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# Open invite - March 15, New York
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18938/
- Published: 2005-02-18T23:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:32:55.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

For the past year or so, openDemocracy's New York office has be co-sponsoring events with the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

If you happen to be in New York, you should join us for a debate on the merits and de-merits of privatising social security, on 15 March at 7:30-8pm with author and columnist [Paul Krugman](http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/?ref=opendemocracy.net), [Michael Tanner](http://www.cato.org/people/tanner.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) (from The Cato Institute, and one of the architects of Bush's current social security plans), and [Joshua Micah Marshall](http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) from TalkingPointsMemo.com.

It's free to the public, and the auditorium seats about 800, but I recommend coming early. At the last event we turned several hundred people away for lack of space. The address is [New York Society for Ethical Culture](http://www.nysec.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net), 2 W 64th Street, New York, NY (on the corner of Central Park West).

We held the last event just after the US presidential election with Richard Clarke, America's [former](http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) counter-terrorism advisor, Amy Goodman, radio host of Democracy Now!, Greg Palast, author of *The Best Democracy Money Can Buy*, and Esther Kaplan, author of *With God on Their Side*. Have a look at the [webcast](http://www.nysec.org/programs%5Frecent.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net#webcast) of the complete event (*ooh*, video). Clarke says may things about US national security (and [nuclear threats](http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-2338.jsp)) that are just as relevant today.