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Topic: Speaker ideas for 2011 Liberty Forum (Read 13116 times)
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Rich T.
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Hello everyone,
Work has already started on the 2011 NH Liberty Forum. The contract is signed, I've spoken with the hotel about what we will need and have made initial contact to some potential keynote speakers and have a few people working on some panels. Registration should be up sooner rather than later.
I want this event to appeal to as many people as possible while still maintaining the high standard we've come to expect for the Liberty Forum. To that end, I'd appreciate speaker suggestions from all of you. Please do give a brief bio of the person, and tell me why they'd be a good speaker or panelist. They do not necessarily have to be a hard-core libertarian/anarchist, I'd like to be able to appeal outside our normal pool of attendees with some good speakers who may not agree with us on everything but have something valuable to say or that would help us draw in folks who can be persuaded that liberty is always the right answer.
The Forum is the last weekend in February, Feb 24-27 2011, at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua. If you want to make an initial inquiry as to a potential speaker's availability, that'd be OK, just don't promise anyone anything.
Thanks,
Rich
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Ron Helwig
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For fun: http://www.lhaltd.com/speakers/cheatham/index.htmlWe had him a couple times at the Minnesota LP conventions. Not free, but probably cheap. Dick has been busy presenting himself as John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas and savior of the English Colony which became the USA, whom he is directly descended from fourteen generations ago. Dick also portrays President John Tyler, one of America's most principled leaders who today is unfortunately poorly known, Richard Henry Lee, the patriot for liberty who made the declaration for independence from which Jefferson's written document followed |
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Sovereign Curtis
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In case you hadn't already noticed: http://www.facebook.com/LibertyForum?v=wall&story_fbid=141311899241734 julian assange; michael pollan; the guys who wrote "against intellectual property"; james c. scott; Carlos miller ; Penn Jillette, Roderick Long, Chris Sicabara, Carol Moore, Lew Rockwell, Penn & Teller, Matt Parker/Trey Stone, Drew Carey, Charlie Sheen, Daren Gardner, Jenn Coffey, Scott Horton, Brett Veinotte, Joe Kennedy, this whole other list: http://j.mp/5YC3a0 , Naomi Wolf, Dan Carlin, Jim Babka, Tom Woods, P.J. O' Rourke, Gerald Celente, "Speakers who are interested enough in liberty to stick around for the conference.", Michael Shermer, Bryan Caplan (an anarchist economist, who has some pretty fascinating things to say about the economics of education), Peter Leeson (another interesting anarchist economist), Matt Ridley (popular science writer), Edward Glaeser (economist, with political science leanings), Michael Boldin (Tenth Amendment Center), Jeff Miron (economist, specializing in the war on drugs), Stefan Molyneux, Richard Gleaves, the guy who did the John Galt series on youtube., Peter Schiff, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Vin Suprynowicz, Aaron Zelman (JPFO dude), L. Neil Smith, Claire Wolfe, Bradford Smith, Russ Roberts, John Stossel, Alan Dershowitz, Gerry Spence, Charles Johnson aka Rad Geek, Jack Spirko, Stephan Kinsella, Glenn Jacobs, Bob Murphy, Doug Stanhope *sorry, I know you were looking for something more detailed |
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Rich T.
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Thanks Curtis, some of those names have been contacted. The rest will be added to the big list. julian assange; michael pollan; the guys who wrote "against intellectual property"; A question for all, would a discussion pro/con IP be something you'd attend? |
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BigJoe
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Thanks Curtis, some of those names have been contacted. The rest will be added to the big list. julian assange; michael pollan; the guys who wrote "against intellectual property"; A question for all, would a discussion pro/con IP be something you'd attend? If you got Kinsella, then yes, if not, then maybe. |
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Jacobus
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I'd suggest a homechooling expert and advocate: Pat Farenga. Pat's sites: http://www.holtgws.com/http://www.patfarenga.com/I saw him speak last year in Framingham, MA at Barnes & Noble to promote his book (as part of a homeschool day they held). I think Pat lives in Massachusetts, and he is a pretty good speaker. He worked with famous unschooling advocate John Holt. |
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Dreepa
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Thanks Curtis, some of those names have been contacted. The rest will be added to the big list. julian assange; michael pollan; the guys who wrote "against intellectual property"; A question for all, would a discussion pro/con IP be something you'd attend? talk to Seth C about this.. he has a great list for an IP debate. |
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JasonPSorens
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Audio signature (MP3) "Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws." --Aristotle, The Politics
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Russell Kanning
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you could have an entire IP day it could be the theme for this year at the end some of us will be handing out free cds and transcripts of all the speeches  ok .... my actual suggestion http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/Meir (pronounced with 2 sylables) was at our liberty tuesday meeting he was a socialist and now calls himself a libertarian he can give speeches, since he does lectures he mentors the libertarian club at dartmouth |
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Sovereign Curtis
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I like the IP debate idea.
Get El Neil up there...
Julian Assange would be a coup
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Dreepa
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you could have an entire IP day it could be the theme for this year at the end some of us will be handing out free cds and transcripts of all the speeches I love the last line here... |
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KBCraig
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I'm pretty sure Julian Assange doesn't dare set foot in U.S. jurisdiction. I strongly recommend Radley Balko, if he's available. He writes for Reason and has his own blog at theagitator.com. He's also worked with Cato, and authored Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America, which details how often SWAT-style raids are used for minor matters, resulting a number of deaths and injuries to innocent people. |
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JasonPSorens
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Radley was at the last LF. He was good.
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Audio signature (MP3) "Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws." --Aristotle, The Politics
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Denis Goddard
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Peter Schiff would be my #1 speaker suggestion. Especially now that his Senate race is over... I'd also like to see Mike Maloney as a speaker. He's a "sound money" guy with a pro-liberty slant, not too dissimilar to Peter Schiff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWpqq7IdgugWayne Green from NH ToDo magazine could give a side talk about all the fun things to do all year 'round in NH. Plus, he founded BYTE magazine, which nerds with mobile IT jobs may find interesting. Possibly he'd be interested in a vendor table as well. http://www.waynegreen.com/wayne/says.html |
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