Posts in "Activism"

Protesting the TSA @ Auburn University

Bryant Haley
Dec 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM
By Bryant Haley

A bullhorn can get somebody's attention, but it will turn them away faster than you can say "backscatter."  We've found that the best way to connect with and engage fellow Auburn students with the message of liberty is big, original, lemme-take-a-second-look-at-that type displays.  Our most recent event about the hyped-up TSA procedures exemplifies this simple principle. 

Looking Back

Some inspired members put their heads together and brought this genius idea to life. To cover up our unclad friend we used a cleverly placed gift-wrapped box (reminiscent of Justin Timberlake's and Andy Samburg's popular SNL short) and filled it with a bounty of YAL pocket Constitutions.

VCU Semester Report

David Fincannon
Dec 2, 2010 at 6:16 PM
By David Fincannon

The VCU chapter of Young Americans for Liberty has had a whirlwind of activity this fall semester. After leaving of the YAL National Convention with a number of new strategies and ideas we began to implement them immediately.

Aside from regular tabling and an outstanding showing at our back to school fair, the first major event we worked with was the Liberty Fest sponsored by Virginia Campaign for Liberty which hosted training seminars, music by Jordan Page, & many speakers with the keynote slot given to Judge Andrew Napolitano. In addition to reaching out to local Tea Partiers we were able to attract a great number of students and youth who were interested in getting involved locally.

Liberty Fest

University of Virginia Update--Pedobear Protest

Dylan Brewer
Nov 30, 2010 at 11:47 PM
By Dylan Brewer

YAL at the University of Virginia has gotten off to a great start.  This last weekend we opened up with some anti-TSA activism that ended up getting on the front page of Reddit, racking up over 200,000 views so far.  We also managed to get the picture of one of the many posters we put up on the Huffington Post, which definitely came as a surprise.

  Member at work with Pedobear.

 

Until now, things have gone a little slowly for our chapter.  For the most part, we were limited to tabling with Nolan’s World’s Smallest Political Quiz, pitching heavily to people with liberty-minded perspectives to come and check out our group and trying to influence the views of those with contrary opinions.

End the Fed Rally - Boston

Megan Duffield
Nov 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM
By Megan Duffield

Student, Greg Kerr, from Northeastern's YAL chapter had a few words to share in this compilation of interviews from the Rally.  

Brush Your Teeth and Help Us Out!

Megan Duffield
Nov 30, 2010 at 9:13 AM
By Megan Duffield

Silver Circle is at the tail end of their "Fan Fall Challenge."  All they need now is 400 more "fans" to reach their 10,000 fan goal!  It's very simple, watch this video and see how brushing your teeth and playing on Facebook could help out an independent film that seeks to educate those on the Federal Reserve and alternative currencies.

Suggest this to friends and help Silver Circle hit their goal!

Auburn University Semester Summary

Bryant Haley
Nov 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM
By Bryant Haley

The YAL chapter at Auburn University got started with a few strangers who met while visiting the Auburn Libertarians' last meeting of the fall of 2009. The group banded together in the spring of 2010, gained provisional status with Auburn, and finished off the semester by creating a 44' long display of the national debt to promote a Tom Woods lecture at Auburn.  Approximately 150 students, professors, and community members attended! We also attended a county-wide Tea Party event.

YAL@AU attending local county-wide Tea Party


Auburn YAL at a local Tea Party event at the Opelika Courthouse in Opelika, AL

East Carolina's Summary of Semester Events!

Matthew Blackmon
Nov 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM
By Matthew Blackmon

The NC TEAM!

East Carolina University YAL has been quite active this semester engaging students with a number of activist events as well as having many events to build a community of liberty within the organization.

ECU YAL Meeting! Several more are not shown in this pic, and more came in afterwards. Liberty is becoming fairly popular on our campus!

The semester started with only four returning members (the officers) -- all other members had graduated.  Early on we planned on taking advantage of tabling and recruitment days on campus.  Our recruitment day event was a resurrection of the classic Wake Forest “Stop Spending our Futures" water bottle giveaway.  This proved to be ultra-effective and despite having competition on our reserved table from the Republicans and the campus greens, we were able to recruit more potential members with our enthusiasm and creativity.  This event employed a huge 118 can capacity cooler filled with ice and relabeled (and laminated) bottles of water and a of course a hot summer day.  

MTSU Semester Report

Eric Sharp
Nov 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM
By Eric Sharp

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Our incoming President, Eric Sharp, having raised enough money from local donors, attended the YAL National Convention. He brought back the knowledge gleaned from those five days to supercharge the fall semester.

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New Anti-TSA Flyer!

Bonnie Kristian
Nov 24, 2010 at 10:02 PM
By Bonnie Kristian

This one may resonate with LOTR fans...

Download it at the bottom of this post or on YAL's TSA activism guide page.

YAL@VU Semester Report

Kenny Tan
Nov 24, 2010 at 9:43 PM
By Kenny Tan

Before forming the YAL chapter at Vandy, I started off my first year by stirring controversy on campus with my first letter to the editor published in the official campus newspaper The Hustler.  The article was a criticism of the university's Community Creed, and focused on the restrictions it imposed on students' rights.  FIRE's blog, The Torch, also commented on the article.

Luckily, Young Americans for Liberty at Vanderbilt University was formed at the beginning of this semester with few obstacles.  There had existed a College Libertarians group on campus before our arrival that had since become inactive.  After a quick conversation with the Director of Student Organizations, we received access to the room reservation system from the Office of Reservations and Events along with access to the account number and the remaining funds in that account previously used by the College Libertarians.  Our chapter application was submitted on Sept. 8th and granted provisional status that evening.