Ways to help NH liberty while out of state

[DadaOrwell]

Here's a condensed list of things *you* can do from most any location to assist the New Hampshire liberty movement.  Note that overseas folks actually have certain advantages over the rest of us. They can continue doing *some* of these things even if the U.S. suffers a major disaster or its liberty movement is driven underground.

) Write a letter-to-editor discussing some liberty issue and mentioning FreeStateProject.org.  Send it to a liberty-leaning newspaper, or a paper in your area.  Anyone want to post a list of liberty-leaning national papers which run LTEs?

) Read and review bills for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance:
http://NHLiberty.org

) Make your own YouTube channel, aim a camera at yourself, talk about NH liberty news.

) Post or discuss NH liberty news on web forums.  Here's a list:
http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=2613.0

) Build news releases and send them to appropriate media outlets:
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) Call radio talk shows and discuss interesting liberty events which have happened in NH.
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) Make a list of good talk shows to call and post it on this thread...the most valuable type of show for this purpose is one where you can call in and change the topic.  The national one I know of like this is http://FreeTalkLive.com

) Peacefully protest minor (or major) Federal crackdowns in front of your nearest Federal building or US embassy.   This is a case where your distance from New Hampshire can be a magnifier. For instance, say Lauren Canario from New Hampshire gets arrested again for protesting in an IRS office, but you live in Geneva.  If you show up outside the U.S. embassy in Switzerland with a sign, the effect could be electric.  If you videotape it, and post the vid to YouTube, or bring friends, or get a local reporter to cover it the effect would be magnified further.  I'd probably cover any such protest on RidleyReport.com.  Its results would be completely out of proportion to the effort expended.

Be cautious but not afraid...I did something not so different *inside* the Bulgarian embassy *while* the Iron Curtain was still up.


) Contribute money to effective pro-liberty institutions or candidates here.   Here's a partial list:
http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=17485.0

) Post FSP flyers in hi-traffic areas.  Here are some off the shelf....you might need to modify them so they have tear-offs:
http://www.freestateproject.org/volunteer/downloads

) Start a cable access show in your area, using it to promote the Free State Project.  Feel free to run the RidleyReport until you hear otherwise.

) Buy from NH liberty activists and their advertisers.  There are plenty of things you were alreading going to buy this month...why not buy them from us:
http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=17484.0

) Write NH prisoners
Sometimes NH liberty activists end up in jail for victimless crimes.  Also there are some Brown supporters who received unspeakable sentences for assisting an elderly New Hampshire couple during their standoff with U.S. Marshals.  Writing any of the above would be constructive, although of course the Brown backers are more controversial.   Here's one way to contact NH prisoners without even leaving your computer: 
http://Mail-To-Jail.com

) Vacation here instead of the "slave states."  NH is fun year round.  But there are four great liberty events that happen annually:

http://FreeStateProject.org/LibertyForum - big, indoors, usually around February,  convention-style + wild parties
http://PorcFest.com - biggest event, in summer
http://LiveFreeOrDieRally.com - Live Free or Die Festival - Annually in Jaffrey, NH...usually late August.  Big Rev War re-enactment.
http://KeeneFreedomFest.com - Smallest event but is sometimes in fall...the prettiest season.  It's also illegal or at least used to be.

) Join these NH liberty-related forums or websites as a member/subscriber:

http://NHLiberty.org - Political organizers in New Hampshire, tolerant
http://Forum.NHFree.com (intolerent of political discussion, tolerant of anti-political)
http://Forum.FreeKeene.com
http://bbs.FreeTalkLive.com
http://Forum.FreeStateProject.org - Folks around the country planning to move to NH for more freedom
http://YouTube.com/RidleyReport - Poor man's TV newsroom featuring NH liberty news

[porcupine kate]

You can also send me cool stuff fro the Free State Projects Silent auction.
The auction will be held at Porc Fest this June.

http://www.freestateproject.org/news/festival


This is a great fund raiser for the FSP. 

Why not down size for your move to NH.

We are looking for all sorts of donations.  Not just Pro Liberty stuff.
We have had everything from books, music, t-shirts, posters, maps, auto graphed memorabilia, jewelry, house wares, gift certificates, knives and even a kayak.

If you are going to the festival you can bring it with you.
 
If you can't attend then you can mail me the donation.  Just contact me for shipping information.

We had over 70 items last year and I would love to top that.

