Political involvement is an important part of being a responsible citizen. In addition to making your voice heard, being politically engaged allows you to learn more about your community and connect with the people around you. It’s important to understand the ideas of liberty and connect with fellow classical liberals, but it’s critical that we also connect with those from across the political spectrum. This not only allows us to better understand how our ideas are seen or understood by others, but opens to door for creative collaboration towards a freer world.
That’s one reason that, this September, SFL’s president, Alexander McCobin, will be addressing the upcoming United We Stand Festival, hosted by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation. The conference aims to bring together socially-conscious political and cultural leaders in order discuss and debate electoral processes.
President McCobin will be representing the libertarian outlook on electoral politics and addressing some of the issues that pro-liberty activists have identified with the current electoral process. In conjunction with our #ISFLC16 theme – “The Liberty Vote” – Students For Liberty is hoping to start a productive conversation about what it means to be politically engaged and how those inclined to liberty ought to approach electoral politics in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Just one of the many big-name activists and artists who will be addressing conference attendees at Los Angeles’ Belasco Theater, President McCobin will be bringing SFL’s increasingly-international outlook on political change to conference attendees. And he’ll be joining other speakers in calling for equality of opportunity in the political sphere and planting “the seed of awareness” in the minds of young people everywhere.
If you’re interested in hearing from President McCobin and the full line-up of speakers, including civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and tons of musical guests, you can buy tickets to #UWSFest here. But you don’t need to attend to get into the collaborative spirit! All you need to do, is make a concentrated effort to bring the message of liberty to new corners of your community.