I haven’t updated my work section of the blog in about two weeks. I’ve been so busy at work and then coming home and trying to catch up on TiVo! But, I’ve had a great time on all my projects. There’s probably more stuff I did, but I don’t have my daily journal with me that I use to track everything I’m doing. I’l try to update this site once a week, which allows me to remember a lot more…

I’ve continued to work on pushing for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. We ran an ad in the Knoxville News Sentinel this past week. We have another ad coming up in a Chattanooga paper this week. We are also in the process of mocking up an ad to run in Roll Call, a Capitol Hill paper. That ad will be different, and I’ll try to link to it once we get it published. I’ve been attending meetings and have also continued to work at building the coalition of supporters. It’s been interesting. I also drafted an op-ed urging US ratification of the treaty. It’s being reviewed now and I hope we can get it published somewhere. I attended several Senate hearings that revolved around the US Commission on Ocean Policy’s newly released report. The commission supports US ratification of the Law of the Sea, so I went there to pass out a fact sheet on the treaty and its supporters. I also chatted and schmoozed with various folks from business groups, the media, and a staffer from a governor’s office. Very exciting … I was euphoric when I came back to the office!

As for my other projects, I’ve returned to the elections part of our work. I’ve been updating our section on presidential foreign policy statements. I’ve also been tracking various competitive House and Senate races that we’re interested in. I sat in on an interview with Mike Evans, to talk with him about his US House race in Missouri’s Third District. I wrapped up a Fact Sheet on the ICC and the atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. That is being reviewed, and if it is approved, I’ll provide a link to it soon. I also attended a dialogue session at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where President Paul Kagame of Rwanda reflected on the genocide in 1994 and where his country is now. It was very exciting to see him speak, after having read and written so much about him during my MA thesis work.