FSP News - August 2006

Join us in New Hampshire for the 2007 New Hampshire Liberty Forum - Attaining Personal and Economic Freedom in America's Freest State. Mark your calendars for a visit to Concord, February 22 - 25, 2007. This will be the Free State Project's second big annual event, a new and different style event from the PorcFest. There is a dedicated group of volunteers busy at work planning the event right now! The complete Liberty Forum schedule and format will be announced soon. It will be held convention-style, at the Holiday Inn in historic downtown Concord. The hotel is within walking distance of the State Capital and the downtown shopping district too. Stay tuned for more details.

Have you had it with the state that you're currently living in? Do some state to state comparison and join the First 1000! (and the FSP). If you choose to move to New Hampshire before 12/31/2008 or if you already have moved, you are eligible to be a part of this group of freedom pioneers. We're 38% of the way to our goal now.

Comedian Doug Stanhope, FSP Participant and Endorser, makes a serious bid for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Doug's website goes into more detail about his plans.

We have provided some new tools in the FSP Advertising Center to facilitate decentralized, web-based advertising. We have new pages supporting two of the more popular internet advertising formats, Blogads and Google AdWords ads. Feel free to contribute by:

1. designing new ads
2. donating money for an ad deployment
3. deploying an ad yourself!

This will give you, the individual member of the FSP community, more influence in determining where we advertise.

If you would like to include an FSP banner on your website or blog, check out our stock of banners in the Advertising Center. You will find a wide variety of graphics in different formats, including static images, animated gifs, and Flash animations.

FSP Participant, Tim Bauman made a trip to New Zealand recently. His write-up was carried in Liberty, the Official Journal of the Libertarianz Party. And, Steve Cobb, who does IT and publicity for the FSP, writes about his visit to the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) 2006 Conference in Prague.

"These are a few concrete examples of what FSP participants have accomplished in New Hampshire in a fairly short period of time." - covered in Varrin Swearingen's President's Corner this month. Also what the FSP volunteers have been up to of late!

FSP Board of Directors meeting minutes are available to read. The last meeting was on July 15th.

Action of the Month - Use GoodSearch. Dare I say, "Search the good search?" If you select the Free State Project as the "I'm supporting" group, the FSP will get a penny each time. What better way to learn about freedom than raising money for the FSP. Whether you're searching for Ayn's favorite recipes, Murray's gold standard, or the xanthic electorate, the world lays at your feet (and it doesn't hurt to kick a few coins to the FSP for Liberty in Our Lifetime) - Phil Denisch

Talk Radio's Insurrection, Free Talk Live, has added its 15th radio station affiliate to its syndication lineup - in under two years! The show, has FSP Participant hosts, Ian and Mark, and is also available on the web and as a podcast. The latest radio station on-board is WWKK in Petoskey, MI and is carrying Free Talk Live all six nights a week.

Free State Project Lanyards are now available. Add one to your merchandise order today. Have you seen the FSP store?

Whether you "...aim to misbehave" or want to "...build a better mousetrap", or wish you'd written "WHEN in the Course of human Events...", help out the FSP by signing up with NetFlix. We get a commission and you get many whole worlds of inspiration. So come on, live the Life with Ayn Rand, BS with Penn and Teller, laugh with Doug Stanhope, and practice your Gun Kata; just don't forget to channel that inspiration into recruiting others for Liberty in Our Lifetime.

In New Hampshire

Tilting at Windmills - FSP Participant, Russell Kanning was arrested again on July 27th in a planned civil disobedience event at the IRS office in Keene, NH. At press time, Russell was still being held in a maximum security prison while awaiting a sentencing hearing, scheduled for August 17th. The continuing story has been covered in the press, blogs and FSP and NH Underground forums.

Here is the (very impressive) agenda for the August 5th meeting of the Merrimack Valley Porcupines (MVP) in Manchester, NH.

I. Welcome the New and Visiting Porcupines!
II. Report on July events

a. Kevin's Moving Party 7/1
b. CNHT Picnic 7/8
c. Fiscal Committee hearing 7/11
d. CNHT NASCAR Fundraiser 7/15
e. LPNH Supreme Court Trial 7/21
f. Lorraine & Rick's Moving Party (from MD) 7/26
g. Civil Disobedience at Keene IRS office 7/27, 8/3
h. Meet n' Greet for Shyfrog in Keene 7/29

III. Upcoming Events in August

a. NHLF planning mtg 8/5 (at Panera, right after MVP mtg)
b. Free Russell Kanning rally 8/5 (in Dover, after MVP mtg)
c. Petitioning for LPNH – every day through 8/9
d. Fiscal Committee hearing/call for volunteers 8/8
e. Concord Porcs 8/12 – note new location
f. New England Secession Congress in Cambridge MA 8/12
g. Monadnock Porcs 8/13
h. Seacoast Porcs / Fireworks in Jaffrey / FSP Litter Pickup 8/19
i. Jim Perry's Fundraiser, Amherst, 8/20
j. Coffeys' (Second) Moving Party 8/26

IV. Member Announcements
V. Liberty Scholarship Fund Raffle Drawing
VI. 2006 Candidates Forum

a. George Phillies – Libertarian candidate for U.S. President
b. Rich Kahn – Libertarian candidate for NH Governor
c. Joel Winters – Democratic candidate for NH House, District 17
d. Keith Murphy – Republican candidate for NH House, District 10

VII. Other Business

Movers! Please write-up the story of your move to share with others. We Made The Move! is the place. And, please keep your contact info and address up to date at the FSP. We're counting, so when you move to New Hampshire it's important to login and update your address, etc. Alternately, you can email your new contact information, including that all-important New Hampshire state of residence, to info@freestateproject.org and we'll take care of it for you!

This month in Free State Blogs:

• Free State Victories 2005-2006 Legislative Session
• NASCAR action at NHIS
• Back to Court
• Another PorcFest write-up
• A Man for All Seasons (Russell Kanning)
• Ahhhhh, New Hampshire! We Are Not Alone...
• One Parent's Demand for the Truth About the Legality of Homeschooling
• NH Gubernatorial Candidate: Make State Income Tax Unconstitutional
• Perhaps it is a Vice (Russel Kanning)
• RFID - Against the Grain radio audio
• Homeland Security Nabs Free Stater From Home
• My Thoughts - Denis Goddard
• NH Law vs. Real-ID

The NH Underground Calendar lists liberty-oriented New Hampshire events. The NH Liberty Calendar also tracks events in NH.

FSP News back issues are available. Got FSP news? - content submissions are due by the 12th of each month. Thank you to all contributors. FSP News circulation: 11,186.

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Participants in NH: 412
as of August 15, 2006