Featured Speakers for PorcFest XXI

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Dr. Ron Paul delivers a candid look at the dysfunctional American political system. Using anecdotes from his 23 years in Congress, he highlights the need for a limited government and more personal liberties. Dr. Paul captures audiences’ attention by relating the occurrence of current national issues such as debt, privacy, and freedom to the government’s neglect to follow the constitution. His unwavering passion leaves audiences motivated to speak out, wake up, and let politicians know what they want. Since his retirement from Congress, Dr. Paul has continued to work for limited constitutional government through organizations he founded, including the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE), Campaign for Liberty, and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. In addition, Dr. Paul recently launched The Ron Paul Liberty Report, an online network airing original programming on today’s most pertinent issues. Dr. Paul, the author of several best- selling books, most recently released Swords Into Plowshares, offering a personal refection on America’s history of war, foreign intervention, and prospects for peace.

David Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, author, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Friedman has also authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008). He has taught at UCLA and Santa Clara University, and a has been a contributing editor for Liberty Magazine. He is the son of Rose and Milton Friedman and continues their legacy as an influential figure in the liberty movement. Check out his new substack at https://daviddfriedman.substack.com.

James Bovard is the author of ten books, including Public Policy Hooligan (2012), Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), The Bush Betrayal (2004), and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994). He is a 2023 fellow of the Brownstone Institute and a Libertarian Institute junior fellow. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, the Future of Freedom Foundation, and other venues. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard “the roving inspector general of the modern state,” the New York Times tagged him “an anti-czar Czar,” and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a “one-man truth squad.” His 1994 book Lost Rights received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the National Rifle Association’s Freedom Fund Award. His writings have been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the chief of the Transportation Security Administration, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by the Sierra Club, American Federation of Government Employees, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Post, Washingtonian magazine, Washington City Paper, Huffington Post, and numerous congressman and other malcontents. The Justice Department covertly pressured USA Today to cease publishing his attacks on the Attorney General in 2015.

Lily Tang Williams is a Congressional Candidate for the 2024 elections in NH District 2. She is Chair of the NH Asian American Coalition (which she helped to found), a member of the Advisory Board of USPIE, (U.S. Parents involved in Education), and on the Speakers Bureau of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington DC. Lily Tang Williams is a survivor of Mao’s Communist regime in China. Her parents were from an illiterate working-class family from China’s western Sichuan province. Lily grew up during Mao’s ten-year Cultural Revolution as a child, experiencing extremely poor living conditions, food rationing, social chaos and oppressive Communist restrictions and indoctrination. A few years later while studying in university, she received a copy of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence from an American student. From these two documents, she first learned about the individual rights and liberty as opposed to collective rights. After Lily became an Assistant Law Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, she, in good conscience, could no longer support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP.) In 1988, she managed to leave the oppressive regime by seeking, without her university’s support, graduate study in the US.

Soon after arriving in America, Lily met her future husband; they have been happily married for 33 years and have three adult children. While raising her family, Lily became an entrepreneur and began her journey of discovery of Democracy and Liberty. Currently, Lily manages rental properties with her husband while also works part-time as an expert witness on China related cases, traveling the country as a professional speaker. Sharing her story about the horrors of Socialism and Communism. Lily warns Americans about the growing parallels between Mao’s Cultural Revolution and American Cultural Marxism today and inspiring people to value their American heritage and their freedoms and opportunities.

Her passionate presentations and interviews have been featured on Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox Business, Newsmax, Timcast, Huckabee TV, John Stossel, Joe Pags Show, Gothix TV, Shawn Ryan Show, Epoch Times TV, Glenn Beck Radio, and many other podcasts. Also, she has authored opinion articles for The Epoch Times, Town Hall, National Review, Union Leader, Concord Monitor, 603 Diversity and Granite Grok. Her story was included in the Oral History of Communism Project funded by the State of Florida for K-12 Education. Recently featured in the documentary film, “The Great Awakening,” she has been speaking to students and parents and inspires people to be involved with the Liberty movement.

Keith Ammon is a New Hampshire State Representative from New Boston. He is the Vice Chair of the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs committee. Keith is serving his fourth term in office and has previously served on the Municipal and County Government and the Science, Technology, and Energy committees. He has also held the positions of Assistant Majority Whip and Clerk of the House Commerce Committee. He served on Governor Sununu’s Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets Commission and was Chair of the Commission To Investigate The Implementation Of Next Generation Nuclear Reactor Technology. In addition to politics, Ammon is a software developer focused on data analytics and blockchain technology. He is also a recreational pilot and advocates for New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” tradition.

