{"id":19,"date":"2009-03-29T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-04-03T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:39:22","slug":"liberty-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/liberty-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago (on 28 Feb 2009), there was the Convention on Modern Liberty<\/a>, in London and around the country. There are some videos and transcripts up from it now which I think deserve wide circulation. I\u00a0commend unto you at least the following couple of keynote speeches:<\/p>\n

Philip Pullman on the virtues that sustain a living and waking nation<\/strong><\/a>
\nTranscript of Pullman speech<\/a><\/p>\n

David Davis, inc “Tell me, Jack, when does<\/em> it become a police state?<\/strong>“<\/a>
\nTranscript of Davis speech<\/a><\/p>\n

Shami Chakrabarti, inc the difference between rights for citizens<\/strong> and human rights<\/strong><\/a>
\nI\u00a0felt this speech wasn’t quite as “in tune with the audience” as the ones from the two older blokes, so it’s not as compelling as a piece of video, but still full of good points.
\nPartial transcript of Chakrabarti speech<\/a><\/p>\n

Of interest especially to bloggers, here’s a panel featuring Ben Goldacre of Bad Science<\/a>, and others:
\nBloggers’ panel<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00a0also liked this panel: How do we secure modern liberty?<\/a> (longer video than the others) – especially the contributions from Afua Hirsch<\/a> and Brian Eno<\/a>, and the point near the end from Evan Harris<\/a>.
\nPartial transcript of that panel<\/a> – at time of writing still pretty full of errors and omissions, and has a warning up to that effect.<\/p>\n

Here’s the home page of the whole site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0haven’t watched everything from there yet, but I must say I found it relieving and moving to see people talking about this very important stuff of which the Government seems so careless. I’m very glad this convention happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favourite videos and transcripts so far from the Convention on Modern Liberty, inc Philip Pullman speaking on the virtues that sustain a living and waking nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-quasi-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}