VIDEO: Helping People Without Coercion

August 24, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 18 Comments
Filed under: Charity, Video

Liberty on Tour investigates the St. Louis Bread Company’s awesome experiment in charity. Guess what? Turns out people really do care about each other and that we don’t need a violent monopoly to facilitate helping the poor:

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.

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.

Keeniacs: Project Graduation Needs Your Help!

June 7, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 1 Comment
Filed under: Charity

Last year, a good group of liberty activists made a difference at the “Project Graduation” event. We’re going back this year, but without your help it may not happen! There are different shifts available, but they really need people for 12:15a-4a this Fri/Sat night. (The event starts 6/11 and ends early 6/12 AM.) Here’s the message from volunteer coordinator Christine Kehoe:

We are still very short of the number of volunteers we need to chaperon and run games and activities!!!

Please, if you have not already signed up to cover a 4 hour shift, we need you!! We are only halfway to the number of people we need to make sure we can go forward with the event.

The chaperon shifts are 9pm-12:30 and 12:15-4 am and the clean-up shifts are 4-8am and 6-10am. The 12:15 shift is always the hardest to fill and is where we have the greatest need!

Can you help late Friday night, particularly from 12:15a-4a (technically early Sat AM)? Throw in your name here on the forum thread, and I’ll pass on your info to Christine. Thanks!

FK Sponsors Hundred Nights Shelter’s Mini-Golf Tournament!

May 15, 2010 by Ian Freeman · 1 Comment
Filed under: Charity, ToDo

Minigolf Free Keene is sponsoring a hole at the upcoming first annual charity miniature golf tournament, benefiting Hundred Nights Shelter. The event is happening at Arnone’s Family Fun Center on Route 32 in Swanzey, Saturday 5/22, starting with an 11:00am “Tee Off”. Tickets are $8 for an individual and $30 for a foursome. Individual players will be combined into a team of four. There will be prize drawings all day and the round of mini golf and a go-cart ride is included with every ticket! Tickets are available the day-of or in advance by calling 313-5807 or 352-8105. Hundred Nights t-shirts commemorating the event will be given to the first hundred registrants.

Plus, anybody that shows up and orders breakfast between 9:00 and noon at Arnone’s, owner John Arnone will donate 10% of the tab to Hundred Nights. Please note that thanks to Arnone’s, 100% of the proceeds from the golf tournament, the go-karts, face painting, raffles and everything else going on during the hours of 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM will go to Hundred Nights!

See you there! Here’s the forum thread for further discussion.

Help Free Keene Sponsor Porcfest!

April 19, 2010 by Ian Freeman · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Charity

I have actually already paid for the sponsorship from my own pocket, but if you’d like to help Free Keene sponsor the 2010 Porcupine Freedom Festival, I’ve created a Chip-In to help cover the cost. Free Keene is going to have a banner hung during all of Porcfest which will be moved on stage for exclusive sponsorship of the very popular “Soapbox Idol” event. We’ll also get an ad in the event program, among other things.

If you’d like to help pay for it, donate to the chip-in at the top right of Free Keene, or just become a monthly contributor here. Thanks for supporting Free Keene!

Book & Food Drive at Free Keene Fest this Sunday!

April 12, 2010 by Ian Freeman · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Charity, ToDo

Food As you know, the Spring 2010 Free Keene Fest is this Sunday at Railroad Sq. in downtown Keene from 11a-4p. If you are coming out, please bring some non-perishable food for the Free Keene food drive to be donated to the Community Kitchen. Also please bring any books you’d like to donate to the Cheshire jail library. (Preferably pro-liberty books.) Here’s the forum thread about this event.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Food Drive

December 5, 2009 by Brandon Durham · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Charity

We will be holding a food drive tomorrow during Social Sundays at 3pm & also at 5pm at Abunarra. Bring a can or more of food and help feed some hungry people!

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!

A Day in the Life of a Merry Man

May 28, 2009 by Mike Barskey · 46 Comments
Filed under: Charity, Outreach, Robin Hood

Robin Hood of Keene doesn’t rob anybody, but does like to help out those in need: particularly patrons of downtown Keene whose parking meters have expired. By adding extra coins, Robin Hood saves those patrons from the hassle and extra expense of parking citations given by the orders of the Crown of Keene and distributed by his sheriffs. After all, what business does the Crown of Keene have demanding money to park your car in a public place?

I’m one of Robin Hood’s merry men, and I’d like to tell you a story that happened to me the other day while carrying out Robin Hood’s mission. Two fellow merry men and I were checking the meters around Central Square when we found an expired one in front of Pepper Pete’s Hot Shop. I put in some coins, deposited a note on the car’s windshield to alert the driver, and was on my way. But as I left, I noticed Pepper Pete come out of his store and stand on the sidewalk. He said nothing but I was alert, because in the past Pepper Pete has accosted some merry men, accusing them of acting illegally and berating them for soliciting money.

I walked to the end of the street, finished my metering duties, and returned from whence I came, passing Pepper Pete again. Again, he said nothing. I was a little suspicious, so after I turned the corner, I stopped and peered back down the street through the window of the corner shop. I saw Pepper Pete walk to the car that for which I had deposited coins and remove my note.