Jeffrey Hann is the author of the new book “COVID19 – SHORT PATH TO ‘YOU’LL OWN NOTHING. AND YOU’LL BE HAPPY.’: Welcome to the new Age of Tyranny” He is also the man behind Journalistic Revolution, an open source news organization focusing on political, economic, and social information mainstream media reports on with bias. The website focuses on activism, liberty philosophy, and honest reporting. Jeffrey describes himself as a principled libertarian, anarchist, voluntarist, writer, journalist, political analyst, vaccine risk-aware advocate, son, husband, and father.

Catherine Bleish-Bonandin discovered she was a philosophical anarchist while giving a Soap Box Idol rant at Porcfest in 2009! A long time liberty activist, Catherine has moved from the front lines of the Ron Paul campaign and police accountability movement, to behind the scenes working as the Producer of Anarchapulco, and board member for the Greenbriar Intentional Community. Catherine raises chickens, goats, and sovereign children in Central Texas with her husband Paolo. You can read about her homesteading adventures at TheHomestead.guru.com

Her seventeen years as an active an involved member of the liberty community has provided her with profound insight into the nature of coercive control. Catherine explains that, “It manifests in a societal level, a communal level, relational level, and even within our own psyche. Finding freedom in our lifetime will require each of us to identify and irridacate the ways in which we participate in, and perpetuate, coersion.  When we each make the needed shifts in our Way of Being to exist as the sovereigns we were born to be, we serve as the building blocks of a truly free society.” To read about Catherine’s experience overcoming coercive control, visit SovereignLiving.com.

Jodi Shaw is a mother, musical artist and reluctant activist who rose to prominence in 2020 when she blew the whistle on the racially discriminatory “social justice” inspired policies and practices she encountered as an employee of Smith College in a series of YouTube videos. Her actions resulted in public denouncement by the college and the loss of her job. She has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tucker Carlson Today, American Thought Leaders (Epoch Times), and has been featured (not always positively) in Forbes Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times.

In 2021 Jodi filed “Shaw v. Smith College” in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. In 2022, she was the subject of Fox News documentary “Jodi Shaw and the Racial Mask of Whiteness,” and received the Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).

Jodi sees social justice ideology (a.k.a. “woke”) as part of a highly-orchestrated attack bent on creating division and sowing the seeds of destruction, causing damage to a primary source of power for any population: the ability to connect, maintain meaningful relationships, and build strong families and communities. Jodi writes about the social and emotional consequences of whistleblowing in her online blog “Diary of a Dissident” and in her forthcoming book: “Skin Deep: The Battle for the Soul of Smith College” (working title). Read more about Jodi at www.jodishaw.com.

Marc J. Randazza is the managing partner of Randazza Legal Group. Randazza’s First
Amendment calling came to him at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, where he studied
Journalism, but focused most of his studies on First Amendment legal issues.
After college, he worked as a journalist in Washington, DC, and Rome and Palermo, Italy, with
sojourns on fishing vessels in Alaska, and oil tankers, tugboats, and freighters in the Caribbean and
South Florida.

After his journalist and mariner days, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he
earned his Juris Doctor degree, and where he spent time clerking for the Supreme Court of
Vermont and for Rydin Carlsten Advokatbyrå, a Stockholm-based intellectual property law firm.
Immediately following law school, Marc received a fellowship from the Brechner Center for
Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, where he spent two years conducting in-depth
research, publishing, and lecturing on First Amendment and intellectual property law issues. He
also earned an LLM in International Intellectual Property law in Turin, Italy under a program run by
the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Following his fellowship, Randazza established a career focused on legal issues surrounding
freedom of expression, intellectual property, and Internet law.
His practice includes representation of defendants in SLAPP actions, protesters, and other free
speech cases as well as intellectual property litigation and transactions. His practice includes
representation of Internet businesses with Section 230 protection, adult entertainment businesses,
and other businesses and individuals in intellectual property and free speech matters. Randazza
was honored by Vegas, Inc. as one of Southern Nevada’s best attorneys for lawsuits and disputes.
Randazza formerly taught First Amendment Law, Entertainment Law, Trademark Law, and
Copyright Law at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. He is a frequent panelist at
legal conferences focused on these issues. He is often asked for commentary in the mainstream
media, and has frequently appeared on national television news shows, offering commentary on
First Amendment legal issues.
Randazza is past president of the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. He is licensed to practice
law in Nevada, California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Florida, all federal courts in those states,
multiple federal appellate courts, and before the United States supreme court.

Past Featured Speakers, from PorcFest XX, included: