"It
used to be college was a place for open dialogue and open debate," says Says
Cliff Maloney Jr., Executive Director at Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). "But
now we find free speech zones, we find unconstitutional policies. And thats our
goal with...our national fight for free speech campaign. How do we tackle them?
How do we change them and reform them?"
YAL, the non-profit pro-liberty
organization that emerged from the 2008 Ron Paul campaign, encourages college
students to understand and exercise their constitutional rights. "We try to
reach kids with these ideas. We do that through activism. Real events–which
college campuses are supposed to be all about–taking ideas to students and
having these discussions." Since it's founding, YAL has increased chapters from
100 to over 700 nationwide.
Maloney sat down with Reason's Nick
Gillespie to talk about YAL, the state of free speech on campus, and his goal of
making politics "sexy."
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