Long Island Liberty
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SEPTEMBER

6 TUE @ 7:00 "Why the West Rules for Now" by Ian Morris. Book Discussion Group Jericho Library (718) 281-5038 6 TUE @ 7:00 How to Represent Yourself in Court Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 7 WED @ 4-8:00 The Future of LIPA SUNY Farmingdale 588-4200 10 SAT @ 5-11:00 LibertyFest Manhattan LFNYC.com 12 MON @ 7:00 Libertarian MeetUp Lake Grove 385-1853 14 WED @ 11:15 a.m. "Economic Update" Max Wolff, The New School in International Affairs Hofstra (516) 463-5595 17 FRI @ 7:00 Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 19 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 22 THU @ 12:40 p.m. International Law and 21st Century Warfare Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Howard Dean, former chair of the DNC, Ed Rollins, Republican campaign consultant Hofstra (516) 463-5595 22 THU @ 7:00 Combating Global Warming Bill McKibben/Amy Goodman on video with commentary by Professor Scott Carlin Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 26 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club West Sayville 258-0010 OCTOBER 3 MON @ 6:00 "Nonviolent Citizen Resistance to War" Chris Hedges, former NY Times correspondent Hofstra (516) 463-5595 3 MON @ 7:30 NRA Lindenhurst 957-7527 4 TUE @ 7:00 "Sovereign Power" Kent Galand Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 6 THU@ 11:15 "Afghanistan – America’s Longest War" Anand Gopal, Wall Street Journal Hofstra (516) 463-5595 10 MON @ 7:00 Economics and the Environment Libertarian MeetUp Lake Grove 385-1853 12 WED @ 7:30 Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador and Author “The Politics of Truth” St. Joseph’s College Patchogue 687-2667 13 THU @ 12:40 Robert Goldman, J. D., Psy. D. “No Time for Vengeance: Restorative Justice” St. Joseph’s College Patchogue 687-2667 16 SUN @ 10:30 “Reclaiming the Enlightenment” Dr. Joseph Chuman (via disc), Columbia University Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 17 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 19 WED at 7:00 LI Progressive Coalition Huntington (516) 541-1006 21 FRI @ 7:00 Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 24 MON 6 -9:00 “Paint the County RED” Keynote Speaker former Senator Alfonse D’Amato Suffolk GOP Holbrook 320-1900 (PAID EVENT) 27 THU @ 1:00 LI Wind Power Education Forum Renewable Energy LI Melville Marriot 329-8888 27 THU @ 7:00 "Understanding the Banking System (and what we can do about it)" Paddy Quick, professor of economics, St. Francis College Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 31 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club West Sayville 258-0010 NOVEMBER 1 TUE @ 7:00 Elena Sassower, director, the Center for Judicial Accountability Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 2 WED @ 1:00 Climate Change and What We Can Do Gordian Raacke Renewable Energy LI SUNY-Stony Brook 329-8888 3 THU @ 4:00 “Natural Law and Organic Order” Aeon J. Skoble, Professor of Philosophy St John’s University (718) 990-2000 4 FRI @ 8:00 PeaceSmiths Poetry & Politics Amityville 798-0778 6 SUN @ 10:30 Elections 2011 Zabby, local cable host Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 7 MON @ 7:30 NRA Lindenhurst 957-7527 14 MON @ 7:00 "What Is the Constitution Lobby?" Bob Schulz, Campaign for Liberty Hauppauge 543-3510 15 TUE @ 7:00 "Why Not Socialism?" James Otteson St John’s University (718) 990-7318 16 WED at 7:00 LI Progressive Coalition Huntington (516) 541-1006 18 FRI @ 7:00 Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 20 SUN @ 10:30 Election Day Wrap-Up Open Forum Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 21 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 22 TUE @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action Plainview Library 938-0813 28 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club West Sayville 258-0010 30 WED @ 11:00 "More Prosperity, Less Government" Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, business journalist Nassau Community College (516) 572-7153 30 WED @ 3:00 Sustainability Conference SUNY-Southampton 473-1461 DECEMBER 3 SAT @ 6:00 Award Ceremony Honoree: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives Hofstra U (516) 741-4450 4 SUN @ 10:30 "War and Pieces: Military Actions from Vietnam to Libya" John Valenti Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 5 MON @ 7:30 NRA Lindenhurst 957-7527 6 TUE @ 2:00 Chemtrail Ban Hearing Suffolk County Legislature Riverhead 852-3200 6 TUE @ 7:00 Jay Salpeter, P.I. & Ronald Schoenberg, Retired Nassau A.D.A. Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 8 THU @ 7:00 "Religion, Morality & Society" Philosophy Discussion Group Plainview Library (718) 281-5038 16 FRI @ 7:00 Celebration Concert Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 19 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 22 THU @ 7:00 "Occupy Wall Street: Where do we go from here?" Panel Discussion Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 JANUARY 2012 3 TUE @ 7:00 "Capitalism Hits the Fan" Book Discussion Group Jericho Library (718) 281-5038 3 TUE @ 7:00 Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 6 FRI @ 8:00 PeaceSmiths Poetry & Politics Amityville 798-0778 8 SUN @ 10:30 The Politics of 2012 Open Forum Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 18 WED @ 7:00 Roger Snyder, Green Party of Suffolk chair Green Party Sachem Public Library 422-4702 21 SAT @ Noon Mark Levin, author of “Ameritopia” Book Revue Huntington 271-1442 26 THU @ 7:00 Cyber Warfare Godfrey Vassallo, chief technical officer, Sicore Corporation Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 26 THU @ 7:30 Conservative Society for Action W. Islip 983-0813 30 MON @ 7:00 U.S. Congressman 
Tim Bishop; Nassau County Executive
 Edward P. Mangano 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 31 TUE @ 7:00 New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities Consortium The Dennison Bldg. Hauppauge www.sustainablenyct.org FEBRUARY 2012 3 FRI @ 8:00 PeaceSmiths Poetry & Politics Amityville 798-0778 5 SUN @ 10:30 "American Immigration from the Beginning" Nancy Mion, librarian and researcher Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 7 TUE @ 7:00 Gary H. Schwartz, former IRS agent, will share humorous and true stories, and how to get the most bang for your tax buck. Q&A session to follow. Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 9 THU @ 8:00 Ronald Reagan Republican Club Elwood Public Library East Northport 757-5083 13 MON @ 7:00 Society for Individual Liberty Lake Grove 385-1853 17 FRI @ 7:00 "The Darwin Effect: How evolution has changed our view of the world." Amy Frushour Kelly, coordinator of CFI-LI Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 20 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 23 THU @ 7:00 Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 24 FRI @ 7:00 Property Rights vs. "Sustainable Development" Conservative Society for Action Plainview Library 983-0813 27 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 27 MON @ 7:30 “The Bill of Rights, The 99%, and The Thin Blue Line: A discussion about the intersection of free speech and the police at Occupy Wall Street and beyond” Featuring: Chris Dunn, NYCLU Associate Legal Director; James Coll, Nassau Community College Professor and police detective; Omar Henriquez, Part of the 99% at Occupy Wall Street. Hofstra University Law School (516) 741-8520 MARCH 2012 2 FRI @ 8:00 PeaceSmiths Poetry & Politics Amityville 798-0778 4 SUN @ 10:30 Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 6 TUE @ 7:00 Tax Foreclosures Dale Javino Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 8 THU @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action American Legion Hall West Islip 938-0813 8 THU @ 8:00 Ronald Reagan Republican Club Elwood Public Library East Northport 757-5083 12 MON @ 7:00 "What Were the Founding Fathers Really Like?" Mike Church SUNY-SB 385-1853 15 THU @ 2:00 Symposium: "Leaning to the Left: Liberal Bias in Mainstream Media" Hofstra (516) 463-6816 16 FRI @ 7:00 Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 19 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 20 TUE @ 3:00 "40 Years After Watergate" Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Hofstra (516) 463-6816 22 THU @ 7:00 "Poetry and Music of Social Protest" Poets: Charlotte Koons, Tom Karlson, Mankh, Russ Green. Music: Patricia Smith Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 22 THU @ 7:00 “Who’s Afraid of Big, Bad Iran?” Michael Tuchfeld, Israeli television journalist Hofstra (516) 463-5669 26 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 27 TUE 2 7:00 “Israeli Society: Between Hebraic Law and the State” Michael Tuchfeld, Israeli television journalist Hofstra (516) 463-5669 APRIL 3 TUE @ 6:00 "Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy" Peter Costa, CNBC market analyst and NYSE Governor Hauppauge 851-5802 3 TUE @ 7:00 Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 6 FRI @ 8:00 PeaceSmiths Poetry & Politics Amityville 798-0778 16 MON @ 7:00 ACLU C. Islip 650-2301 20 FRI @ 7:00 "In the Shadow of Infamy: Charles Willoughby and the Secret History of Pearl Harbor" Richard Morrock, author, historian Center for Inquiry Plainview Library 793-9382 21 SAT @ 11:00 am Presidential campaign meeting Green Party Stony Brook 351-5763 24 TUE @ 7:30 Current Events in Perspective Michael D'Innocenzo, professor of history, Hofstra Northport-East Northport Library 261-6930 25 WED @ 7:00 Candidate vetting Suffolk Libertarian Party West Babylon meetup.com site 26 THU @ 7:00 "Voter-Owned Elections: Campaign Public Financing" Elisabeth Genn, Brennan center for Justice, NYU Law Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 26 THU @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action W. Islip 983-0813 27 FRI @ 8:00 The Economic Tyranny of the Interstate Commerce Clause Tibor R. Machan, R. C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise Chapman University, Orange, CA St. John’s University (718) 990-2000 30 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 May 1 TUE @ 7:30 FARMAGEDDON: A film on how government controls small-scale agriculture. Cinema Arts Centre Huntington 423-7611 6 SUN @ 10:30 am "Winner-Takes-All Politics" John Valenti Ethical Culture Society Smithtown 499-0726 14 MON @ 7:00 Giuseppi Ribaudo, NORML-LI Suffolk Individual Liberty (SIL) Lake Grove 543-3510 JUNE 19 TUE @ 7:00 Libertarian Party Panera Bread West Babylon 20 WED @ 7:00 Current Events in Perspective Michael D'Innocenzo, Hofstra Northport Library 261-6930 25 THU @ 7:00 Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 25 THU @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action Plainview Library 983-0813 28 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 JULY 26 THU @ 7:00 Patriot Games Forum Huntington Library (516) 541-1006 26 THU @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action West Islip 983-0813 30 MON @ 7:00 3rd Party Club Lake Ronkonkoma 258-0010 AUGUST 21 TUE @ 7:00 Libertarian Party Hauppauge meetup.com/The-Suffolk-Libertarianparty-Meetup-Group/events/ [I don’t know what phone # to give] 23 THU @ 7:00 Patriot Games Forum Huntington (516) 541-1006 23 THU @ 7:00 Conservative Society for Action West Islip 938-0813 25 SAT @ 2:00 - 8:00 LI Libertarian Cook-Out Plainview (917) 306-5177 SEPTEMBER 4 TUE @ 7:00 “And Justice for Some” Wendy Murphy, author Americans for Legal Reform Plainview Library 421-6390 4 TUE @ 7:00 Book Club Meeting Jericho Public Library (718) 281-5038 5 WED @ 6:30 pm "Generation RX" Movie w/ Q&A Save Long Island South Huntington Library 351-0168 6 THU @ 7:00 Gov. Gary Johnson Libertarian Party candidate for President Junto Manhattan nycjunto.org 10 MON @ 7:00 “Philosophy and the Importance of Capitalism” Douglas B. Rasmussen, professor of philosophy, St. John's University FEE* Discussion Society, Long Island chapter Nesconset branch of the Smithtown Library 543-3510 13 THU @ 7:00 Mike Gallagher, radio host Book Revue, Huntington 271-1442 18 TUE @ 7:00 Libertarian Party Hauppauge Palace Diner meetup.com/The-Suffolk-Libertarianparty-Meetup-Group/events/ [I don’t know what phone # to give] 24 MON @ 6:30 "Central Banking: Reform or Abolish?" Gerald O'Driscoll, senior fellow, CATO Institute St. John's University (718) 990-7318 27 THU @ 7:00 Patriot Games Forum Huntington (516) 541-1006 OCTOBER 1 MON @ 7:00 "What Can You Do About Money in Politics?" Green Party Patchogue/Medford Library 796-6367