“When my goal is to get something on the table, to have my issue actually be resolved,” says Angela Keaton, “all they really need to know is: war bad, peace good.”
Keaton is the development director for antiwar.com, founded during the Clinton administration as a site for news and opinion opposing war and the centralization of state power and promoting peace and individual liberty. She spoke on single issue coalition building at the 2009 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.
Drawing on extensive examples from building antiwar.com and working with other antiwar groups, Keaton illustrates how to build coalitions with other individuals and groups who may not agree with you on every issue, but do agree on the single issue you want to advance.
“We have to build coalitions because we don’t have a critical mass; what we’ve got is a very small group of people who happen to be libertarian.”
By doing so, Keaton says, the people you work with come to be more open to other libertarian ideas by discovering that libertarians aren’t the horned devils they once thought.
The New Hampshire Liberty Forum is an annual conference hosted by the Free State Project, which aims to have 20,000 activists move to New Hampshire to work toward greater liberty.
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Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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Gölök
Apr 06, 2009
I worry some commies slip through libertarianism on mind manipulation drugs and anti-war issues. war in particular makes me think of a reality. It only happens when you are attacked and defend, without defense you are an easy mark for conquest.
Conquest bad, defense alright. Attack bad, defense decent. Aggression wrong, protection fine.
The meek are enslaved by others, the weak enslave themselves. As I said and coined for some time meaning war is a reality of defending yourself, as unpleasant, conquest is an attack without defense, or a winner is a defender in all cases.
Gölök
Apr 06, 2009
This didn’t get Ron Paul nominated. I agree, tolerate other views, but she may be suggesting total submission of all other views for the war issue. Or seems like it. Reality is not everyone is going to agree 100%, but joining people with a 1% agreement would be a bit much.
Also devils would seem agreeable, not horned. So Republicrats (DNC+RNC=US Tories)?
Special Info: Hungarians may be put off by the Hapsburg Economist worship many have, such as the founders of the Austrian Economic Schools, like the lead Hapsburg Economists.
Problem with the LNC is they are smoke filled room, but the upside is they are the honest one, it’s like another violation of the Section 10 of article one as a Confederation of States in a way, and anti-Federalist. However even Boston Tea gets spilled recognizing the McKinley land grabs that are not states yet or ever, or protectorates as equal to states.
It would be nice if Libertarian Parties just elected and nominated legislative branch members and left independent candidates to run for president.
Bob Barr did put the movement on the map as a Candidate and now even Larry King invites L/libertarians as guests. Although it may be the show Tucker’s doing just as much. Or both had an impact. Age of consent is an important issue as well, in fact this is what we get crap about the most, crap about libertarians supporting paedophilia as a personal choice.
Usenet and beyond.
Guest speaker and radio host isn’t hand in the earth work either. Granted it isn’t lawyer or CIA scum. Even if repentant.
Anarchists are why I preferred being called Voltairian. Absolutists would maybe make more sense than anarchist. Less government is not no Government, Thomas Paine new no Government was important so he went with Govern less to Govern best.
Jake Witmer
Apr 14, 2009
Gölök wrote: “Bob Barr did put the movement on the map as a Candidate and now even Larry King invites L/libertarians as guests.”
I abhor that notion, although it might be fairly accurate from an outside perspective. Even though Barr didn’t grossly misrepresent the LP too badly (except on jury rights, and with his past baggage), I came to despise the slime he brought into the party with him (Russell Verney, for one, Shane Corey for two).
Gölök wrote: “Guest speaker and radio host isn’t hand in the earth work either. Granted it isn’t lawyer or CIA scum. Even if repentant.”
LOL! …I personally think that Harry Browne was our most respectable recent presidential candidate.
Thanks for the remarks though, Golok.