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If you are interested in the issues discussed on this blog and you will be in the Washington, D.C. area on Friday, I recommend a panel discussion, “Citizen Preparedness: Harnessing an Engaged Public”. The event is sponsored by George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). It is the fourth and final event in HSPI’s Presidential Transition Roundtable [...]

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Earlier this month, I attended a panel discussion at the Center For American Progress (CAP) in Washington, D.C. titled “Beyond Duct Tape and Color Codes: How the New President Can Engage the Public on Homeland Security”. The event was part of the Homeland Security Presidential Transition Initiative (to which I have offered some ideas on citizen preparedness), a joint project [...]

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On Wednesday, I attended a U.S. Department of Homeland Security “Bloggers Roundtable” convened in Washington, D.C. by Secretary Michael Chertoff to address the issue of cyber security.
The Roundtable took place at the Secretary’s ’satellite’ office at the Ronald Reagan Office Building near the White House. It was pegged to October’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month which according to [...]

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Citizen preparedness and touch football are not usually found in the same sentence. But thanks to my Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) teammate Janine McGoldrick, they are being linked in a way that will help public readiness in my community. Janine plays in a touch football league here organized by a company called Zog Sports (www.ZogSports.com), [...]

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I am in Washington, D.C. today primarily to do some interviews. But being a sucker for a good public readiness event, I dropped by a preparedness fair being organized by the District’s Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency in Farragut Square near the White House. I picked up some interesting and creative promotional preparedness items including a [...]

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As part of National Preparedness Month, my local State Assemblyman, Jonathan Bing, held a special emergency readiness forum Monday night along with the American Red Cross of Greater New York and New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM). The objective was to brief residents of Bing’s Manhattan district on preparing themselves for disasters and to publicize the [...]

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