 2008 and the club is pleased to continue his legacy through the participation in the National Arts Program. Click HERE to see the registration form and rules

“Overcoming Terrorism: America’s Lost Knowledge”

Briefing based on six years of research and “Outposts of Innovation” field experiments.

November 11, 2009 (Veterans Day) National Press Club, First Amendment Room, 9:30 – 11:30

As President Obama weighs whether to increase American troops in Afghanistan, critical decisions are being made with the lack of essential information. Rumsfeld’s “Leaked Memo” was prophetic realizing it would be a “long, hard slog” on overcoming terrorism. Rumsfeld’s October 16, 2003 memo challenges us today to answer his questions now.

“Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?

Does the US need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists?”

The briefing will answer these questions beginning with a new narrative and strategic directions based on culturally based human dynamics; go down to ground zero where “minds on the ground” have field tested ideas in the Middle East and Africa and return to the 30,000 foot level of seven policy recommendations. Outposts of Innovation speakers include: Dr. Omar Sultan. Former Deputy Minister, Information and Culture, Afghanistan, Dr. Dominick Donald, Aegis,USA Liaison Teams in Conflict Zones (Iraq) Avi Meyerstein, ALL-MEP (Middle East Peace) Representing 70 Israeli/Palestinian People-to-People organizations. We have requested His Excellency Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghan Ambassador to the United States to provide comments on needed culturally based strategies.

Sponsored by CSI - a non-partisan, non-profit organization created soon after 9/11 to develop a new 21^st Century generation of culturally based processes and institutions adding to the existing 20^th Century military, economic and political landscape.

National Press Club 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor/First Amendment Room- Washington, DC  Wednesday, Veterans Day, 11 November 2009, 9:30 AM – 11:30 

RSVP LowellChristy@verizon.net 301 869-9098  

Rule of Law and the Obama Administration

Journalism Education Association