Mr. Sullivan is currently the Director of Saving Communities. His past tenures include:  Former Chair, Libertarian Party of Allegheny County; Former Chair, Allegheny County Greens (before they formed a party and lost their green values); Treasurer, No Stadium Tax campaign; Former director, Henry George School and Birthplace Museum

Current Seminar Topics (all previously presented in various forums):

• Comparative Tax-Impact Analysis: How to compare the costs and economic effects of each tax option.
• Why all the parking lots?: A look at parking lots as an interim land use, critiquing measures to discourage open parking lots.
• Land Tenure and Race: How our systems of land tenure and taxation affect racial minorities.
• Gentrification and Displacement: How to minimize displacement of poor people when revitalizing a city.
• The Irish Land Question: How rack-renting starved the Irish, fuelled immigration to America, launched the American labor movement and now enriches English owners of American land.
  
• How to Fund Transportation: Why current funding methods generate sprawl at the expense of urban and small-town citizens who walk and bicycle to work.
  
• Intentional Communities: Places designed to serve as models for tax-free local governments.
• The Myth of Corporate Efficiency: How preoccupation with labor-efficiency has obscured the inefficient use land and resources.
• Land Tenure and Warfare: How the lack of a principled mechanism for resolving land-tenure disputes creates strife and warfare.
• Land Tenure and the American Legacy: Views of Penn, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Lincoln and others on the limits of landed property.
• Growth Without Corporate Welfare: How to revitalize a city without resorting to political favoritism.
• Economics Euphemisms: How substituting euphemisms for precise scientific language has twisted economics rhetoric to into a kind of Orwellian Newspeak.
• Raising Wages: The insufficiency and counterproductiveness of minimum-wage laws, and how to address the root cause of sinking wages.
• The Birth of American Labor: Henry George's pivotal role in forming a uniquely American labor movement based on principles "too radical for socialism," and how his political mistakes cost him his labor following.
  
• The Free-Trade Fraud: Errors on both sides of the free-trade debate, and differences between true free trade, which is good for labor, and right-wing free trade, which hurts labor.
• The Lost Science of Money: How lending money into circulation has made us dependent on banking cartels.
  
• American Indian Land Tenure: Comparisons to Saxon common law and other early systems, and connections to the American Revolution and classical liberalism.
  
• Land Tenure and Warfare: How the lack of principled mechanisms for resolving land-tenure disputes creates strife and warfare.

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