Thursday, February 23, 2012
Cash Mobs Spread Across Canada and U.S.
With the U.S. economy at record lows, more local businesses are struggling and many are shutting their doors permanently and declaring bankruptcy. The number of Americans living in poverty continues to rise as government licensing and regulations further stifle the creation of new job growth. A new phenomenon has started to sweep across North America. They’re called, “Cash Mobs.” Organizers of these “Cash Mobs” gather customers to spend their money at a particular locally owned business. Annie Johnson, a mall business owner, said groups hope to organize one Cash Mob a month to build awareness and support for the local businesses.
Learn more at PRI.org: ‘Cash Mobs’ profit locally owned stores
The Huffington Post reports on Agent Eddie Free!
The Huffington Post‘s Erin Greenwood speaks to Eddie Free about Fr33 Agents, the Free State Project and more:
That activism takes on a variety of forms, like not registering his gun, dancing at the Jefferson Memorial (which has a ban on dancing), or selling lemonade on the National Mall to protest the over-regulation of kids’ lemonade stands.
On principle, Free does not vote — though he’s considered making an exception, in order to cast a ballot for Ron Paul.
The website Fr33 Agentsrewards civil disobedience: one point for going to court to support another activist; one point for refusing to take a plea deal; one point for selling lemonade without a license.
Free will get 22 points when he leaves Virginia over the summer to move to New Hampshire, getting him closer to one of the site’s prizes, like a video camera. He’ll be joining the Free State Project, a whole community devoted to living out the small-state ideal in New Hampshire, itself a state with no seatbelt laws and no sales tax. The group has attracted 1,000 people so far, but aims to grow to 20,000 participants.
Read the whole article at the Huffington Post or below:
FR33 Agents Seeks Contributors
Fr33 Agents reports on the men and women who put themselves on the front-lines of freedom. As the global movement for liberty grows, we are looking for more Agents to discover and share these stories of the peaceful resistance on Fr33Agents.com, Fr33 Agents Radio News and coming up, Fr33Agents.TV.
You might already be sharing pictures, videos, and articles of civil disobedience with your friends on facebook. You’re doing most of the work already, so why not add your efforts to something larger and spread the messages of peace, liberty and justice?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Weekly Editors commit to to contributing five “tumblog” style posts and one article on the day of the week that they edit Fr33Agents.com. There are currently 5 openings, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays.
Because Fr33Agents.com hopes to feature a variety of multimedia content on our site, each tumblog post should include a video, quote, link or audio clip accompanied by about 6 sentences describing each (in your own words). The exception to this is when you post an article which should be original and about 3 times longer than the other posts.
Contributors provide any one of the above-mentioned posts at least once per week, also writing in a style to be read for radio.
Radio Reporters publishes content to Fr33 Agents websites which is used to produce a daily 5-minute podcast which broadcasts to over 100 radio stations plus XM/Sirius Satellite Radio and downloadable as a podcast (on iTunes and elsewhere). Radio Reporters can call FR33Agents and leave a voice recording of your post at 762 – BE – FR33 – 0. For examples, check out FR33Agents.com and then click the Radio tab at the top to hear the latest episodes.
While this is not a paid position at present, FR33 Agents is looking to expand to a point where content providers would be paid per post. For now, the incentive and reward is the sharing of stories peaceful resistance around the globe. When the capital is available to pay contributors, higher priority will be placed on those who regularly submit content.
For details on how you can play a part in achieving a fr33 society, contact Agent TalleyTV or Agent Derrick J. Freeman.
Don’t Strip Our Rights – Live Free Or Dance Party at Manchester Airport
On an event that Agent Kelly James posted to Facebook she writes that she is ”very excited to share the news that we will have music and dancing at the airport for Don’t Strip Our Rights Liberty Forum.” She encourages people to join her and Agent Derrick J to at the Manchester Airport to “attend, film, hold signs, hand out literature, dance, and of course – strip for our rights!”
So far the event has 35 people listed as going and 52 as maybe.
After the jump is the call to action for Don’t Strip Our Rights: (more…)
American Prisons Discussed on British TV Series QI Hosted by Steven Fry
The TV show QI (for quite interesting) mentioned the following shocking prison facts mentioned below:
1. Three “strikes” and you get life in jail. Even for trivial crimes, Leandro Andrade is serving 2 consecutive life sentences for shoplifting 9 video tapes with a value of $153
2a. 1% of Americans are in jail(2.3million)
2b On a per capita bases this equates to twice as many in South Africans, more than 3 times Iran and 6 times China’s prison population.
3. No society in history has imprisoned as many people as America.
4. 1 in 30 men aged 20 – 34 in in prison.
5.1 in 9 black males are in prison.
6. There are more 17 year old black males in prison than in college.
7. 5% of the world are American…25% of all prisoners are American.
8. America prohibits importing goods made through forced labor or prisoners…
YET…
…American prisons produce 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests,9. 93% of domestically used paints, 36% of home appliances, 21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
10. You get solitary confinement if you refuse to work!11. Thus America has successfully reinvented the slave trade.
You may recognize Steven Fry from the movie V for Vendetta where he played a fictional talk show host in a more totalitarian England.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LWNHpejhM
