'The People Speak': America Debates Its Role in the World 9/29/2003
From: Beneva Schulte or Jerry Mullins, 202-261-4012 News Advisory: The People Speak: America Debates Its Role in the World is an initiative designed to spark a coast-to-coast dialogue about American foreign policy. Fourteen organizations, representing ideologies across the political spectrum, are participating in and helping to organize at least 1,000 debates and discussions in communities across the country this October. In big and small cities, universities, high schools and in family living rooms, The People Speak: America Debates Its Role in the World will stimulate a national discussion about emerging foreign policy issues such as: -- Should the United States use military force preemptively to meet the threats posed by hostile nations and groups seeking to acquire nuclear, biological or chemical weapons? -- Should the United States devote more resources to confront such non-military problems as poverty and illiteracy, the spread of infectious disease and environmental degradation? -- Should the United States participate in military operations overseas only where vital American interests are at stake, not for democracy promotion or primarily humanitarian causes? -- Should the United States demonstrate a stronger commitment to international institutions and international laws? WHAT: National Press Club Press Conference announcing 'The People Speak: America Debates Its Role in the World WHO: -- Senator Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation -- Thomas Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow -- Kay Maxwell, League of Women Voters WHEN: Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 11 a.m. WHERE: National Press Club, Lerner Room, 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS: United Nations Foundation; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; League of Women Voters; Open Society Institute; National Peace Corps Association; United Nations Association of the United States of America; Empower America; The National Forensic League; The World Affairs Council; Jesse Helms Center Foundation; Center for Women Policy Studies; WAND; Americans for Informed Democracy |