This evening I had gastronomic and conversational fun in Friendship Park at the G-20 Resistance Project‘s picnic. Media, including KDKA’s Ralph Iannotti (23 seconds into this video, Iannotti calls the picnic’s organizers the “Jew Twenty Resistance Project”; what in Moses’ name Ralph is talking about remains mysterious) and a cove from the Beeb (“Britain’s state-sponsored media outlet” he explained dryly), did their coverage thing, and maybe a dozen cops did theirs, milling around the Gross St. end of the oval.
At around 6:4o I split to hit up the Freedom Conference at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Oakland, an event the local media has rather neglected. Here’s my coverage:
It was pretty rad. The Women’s International Media Group‘s Joan Veon spoke first about the architecture of Control and her journey from naïve business woman to global policy meeting junkie and anti-Control crusader.
Next, Thomas E. Woods, author of New York Times bestseller Meltdown, talked von Mises, mortgage bubbles and so forth. Wish I’d recorded Woods and Veon, but the talks were all videotaped and should hit the net shortly.
Finally, G. Edward Griffin, author of the classic horror pulp The Creature from Jekyll Island and, I just learned, World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17
Freedom Conference 2009 Keynote Speaker G. Edward Griffin
All the presentations dealt with the specific policies of plunder which make it the G-20 so execrable. I only wish more people had known about the Conference, as Soldiers and Sailors was rather far from packed.
After the event, I met up with local activists, Tom Woods and Freedom Conference organizer and Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh David Powell at Hemingway’s in Oakland. I talked to Powell about the G-20 and why it sucks, Libertarian positions on property rights and the environment, revolving door regulation, currencies and collapses in Iceland, Argentina and Zimbabwe.
Freedom Conference 2009 Dave Powell interview pt. 1
Freedom Conference 2009 Dave Powell interview pt. 2
Freedom Conference 2009 Dave Powell interview pt. 3
Freedom Conference 2009 Dave Powell interview pt. 4
Happy equinox and cuídate.
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[...] On Tuesday, I attended the 2009 Freedom Conference at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Oakland, an event the local media (with the exception of the Independent Media Center) has, as far as I can tell, neglected to note the existence of, let alone cover. My coverage, including an interview with Freedom Conference organizer and Chairman of the Pittsburgh Libertarian Party David Powell, is here. [...]