Want Good News? You Got It!

by | Jan 17, 2013 | 0 comments

It’s easy to find news of distopic nightmares come true. It’s harder to find articles focussed on positive news stories of people peacefully resisting tyranny. Enter PeaceNewsNow.com. Peace News Now condenses the day’s peaceful resistance news into a digestible 5-minute report that can be enjoyed in both audio and video. To hear the audio version you can subscribe via the iTunes store (it’s free!), or to watch the animated version subscribe to the PeaceNewsNow YouTube channel. (Right now, I only have 2 subscribers. Can you help me improve on that?)

Here’s a sample of the latest episode which aired today:

Union Leader Editorial About “Free Staters”

by | Jan 13, 2013 | 13 comments

The Union Leader has editorialized about the Free State Project and voluntaryists. They get it wrong about voluntarists, claiming that a voluntarist’s belief is that even the existence of prisons is a violation of our rights. That’s not at all the position of voluntarism. Voluntarism merely states that all human interaction should be voluntary. As a voluntarist, I have no problem with the idea of locking away truly dangerous people. I DO have a problem with locking up peaceful people.

Most of the rest of the editorial favors the Free State Project:

In 2001, some libertarians thought they could secure the maximum amount of personal liberty for themselves if they convinced like-minded people to move en masse to one state. They chose New Hampshire for the combination of its “Live free or die” ethos and its small size. Their goal was to have 20,000 people move here, a state with 1.3 million people, making them a whopping 1.5 percent of the population. In 11 years, about 1,000 have come. At this rate, they will reach their goal in 220 years.

And yet this movement is what some on New Hampshire’s far left consider an existential threat. (more…)

PeaceNewsNow.com on Steady Path

by | Dec 11, 2012 | 0 comments

Originally Posted at PeaceNewsNow.com:

Things are going very well for PeaceNewsNow.com ever since I started the website back in November. I’ve begun a series of podcasts all under the head title “Peace News Now.” You can listen to the latest episode by clicking here. On Sundays, I host a one-hour program called “The Peaceful Resistance Report,” which covers the week’s top stories in the world of peaceful protest. Monday through Friday, I host a 5-minute podcast with a focus on civil noncompliance called “The Daily Peace.” On Saturday, I mix it up with a one-hour program called “As the World Burns,” which features shocking headlines reeking of dystopian nightmare. Here is a sample of Peace News Now: