FSP Mid-Atlantic Local Group

Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic Group page!

Please join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mid-atlantic_fsp/ for up-to-the-minute updates on Mid-Atlantic happenings! Here you can access the monthly meeting calendar, join our discussions, and learn how you can help us in local activism opportunities and projects, large and small, that will help us get to the 20,000 mark.

For those of you who cannot make it to our meetings, please let us know to help you start a meeting in your local area. Please feel free to contact us for help or questions. Thanks!

Phil Denisch pdenisch@freestateproject.org

Lynn Pina nhjobs@freestateproject.org

Rich Goldman rich1@umbc.edu

Local Groups

• To find your Local Group, click on your location in the map below!
• Want to learn how help your Local Group become better?

• Building a Local Group
• Database Usage Guidelines
• Packing Meetings
• Speaking Guidelines

• See some success stories in Real Activism.
• Find out about events at our Calendar of Events
• Discuss other outreach activities in our Local Group forums.
• Read the Local Groups Coordinator's Blog, make comments and give feedback.
• Of course you can always just E-mail the Local Groups Coordinator.

Region	Porcupine Group	Contact	Email List	FSP Forum	Meeting(s) <!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Northeast	New England (ME VT) (For NH, click here)	Rich Tomasso	Yahoo	Forum
	Mass & RI	Jon Maltz	Yahoo	Forum
	Connecticut	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- Fri 1/21 7pm at Molten Java Coffee Roasters in Bethel, CT. Details. -->
	Tristate (NYC NJ PA CT-suburbs)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Central NY	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Western NY (Buffalo-Niagara-Rochester)	Jason Sorens	Yahoo	Forum
	Western PA	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Mid- Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD se.PA s.NJ n.VA)	Phil Denisch	Yahoo	Forum	Usually the third Saturday of every month. See the FSP Forum for details.
	Appalachians (WV w.MD w.VA)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	Appalachians FSPers are more than welcome at the Mid-Atlantic meetings (above).
	Coastal VA & NC (se.VA ne.NC)	Bryan Stevenson	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
South	Florida-all Florida-Suncoast	Tim Condon (Vacant*)	Yahoo Yahoo	Forum Forum	Regularly scheduled dinners in Tampa Bay.
	Georgia	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Alabama (AL w.FL)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Arkansas	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Tennessee	Keith Carlsen	Yahoo	Forum
	Bayou (LA MS)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo
	Carolinas (SC NC e.TN)	Chris Rasch	Yahoo	Forum	Third Saturday of every month at Chris' apartment in Raleigh, 2-4 pm. <!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Midwest	Minnesota	Steve Bottari	Yahoo	Forum	For more info see Meetup.com
	Wisconsin	Richard Whitnable	Yahoo	Forum
	Chicago- Milwaukee (s.WI n.IL ne.IN)	Tim Bauman & Vito Vitkauskas	Yahoo	Forum
	Midwest (MI n.OH ne.IN)	Jeremy Couch	Yahoo	Forum
	St. Louis (e.MO w.IL)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Bluegrass (KY s.OH s.IN se.IL)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Plains	Breadbasket (SD ND NE)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Kansas (KS w.MO)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Iowa	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Mountain	Big Sky (MT ID WY)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Utah	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Colorado	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Southwest	Arizona	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	New Mexico	Amanda Odom Powell	Yahoo	Forum
	Oklahoma	Holland O. Van den Nieuwenhof	Yahoo	Forum
	North Texas U of TX - Dallas	James Strater (Vacant*)	Yahoo Yahoo	Forum
	South Texas	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	<!-- ****************************************************************** -->
Pacific	Pacific NW (OR WA)	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	N. California	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum	Bay area local group meetings
	San Diego County	Andrew Del Vecchio	Yahoo	Forum	Irregular meetings, but periodic events with other libertarian orgs.
	Nevada	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Hawaii	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
	Alaska	(Vacant*)	Yahoo	Forum
Region	Porcupine Group	Contact	Email List	FSP Forum	Meeting(s)

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Stan Rozenfeld's Vist to NH

4/24/04

Regarding Free State Project: The people I met at your party [Meet & Greet at Cal Pratt's in Goffstown, NH] are unique to libertarianism. Instead of sitting back, talking theory and resigning themselves to a generations long battle to change society, your group is committed to living in liberty now! I've found the people I met to be highly social, friendly, very PR oriented, and VERY action-oriented. Other libertarian organizations have a lot to learn!

Regarding New Hampshire: Although the state lacks the polish, the scope and is not as developed as the New Jersey suburbs where I now live, it more than makes up for it by great naturally beauty, a sense of history, the friendliness of its people. There is a sense that everything is down to a normal human scale. I don't feel part of a vast machine there, but as an autonomous individual.

Breathing New Hampshire air really does make one more free!

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NOTE: The opinions and commentary expressed in this essay are those of the author and are an exercise of free speech. They do not necessarily represent the views of Free State Project Inc., its Directors, its Officers, or its Participants.

Gun Rights and the FSP

by Evan Nappen

Evan Nappen is an FSP activist, a lawyer, and the FSP "Gun Rights" Community Liaison. Here is a 1-minute video clip of Evan speaking about gun rights and the FSP, from his new DVD – GUN CONTROL - OUT OF CONTROL!

The video clip is available in 4 formats. There is also a trailer from the DVD:

Item	Format	Filetype	Resolution (Mbytes)
			Medium	High
FSP Clip	Windows Media	(wmv)	3.3	6.4
	Quicktime	(mp4)	2.8	6.4
DVD Trailer	Windows Media	(wmv)	1.5	5.5
	Quicktime	(mov)	1.7	2.9

Note: You might need to download a file, rather than "stream" it.

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Here is more info about the DVD from which the above clips came from:

GUN CONTROL - OUT OF CONTROL! How Gun Laws Make Honest Citizens Criminals. - An Exposé ¢y Evan F. Nappen, Attorney at Law The DVD you are holding in your hands contains an exposé ¯f the "Peril of Gun Control" which threatens honest citizens with imprisonment, forfeiture of guns, and loss of civil rights. The information revealed is based upon over 15 years of legal experience fighting for clients caught in New Jersey's notorious web of contradictory and blatantly absurd gun control laws. Some of the laws are so ridiculous that you will laugh out loud at their outright stupidity. If it wasn't that good people suffer under these laws, this DVD could be considered one of America's Funniest Videos. Everything you will see and hear is based on Attorney Evan Nappen's in-depth understanding of gun law and firearm technology. THIS DVD INCLUDES A BONUS SECTION explaining what honest citizens can do to protect themselves from becoming the next victim of gun control's insanity. www.evannappen.com/newdvd1           1 - 888 - GUN - LAWS Copyright 2004 Evan F. Nappen, Esq. Published and distributed by Gun Writes Press, Inc.

Additional articles, videos, and references to Evan and his work with the FSP can be found here.