• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

Official Free Speech Forum Symposium July 16-18 Thread

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We reserved this place in Birmingham for the weekend of July 16-18 - make sure to mark your calendars. This place sleeps 24 and is actually divided into 5 apartments so we can separate out the weirdos.


I know some aren't thrilled about Birmingham, but we picked Birmingham because it is centrally located for the guys that organized it and it is near a major airport so people can fly in cheap.

This place backs right up to a golf course (https://www.highlandparkgolf.com/) and is walkable distance from many places to dine and drink.

We plan on using Saturday from 10-3 to have a conference/symposium of some sort to discuss the forum, business, volunteer opportunities, freedom of speech and freedom in general. Anyone that would like some time to speak let us know.

If anyone has experience as an event organizer that would like to be involved, please let us know as well.

Special thanks to @Chris Farley for providing the spark to set this off. We will provide more details on reservations/agenda in the coming weeks.

Note: I know there are rumors that a special someone might be in attendance - I cannot comment on that further right now
 

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