The Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference will be held at George Washington University (Washington D.C.), from February 20-22, 2009. The conference is the premiere event of the year for students dedicated to liberty with speeches from some of the key leaders of liberty today and opportunities to discuss how to promote liberty with other students.
Click here for the student invitation to the International SFL Conference.
Our confirmed Keynote Speaker is Yon Goicoechea, recipient of the Cato Institute’s 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. Cato provides this summary of Yon: “A 23-year-old law student, Mr. Goicoechea plays a pivotal role in organizing and voicing opposition to the erosion of human and civil rights in his country. In his commitment to a modern Venezuela, Goicoechea emphasizes tolerance and the human right to seek prosperity.
Venezuela’s student movement emerged in May of 2007 in response to a government-ordered shutdown of the nation’s oldest private television station, RCTV. In the face of ongoing death threats and continual intimidation due to his prominent and vocal leadership, Mr. Goicoechea has been indispensible in organizing massive, peaceful student protest marches that have captured the world’s attention.
By December of 2007, the student movement was credited with defeating a proposed constitutional reform that would have concentrated unprecedented political and economic power in the hands of the government.”
Mr. Goicoechea is one of the most well-known and influential student leaders of our generation. SFL is honored to have him speak at our conference.
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The First Students For Liberty Conference was held from February 22-24, 2008 at Columbia University. Find out more information on the inaugural conference here.