Alright, let me run a few things by you guys. Any help would be appreciated.
1. In early January, on the first of the month if possible, I'd like to move out to Keene. I am going to perform the protest in Keene, and since the protest date will be January 10, I would only have to stay somewhere for a week or so. This is just to make things easier for myself. Obviously I'll pay you for the stay, so money is not a worry. I don't know all the details of how I will move yet, I might have to arrange to keep my bed somewhere else or let someone here in Manchester use it. But if I can get even a couch out in Keene that would be great. Understand the risk you'd be taking if the police arbitrarily decide to search the place or something.
2. Also concerning the press release, it'd be great to have more people helping me to send these things out. Maybe even write one yourself and send it out. Anything to spread the word and make absolutely sure that this gets national coverage. I think that should be our goal, and I think it's achievable. But since I have no experience in contacting the media, help in that aspect would also be appreciated.
3. If you want to protest with me now is your chance. I don't know if one person protesting or two or three would be more effective, but if you want in now would be the time to say so. That way we can get your name on the press release as well.
If anyone has any thoughts, questions, or suggestions about the above information, then please post and let me and everyone else hear them. We've got a little over a month to go and I want this thing to be executed well. Thanks.
Here's a link to the word document for the press release:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7MZ9NTAOAnd here's the actual text of the press release - please give advice on both and let me know what should be changed to make it sound more professional and appealing to the media, thanks:
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Andrew Carroll
December 6, 2008 Phone: (562) 505-1289
DRUG LAW PROTEST
Young Man to Possess Marijuana as a Protest Against Current Drug Laws
KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE – A young, 18 year old man will purposefully possess marijuana to incite his own arrest. At 1:00 PM on January 10, at 82 Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire, J. Andrew Carroll will illegally be in possession of marijuana as a protest against the drug laws of the country.
Echoing the thoughts of other liberty-loving people, Carroll says, “The drug war is an unconstitutional and inhumane breach of individual liberties which claims many victims, and dollars, each year.” Carroll claims he wants to “demonstrate the absurdity of putting a human being in jail for a crime with no victim.” He says the point is further demonstrated by the fact that he does not, personally, smoke marijuana, and only intends to possess it.
The war on drugs has garnered much public interest, as more and more people are becoming directly affected by it each day; and Carroll says that protesting the drug war in such a manner will bring even more attention to an already press-worthy issue. He also says the protest will “change some minds, somewhere” about the American government's War on Drugs.
As a member of the Free State Project (FSP), an organization which is attempting to get liberty-minded people to move to New Hampshire to aid in reducing the size and power of government, Carroll moved to the Granite State from California only a few months ago.
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