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The Free the People team is heading to Las Vegas for this year\u2019s FreedomFest<\/a> on July 13-16, and we want to see you there!<\/p>\n

We have a crazy busy week, but would love for you to stop by and say hello. You can find us at Free the People’s Booth 123<\/strong> or come to one of the many sessions where we will be speaking. This year, our theme is the unbreakable connection between artistic integrity and individual liberty, and we\u2019ve got plenty of cool events centered around freedom and art.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our schedule:<\/p>\n

Thursday 7\/14<\/u>
\n3:10pm
\nPandemics and Liberty<\/strong>
\nFree the People, along with our friends at AIER, was one of the earliest groups to speak out against unprecedented government abuses of power during the pandemic. Join Matt Kibbe, AIER\u2019s Phil Magness, and others as we discuss the ensuing humanitarian disaster caused by government policies over the past two years, and how authoritarian pandemic policies might determine how future crises will be handled.
\n(Jamaica)<\/p>\n

Friday 7\/15<\/u>
\n10:45am
\nAnthem Film Festival: The Free Life: Portrait of an Artist<\/em><\/strong>
\nTo date, Free the People has won awards every single year since we started competing at the Anthem Film Festival in 2018. Will our winning streak continue this year? You can help by joining us to watch our latest film, The Free Life<\/em>. It’s about the price one artist is willing to pay to flee the dictatorship of Fidel Castro\u2019s Cuba in pursuit of artistic freedom. We think this is our best work yet, but the competition gets more intense every year. Of course, you can help by voting for us in the Audience Choice Awards!
\n(Montego A)<\/p>\n

11:15am
\nEssential Connection Between Freedom and Art<\/strong>
\nFollowing the screening of our film, Terry Kibbe will be moderating a panel to discuss the role of art in a free society, and why the freedom to create is every bit as essential to a life well-lived as all other pursuits of life, liberty, and happiness. Speakers will include Free the People\u2019s very own Matt Battaglia and Sam Martin.
\n(Montego A)<\/p>\n

Saturday 7\/16
\n9:05am
\nIn The Belly of the Beast<\/strong>
\nMatt Kibbe will take the main stage along with Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Warren Davidson to talk about the dumpster fire that is Washington DC. How can we reverse course from the disastrous economic policies that have created the first stagflation in 40 years? Will there be political accountability in November? And can Republicans do any better?
\n(Main Stage)<\/p>\n

11:00am
\nFree Speech is a Feminist Issue<\/strong>
\nTerry Kibbe will be on this panel, along with several other amazing women, to discuss why the ability to speak your mind is fundamentally connected to women\u2019s rights. This might get spicy since Terry doesn\u2019t identify as a modern feminist at all. She\u2019s far too Dagny Taggart for all that. And since the topic is free speech and opposition to censorship, there\u2019s no telling what she might say.
\n(Montego B\/C)<\/p>\n

2:10pm
\nWhy Do Despots Hate Artists?<\/strong>
\nThere\u2019s an observable trend in the history of dictatorships, where despots single out artists and poets and musicians first, in a vain attempt to stifle the subversive and independent thinking that naturally flows from the creative process. The reason for this is simple: artists influence culture, and culture has the power to change the world. Matt and Terry Kibbe will be telling stories about various socialist dictators and their desperate, and often failed, efforts to crush the independent human spirit.
\n(Trinidad A\/B)<\/p>\n

And, finally, Free the People\u2019s executive producer and resident artist Matt Battaglia keeps this theme right on rolling with three separate panels on art and freedom.
\n(St. Thomas A)<\/p>\n

2:10pm
\nFreedomFest Art Show: Conversations with the Artists<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:10pm
\nThe Essential Connection Between Freedom and Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:10pm
\nThe Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Freedom of Expression in Today\u2019s Comic Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re coming to FreedomFest, let’s connect! If you can\u2019t make it this year, don\u2019t worry. In this one case, what happens in Vegas won\u2019t stay in Vegas forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. 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Kibbe is also a fanatical DeadHead, drinker of craft beer and whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/kibbeonliberty"],"url":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/author\/mkibbe\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}