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Re: Stuff we can do

Scott F — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:48:00 GMT

I've been talking to a guy in my class about politics for ages and I posted him some libertarian books and PDFs through e-mail and have been trying to tell him more about it - I tried to quickly explain NAP to him. He seems generally interested but still somewhat skeptical. He's a bit resistant because he has supported the labour party,Is mildy left leaning and is mildly environmentalist.

I've done this sort of thing before with a younger women who was a bit leftist and who I printed out info for. This is one of my ways of getting the message out as well as having a blog of different topics not just libertarian ones (one concession, a few of the articles is of poor quality due to them being done really quickly without re-reading them or thinking too deeply about them)

http://anarchyisordergovernmentiscivilwar.blogspot.com/

Re: Stuff we can do

teuch — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:56:34 GMT

AJ:

Libertyandlife:
Political group's theories always have to agree somewhere, it's better to come together for a certain cause, then to make that person your enemy and to have nothing.

Tom Woods sets a great example with his book We Who Dared to Say No to War, which is co-authored with a leftist.

Libertarianism has an enormous amount to offer to people of all political persuasions, whether their main issues are defending human rights, ending poverty, upholding privacy, safeguarding the environment, helping minorities and women, promoting peace, ending terrorism, ensuring quality and affordable health care for the greatest number, curbing corruption and abuse of power, advancing science and technology, even stopping corporate shenanigans.

Most people with any political views do not hold them because they believe aggression is justified. They hold them because they believe they will be the best way to solve one or more such problems as those listed above. Hence if we are clever in our arguments, we should be able to make allies in every camp - without compromising our own views at all.

Libertarians need to start getting involved in environment groups, anti-war movements etc. and make their presence felt.

Re: Stuff we can do

Natalie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:24:22 GMT

I think it would also be wonderful if you could get your family involved. Not just children, parents, and spouses but also aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Re: Stuff we can do

AJ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:24:25 GMT

nirgrahamUK:

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There's a definite stabilization at higher rankings since early/mid-2009, which is also when I joined and started reading. I can't remember what prompted me to - maybe it was Ron Paul, or maybe it was a Tom Woods video posted somewhere in the Ron Paul blogosphere. Whatever it was may be what got a whole lot more people coming here.

Re: Stuff we can do

abexman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:45:33 GMT

Promote alternative media! How do we get people to dump the newspaper and turn off the TV?

http://feedmeliberty.ning.com/

Re: Stuff we can do

liberty student — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:47:49 GMT

Great suggestion. We all have accounts on other websites so everyone can do this.

Also, if you use gmail or yahoo, hotmail, msn, live etc for mail, you can add mises.org and maybe a quote from an Austrian as your email signature.

Re: Stuff we can do

Libertarian_for_Life — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:38:27 GMT

If you frequent another site, I would suggest to put a link to mises.org in your sig anywhere and everywhere. Facebook, other forums, youtube, where ever you go to. That's how I originally got linked to this site, it was a link in the comments of a youtube video about some gun control debate issue. When I came here, the articles on the front page spawned my interest in Austrian Economics.

It's amazing what one simple link can do. It's probably been suggested already, idk, I didn't read the whole thread.

Re: Stuff we can do

filc — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:07 GMT

Genius if it could work.

Re: Stuff we can do

Laughing Man — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:18:37 GMT

nirgrahamUK:
could we lobby Google to do one of their logo clickthrough's on the anniversary of Henry Hazlitts birthday?November 28, 1894

That is a good idea, have a picture of Hazlitt above the google title and have that picture link to a biography about Hazlitt at the Mises site.

Re: Stuff we can do

nirgrahamUK — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:37 GMT

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Re: Stuff we can do

filc — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:07:00 GMT

jtucker:

MIses.org's alexa rank is around 17,000 worldwide, which great and wonderful, but I would sure love to see it move consistently above 10,000. Any ideas?

Is there a way to look at the growth over a larger period of time?

Re: Stuff we can do

nirgrahamUK — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:56:05 GMT

I find the statistics a little surprising, it seems lewrockwell.com has traffic at the level you are ambitious for....

could we lobby Google to do one of their logo clickthrough's on the anniversary of Henry Hazlitts birthday?November 28, 1894

Re: Stuff we can do

jtucker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:14:59 GMT

MIses.org's alexa rank is around 17,000 worldwide, which great and wonderful, but I would sure love to see it move consistently above 10,000. Any ideas?

Re: Stuff we can do

filc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:37:04 GMT

I started a local Austrian-economics meetup and had little interest. I made a new anarcho-capitalist group to see what I could get and found quiet a bit more interest. So hopefully it will go well! :)

Re: Stuff we can do

whipitgood — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22:17 GMT

I have helped found an Austro-Libertarian study group at our university. We're meeting once a week to discuss a pre-determined piece of writing, either dealing with economics or philosophy. The inspiration comes from the 'Mises circle' meetings in Vienna. There are only 6 of us right now, and I think we were all Ron Paul supporters at one point. At least two of us are now an-caps.

Right now, we're looking entirely inward, focusing on our own education in these areas. In the future, we may look outward to the university at large and start a recruitment and proselytizing campaign. Until then, it should be fun to have someone to talk these things over with outside of the internet. Hopefully this will give us even more incentive to expand our knowledge.

I would encourage anyone else in college to use social networking tools (e.g. Facebook) to look for other people who are interested in liberty. It can be a very fulfilling endeavor. Imagine my excitement when I met someone who was in the middle of reading Hoppe's DTGTF. It was/is extremely exciting!

This is something that everyone who's in college should attempt IMO.