I'm at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting this week, so I'll do my best to live blog (kinda) the goings on.
This year, the CGI is focusing on Energy and Climate Change, Global Health, Poverty Alleviation and Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict.
The opening session--which was attended by almost 50 current and former heads of state in addition to over a thousand others from the business, government and NGO worlds--started this morning with comments from President Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush.
President Clinton said, "CGI tackles big global challenges with the conviction that, regardless of size or scope, they will yield to concerted action and innovative partnerships that include individuals, NGOs, businesses and governments...There is no better time to forge those partnerships or to take that action than right now."
Laura Bush, well, it hurts to hear her speak. Jill and I traded some rolling eyes more than once during her remarks.
The first panel was interesting stuff though. It featured Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez and Thomas Friedman of The New York Times as moderator. More on this shortly. (A girl has got to eat!)
If you want to catch the event live, by the way, you can check out podcasts and webcasts of the sessions here.
UPDATE: Jill has (much) more.
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Better leave those boobs at home lest the Clenis sees them.
believe me, picking out an oufit for this was way more stressful than it should have been!
Don't let these shallow, sexist bastards get to you, Jessica. You're not what you wear. You can walk around naked, or you can wear conservative suits all the time, and you'll still be the same activist/writer we all read and love.
Did you attend the poverty alleviation panel? On the website, the issues that were mentioned reeked of excessive moderation, but obviously I wasn't there, so it's entirely possible that they did discuss concrete, workable poverty-reduction proposals.
"Laura Bush, well, it hurts to hear her speak."
Always wondered what sort of a woman could tolerate G.W. beyond a perfunctory "hello" ... now I know!
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