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About UCSL
Uconn Students for Liberty is a Tier-II student organization at the University of
Connecticut Storrs Campus. UCSL was formed in December of 2008.
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Our Mission:
UConn Students for Liberty advocates a free and just society that stresses voluntary organization, peaceful activity, and other non-coerced expressions of a healthy and prosperous culture. As the modern State rejects this vision, we seek to cultivate an on-campus environment of discussion, education, and activism with regard to minimizing or altogether removing, its influence in society.
What Can USCL do for YOU?
You've got your UConn Democrats and your UConn Republicans, but UCSL is different. First and foremost, UCSL will accept everyone regardless of political belief or ideology; it's like the political asylum on campus. This is because everyone has a different conception of what "liberty" means to them. Our members come from the political left, right, up, and down, and are everything from anarchists, minarchists, constitutionalists, conservatives, liberals, and mutualists. Overall the club has a "libertarian" bent, however it's not called "UConn Libertarians" for a reason: UCSL does not endorse political candidates, affiliate with political parties, or engage in any other activity which would narrow its collective ideology and alienate entire swaths of concerned citizens. Instead it welcomes everyone so long as they pursue liberty and oppose unjust aggression.
Due to the variety of opinions and ideas, discussions are the highlight of membership. There is no "party platform" to worry about and discussions are not simply refined "talking points" as may be common to Republicans and Democrats. UCSL does not merely discuss the current "issues" that are prepackaged, branded, and sold to the common folk. UCSL discusses the real root issues - some of the most difficult, interesting, and rewarding issues that humankind has ever grappled with: What is human nature? Is man naturally good or bad? Is there an objective morality? Is the State legitimate? Is anarchy feasible? How might a free market for defense services operate? Who will provide the roads? Of course UCSL is not merely a philosophy seminar - the issues must of course reflect current events, strategies for restoring liberty, and discussing the latest threats to freedoms. One thing is for certain, this is one of the most intellectually stimulating activities you can engage in during your college career.
New Liberty Magazine
UCSL periodically publishes a magazine known as the New Liberty in honor of its predecessor - Liberty published by prominent individualist anarchist Benjamin R. Tucker in 19th Century America. It contains a mixture of opinion, commentary, and analysis by UCSL memebrs on issues of theory, current events, and strategies broadly relating to the cause of liberty. We welcome anyone with ideas to write an article for the New Liberty.
