{"id":3,"date":"2008-11-21T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-11-21T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:03:28","slug":"interview-with-nicholas-provenzo-on-effective-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Nicholas Provenzo on Effective Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"SOLID VOX: Nicholas Provenzo discusses Effective Activism on Over The Top with Jim Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/JW-nicholasprovenzo01.mp3\">Listen, download, or podcast this interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest: <strong>Nicholas Provenzo<br \/>\n<\/strong><a title=\"Nicholas Provenzo, Center for the Advancement of Capitalism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalismcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Advancement of Capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[photopress:NicholasProvenzo01.jpg,full,pp_empty]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics covered include &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission of the <a title=\"Center for the Advancement of Capitalism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalismcenter.org\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Advancement of Capitalism<\/a>. What is the key to activism? The talk Nick Provenzo gave to a group of very intelligent, business-oriented high school students at a Washington, D.C. conference. What tools did Nick offer to these students?<\/p>\n<p>Why are young audiences easier to engage? Activism on college campuses \u2013 two ways that Objectivism (the philosophy of <a title=\"Ayn Rand, Objectivism\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ayn Rand<\/strong><\/a>) can be introduced to students at university. Nick\u2019s debate at George Mason University on whether the US should invade Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to change the direction of a culture, what realm must we come to know and command? Nick\u2019s lecture to the State Medical Society of Colorado on the subject of anti- trust in health care.  Doctors and HMOs &#8211; the restrictions on doctors in their negotiations with HMOs.  What surprised the doctors about Nick\u2019s lecture?  What made dealing with this audience difficult?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it important to try to communicate with the members of the 3 branches of government about the necessity of protecting individual rights? How the Center utilizes Amicus curiae or \u201cFriend of the Court&#8221; briefs. CAC&#8217;s brief on Affirmative Action to the Supreme Court of the United States. Why are these Supreme Court briefs effective?<\/p>\n<p>Visit the website for the <strong>Center for the Advancement of Capitalism<\/strong> @ <a title=\"Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, Nicholas Provenzo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalismcenter.org\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CapitalismCenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SOLID VOX: Nicholas Provenzo discusses Effective Activism on Over The Top with Jim Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/SolidVox.com\/JW-nicholasprovenzo01.mp3\">Listen, download, or podcast this interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, download, or podcast this interview Guest: Nicholas Provenzo Center for the Advancement of Capitalism [photopress:NicholasProvenzo01.jpg,full,pp_empty] Topics covered include &#8230; The mission of the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism. What is the key to activism? The talk Nick Provenzo gave to a group of very intelligent, business-oriented high school students at a Washington, D.C. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/?p=3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview with Nicholas Provenzo on Effective Activism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwoods.solidvox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}