9:30 a.m. Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Convention Center Development Corporation; Offices of the Empire State Development Corporation, 633 Third Ave., 37th Floor Conference Room.
11:30 a.m. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum urges more access to immigrant crime victim visas; Children's Aid Society, 105 East 22nd St., 9th Floor Conference Room.
1 to Japan Society hosts discussion with Michael G. Oxley, former Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Japan Society, 333 East 47th St., between First and Second avenues.
1 p.m. Immigrant advocates protest threat of raids while on board Amtrak trains and Greyhound bus; starts at Penn Station, 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue, and proceeds to the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 625 Eighth Ave.
5:30 p.m. Former Governor of Hong Kong Christopher Patten speaks on "The Atlantic Partner and the Ascent of Asia"; School of International and Public Affairs, Kellogg Center, Room 1501, 117th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
5:30 p.m. The Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation co-hosts panel discussion on children and domestic violence; City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., at 34th Street.
7:30 p.m. Council Member Leticia James and Universoul Circus celebrate opening of "Jabulani"; Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
8 p.m. Columbia University leaders forum on the book, "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making"; Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, 535 West 116th St.
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