California Libertarian Convention, February 22, 23, and 24th in San Diego!!!
Friday, February 22nd
| Committee meetings |
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| Business session |
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| Evening off-site event (to be announced) |
| Breakfast buffet and registration, Outreach workshop using live theatre by Orlando-Ward & Associates |
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| Credentials report/business session |
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| Sunset Room – Lunch buffet, |
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| Business session |
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| Sunset Room – Evening Banquet – Buffet dinner with a full cash bar, |
| Breakfast buffet, |
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| Credentials report/business session |
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| Boxed gourmet lunch, |
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| Business session |
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| Executive committee meeting |
Keynote Speakers and Entertainment
Tibor R. Machan
Tibor R. Machan, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, AL, holds the R.C. Hoiles Chair in Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, CA. He is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco.
Machan is a syndicated and freelance columnist, author of 30+ books —most recently, The Morality of Business: A Profession for Wealth-care (Springer, 2007) — editor of 20+ others and has written over a hundred scholarly papers, some of them now featured in various philosophy readers (including “A Brief Defense of Free Will,” “The Non-existence of Welfare Rights,” and “Do Animals Have Rights?) Hoover Institution Press has published 10 volumes in the series, “Philosophical Reflections on a Free Society,” which Machan has edited. His first trade book, Putting Humans First (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) was sold in many book stores in the U.S. and the UK.
Machan was visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1992-93. He edited Reason magazine for two years and had been editor of Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for 25 years. He lectures in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, the Republic of Georgia, and Latin America on business ethics and political philosophy. He has appeared on Bill Buckley’s Firing Line; more recently on PBS-TV’s Religion and Ethics in America and Life & Styles; John Stossel’s John Stossel Goes to Washington, and on WABC AM Radio’s John Batchelor Program in NYC, as well as numerous other media around the globe. His memoir, titled A Man Without a Hobby, was published in 2004.
Mary Ruwart
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. is a former pharmaceutical research scientist and Assistant Professor of Surgery. She has worked extensively with the disadvantaged in low-income housing and was a contender for the 1992 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nomination. Her scientific, political, and community activities have been profiled in several prestigious biographical works, including American Men and Women of Sciences, World’s Who’s Who of Women, International Leaders in Achievement, and Community Leaders of America. Dr. Ruwart is the author of Healing our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle, hailed by Visions Magazine as “what may be the most important book of the decade.” Healing applies win-win strategies to the political realm, “bridging the gap between conservatives and liberals, Christians and New Agers, special interests and the common good with practical solutions to our economic, environmental, and societal woes” (Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman (R-TX) and 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee). Dr. Ruwart is also the author of ‘Short Answers to the Tough Questions,’ which is based on her “Ask Dr. Ruwart” column at www.TheAdvocates.org.
Richard Rider
Richard Rider is a business owner and taxpayer activist in San Diego. He is a frequent author of state and local ballot arguments, expressing the libertarian viewpoint. His op-eds have appeared in numerous California newspapers. He is currently a paid columnist for the North County Times. Rider has been involved in significant legal matters in the state. His landmark lawsuit, Rider vs. the County of San Diego, repealed over 14 BILLION DOLLARS of illegally passed sales taxes across the state, including over $3.5 billion in San Diego County sales taxes. That landmark case is still the standard used to require a 2/3 vote on special taxes. In 1996 he was appointed to the 22-member California Constitution Revision Commission by the Speaker of the State Assembly. Rider received his B.A. in Economics from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Upon graduation in 1968, he came to California as a Navy Supply Corps officer. A Vietnam veteran, he retired as a Commander in the Navy Reserve. For 20 years he was a stockbroker and CFP. In 1994 he retired and founded Economy Telcom, a telecommunications brokerage business. In 1999 he formed San Diego Tax Fighters, a grassroots taxpayer organization that is the principal opposition to bigger government and higher taxes in San Diego.
Orlando-Ward & Associates, Inc.
Orlando-Ward & Associates is a training, consulting and coaching group that specializes in programs using live, professional theater, interactive facilitation and experiential learning; consulting on diversity, harassment, leadership, teamwork and change; and business and executive coaching. Their approach focuses on pro-active methods of avoiding costly litigation, leveraging diversity within an organization, and other means of encouraging productivity and increasing profit.
For the 2008 California Convention, the group has consulted with prominent Libertarians to develop an outreach workshop using live theatre. The program demonstrates methods for effective communication of libertarian principles in an entertaining manner.
Their main office is in San Diego, with additional delivery teams in New York, Miami, and the Bay Area, enabling them to serve the entire country. Their European team is located in London. Orlando-Ward’s work is powerful, efficient and memorable. Clients consistently report that more is accomplished in two hours than most training organizations accomplish in two days.
Orlando-Ward’s clients include American Express, AXA Financial Services, Clifford Chance LLP, Colliers International, Ericsson Wireless, Ford Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Corp., Qualcomm, and Warner Bros., to name just a few.
What clients have said…
“I can truly say (Orlando-Ward) proved invaluable in helping us open the door to major organizational change - far faster than I ever thought possible.”
-M. Lutchen, Senior Partner, Former CIO, PricewaterhouseCoopers
“Two years later and I’m still receiving kudos on the quality
and creativity of your program.”
-A. Goodman, SVP Organization Development, Merck Medco
“It’s a very innovative, impactful, and effective training program.”
-A. Mellotti, VP Human Resources, Trade Service Corporation
“One Man Show” by San Diego’s own Mark Whitney!
Everyone’s lying. Everyone’s making money. A story as powerful, relevant and funny as it is true. An award winning political dramedy, written and performed by Mark Whitney.
“With a keen eye for shadiness - and an involuntary reflex to cut right through it in humorous, politically incorrect fashion - Whitney takes aim at several targets. Among them are government agencies that have long since departed ways with common sense, a justice system sometimes at odds with truth, and child coddling baby boomers, including himself. At its best, Freedom Factor is subversive. It may even make some squirm from all the honesty.” ~Mark Collins, Arts Critic, Boulder Daily Camera.
Musical Performance by Dan “Frodo” Litwin’s Band
Dan “Frodo” Litwin has been a guitarist since 1970 and a libertarian since 1975. He grew up being influenced by two seemingly different forces: classic rock and the political beliefs of his parents. Musical influences range from Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana to political influences such as Ben Franklin and Harry Browne. Released in 2003, The band’s CD, “Peacemakers”, is a no-excuses rock tribute to the ideals of peace and libertarianism. The band performed at the 2004 National Libertarian Party Convention’s “Red, Rock & Blues” concert in Atlanta, GA.Dan Litwin’s activities outside of music consist of building up a catalog of over 50 published letters to the editor in the San Diego Union-Tribune, as well as USA Today and the L.A. Times.
You can register for the convention here: http://www.ca.lp.org/convention2008.shtml For more information about the California Libertarian Party Convention please call Jesse Thomas at 619-318-0928.