Thanks Kate

[Fluff and Stuff]

) Make a list of good talk shows to call and post it on this thread...the most valuable type of show for this purpose is one where you can call in and change the topic.  The only ones I know of like this are [url]http://FreeTalkLive.com[/url] and Talkback on WKBK in Keene, NH.

Unless there is something extremely unusual happening, please do not call into Talkback unless you live in or are visiting the Keene area.

) Post FSP flyers in hi-traffic areas.   I didn't find this to be super effective but try it if you like. 
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Here is a great list of FSP flyers, http://www.freestateproject.org/volunteer/downloads
More are in development.

) Write NH prisoners
Sometimes NH liberty activists end up in jail for victimless crimes.  Also there are some Brown supporters who received unspeakable sentences for assisting an elderly New Hampshire couple during their standoff with U.S. Marshals.  Writing any of the above would be constructive, although of course the Brown backers are more controversial.   Here's more info on some options for contacting prisoners:
__________ (link to follow hopefully)

Mail to Jail is a fantastic source for this, http://www.mail-to-jail.com/

) Vacation here instead of the "slave states."  NH is fun year round.  But there are four great liberty events that happen annually:
[url]http://KeeneFreedomFest.com[/url] - Smallest event but is in fall...the prettiest season.  It's also illegal.

 
The Keene prosecutor seems to think this event is now legal and was always legal, he just had wasn't very framilar with the law relating to the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution until recently.  Hopefully he will start following the law now.  Also, the event happens more than once per year.  The next Free Keene Festival is happening on May 23rd.

[Kat Kanning]

The NH Free Press needs your help!  They type of help we need can all be done by out of state people.  We can always use articles.

http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=18041.0
Nonviolent Means – Education

I hear libertarians so often say that their goal is to educate people.  I share this goal of disseminating the ideas of liberty.  The way I've chosen to do that is to print the New Hampshire Free Press.  There are certainly other effective means of doing this – The Ridley Report and Free Talk Live come to mind, being active in New Hampshire.  The New Hampshire Free Press fills a different niche.  I reach out to the people on the street, ones who are not necessarily “wired” in our modern world.  A lot of people like to have something physical to hold on to, it makes the ideas more real for them.  The paper currently is distributed to stores all around Southern NH, from Plymouth to Manchester to Keene.  It is delivered to colleges in an attempt to capture young minds.  It may be the only anarchist newspaper in the country.

I also think I am the only person doing FSP type outreach to the prisons.  The paper goes out to prisons around NH and to at least 20 other prisons around the country.  Whenever I hear of a political prisoner, I track down his (or her) address in prison and send him a free subscription.  Any time a prisoner ask me, I also send him a free subscription.  Each newspaper gets passed all around the prison.  In the past month or so, I've had two political prisoners write to tell me they want to join us when they get out.  These are the people who, other than those killed, have been most brutalized by government.  Often, they don't even realize how laws like drug prohibition are wrong.  The New Hampshire Free Press gives them much needed information and ideas. 

Gandhi also ran a newspaper disseminating the ideas of nonviolence, and informing people about activism.  He quickly found that the business community was not able to stick their necks out to support such radical ideas with their advertising.  So he switched to operating on donations.  This we have also done.  Unfortunately, the major funding that has kept the paper going these past three years has run out.  I'm looking at only being able to print once every two months unless I get some more donations.  So I'm asking you, let me help you reach your goal of educating people about libertarian ideas.  If you can help, please visit our donations page:
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/subscriptions.html

If we are to fight a nonviolent revolution, one of the main avenues of activism must include getting our ideas out, giving people a chance to think about how a society based on non initiation of force could exist.  Often people have not even considered that such a society is possible.  We can show the ideas in action through our activism.  The paper lets people know about what we're doing, because we know the mainstream media does not want to cover these things.

I'd like to thank our current supporters for their courage and generosity in making sure the New Hampshire Free Press keeps happening:

FreeKeene.com
Jason Osborne/Sakal CAI
Paul Ott
Jacob Halbrooks
Mike Barskey
Phil Denisch
Jeremy Furbish

I'd also like to thank people who have been helping with their content, people like Dale Everett who produces the wonderful comic Anarchy in Your Head, the Free Keene bloggers, Jim Dodson with his Spines comic strip, and many more authors who generously allow me to print their articles.  Without these people, the paper just wouldn't happen!