Unofficial Tattoo Funds

August 24, 2010 by Trifith · 17 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Free Talk Live

You may have read that Meg McLain is selling off her body. No, not for that. She’s selling a 2″x2″ tattoo. To help out I’m collecting donations to buy either a Free Keene, Free Talk Live, Freedomain Radio, or Center for a Stateless Society logo tattooed on Meg.

Donations can be made via ChipIn. If no one organization has the winning bid, the bids will be pooled, and whichever organizations ChipIn was the largest will be the logo used in the tattoo. If that doesn’t win a tattoo, all funds raised will be sent to their respective organizations.

Meg FOR SALE!

August 24, 2010 by smeg · 28 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Economic Freedom, Video

Locals Form FK Opposition Facebook Group, Plan Protest

August 21, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 46 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Keene, Outreach

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

After finally showing up at this week’s city council meeting to protest liberty activists, locals who oppose FK’s “methods” have formed a facebook group and planned a protest for Monday August 23rd at 5pm at Central Square.

Exactly what methods they oppose are not made clear. FK supports all peaceful methods of achieving a voluntary society including civil disobedience and noncooperation, media creation, outreach, and political action. Do they oppose all of these? Discussions are occurring on their facebook group and also the Free Keene Forum.

I’d like to thank opposition group founder Annie Callaway for encouraging her participants to join the Free Keene Forum. More conversation between us is a good thing. The FK Forum is a tolerant place where we only prohibit violence and racism. We shall see if their facebook group is as tolerant as our forum. The last facebook group that was formed to oppose FK kicked out anyone they could identify as being associated with Free Keene. However, that group was formed by someone else, not Annie. I welcome the discussion.

Lew Rockwell Visits and Endorses Keene and the FSP!

August 17, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 38 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Keene, News

Lew Rockwell, the founder of the Mises Institute and the most popular liberty-oriented website in the world, LewRockwell.com, has endorsed Keene’s activism! In an hour-long interview on Keene’s syndicated talk radio show, Free Talk Live, Lew called Keene “The northern capital of libertarianism” and suggested it was the “epicenter” of NH liberty activism. Lew identified himself as an “enthusiastic supporter” of the Free State Project, saying, “I definitely endorse the Free State Project”. About Keene, he said “[i] especially like what you guys are doing in Keene”, adding that activists “do amazing things here”.

Thank you Lew for your visit to Keene, the great interview, and the excellent endorsements. I’m adding them to the top of our Endorsements section of the 130 Reasons to Move to Keene!

Announcing the Keene City Council Drinking Game

August 4, 2010 by Sam Dodson · 40 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Civil Disobedience, Noncooperation, Personal Freedom, Police, Social

Not a Beer

Where: 2nd Floor Keene City Hall

When: Thursday August 5th: 6:45 P.M.

Who: Open Container Activists, Onlookers, Press/media

Rules:

All participants drink when:

1. There’s a call to order

2. A bureaucrat claims to do something as “The City of Keene”

3. Everyone stands up

4. The City Council votes for Violence

5. A vote is unanimous

6. A council member says the phrase “master plan.”

7. They plan to do something “for the children.”

9. Raise your glasses (drinking not needed) if someone suggests rolling back the size, scope or enforcement power of the government IE supports more liberty/freedom

Feel free to join us with the beverage and container of your choice. If you have feedback or input on the event, please join us in the discussion thread.

Anyone who wishes to come out in support of this event is invited, drinking or not, with or without cameras.

See you tomorrow night!

Announcing the Keene Community Flea Market – Saturday Mornings @ Railroad Square

August 4, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 10 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Economic Freedom, Social

Luthor returns to Keene and hits the ground running by announcing an open flea market every Saturday morning at Railroad Square starting this Saturday 8/7 at 9am! It’s open to anyone who wants to set up a table and sell or give away their wares, so come on out! Naturally, no government permission has been requested to hold this event. Here’s the flier.

Free Keene Donates Ideas… How About Some Blood?

July 31, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 11 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, Keene, Outreach

We who blog here at Free Keene do so not for money… we do so to offer our ideas and opinions about how a society can exist without the need for initiating violence against the peaceful. Many of you who read here may vastly disagree with what we advocate, but I don’t think you could claim that we are not advocating what we truly believe is the “right” thing to do.

We believe in helping people… mostly, by helping people to understand how a society can exist without the initiation of force. Helping people is not always limited to ideas, writing, activism, and politics though.

The Heroic Andrew Carroll Launches Campaign Website!

July 30, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 8 Comments
Filed under: Announcement

Heroic civil disobedience activist-turned-politician Andrew Carroll has thrown his hat into the ring for the race for “State Representative” and has launched his campaign website at Carroll4NH.com. There you can learn his positions on the issues, help his campaign, and get in touch with him via email.

Here’s his bio from his website:

Andrew Carroll is a dedicated, passionate young man living in Keene, New Hampshire. He was born and raised on the other side of the country in Whittier, California where he quickly discovered the political culture is more rewarding to big pockets than big hearts. It seems natural to him, therefore, that his passion for individual rights, freedom, compassion, and honesty would lead him to the last remaining hope for consensual governance in America: New Hampshire.

More than anything Andrew Carroll wants to spend his time here making this state a better one; which means retaining door-to-door campaigning and local, town-hall-style meetings, retaining as much of a feel of non-partisanship as possible, and retaining the values that brought him here while still making visible progress. Luckily, the balance between morality and practicality is less an issue here than anywhere else; and it is possible to be an honest politician with little-to-no cash, and lots of help from friends, and win an election.

In that regard, New Hampshire has already proven to Andrew that it is the place where the dreams of a young idealist can be achieved; and he hopes, now, to prove to New Hampshire that he is up to the task of achieving those dreams.

Go Andrew!

Support Liberty by Becoming a FED

July 25, 2010 by Michael Hampton · 19 Comments
Filed under: Announcement

For the last four years, Porcupine 411 has been a lifeline for activists in Keene and elsewhere in New Hampshire, and hopefully will continue to do so in the future. You can help make this happen by becoming a FED.

No, that stands for Finance Engineering and Development.

Times change and technology advances, and I now have a very long list of proposed features that people would like to see added to Porcupine 411. Features like live video streaming, text messaging, GPS location of callers in distress and more sit on the back burner waiting to be realized, because what I don’t have is time. I have to spend much of my time working on projects unrelated to liberty in order to make ends meet in this economy, and that has taken away from the amount of time I can put into improving Porcupine 411.

Now you can help. By contributing $3 or more a month, you will become a FED and gain access to new features before they’re made publicly available, not to mention helping to fund the creation of those features in the first place. To learn more, view a list of proposed features, or set up your contribution, visit Finance Engineering and Development today.

Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund Looking For Volunteers

July 21, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 1 Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, Civil Disobedience

Cuffs The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund is looking for media volunteers. Want to support the good people who break bad laws like Keene’s Disobedient Seven? We’re looking for volunteers to assist with new media initiatives like researching, writing press releases, blogging, social media broadcasting etc. Want in? Get in touch.