Hillary Clinton's Schedule at the Clinton Global Initiative 2014
Presidential spouse and contender Hillary Clinton has a busy agenda at the Clinton Global Initiative this year. She will open the conference on Monday and close it on Wednesday, with several appearances in between. Below is her public agenda:
- 6-8 PM Clinton Global Citizen Awards
- 12 PM Opening Plenary: opening conversation with Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group and Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM
- 5 PM Plenary on job training: remarks on the commitment announcements
- 8:45 AM Plenary on equality for girls on women: opening conversation with Bill Gates’ wife Melinda Gates
- 1:30 PM Breakout session: Filmed conversation with Sanjay Gupta on “investing in babies’ minds” with John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Children Television Workshop’s Rosemarie T. Truglio, Harlem Children’s Zone’s Geoffrey Canada
- 3:30 PM Closing Plenary: with Bill Clinton, astronauts Cady Coleman and Reid Wiseman, X PRIZE billionaire Peter H. Diamandis, Nelson Mandela widow Graça Machel
(President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver brief remarks at approximately 2 PM on Tuesday, the day of the UN Climate Summit.)
Protesters Prepare to 'Occupy The UN' During Climate Summit
Occupy Wall Street activists are planning to “occupy” the United Nations Climate Summit.
According to Popular Resistance, a website associated with some members of the Occupy Wall Street collective in New York City, activists meeting in Zucotti Park agreed to attempt an occupation of the Dag Hammerskold Plaza in front of UN headquarters.
The civil disobedience assembly is scheduled to begin during the People’s Climate March taking place several blocks west on Sunday, September 21, and continue until the conclusion of the UN Climate Summit on Wednesday.
The text of the press release is below:
The Ad Hoc Committee to Occupy the Climate Summit announced plans at Zuccotti Park on S17 to occupy the UN beginning on Sunday. People can arrive during or after the People’s Climate March and the hope is to have people there 24/7 until the end of the UN climate meetings.OCCUPY THE U.N. CLIMATE SUMMIT
9.21.14
Join us at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Between 46th & 47th Sts and 1st and 2nd Aves, across from U.N.
The Climate March is only the prelude
Throughout the day people will be leaving the March to assemble in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across the avenue from the U.N. While it is impossible to predict how events there will unfold, there will be a significant number who will attempt to occupy the plaza for the duration of the U.N. Climate Summit, which ends on Wednesday, September 24.
This action is not intended to compete with the messages of either the People’s Climate March on Sunday or the FLOOD WALL STREET action the following day, Monday.
Please feel free to join any two or all three. All three actions amplify a common message:
THE PEOPLE DEMAND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS ROOT CAUSES
The UN represents the nations of the world.
Nations are not people. They are political constructs that reflect the interests of those who keep them in power. WE ARE PEOPLE.
We want our presence felt throughout the Summit. We want the world to see our resolve and understand our sense of urgency.
PLEASE JOIN US & PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
People's Climate March Blocs
Below is a partial list of People’s Climate March blocs meeting before the march begins Sunday.
Indigenous People’s Gathering In Central Park next to Heckscher Playground, starting at 6:30 am
Labor Rally On Broadway, sound system at 57th Street Begins at 11 am.
Interfaith Religious Service On 58th Street, between 8th and 9th Ave. Begins at 11 am.
Food Justice On CPW at 71 St., north side of the intersection
Nuclear Free, Carbon Free On CPW at 73rd St., north side of the intersection
Sierra Club Solutions Rally On CPW at 75th St., north side of the intersection
Peace and Justice On CPW at 77 St., north side of the intersection
Anti-Fracking On CPW at 80th St., north side of the intersection
Science Stands At Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History (CPW & 81st)
Bike Bloc On CPW at 74th St, 10:30 am
For more information:
[email protected] (914) 719-6672
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Questions Manmade Global Warming
“Certainly, nobody can deny that we’ve had several years of warmer temperatures. If that signals just a routine change that is manmade or not, I don’t think anybody can say definitely.”
Listen:
In reality, the carbon-dioxide greenhouse effect is a physical fact known since the 1800s. The only scientifically plausible systematic explanation for the rapid and continuing warming of the planetary climate since 1950 is industrial greenhouse pollution. WIthout global policy to end the combustion of fossil fuels, concentrations are expected to double from current levels within decades.
Flake’s position on global warming and climate policy represents a retreat for the conservative politician and former mining lobbyist, who co-sponsored a bipartisan carbon-tax legislative proposal as a member of the House of Representatives in 2009. He disavowed the plan immediately upon election to the U.S. Senate in November 2012. In March 2013, Flake voted for an amendment introduced by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) prohibiting further greenhouse gas regulations for the purposes of addressing climate change, and voted for Sen. Roy Blunt’s amendment to create a point of order against legislation that would create a federal tax or fee on carbon emissions.
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