ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Activism
- Should citizens make laws by ballot initiative and referendum?
Source: SpeakOut.com
Country: United States
- Ballot initiatives have become a boom industry in recent years, offering voters a chance to make law on matters from marijuana to guns to term limits. (3/1/00)
- Changing state government from the bottom up
Source: Free State Project
Author: Joseph A. Swyers
Country: United States
- "Because of the entrenched power of local government leaders and the voters who listen to such leaders' advice, and because of the addiction of people to laws that tax and regulate their neighbors, I propose a bottom up solution to change this culture of dependence and abuse of power at the grassroots level." (09/25/02)
- How to Take Over Your Weekly Newspaper
Source: Third Wheel Group
Author: Mark Hilgenberg
Country: United States
E-mail: hilgi@msn.com
- Your local organization can complain about lack of positive news coverage -- or do something about it. The Orange County LP decided to do the latter, and had positive results.
- The LP's first priority
Source: L. Neil Smith
Author: L. Neil Smith
Country: United States
- Radical libertarian L. Neil Smith puts forward his idea for libertarian activism based on uncompromising support for the Bill of Rights, including protests and oaths of support for politicians. (5/21/94)
- What to do
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States
- "The problem is that when facing a monstrous evil such a government, the actions of a single human being are likely to be ineffective. The system is corrupt; it can easily and efficiently deal with a squeaking wheel. It cannot, however, deal so effectively with thousands of squeaking wheels -- especially when each squeak poses a problem for government that it would rather ignore." (03/07/02)
- Gadflies of the world, unite!
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States
- "Personally, I’d rather trust the person who believes that Freemasons and bankers are trying to enslave us, than the 'public servants' that says they will protect me from that person." (12/19/01)
- 12 steps program for organizing a party chapter
Source: Liberty For All
Country: United States
- "It's not as hard as you think to organize an official Libertarian Party chapter. It takes work and commitment, but it is not an insurmountable task. Here's a simple list of the steps you need to take." (06/02)
- How to submit a story to 'Project Self Defense'
Source: KeepAndBearArms.Com
Country: United States
- Instructions for submitting stories to KeepAndBearArms.Com's "Project Self Defense."
- Ridicule as a weapon
Source: SpinTech
Author: Patricia Neill
Country: United States
- "All Powers That Be make false and fluty claims to legitimacy, divine rule, and societal sanction. Usually, the PTB are lying through their teeth and they know it, so they erect a Censor, which acts as a fence around the PTB, carefully creating their cover, the illusion of legitimacy. Satire is the Power's deadly foe." (07/12/00)
- Talk back to the hysterics
Source: Strike the Root
Author: John deLaubenfels
Country: United States
- "Whenever I see one of these pushy organizations in the news, whether related to the drug war or to any of the other idiotic intrusions so popular today, to find their web site and send off a brief but pointed message. I urge all freedom lovers to do the same." (05/28/02)
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