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By Sam Swedberg at 11:41AM

Apr 18, 2010

Tax Day: YAL in the News

Check out this media coverage of YAL activism on tax day this year:

University of Iowa's Jeff Shipley discusses the two party system in the Daily Iowan.
Purdue's Nathan Murphy received an interview from WLFI 18 on what his campus was planning on doing for this year's Tax Day. The Exponent covered the actual Tax Day event held at Purdue.
Executive Director Jeff Frazee was able to talk about the Young Americans for Liberty on the popular Daily Caller.
Colorado State's Eric Roche is asked what YAL strives for by The Rocky Mountain Collegian.
The Indiana Daily Student asks Indiana University @ Bloomington's Sam Spaiser his thoughts on the Tea Party movement.
Finally Jambar offers a great article about Youngstown State's YAL.

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By Sam Swedberg at 1:19PM

Feb 1, 2010

Illinois State and Purdue University recently held recruitment week events. Purdue went the more conventional route and held a table. It looks like they were able to engage students well, which is exactly what we need to be doing.

Purdue Table

Illinois State had a pizza party for their members and then as a group took to the streets to protest U.S. foreign occupation. They seem to have had a peace-loving good time.

Anti-Occupation

Both activities looked successful and are great examples to groups out there on how a campus can engage students, thus recruit more members to the cause of liberty. Check out more pictures from both events below.

Bill Ayers Disowns Obama

A couple months ago, members of the Ball State, IPFW, IUK and Purdue chapters of YAL along with Campus Reform field rep. Craig Dixon went to an event at Purdue University featuring Bill Ayers. Their purpose was to protest the fact that Ayers conflated capitalism with empire while calling for the end of empire (and thus capitalism). Of course, Ayers is a mixed up guy if he thinks empire and capitalism are the same (Chet Butterworth wrote a little on why he's so controversial here).

In any case, Ayers was a big supporter of Obama, so we decided to ask a pertinent question, inquiring if he would explain his love of the leader of the largest empire in the world. We waited for hours only for him to ignore us and rush into his vehicle with the help of empire-funded security guards (policemen for anyone who's wondering).

Bill Ayers now seperates himself from Obama. Although I applaud Ayers for his anti-war activism, I think this guy is really way too confused about the seperation of the voluntary and the involuntary to ever lead a solid anti-war movement. Getting rid of capitalism will only lead to more political wars.

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