The cause of liberty knows no borders, and neither does SFL! Want to get involved and help to change the political climate around the world?

Now you have three ways to become a leader for liberty in North America, Europe and worldwide!  (more…)

While Students For Liberty grows to a really international student movement, we also experience a lot of tough regulations, which hinder our internationalization. For a couple of years for instance Turkey totally blocked YouTube and our partners from the 3H Movement fought heroic battles against Internet censorship in Turkey. Surprisingly one of the toughest countries in terms of Internet regulation is my home country Germany. One example are for instance the great clips Gabrielle Shiner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJxFAecA-M&feature=related) made in order to advertise the first European Students For Liberty Conference in 2011. Some of those clips aren’t available on the German YouTube page due to the fact that we don’t own the copyrights for the background music.

Blocked ESFLC-YouTube Clips in Germany

A new area of even tougher Internet regulation is about to arrive in Germany: Just recently two major newspapers had to close due to financial problems and the lack of innovation in order to use the Internet as a new source for revenues (Financial Times Germany and Frankfurter Rundschau). Most German print-media outlets have so far failed to understand how to utilize the Internet as the new nexus for information and revenue generation. Due to the lack of innovation and good services they have to try to win market shares in the Internet by hiring lobbyists and applying good old cronyism. (more...)

Participants at the 2012 European Students For Liberty Regional Conference in Turin, Italy.

Since Students For Liberty’s first Conference in 2008, we have recognized the importance of supporting students dedicated to liberty around the world. While our support for international students was largely virtual and moral rather than substantive or meaningful in the early years of SFL, we took a significant step in 2011 with the formation of European Students For Liberty. SFL had resisted launching a full expansion to Europe beforehand for many reasons: concern that US leaders didn’t have a strong enough understanding of European practices or culture to run an organization there, not wanting to be perceived as imposing US views on students around the world, uncertainty regarding the level of demand for SFL abroad, the risk of straining our limited resources and the potential for malinvestment, etc. However, when we reached a point that we were receiving a plethora of requests from students in Europe for resources and support, we saw strong leaders developing on the continent who could lead the student movement for liberty, and we had evidence that SFL’s model was not only demand, but could work in Europe thanks to the organizational success of SFL’s first European Executive Board member, we decided we couldn’t ignore the need to support our fellow students.

A year after fully launching ESFL, there are over 100 pro-liberty student groups across Europe, 5 ESFL Regional Conferences being held this fall, and over 20 Local Coordinators fully trained in SFL’s leadership practices whose job will be to grow the student movement for liberty even more. The success of SFL’s expansion to Europe led us to create the SFL Charter Teams Program to provide leadership training, oversight, and support for pro-liberty students around the world. With over 30 students participating in the CT Program right now, we have seen tremendous success in the few months the program has been in operation, such as a 100+ person conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, training workshops in Guatemala and Peru, the translation of SFL handbooks to other languages, and much more.

The cause of liberty knows no borders. The interest of young people in the ideas of liberty is universal. Indeed, when I say that our generation is the most libertarian generation to ever exist, I don’t mean the generation of young people in the US, I mean our generation across the world. The need for SFL to support these students to fulfill our mission and create the freest world possible is greater now than ever before, and the potential for us to succeed in this task is greater than ever before. With this in mind, I am excited to announce several actions unanimously agreed to by the SFL Executive Board to make SFL a truly international organization: (more…)

This Saturday, November 3, SFL will be running 6 (count ‘em: SIX) Regional Conferences all across the globe!

In the U.S., SFL is hosting conferences in:

• Chicago
• North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
• Northern California (Berkeley)
• Boston
• Northwest (Seattle)

In Europe, European Students For Liberty will be hosting their Belgrade Regional Conference, in Belgrade, Serbia!

Don’t miss out. Click on one of the above links for more information, and register today before it’s too late!

The International SFL Conference is the premiere event of the year for students dedicated to liberty and advancing freedom on campus. The 2013 International Students For Liberty Conference will be the biggest yet, and will be hosted at the Grand Hyatt Hotel February 15-17, 2013.

This year’s conference will feature a performance by Dorian Electra, a Friday keynote address by John Mackey of Whole Foods Market, a Saturday taping of the STOSSEL Show, and many more amazing breakout sessions and panels.

Additionally, the 2013 International Students For Liberty Conference will have wireless internet access, free of charge, available for all attendees!

The ISFLC will be among the first conferences of its kind to provide wireless access for all attendees, and we cannot express how excited we are to offer this service for our students. (By the way, the Twitter hashtag for the 2013 ISFLC is #ISFLC13. Use it!)

Early bird registration for the 2013 International Conference ends TOMORROW, October 31. After October 31, registration fees increase from $10 to $20. Don’t wait! Register early!