Rich Paul is the creator of the historic 420 celebrations in Keene who also spent most of 2013 in a jail cell for heroically refusing to take the plea on multiple cannabis dealing charges. He’s out and will take the stage at Keenevention 2014 to tell his story and take your questions!
Get your tickets for the earlybird price now for just $40 USD or Bitcoin!
Rich is the first speaker announcement of many to come, including our returning and brand new panel discussion topics and the various guest speakers (all NH-based activists) who will populate them. Stay tuned here to the Keenevention blog, the Keenevention facebook page, or FreeKeene.com for the announcements. (If you’ve liked the Keenevention facebook page, have you hovered over the “liked” indicator and clicked “get notifications”? That will help ensure you see future posts.)
It was my expectation that conventions in their first year very rarely bring in more money than they cost. The purpose of Keenevention is not to make money, but to give people a reason to come visit New Hampshire in the fall and while here, meet key in-state activists, discuss various types of activism, and experience the Keene area and the activism here. I really didn’t care if it covered its costs.
After running the numbers, it turns out had we only accepted cash and credit cards for our tickets, the event would have been in-the-red by a few hundred USD. However, because we accepted bitcoins, the event brought in more than it cost! We only had five bitcoin ticket sales, but four of the five were earlier in 2013, before the insane price spike toward the end of 2013.
We’re just over half a year away from Keenevention 2014, and who knows what the price of bitcoin will do by then. The price is down a bit at the moment, so grab your ticket(s) to Keenevention 2014 now!
Join a panel of Bitcoin experts to discuss the technology and how Bitcoin is helping business and liberty activism. Presented by the host of Let’s Talk Bitcoin, Stephanie Murphy. Panelists to include Blockchain.info‘s George Mandrik, Neocash Radio host JJ Schlessinger, and Matthew Carano – the owner of Bitcoin-accepting brick-and-mortar business The Pao Cafe.
How is technology helping the NH liberty movement advance and how can it help you be more free? Presented by the host of Sovryn Tech, Brian Sovryn. Panelists included Steve Zemanek, Jay Freeville, and Bill Domenico.
The Peace Roundtable was the most well-attended and controversial event at Keenevention 2013. It ran overtime by nearly a half-hour!
Is peace attainable through violence or is peace the only way? Does self-defense against aggressive state agents just make matters worse for future activists? These questions and many from the audience were discussed at the Peace Roundtable featuring Derrick J Freeman, Ian Freeman, and Chris Cantwell:
It’s the “Old School NH” panel from Keenevention 2013! Join Free Talk Live‘s Jonny Ray and his panel of old-school Free State Project movers and NH natives as they reflect on that which has paved the way for what is next. Panelists included NH natives Nemi Jones, Lorri Rodier, and Kate Ager as well as FSP early mover Shaunna Nash. Here’s the full video:
Rich Paul is the creator of the historic 420 celebrations in Keene who also spent most of 2013 in a jail cell for heroically refusing to take the plea on multiple cannabis dealing charges. He’s out and will take the stage at Keenevention 2014 to tell his story and take your questions!
