Thursday, 28 March 2008
UF Healthcare Forum
Congratulations to Christopher Bonura for doing an amazing job defending heatlh freedom and the free market at tonight's Healthcare Forum, and thank you to all who came!
For those who might be visiting our site for the first time, please check the box to the right for the latest information on our events and meeting. We also have a Facebook group, and a mailing list for announcements.
Do you feel that America has drifted far from the original spirit of this great country? That we are fast losing the liberties our forefathers fought so hard to protect? That there remains little difference between Republican and Democrat politicians? Then come to one of our meetings. We are a non-partisan organization dedicated to individual liberty and personal responsibility, and we're welcoming to all.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Social and Planning Meeting in the wake of the Primaries
We'll be meeting this Thursday, the 7th of February, at 7pm in Reitz Union room 277 for social discussion in the wake of the primaries, planning a monetary policy panel discussion and showings of "Busted!" and "Freedom to Fascism", Operation Politically Homeless (tabling with the giant libertarian quiz), LANUF t-shirts, and more! We'll be going to Texas Roadhouse afterwards.
See you there!
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
First meeting of the Spring semester!
Our first meeting of the Spring semester is Thursday, 24th of January!
Wednesday, 26 September 2007 by: Neal Conner
Restore the Republic! Reinstate the Constitution!
RonPaul2008.com
RonPaulGainesville.com
Tuesday, 24 July 2007 by: Neal Conner
News Coverage for LANUF
Last week, we were featured in an article in the Gainesville Campus Sun: "Group wants guns to be allowed on college campuses". Following this coverage, Alexander Villacampa, our Vice-President, was interviewed by WUFT for a television segment which aired Monday. And today, I was interviewed by WRUF 850 AM for a news program which airs at 4:00pm.
Saturday, 28 April 2007 by: Neal Conner
End of the Semester!
Thanks everybody for a great semester! We'll be having meetings this summer as well.
Monday, 03 April 2007 by: Neal Conner
Our Website Returns!
Our website is finally back up. Now we'll be able to post the 5th and latest episode of our podcast, LANcaster. (By latest I mean recorded December of last year.)
Monday, 11 December 2006 by: Neal Conner
Howard Roark's speech from The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Wednesday, 1 November 2006 by: Neal Conner
LANUF to host showing of "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters"
Date: Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: The Orange & Brew (outside the Reitz Union)
"Created by Flex Your Rights and narrated by retired ACLU director Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. In an entertaining and revealing manner, BUSTED illustrates the right and wrong ways to handle different police encounters and pays special attention to demonstrating how you, the viewer, can courteously and confidently refuse police searches."
- from http://flexyourrights.org/
This 45 minute film is being hosted by the Reitz Union Board and the Libertarian Activist Network at UF. We'll be having lawyers from Student Legal Services speak about your rights and options if you get busted. Also, LANUF will outline their objections and solutions to the War on Drugs, which is really a war against peaceful citizens. Admission is free, so spread the word!
We have created an event on facebook for the showing. You can find it here: http://ufl.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2215627609
Monday, 3 October 2006 by: Neal Conner
Dr. Jim Lark to address UF!
Date: Friday, October 13th, 2006
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Place: New Physics Building - Lecture Hall 1002 (The NPB is on the corner of Museum Road and Gale Lemerand.)
In his speech to UF, "The Libertarian Party: The Moderate Alternative", Dr. Lark explicitly defines "moderate" as synonymous with reasonable/sensible/prudent, and contrasts the LP position with the extreme policies on civil asset forfeiture, War on Drugs (especially medical marijuana), FDA prohibition, eminent domain, etc., that Democrats and Republicans have given us.
Dr. Jim Lark served as the chairman of the Libertarian Party durring the 2000-2002 term. He also serves as national campus coordinator for the Libertarian Party, and advises college and high school libertarians throughout the country on promoting libertarian ideas on campus. Dr. Lark is the recipient of the 2004 Samuel Adams award, given at national LP conventions to the LP member deemed the most effective activist. He is also the author of publications in mathematics, operations research, and artificial intelligence.
We have created an event on facebook for his speech. You can find it here: http://ufl.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2211337799
Tuesday, 18 September 2006 by: Neal Conner
First LANUF Podcast Episode
Alexander, Chris, Charles, and I got together last night in order to record the organisation's first podcast. Our goal is to create a podcast that is aimed at College Libertarians around the country, highlighting our activities and successes here at the UF. We haven't named it yet, although I kind of like the sound of "LANcaster" (as in the NH town.)
