On a recent visit to Ernie Hancock’s internet studios in Phoenix, I saw the most spectacular headquarters of liberty and the Ron Paul Revolution. Ernie’s dynamism in the midst of his arsenal of computer control panels, DVD copiers, and poster and t-shirt makers would have made a comfortable outpost for the Minutemen of 1776.
In 10 minutes Ernie finished his broadcast to thousands, fed his egg-laying chickens, and copied another 200 DVD’s of the Arabic “Philosophy of Liberty” (PoL) for distribution to libertarians across the Middle East from Egypt to Morocco. As he packed them up, Ernie handed me copies of the US Constitution in Arabic with the instructions inside saying, “Let them try this. Maybe they can stick to it better than our politicians have.”
:فلسفة الحرية The Philosophy of Liberty in Arabic FIXED The PoL is just one more weapon in the arsenal of libertarians that began as the epilogue of a little book, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (JG). The book has now been published in 65 editions in 45 languages"the PoL epilogue has been turned to animation, now in more than 40 languages.
Most recent is the French edition in a nation highly resistant to free market ideas. The New English Edition for youth has more than 40 colorful illustrations and an audio CD. New editions due to be released this year are a second Dutch edition, a second Albanian edition, a second Chinese edition, and new editions in Vietnamese, Estonian, Hindi, Armenian, and Finnish.
Robin Sitoula of the Liberty Institute in Kathmandu says that a normal publication in the small country of Nepal runs about 2000 copies. JG has sold 15,000 copies in just three years. Nepal is no playground for the battle for free markets, where devotees of freedom have long battled Maoists who currently hold a majority in the Parliament.
Adedayo Thomas has developed a very successful and ambitious theatrical program in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ghana utilizing a very effective play, A Letter From Jonathan Gullible, based on the book. Of the performance, Franklin Cudjoe of the free market IMANI Institute wrote: "Real Theatre at Ahmadu Bello University! You’re missing it guys...Just saw the greatest play on the intrusiveness of governments around the world. Performed by the Theatre Arts Department of Ahmadu Bello University. … Truly, Nigerian theatre producers are the best! I told the cast (actors) they had done our whole week's work in just one hour. I requested a reenactment on Sunday. I will do anything to support the cast to go global. The audience was largely African, drawn from six countries." The Atlas Foundation for Economic Research subsequently awarded Thomas a $28,000 grant to take the play on tour.
The JG book was produced in 100,000 CD’s, “Ideas for a Free Society,” by the International Policy Network. These were featured by my family in summer economics programs in Romania, Bulgaria, and China. In Morocco, Nouh el Harmouzi, conducted a liberty seminar program for Arabic economics students in Morocco.
The new, expanded Chinese edition will be published in time for the Shanghai Austrian Economic Summit, July 20-23. This program is organized by my wife, Li Zhao Schoolland, and sponsored by the International Society for Individual Liberty, www.isil.org. More than 20 speakers will be addressing a global audience on the lessons of free market Hayek, Mises, and Rothbard. This is followed by a post conference tour of China. Please join. For information contact: li.schoolland@gmail.com or jimelwood@isil.org.
Ken Scholland stops into the Freedom’s Phoenix Studio on 3-29-12 and records a special bonus
segment with Ernest Hancock on the
Declare Your Independence with Erenst Hancock show.
BONUS the last segment of the regular show and for another 40 minutes, Ken and Ernest
provide some inside information on how FreedomsPhoenix and Ken will impact the Generation
Next across the planet.... it’s just this easy :)
Ken Schoolland is presently an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at
Hawaii Pacific University. He is an economist, academic, author, and political commentator. Schoolland is also a member of the Board of Directors for the
International Society for Individual Liberty, and a Sam Walton Fellow for
Students in Free Enterprise.
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