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Presents: Spencer MacCallum
Freedom Island
Thursday, February 12, 2004
5:30 -7:00 P.M.
Brass Rail, Benson Memorial Center, Basement
Santa Clara University
Hong Kong is an island of relative freedom in an ocean of government
interventionism. Hong Kong has made the liberal blessings of freedom
apparent for all to see.
Can more Freedom Islands come into being? There are three
requirements: (1) A group of people and resources committed to freedom
must come together. (2) They must gain control of the territory that
is to become a Freedom Island. (3) External powers-neighboring
governments, the U.S. government, the U.N., etc.-must not prevent the
organizers from realizing Freedom Island.
Spencer MacCallum has pursued the vision of achieving a Freedom Island
by voluntarily means. He has explored possibilities in Somalia and
Costa Rica. He has explored the idea of creating a Freedom Island at
sea and in space, and these possibilities become more viable as
technology advances.
MacCallum holds a bachelor's from Princeton and a master's in
social anthropology from University of Washington. He has explored
these ideas in his book The Art of Community and in articles in Human
Organization, The Independent Review, Critical Review, and Modern Age.
Refreshments will be provided
If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation, or for
further information,
Please contact Marianne Farag at (408) 554-6931.
Write The Civil Society Institute at csi@scu.edu <mailto:csi@scu.edu>
and get on the CSI mailing list.
Directions to Santa Clara University
If you are coming from U.S. Highway 101:
Take the De La Cruz Boulevard/Santa Clara exit.
Follow De La Cruz Boulevard towards El Camino Real (stay in the right
lane).
When De La Cruz Boulevard splits, follow the right split over the
overpass.
Turn right onto Lafayette Street staying in the right turn lane.
Turn right at El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the right-hand
side of the road.
If you are coming from Interstate 880:
Take The Alameda exit.
Travel north on The Alameda.
The Alameda will become El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the left-hand
side of the road.
If you are coming from Interstate 280:
Take Interstate 880 north toward Oakland.
Exit at The Alameda.
Turn left on The Alameda.
The Alameda will become El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the left-hand
side of the road.
For a map of SCU, go to: http://www.scu.edu/map
Presents: Spencer MacCallum
Freedom Island
Thursday, February 12, 2004
5:30 -7:00 P.M.
Brass Rail, Benson Memorial Center, Basement
Santa Clara University
Hong Kong is an island of relative freedom in an ocean of government
interventionism. Hong Kong has made the liberal blessings of freedom
apparent for all to see.
Can more Freedom Islands come into being? There are three
requirements: (1) A group of people and resources committed to freedom
must come together. (2) They must gain control of the territory that
is to become a Freedom Island. (3) External powers-neighboring
governments, the U.S. government, the U.N., etc.-must not prevent the
organizers from realizing Freedom Island.
Spencer MacCallum has pursued the vision of achieving a Freedom Island
by voluntarily means. He has explored possibilities in Somalia and
Costa Rica. He has explored the idea of creating a Freedom Island at
sea and in space, and these possibilities become more viable as
technology advances.
MacCallum holds a bachelor's from Princeton and a master's in
social anthropology from University of Washington. He has explored
these ideas in his book The Art of Community and in articles in Human
Organization, The Independent Review, Critical Review, and Modern Age.
Refreshments will be provided
If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation, or for
further information,
Please contact Marianne Farag at (408) 554-6931.
Write The Civil Society Institute at csi@scu.edu <mailto:csi@scu.edu>
and get on the CSI mailing list.
Directions to Santa Clara University
If you are coming from U.S. Highway 101:
Take the De La Cruz Boulevard/Santa Clara exit.
Follow De La Cruz Boulevard towards El Camino Real (stay in the right
lane).
When De La Cruz Boulevard splits, follow the right split over the
overpass.
Turn right onto Lafayette Street staying in the right turn lane.
Turn right at El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the right-hand
side of the road.
If you are coming from Interstate 880:
Take The Alameda exit.
Travel north on The Alameda.
The Alameda will become El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the left-hand
side of the road.
If you are coming from Interstate 280:
Take Interstate 880 north toward Oakland.
Exit at The Alameda.
Turn left on The Alameda.
The Alameda will become El Camino Real.
The main entrance to Santa Clara University will be on the left-hand
side of the road.
For a map of SCU, go to: http://www.scu.edu/map
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Date: 2004-02-12 08:15 pm (UTC)Also, Costa Rica is awesome. The PML (Costa Rican Libertarian party, see their website) won 6 of 56 seats in Congress in 2002, and got a pretty good percentage of the vote for President. One of the 6 Congressmen left the party due to ideological differences, but the ideals of liberty are taking root there.
Add to this that, in the sea of violent revolution that is Latin America, Costa Rica has only had two brief periods of violence in the last 150 years, and has been historically a democratic if somewhat socialist country, it's a great site. If the Free State Project doesn't reach 20,000 people, I'm learning Spanish and moving down there. Hell, it's warmer anyway. :)
Also, as far as Freedom Island at sea and in space, the man behind the defunct Oceania project has started a new project for multiple space colonies in case of something like a nanotech disaster, to create a human diaspora in space. The benefit of this is that each Lifeboat would be autonomous, meaning some could be libertarian.