Upcoming speeches

FSI has some public and private speech opportunities coming up soon.

March 25th, Songmi Han and Minhee Na will be speaking at a parallel event being held during the 66th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

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I have held some Zoom sessions with Songmi to help her get prepared, Minhee stopped by the office twice to talk with me about her speech.

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On March 30th, FSI co-founder Casey Lartigue will be giving a speech to more than 300 South Korean university students.

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On April 16th, Greenlight to Freedom co-authors Songmi Han and Casey Lartigue will be having a book talk discussion. Then later that day, Casey Lartigue will be participating in a panel discussion via Zoom at a conference based in the USA.

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YouTuber Evelyn Jeong stopped by the office to talk about several things. It seems that we may be able to work together more closely than in the past!

Next month she will be giving a speech at a private event. This will be her third speech with FSI--she spoke at both our regional and international conferences in 2021, and we also had a YouTube live on her channel.

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FSI is getting prepared for its 16th English speech contest. The goal is for this one to be LIVE on the Internet. You can reserve a ticket via Eventbrite, our Crowd-funding page or Facebook.

We will be recruiting mentors to help the refugees get prepared for the contest.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/64032215

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Fundraiser: Not all speaking opportunities are paid, you can contribute to FSI's speaker fund so we can seek more opportunities with organizations and platforms that cannot pay speakers for various reasons.

Facebook or our crowd-funding page.

Get rid of that watermelon!

Part 1: When I was a youngster I used to collect Confederate money, posters and photographs with caricatures of blacks, and "No blacks allowed signs." I loved the money because it was a reminder of how far the sorry Confederacy had fallen. I had one poster of a dark-skinned black boy munching on a watermelon. I would look at that small poster and wonder, "What in the world is wrong with anyone wanting to eat watermelon?" Yes, white people, I'm talking to you. Your parents, grandparents, and other ancestors who thought making fun of blacks for eating watermelon were crazy ! Even people who say that nothing has changed in race relations must acknowledge that the many stereotypes of blacks are no longer prevalent. But then, there are also some ready to remind us of days-gone-by by debunking stuff that doesn't need to be debunked today. According to the Washington Post: The sound you just heard was yet another racial stereotype going kersplat ! Some ...

Common Sense on North Korea (Korea Times, April 2, 2012)

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. As interesting as Kookmin University professor Andrei Lankov’s writings are, there is nothing quite like attending one of his lectures. He can barely restrain himself behind the podium, often pointing and waving his arms. I also enjoy his unscripted speeches, but his answers in Q&A sessions are like the difference between watching Michael Jordan shoot baskets in warm-ups and an actual game. I have finally discovered the secret behind Lankov’s consistently solid analysis about North Korea: Use common sense. At an Asan Institute conference last summer, he argued that North Korea watchers should try to understand North Korea from its perspective. Don’t most people know that you must understand the mindset of others you are dealing with? Yet, common sense in theory gets ignored politically. From the North Korean perspective, nuclear weapons are the best thing they’ve got going. They will NOT give them up easily, even if President Obama ...

Rich talking back

The rich are talked about very often in negative terms, but how often do the rich respond in kind? Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, who inherited most of her money but apparently has also done very well with it, recently railed against class warfare and had some advice for the non-rich : "There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she writes. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working." She complained about politicians raising taxes, regulations that slow investment, and other anti-business policies that harm the poor. "If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvenstment and businesses welcome."

Park Jin welcoming remarks to FSI (and Casey Lartigue)

National Assembly member Park Jin makes the welcoming remarks at FSI's conference featuring North Korean diplomats. Park Jin | Greeting message to FSI and Casey Lartigue mention - YouTube

2015-10-16 speech: Legacies of the Korean War at GMU (Korea)

Yesterday I was one of the speakers at a special event at George Mason University's campus in Seongdo (Korea). Charles Cousino, an 84-year-old Korean war veteran, discussed his connection to Korea. I discussed Teach North Korean Refugees. And North Korean refugee Sehyek Oh talked about what freedom means to him. It was the speech he used to win TNKR's second English speech contest. Special thanks to Roland Wilson and Michael Dunne for making it happen! support TNKR: www.lovetnkr.org/donate

The Casey Lartigue Show!

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