In 2001 a PhD student at Yale wrote a paper about a project idea he had to convince a group of libertarians to move to an area where they could work together towards the goal of liberty rather than striving in isolation and achieving nothing. 13 years later over 15,000 libertarians have committed to the project.
Liberty Forum is an event hosted by the Free State Project and now, in our 7th year, we are growing faster than ever.
New Hampshire has the fourth largest legislature chamber in the world at 400 members and each member representing 3300 citizens (For comparison if the US House of Representatives had a similar ratio there would be 99,000 representatives).
Join the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance on a tour of this historic chamber and your venue for political activism when you make the move to New Hampshire.
This is an offsite event occurring at the State House in Concord. A bus service is available for $5 which will be leaving the Crowne Plaza at noon.
Jim Rubens will speak on what it takes to run and to win as a Republican.
This will be useful for candidates and prospective candidates, party, campaign, and organizational operatives, grassroots leaders.
Topics will include: assessing your internal commitment, cause versus ego, testing your viability, knowing your voter demographics/psychographics, developing a plan and budget while remaining entrepreneurial, selecting your issues, positioning against your primary and general election rivals, defending your base and expanding your win coalition, the importance (and unimportance) of endorsements, raising money, building your paid and volunteer teams.
Learn about the world’s first 3D printed gun.
Have you ever wanted to stand up and speak about a liberty issue in front of other libertarians? Now is your opportunity! An unconference is an attendee driven event where those who would like to speak decide the schedule. In order to sign up to speak a sheet will be provided outside the ballroom from Thursday 2/20, simply put the title of your talk and your name next to a 15 minute slot and the floor is yours.
Gender discrimination has been a fixture in our history from suffrage through to equal pay and other rights under the law. Historically equality movements like feminism have had a hugely important role in achieving equality but many people believe modern third wave feminism focuses on gender exceptionalism rather than egalitarianism. Additionally policies typically suggested by modern feminism aim to use government force to correct the remaining problems they perceive within society.
This panel examines the role feminism currently has in society and asks if it is necessary to support egalitarian objectives or if it has just become another adjunct for statists to advance their goals.
Learn about running for state office including how to win a race and the duties once you are in office. This session will also cover legislative successes movers have been involved in the past as well as what porcupine legislators have planned for 2014 and beyond.
We all know that the correct response to law enforcement in consensual encounters is "Am I being detained?" and "Am I free to go?" but what happens if you get arrested? What should you expect to happen if you end up going to court? This panel not only examines procedural aspects of the justice system but also deals with how to deescalate law enforcement encounters to avoid arrest and court.
What drives technological innovation? Moreover, what exactly is it and how can we understand it in the context of our current political discourse?
Phrases like "open source," "peer-to-peer," and "decentralized" were recently mere buzzwords, subject to selective definition by experts and insiders. However, in the past decade, these phrases have become the stuff of everyday banter, with the principles they embody entering the mainstream of philosophy and politics.
This lingual movement suggests that at least part of the driving forces of technological innovation are the principles of liberty, self-determination, and voluntary collaboration.
This panel will explore:
*specific tactics of innovators and their roots in liberty activism
*the nature of technological innovation as a voluntary community
*the extent to which "liberty" and "technology" describe emergence of the same phenomena in the human species