Social Sundays Moves to 5pm at Armadillo’s!

September 30, 2009 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Announcement, ToDo

As a result of the incredibly popular 4:20 celebrations happening daily in Keene’s Central Square, turnout was way down for this past week’s Social Sundays. Plus, prior to the advent of the 4:20 events, the attendance at Social Sundays tended to ramp up and peak at 5pm. It seems that having Social Sundays begin after the 4:20 celebration would be the best approach. People can show up at 5pm and enjoy Social Sundays and the food at Armadillo’s Burritos after enjoying a nice afternoon toke in Central Square!

So, starting this weekend join us for Social Sundays at Armadillo’s at 82 Main St. starting at 5pm and ending whenever! Get more info on this forum thread.

Paint (Not Pot) Party Saturday at MoCo

September 30, 2009 by Sam Dodson · 11 Comments
Filed under: Charity, Outreach

Thank you to everyone who came out last weekend, I had a great time! They are finishing up next weekend, and we could really use your help wrapping up. MoCo Arts is a non profit, community-based, family-centered organization sharing the gift of dance primarily with children in the community. moco_mural1

Details on volunteering can be found here, and I’m inviting Free Keene readers out, Saturday October 3rd, from 12pm-4:20pm. This is a total volunteer effort, so wear your panting clothes and bring supplies if you have them. Hope to see you there!

Concord Monitor Reports on Keene’s Daily Cannabis Celebrations

September 30, 2009 by Ian · 9 Comments
Filed under: Issues, National, News, Personal Freedom, Police, Update

cannabis Thanks to the Concord Monitor’s Ray Duckler for this report:

Rich Paul smokes pot. So do dozens of his new friends. Each day lately, in Central Square, right in the middle of Keene.

They huff and they puff and they blow the smoke out, daring the police to arrest them while they make their point. Smoking pot, they believe, should be legal, because smoking pot is their constitutional right. The war on drugs creates violence and unnecessarily jams our prisons, they say.

And Paul alluded to these points yesterday, telling about 100 people through a bullhorn. His voice was measured yet confident. The rally started in the afternoon, at 4:20, the insider’s term for pot smoking. No one seems to know why. Nobody seems to care, either. Read more

WBZ TV in Boston Reports on Keene’s 4:20 Cannabis Celebrations

September 29, 2009 by Ian · 9 Comments
Filed under: National, News, Personal Freedom, Update, Video

cannabis I have no way to embed the video, but thanks to WBZ’s Dawn Hasbrouck for this video report. Here’s the text version of the story which includes a link to Free Keene!

Advocates for the decriminalization of marijuana gathered in Keene, New Hampshire on Monday in Central Square to try and get their message heard. The crowd has grown from about 20 people to about 100 since the group began gathering on Tuesday. Many of them are smoking pot right out in the open.

They’ve gathered at 4:20 p.m. every day, a significant time in the cannabis culture. “We want to bring this message of freedom to as many people around the world as possible,” said Ian Freeman, who is a blogger on FreeKeene.com.

“We’re actually gonna come out here in public and make it known how we feel and put pressure on the politicians,” says Andrew Carroll, another protester who plans to run for office in 2010.

Local businesses owners have been watching Read more

Keene’s 4:20 Celebrations Spread to Manchester

September 29, 2009 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Issues, National, News, Personal Freedom, Update, Video

Manch 4:20 Celebration Day 1: No Arrests

Video courtesy of Biker Bill’s blog.

Evolving Beyond Retribution

September 29, 2009 by Dale Everett · 4 Comments
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Personal Freedom, Rant

An open letter to activists espousing violence as a form of activism against statism.

A shepherd had a nice flock of sheep but he was endlessly frustrated because his neighbor had more sheep than him. One day he had just birthed a new lamb only to discover that his neighbor had birthed two and was even further ahead of him. He’d had it. That night and every night thereafter, he began to complain about it in his prayers.

“Lord, Manuel now has five more sheep than me. I work just as hard as him and take good care of my sheep and it’s just not fair!”

After many nights of prayers full of whining and complaining about what he perceived as a terrible injustice, he heard a clear voice in his head.

“Alright! Alright! Just stop complaining and I will help you, but only this once. Then you are on your own. I don’t want to hear another word about it!” answered the Lord.

“Oh, thank you Lord! You are truly just! So… you are going to kill five of Manuel’s sheep?”

I believe the story was meant as an analogy about far left politics and what seems like a desire to drag everyone down to an equal level of misery. It may not seem to relate to retribution, but it does address a flaw in our thinking that fuels what I see as a pointless desire for retribution.

(Read On…)

Raw Footage of Police Station Hotbox

September 28, 2009 by Ian · 38 Comments
Filed under: Issues, Personal Freedom, Police, Update, Video

If they wouldn’t have arrested Evan, this never would have happened. Today, cops ignored the cannabis celebration completely. Here’s the raw footage of yesterday’s mass hotboxing of the Keene police’s lobby!

Video News Coverage Roundup

September 28, 2009 by Ian · 3 Comments
Filed under: Issues, National, News, Personal Freedom, Police, Update, Video

We’re still waiting to see the WBZ Boston coverage, but here are a couple of videos from WMUR in Manchester and the Keene Sentinel.

Also, here’s more coverage from WKBK’s Brad Ryder:

Keene Sentinel Covers Police Station Smoke-In

September 28, 2009 by Ian · 9 Comments
Filed under: Issues, National, News, Personal Freedom, Police

POt They arrested our friend, so the cannabis celebration was brought inside the Keene police lobby yesterday, as the Sentinel’s Anika Clark reports:

Supporters of marijuana legalization took their fight with a law directly to the law Sunday as they lit up in the Keene Police Station lobby.

They puffed. They cheered and laughed. They left. But not before one of them yelled at a department employee who was working behind a front window.

One of the rally-goers had just been released without being charged, after being arrested for smoking what he said was nothing more than mint leaves. But activist Sam A. Miller said, “What they smoked inside the police station today, that was real. … I could tell from the smell.” Read more