Center for American Progress Action Fund

June 17, 2009

Dear Friends,

John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, debated the pros and cons of nuclear energy on the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Other participants included Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush; James Woolsey, director of the CIA in the Clinton administration; and Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy. Video of the broadcast is available here.

Senior Fellow Matt Miller was a panelist on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on June 5. For show highlights and to listen to the podcast, click here. CAP Artist-in-Residence Anna Deveare Smith will also be a panelist on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on July 17.

U.S. Climate Envoy and former CAP Senior Fellow Todd Stern spoke at CAP on June 3 in advance of his trip to China to discuss bilateral global warming agreements between the U.S. and Chinese governments. For full event video, click here. John Podesta also addressed energy and the environment in a speech at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen, Germany, where he explained the link between cultural change and climate change. Full text of the speech is available here.

The Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress, is now partnering with YouTube in a video contest focused on ending the scourge of conflict minerals from Congo. The Come Clean 4 Congo video contest calls on contestants to craft the most compelling short video highlighting the link between conflict minerals used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For more information and to enter the contest, click here.

Finally, California-based Senior Fellow Nina Hachigian just launched a new blog on WorldFocus called Pivotal Power. Nina’s blog covers U.S.-China relations and great power relationships, multilateral institutions, and U.S. foreign policy.

Warmest,
Anna, Nina, and Shana

 

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