You can subscribe to our podcast feed through iTunes by going to the 'Advanced' menu, selecting 'Subscribe to Podcast', and pasting this URL: http://www.lanuf.org/podcast/lancast.rss
You can download Sunday's episode directly by right-clicking here and selecting 'save link as'.
Thursday, 12 September 2006 by: Neal Conner
Updates
I know this front page hasn't been updated in a while, but in reality we are very busy! We have plans for so much semester, so there are many ways by which you can help us. Come to one of our weekly meetings to see how. If you're looking for more frequent and recent information on our happenings, please join our Facebook group, post on our forums, or read the commentary on our blog.
Thursday, 12 July 2006 by: Neal Conner
Reflections on PorcFest 2006
"A spirit with a vision,
is a dream with a mission."
- Rush
I must admit, that as the wheels of my plane first touched New Hampshire, a tear came to my eye. This, I knew, was home to me. It was the setting of all my dreams for the future, the soil out of which a revolution would spring. I stepped off that plane with a silent reverence for the righteousness of the mission that was ahead, renewing the sense of my life's purpose.
Manchester was mine to explore that evening. After dropping my luggage off at the hotel, I set out on foot towards downtown, crossed the Merrimack river, and discovered Elm Street: the Main Street you've always wished for. I mean, where else on one street have I found a Hungarian pastry shop, an awesome cigar lounge called "Castro's Backroom", and an entirely Vietnamese video store? And it was there, on Elm Street, that I experienced for the first time ever the absence of any sales tax. To know that your money is going directly to that business is a great feeling of the power of your purchase. The only cops I ever encountered in Manchester were actually performing a public serivce: they helped people cross the street safely! Now these are policemen I'd be inclined to respect.
My friend, Menno, would arrive later that night. His first experience of New Hampshire was in renting a car for our trip up to Lancaster. Remarking at the cheap rate, he asked, "This includes insurance, right?" "Nope," the agent responded. "You mean, insurance isn't required in New Hampshire?" "Of course not, it's the Free State. Live free or die, man!"
Menno and I awoke at 5 the next morning, and soon after set out for PorcFest. We traveled through beautiful scenery, the highways covered in mist, past cliffs of granite, with Rush playing in the background. At one point, for the sake of exercising my New Hampshire freedoms, I unbuckled my seatbelt while going 75mph down the interstate. The horror! I thought myself a rebel, until I realised I was acting well within the law and felt naked and unsafe without it. Imagine that: people will voluntarily look out for themselves!
We arrived at Lancaster in the early morning, having driven across the state in less than three hours, and found a group of Porcupines getting ready for a hike with the president of the FSP, Varrin Swearingen. The mountain they had chosen to climb was, uncoincidently, called Mount Liberty. What a great metaphor it would be, to say that you had climbed Mount Liberty. Unfortunately, I only made it to Liberty Springs, three-fourths of the way to the peak. I had had but one bottle of water on the way up, so my mind was focused on getting my hands on some cold, refreshing Liberty Water. Needless to say, dehydrated and steaming from sweat, and in the wilderness of the Free State, it was the best water I've ever tasted.
That afternoon, they held a meeting for those interested in substantially volunteering for the FSP. It was there that I met the superstars of New Hampshire activism: Russell Kanning, Kat Dillion, Joel Winters, and Lauren Canario. Maybe they've heard it before, but these people are role models for all of us. I was glad to have the opportunity to talk with these dynamic, principled people (about what else, but politics! hah) and even to crash on Russell and Kat's couch in Keene.
From singing around a campfire while roasting marshmellows with Jason Sorens, to lying down with a beer to watch falling stars streak across the Milky Way in incredibly dark skies, PorcFest was an absolute blast. Menno, after having been offered a job by Joel Winters, has gone back to Sarasota to pack, and is turning right back around to settle in Manchester. I, on the other hand, will be here at the University of Florida in the mean time, spreading the message of Liberty and rallying the troops for the Free State Project. But home shall be calling...
"Those who fight for the future,
live in it today."
- Ayn Rand
Sunday, 18 June 2006 by: Neal Conner
LANUF 2.0
Everybody did an amazing job this past semester. We went from feverishly scribbled notes in a coffee house downtown to a fully-fledged student organisation that's been more active and visible than the College Republicrats. But this campus ain't seen nothin' yet. Coming this fall: LANUF 2.0
Date: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008, 7:00pm
Place: Reitz Union rm. 346
Type: General Meeting / or Speaker
Topic: If confirmed, we'll have Adam Guillette of the Florida chapter of Americans for Prosperty come to speak about the Taxpayer Protection Amendment!
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