Thanks to BJ Wurts for the great letter about his trip to Keene.
The Free Keene Press is going to be looking to expand the amount of pages we have to fill. The next edition will be four pages instead of one. This means I am going to need more Keene-centric content and could use some help with that task. Currently I am paying for the printing costs out of pocket, with the cost going from $70 to $200, I will also need help paying for the printing costs. I am open to the idea of running some ads and pricing is negotiable.
What I am looking for as far as content is:
Articles in general
Photographs with caption or brief context description
Re-printable art
Opinion pieces
Comics, puzzles
Press releases for events around Keene
In terms of the articles I would like to see:
Taxes
City Council watch type report
Events around the Keene area like Pumpkin Fest
Social needs and services and a critique thereof, both public and private
Important Cheshire county news stories
And much more of course. I plan on keeping an open mind as to what gets printed. You can submit an item for consideration by sending an email to press@freekeene.com.
And just to clarify things: By submitting you give the Free Keene Press permission to reprint and edit your item as we see fit. You will not be compensated. You will be credited and if your item is edited a note will be made. Please limit profanity. More than likely if an edit is made it will be for length.
If you have questions please feel free to email the above address.
Ten thousand people have now signed up with the Free State Project to move to New Hampshire – halfway to the group’s goal of 20,000. I am one of the approximately 1000 people who have already made the move. It’s been over 5 years since I packed up one daughter, one cat and a truckload of stuff to drive from Texas to New Hampshire. Since then my life’s been turned upside down. I now run a newspaper, I’ve been arrested three times, and I don’t think twice about waving a sign on a street corner.
There are a few main areas where people have chosen to move, but there are freestaters scattered all over the New Hampshire. Concentrations are in Manchester, Concord, Keene, the seacoast and Grafton. Keene has become the focus of Voluntaryist action, from civil disobedience to filming bureaucrats in their misdeeds. Manchester houses more of the political activists who work toward getting freedom-minded candidates into office and enacting pro-liberty legislation. Grafton was the site of the Free Town Project and now has the highest concentration of freestaters in any one town. (more…)
The FSP reached an important milestone yesterday – the halfway mark of 10,000 participants! Here’s the press release from the FSP:
America’s boldest experiment in liberty, the Free State Project, officially signed its 10,000th participant today. The organization is dedicated to migrating 20,000 pro-liberty activists who agree to downsize government to New Hampshire. The announcement comes in advance of the Free State Project’s annual winter convention, the New Hampshire Liberty Forum.
Jason Sorens, founder of the Project, said, “This is a great milestone for us. It feels good to be half-way there. There’s still much to do, but the project is continuing to grow and I am confident we’ll reach our goal of 20,000 participants.”
Participants come from many backgrounds but all agree to move to New Hampshire, where they will “exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property.” The agreement avoids political labels and allows individual participants to set their own course to reach their goal.
“The Free State Project has no political platform or membership dues”, Sorens stated. “We have participants who identify as conservative, classical liberal, libertarian, anarchist, voluntaryist, you name it. The things we care about are: Do you want more liberty and less government? Are you willing to work toward it? Are you going to be a good, neighborly person in your community? If so, the Free State Project may be just what you’re looking for.” (more…)
Your thoughts about the benefits of drug use, Texas man sentenced to 35 years in prison for possession of 4.6 oz of marijuana, PA goes after bars that sell unregistered beer, kindergartner suspended for making his finger into a gun, and new terrorism bill gives the president the power to imprison US citizens indefinitely without a trial. http://www.freemindsmedia.org
The ATF confiscates a shipment of Airsoft plastic BB guns, Miami considers putting a ban on feeding the homeless, the Downsizer Dispatch, a UK woman in trouble with the law for failing to report buried treasure (yes she found an old coin), and the US government is killing indigenous fish and replacing them with rainbow trout.
