Frederick Douglass Bicentenary

If you don't already read Reason online, check this out: Frederick Douglass was born in February of 1818 (the exact day is unknown), and Damon Root has a piece saying that the great man should be remembered for his classical liberal thought, as well as for his inspiring biography.

I largely agree, except that Root quotes Douglass saying that the soil should be owned. If I had a time machine, I'd like to go debate the formidably eloquent Douglass about that, and argue for a distinction between what labor creates, and land that no human labor can create.

Georgist Conference in O'Fallon, Part Twenty

To continue with the evening of July 28, when the Henry George Institute had its membership meeting, here is what was said, mostly by Lindy Davies:

In 2012, we secured a college transfer credit recommendation from the NCCRS. We will renew. So far, two people have actually obtained transfer credit from Excelsior College (part of the University of New York).

Database application with property information for New York City. We can do searches and come up with information.

History: The Henry George School of New York had a thriving correspondence course program in six languages. The Henry George Institute was founded in 1971 to revive the correspondence course program. (Its founding president, Robert Clancy, was fired from the HG School in 1969-1970 in a vain attempt to obtain Lincoln Institute funding.) The HG School had lifetime Board members to prevent infiltration. The HG Institute is democratic, but the Board can refuse membership applications; this has never happened, but it could, especially if, for example, the organization came into money.

What can you do? There was discussion of volunteer opportunities; that will be a different post, I think.

Georgist education is not passé. We must do it, and the Henry George Institute does it.

Date can be used to create land value maps. Land values in NYC.