Stacy Litz

I would say it went pretty well!  I’ll upload videos later.  I am starting to find YouTube impractical, upload times are so slow!  Any tips about this?  Should I leave them to upload overnight?

Special thanks to speakers Ross Kenyon, Scott Davis, Darian Worden, Christopher David Pille, and AJ Arias!

Seriously!

News:  I got an internship with FIRE for Fall.  Also starting to write for the Center for a Stateless Society. 

Starting to write for Examiner again, I’ll start posting the articles weekly again!

A few more summer conferences to go . . . I remember the days when I worried about my tan in summer!

FreedomFest was amazing.  While PorcFest was the “roughin’ it” of freedom and the symbolism of agorism and almost an anarchist commune, FreedomFest showed that libertarians, at least in the current system, can be incredibly lucrative and enjoy “living the life,” if you know what I mean.

Lots of fun, thank to Students for Liberty for the opportunity and scholarship!

This weekend, I’m attending the Campus Freedom Network conference!

• Porcfest 2010 was AMAZING.
• Been doing a lot of weddings.
• Articles on a hold . . . recently got the Anarchist Examiner position, so I’m going to start writing there, too.
• This summer’s events: FreedomFest, Students for Liberty Campus Coordinator Retreat, FIRE/CFN Conference, possible IHS seminar, Student Liberty Front retreat . . . and possibly ending it all with a trip to Costa Rica?

Bare with me!  I’ll be back!

Articles:

BP oil spill “Obama’s Katrina” justified or media frenzy

Cops shut down book buyback service, please show your support

Free George now!

Articles:

Government shuts down lemonade stand

Transportation in Philadelphia is flawed, but newsworthy

Updates:

Two more weeks left of the term and I am extremely busy!  Student Liberty Front is hosting the “Who is Che Guevara?” event this week.  I have a wedding on Saturday, and then next week begins finals!

Articles:

The meaning of Memorial Day

Stand up for liberty, mark your calendars for June 4th

Septa fares rise 6 to 9 percent

Rise in gun ownership of Philadelphians who aim to protect themselves

Women toil to enter politics, Philadelphia calls for affirmative action

Obama sends 1,200 troops to Mexican border, McCains wants even more

Protect your identity on Facebook with new privacy settings

Huffington Post article on deficit myths is quite fictional itself

Septa goes from 911 to the 411 with technology updates

Updates:
What a week!  I won two awards!  One, at the Drexel University Student Life Awards, I won Student Leader of the Year!  What a surprise!  All my hard work has finally paid off!  Two, I won first place in the Campus Freedom Network incentive program, resulting in a 42″ TV, a Mac computer, a Flip video camera and a 16gb iPod touch.  Oh, how I love technology!

There are three more weeks left in the term and luckily I had a few days of rest this week to prepare for the massive amount of busy work associated with “learning” at college.  After finals, I am going down to New Orleans for my “summer break” of one whole week to work for Habitat for Humanity (yes, I know about Jimmy Carter and government funding, shh) and “party” on Bourbon Street.

For Student Liberty Front, a few members went to the John Stossel show in NYC on Wednesday, May 19th, attended two showings, and even got on air!  Those of us who stayed back at Drexel had a meeting discussing our upcoming Student Liberty Front conference in the summer and debated about illegal immigration.  On June 2nd, we plan on having a Che Guevara movie showing and discussion, which should get a lot of people thanks to a “teaser” promotion we are going to be using.  “Who is Che?”, “Who’s the man on the t-shirt?”, “What is revolution?”, etc.

Now that summer is on its way, I hope that students who actually have summer break at other campuses are working on starting up liberty groups — this is where being a Students for Liberty Campus Coordinator will come in.  2-3 months is more than enough time to prepare the paperwork and become prepared to start a group on campus.  It blows my mind to think that there are campuses out there with no groups like Student Liberty Front, Students for Liberty, Young Americans for Liberty and more — especially because my passion is so high in regards to my beliefs.  I cannot begin to stress to students how important it is that they take a few hours out of their lives to get these clubs started — and I am more than willing to help.

As I write this, I am on my way to an Anarcho Capitalist Meetup in NYC — the Bolt Bus is actually an enjoyable experience thanks to wi-fi!  Meeting new people in the movement is always fun — and this summer is filled with a conference almost every weekend!   “Wow, there is actually a market for liberty!”  I find myself thinking over and over again now-a-days.  I am not worried about finding a job after graduation because of this — which is awesome (OK, I worry a little bit, but you know).

Final thoughts:  I am very busy, the liberty movement is growing, I love traveling, student involvement in liberty is a beautiful thing, summer is filled with liberty conferences, Che Guevara t-shirts are funny, and I should try to be happy, because life is pretty good at the moment, personally and on the liberty front.

Articles:

• Today is the day obama promised that troops would be out of Iraq
• Soda tax is immoral, unprincipled and got booted from the budget
• Liberty Candidates take country by storm
• The story that you should be following right now
• Who is Sam Rohrer?

And good news!  I will be the first Anarchist Examiner!  Coming soon!

• Monthly documentary series to show “Fall of the Republic”
• 25 year anniversary of MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, kills 11, destroys 65 homes
• Art March for Juarez murders at Drexel University this Saturday
• Reason magazine hosts happy hour tonight with Gary Johnson
• Yaron Brook of Ayn Rand Institute speaks at University of Pennsylvania
• Locals angry with untruthful article in City Paper