Joyce Brand
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
The Free Cities Foundation hosted its annual Liberty in Our Lifetime conference in Prague, Czech Republic on November 1 through 3, 2024. On the first day of the conference, three awards were presented to outstanding members of the Free Cities movement.
One of the awards was for storytelling in the service of liberty. Of the three nominees, Alex Ugorji won the award, which was presented by Free Cities Foundation founder, Titus Gebel. After winning the award, Alex decided to change the speech he had planned to present the following afternoon.
CEO Of Morazan Model Association
I am a woman who is passionate about freedom. I understand that freedom is an overused and misunderstood word. By freedom, I mean responsibility — specifically the responsibility of living without allowing any self-proclaimed rulers to make my moral judgments for me. A coercive government can impose negative consequences on me for disobeying its edicts, but I am free to the extent that I recognize my own responsibility for the risks I choose to take in following my own moral judgments. That is what it means to live free in an unfree world.
The label that I use to describe myself is voluntaryist because it is the clearest word I can think of to describe my most important belief — that all interactions between human beings should be voluntary. There is never any moral justification for the initiation of violence or coercion. The Morazan Model Association explores the implications of that core belief.
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