The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) would like to announce the date and location of its 2008 Annual National Convention. The Convention will take place June 12-15, 2008, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC.
The Grand Hyatt Washington is ideally located in Penn Quarter with convenient in-lobby Metro Center access, to learn more about the Hotel see the ADC Convention Website: http://www.adc.org/Conv08/home.html. ADC has secured a special Convention hotel room rate of $129 per room, single or double occupancy. Please make sure you secure your hotel room reservation as soon as possible.
Plans are still being formulated for the Convention program; however, the 2008 Presidential elections will be a main focus of the Convention. The 40th anniversaries of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy will also be remembered. We welcome your suggestions and input as we plan this event. Sponsorship opportunities are available, please contact convention@adc.org
*ADC's National Convention has been the largest such event in the Arab-American community over the past two decades, bringing together Arab Americans from across the country, generating significant media coverage and public attention throughout the United States and the Arab world. As the premier Arab-American civil rights and grassroots organization, ADC strives to highlight the latest developments in civil liberties and foreign policy in the United States.
Recent speakers and guests at ADC's conventions have included Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator Chuck Hagel, Assistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Palestinian legislator Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi, human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, National Institute of Health Director Elias Zerhouni, film star Omar Sharif, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry Dr. Ahmed Zewail.
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