PorcFest 2012 Panels from Free Concord

This year’s Porcupine Freedom Festival was more photo and video recorded than any prior gatherings of the liberty-loving community of NH and beyond. Officially the action was captured by PorcFest Chronicles, working on behalf of the organizers to videograph panels and discussions.

I captured some of the sessions I found to be most interesting on the Free Concord HD camera. Here’s the Austrian Economics panel, featuring Bob Murphy, Dan D’Amico, Anne Rathbone Bradley and Benjamin Powell.

This panel early on Saturday morning was entitled ‘Atheism and Liberty’, and featured Adam Kokesh, Stefan Molyneux, and Ernie Hancock.

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Radio Free Keene News 2012-06-29

Radio TowerRadio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.

Topics covered include Porcfest 2012, Derrick J’s release and subsequent civil disobedience in Middleboro, MA, and the exodus from Keene of new mover Chris Cantwell. Here’s the archive:

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Keene’s Not Right For Everyone, Especially Advocates of Violence

A few months ago, Chris Cantwell moved to the Keene area. Chris is a talented comedian, a great activist, and an excellent writer. Over the time he’s been here, I’ve shared some of his articles on this blog. There’s a reason though that I only shared his articles rather than inviting him to blog here – Chris doesn’t believe in peaceful evolution. Chris, as he explains in his piece on why he’s leaving Keene, believes in defensive violence against the state. This belief system immediately put him at odds with those of us in Keene who believe that peace is the way. (more…)