NDN Homeland Security Conference Call-Monday, Oct. 29 <<...>>  The New Democrat Network invites  its members to join us for a CONFERENCE CALL DISCUSSION OF HOMELAND SECURITY featuring THE HONORABLE ASHTON B. CARTER A leading expert on homeland defense who will give us a better  understanding of the challenges ahead in protecting against  future terrorist attacks Current Advisor to the U.S. Department of Defense and former  Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security  Policy under President Clinton Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and  Co-Director of the Harvard-Stanford Preventative Defense  Project which focuses on emerging threats to the United States  such as nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons Author of Preventative Defense: A New Security Strategy for  America (with former Defense Secretary William J. Perry) which  former National Security Advisor Gen. Brent Scowcroft called  "An essential guide to the critical choices that must be made  as America rethinks potential threats to national security." MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 2001 11:30 AM - 12:00 NOON EST Call in time: 11:20 AM Presentation to be followed by question and answer period INVITATION ONLY - SPACES ARE LIMITED To register for this call, email Stephanie Dorko by 5:00 pm  Thursday Oct. 25th  at sdorko@newdem.org  and say you would like to participate.   She will respond with the conference call phone number and code. Find out more about what New Democrats in Congress and around  the nation are doing to address terrorism -- sign up for NDN  News at www.newdem.org/ndnnews or visit www.newdem.org  Contributions to the New Democrat Network are not tax deductible. Paid for by the New Democrat Network.