Thanks to those of you who contributed to help support Free Keene’s advertisements in 2010. Ads were purchased all year long on the Ridley Report, Free Minds TV and Radio, and Liberty Conspiracy. I am going to continue advertising in these venues as it supports some great NH-based liberty media and simultaneously gets the word out about Free Keene to people outside NH. I’ve created another chip-in to help cover the costs. Thank you again for your help!
It’s the end of an era. I’m sad to announce that Russell and Kat Kanning have moved out of New Hampshire. Songwriter and poet Richard Onley also just recently left. OTN’s Sam Dodson is leaving soon. Of course, they aren’t the only activists to have come and gone over the years, but they are well-known for their valuable contributions to the NH liberty movement.
News like this in tandem with the Free State Project‘s cancellation of the popular Liberty Forum event can certainly be a downer, even if you didn’t know all four activists personally, as I did. Does this signal the doom of the NH liberty movement and the failure of the Free State Project? Well, only the latter in that the FSP failed to put their event together, but that’s an indictment of the FSP’s bureaucratic and ineffective board, not of the concept of moving together for liberty. That’s the idea behind the FSP, and the early movers have proven that it is working.
There were unprecedented successes in just the last year-or-so in both politics (Knife ban repealed, 12 FSP participants and dozens more liberty-friendly granite staters elected to State Rep seats) and civil disobedience (Hundreds openly smoking cannabis without incident at events organized by liberty activists). More importantly, people are moving in greater numbers than ever before. More families and couples are coming these days as opposed to the initial influx of single, unattached males. For instance, a new couple in Keene are buying duplexes in town and families have moved into Dublin and the Peterborough area. What matters most is not who leaves, but who is coming to be part of the next wave of activism, and who stays. It’s a movement full of individuals with different stories. Many will come, and some will go. But why do they go? Here are some common reasons. (more…)
Just a quick FYI – many of you have noticed that the trolls were easily able to exploit the Comment Ratings software. The programmer claims he’s working on a better version. If that is released, the feature may be re-enabled, but the mandatory user registration policy has successfully reduced the drive-by anonymous trolling, which was the original intent of the ratings software.
As Free Keene enters its fifth year, thank YOU for reading, participating, and making us relevant! Hopefully this will be your year to move to New Hampshire!
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From Andrew Carroll’s blog:
It’s been several months since my campaign ended and while it has left me decidedly agnostic on some issues (i.e., what to call myself, politically), or has changed my mind on others (i.e., talking with liberals in Keene has helped me re-discover many of my liberal tendencies), it has only strengthened all of my prior faiths that made me fall in love with New Hampshire over two years ago.
And as I sit here in sunny California, visiting my sorely missed friends and family for Christmas, I am left with an even greater longing to step foot again in snowy, downtown Keene, dressed in suit and tie and equipped with as many door hangers as my impoverished budget could afford…
and knock on doors. (more…)
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