XXII FÓRUM DA LIBERDADE

Strange as it may appear to some, but I must believe my server's logfiles, this site, since many years, is much visited from Brazil. This may have to do with Brazilians so often being much more daring than some of the German locals here I am cursed to deal with... ;-) This snotty remark of mine put aside, I extend a big thank you to my friends over there, in particular Margaret Tse, for drawing my attention to the upcoming Brazilian Liberty Forum – 22nd Edition – The Culture of Liberty. 22nd Edition? Yes, when Liberty has been sold out, you have to put a new edition on the market... :-) Have a look at the outstandingly well done Liberty Forum website. That's the English language version. Versão em Português. The portal Terra [at this writing not accessible from here!] will broadcast live all the panels and debates during the two-day Liberty Forum at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, on April 6 and 7, 2009. Pontifical Catholic? Since when is that pontiff for (full) liberty??? Oh well, maybe only in Africa... ;-) At this writing, the Programme on the Liberty Forum website is still only a skeleton, waiting for the flesh, the names of the speakers of the various panels, to be added. I have a Tentative Program though, which you can download in PDF here. Among the many names I recognize the one of Franklin Cudjoe from Ghana [don't miss the article with the many pictures!], who had also attended the ISIL conference at Gummersbach near Cologne in 2005. CU in Porto Alegre! [see the beautiful pictures; some more on the corresponding English page]

Porto Alegre will also ring a bell with people very knowledgeable in the monetary field ("ORECOPA", Organização Econômica Pôrto-Alegrense, cautelas de compra... — but that is half a century ago, before the "Remington Reform", as you can see from the spelling).