May 8. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Libertarian seminar.
his is an all day extravaganza, starting at 8:30 am, with opening remarks from seminar host, Jayant Bhandari, and featuring:
9 to 11am: Character & a Free Society” by Lawrence W. Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education, USA. As a journalist, Lawrence visited 69 countries; spent time with Contra rebels in Nicaragua; lived with Mozambique rebel forces; travelled with freedom activists in Poland
11 to 11:15am: Coffee
11:15 to 1:15pm: “Defending the Undefendable” by Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute,
1:15 to 2:15pm: Lunch
“How Capitalism Tames The Vices,” Lila Rajiva, author of “The Language of Empire,” (MR Press, 2005) and “Mobs, Messiahs and Markets,” (with W R Bonner, Wiley, 2007).
(Lila: My invitation was withdrawn by the seminar hosts from fear that Canadian authorities/other seminar participants might object to opinions I’ve expressed on Israel-Palestine on my blog (I don’t believe they would have). My apologies to any readers who signed up anticipating my speaking there, but now you’ll get more time with Walter Block, Paul Geddes, and Larry Reed. Have fun!)
4 to 4:15pm: Coffee
4:15 to 4:45pm: Closing remarks by Paul Geddes, Vice-President, West Coast Libertarian Foundation, Canada
Event Rooms 1300-1500, Segal Graduate School of Business 500 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1W6
For further information, Contact: Jayant Bhandari: contact@jayantbhandari.com;
Cost, $80, $40 for students. (Includes lunch.)
We’ll try and give it some pr.Ha.Ha.
LOOL! The day *Canada* bans *Lila* is a very sad day indeed. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize for our anti-free-speech dictators.
Oh..don’t blame Canada..
They didn’t have anything to do with it.
As mild as my posts are, this has more to do with the hosts wanting to avoid any POSSIBLE offense to seminar attendees or anyone else.
On the other hand, it’s also true that over the last year or so, one anarchist/libertarian group was stopped and some literature seized was termed heinous propaganda- I think all it was was the kind of stuff you see on Lew Rockwell.
And a friend of mine who writes hardly anything offensive tells me that when invited to speak in Canada for a business conference, the guards limited his stay to five days and spent a lot of time telling him he was the organizer of the conference over his protests that he had just been invited.
It’s mostly to do with comments on Israel-Palestine..
That is bizzar if that’s the real reason-after all don’t they then care about Walter Block has said about AFRICAN-AMERICANS ?
If I were a libertarian invited speaker at a libertarian conference where one of the other speakers had their invitation withdrawn by the hosts for fear of popular opinion, I would withdraw from the event because it is obviously not a libertarian event. Since when are speech limitations compatible with libertarian principles.
There is liberty for some views…and not for others.
Anti-PC is fine, when the targets aren’t powerful
When the targets are powerful and moneyed, then the rules change….
Then PC is just fine.
No offense taken.