As previously announced, we’re screening a bunch of the best and most interesting videos presenting Georgist messages. Not all by Georgists, but all saying things people need to know if they’re to figure out where the economy is, where it’s going and why. We’ll be there for four hours, 5 to 9 PM Tuesday …
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Progress & Poverty, movies, book discussion, and a robbery tour
Yes, we remain confident that what you can learn at the Henry George School provides an essential perspective, available in only a few places, on how the world works, why things usually go wrong despite (sometimes) good intentions, and a proposal by (but not entirely original to) a brilliant American philosopher and economist to solve …
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Feb 10 Monday 6 PM: No Farms No Food
Since earliest civilizations, humans have recognized that food is a product of farmland (and, yes, pastureland, fisheries, etc) and have managed to cultivate enough land to feed themselves. Yet today we routinely convert farmland to urban use. American Farmland Trust (AFT) seek to ensure continued agricultural use of some land by buying development rights from …
Dec 04 Wed 6 PM: Do You Really Care Whether the Government Monitors You?
Why worry about NSA surveillance when so many of us enthusiastically support systems of taxation that require massive invasion of privacy? What kind of public revenue system would we urge if we really wanted to keep the government out of our affairs? What kind of public benefit (“welfare”) system would we have? How would we …
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Oct 28 Will the Real Fiscal Stimulus Please Stand Up?
Bob Jene compares the geoist fiscal reform to the TARP bailout, “Fair” Tax, Flat Tax, Bush tax cuts, and government money creation. Each proposed or attempted solution to the great recession will be given. Attendees will rank the proposed measures to get out of the recession on a scale of 1 to 10 based on …
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Sep 18 Wed 6PM American Monetary Act
Leading up the the 2013 Monetary Reform Conference, Bob Jene will examine the American Monetary Institute‘s proposed Monetary Reform Act. This amendment to the U S Constitution will be compared to Henry George’s ideas on money. Steve Zarlenga‘s analysis of Henry George’s ideas, showing George was an important monetary reformer, will also be discussed. (Zarlenga is …
Sept 12 6PM: Thief describes his methods and explains how to protect your community
Successful land speculation is really a matter of capturing for yourself the gains that belong to the community. George Menninger is one of many who have done it. Far beyond any need to earn a living, George now spends some of his time explaining how the bad public policy he exploited not only made him …
Thurs, July 25 6 PM: No Farms, No Food
Since earliest civilizations, humans have recognized that food is a product of farmland (and, yes, pastureland, fisheries, etc) and have managed to cultivate enough land to feed themselves. Yet today we routinely convert farmland to urban use. American Farmland Trust (AFT) seek to ensure continued agricultural use of some land by buying development rights from …
Apr 22 Mon 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate: I $tole it from you
What George Menninger did was completely legal. He stole over a million dollars. Many people do it, perhaps including some of your neighbors; if George hadn’t then someone else would have. You and fellow Chicagoans have already paid George so he is far beyond the need to earn a living. Now he volunteers some of …