The Civil Disobedience panel at Keenevention 2013 was presented by the star of “Victimless Crime Spree” and the host of Peace News Now, Derrick J Freeman. The panel’s focus was perhaps the most controversial form of activism – civil disobedience and noncooperation. Keenevention is certainly not the first time a civil disobedience panel has been presented at a liberty gathering, but it is the first time in many years that Russell Kanning, one of the original movers to Keene, returns to the stage! Russell was instrumental in making Keene the destination for future waves of activists who would emulate his peaceful disobedience. Russell was joined by another original Free State Project mover and liberty civil disobedience pioneer, Lauren Canario as well as yours truly, Ian Freeman.
Presented by State Representative, Free State Project early mover, and Porcupine Real Estate agent Mark Warden. This panel covered being an entrepreneur in NH, including business and housing. Panelists included Chris Suprock and William Kostric. Here’s the video:
Friday morning’s Legislative Panel at Keenevention 2013 focused on the tools of activism at the NH State House. Starting with learning how a idea can become a law, discussion included the mechanics of working with political parties, understanding NH demographics, how to win and lose elections, the technique of measuring legislators in a variety of ways, as well as how to successfully lobby (and how not to!) to stop new proposed bad laws and help remove existing bad laws (and [rarely] passing good ones.) Led by former State Representative and Free Keene blogger Seth Cohn, panelists included current State Rep. Tim O’Flaherty (D), former State Rep. Spec Bowers (R), and NH Liberty Alliance Chair Eileen Landies.
I must say, the first-ever Keenevention worked out splendidly, thanks to over 100 great attendees, speakers, volunteers, and VIPs! As promised, the conference focused on activism and our speakers consisted of Free State Project early movers and of course liberty-loving NH natives. As FSP early mover and superactivist Carla Mora expressed on the Keenevention 2013 facebook event,
“This was one hell of an inspirational liberty event. It was very different from ones I have attended in the past…we are doing something right if we are surrounded by these people.”
One attendee told me that he’d never seen such in-depth panels. Our activist speakers and panelists were outstanding, interesting, and informative. Jay Freeville said Keenevention was the,
“First liberty convention I’ve ever been to where I’ve actually wanted to go to more speakers/panels because they were consistently interesting enough to hold my attention!”
In addition, Keenevention was intimate, but yet still large enough to be diverse with people attending from as far away as Wisconsin, Canada, Ohio, and Virgina. The over 100 Keeneventioneers not only watched great speeches and panels, but also conversed, dined together on-the-town, and participated in various activism and social activities. Kristin Alpert said on the FB event,
“Keenevention was one of my all time favorite Liberty/Freedom events – It was well organized and the panels were all so well spoken and professional-there was a perfect balance of ACTIVISM, EDUCATION, and FUN“.
Local activist photographers Eric Freerock and Johnson Rice took so many amazing pictures of people that many facebook profile pics have been changed to ones taken at Keenevention! Their pictures from the event are here (Eric’s) and here (Johnson’s).
Videos are coming! Thanks to Yury and David Crawford’s camerawork, we have video from every single speaker and panel of the entire weekend! Please subscribe this blog to your favorite RSS reader or visit the Keenevention facebook page and click “Like”, then, hover over “Liked”, and click “Get Notifications” to get the latest from Keenevention. That way, you’ll know about the videos as they get posted. Alternately, you can subscribe to the Free Keene youtube channel and of course follow the blog at Free Keene, as they will also be posted there.
Even the early morning panels were well-attended, with 22 people at the initial 9am Friday Legislative Panel. I really didn’t know what to expect. (more…)
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