Alright, so here is the deal:

Freedom Fridays is a campaign that my Wake Forest YAL group started up a couple weeks ago. The concpet is rather simple, but it makes the people in your group have a cohesive item of weekly action. So what do you do? I'll tell ya:

Fist pick out a liberty topic. This could range from government intervention to health policy to war to whatever else. Just pick one. Then, have a couple kids design a couple different single page color fliers (Remember to have big fonts and a good graphic to pull them in) and also small fliers (e.g., a solid quote on capitalism by Rothbard, four per page then cut) so that you can post up the single page fliers on walls, boards, and wherever else can draw attention. The smaller ones are designed to be left on tables, chairs in classrooms, mailboxes, taped to the inside of bathroom stalls, I think you get the picture. The bigger single page ones, as said, can go in hallways, posted on pillars, and anywhere else that gets high foot traffic.

So every Thursday night you post up and cover the campus with a single liberty oriented topic, a new one each Thursday night, to create the feeling that the campus is being overun by libertarians--when everyone else wakes up and goes to class, they will experience FREEDOM FRIDAYS! Seriously, in our halls at least 1 out of 3 fliers (sometimes more) are libertarian ones now and no one really knows who is putting up the fliers, but everyone just thinks that there are alot of libertarians on campus now. It's almost like the new "in" thing!

***Note: You should not put your groups name on these fliers; this is an altogether different campaign than getting people to attend your meetings; this is a campaign to change the political atmosphere on campus. If everyone thinks there are libertarians everywhere, they are very likely to incorporate that into the school (e.g., the University is hosting a student panel in front of the entire student body on "challenges facing the new president," and because of this campaign, this will be the first time ever they invited a libertarian to sit on the panel ) In addition, the more popular the message seems, the less likely people are to to write ya off.

So that is FREEDOM FRIDAYS!

P.S.
If you can get your hand on a university printer to save ink, do it! If you can't, work on some local computer stores to see if they can donate an old laser printer to your group. That's what we did and, low-and-behold, we got an oldie-but-a-goodie laser printer gave to us! (thx Paul!)

Great post, Jared. What topics have you covered so far, and which one do you plan to promote this Friday?

Thanks Ed. We've covered so far market intervention by GSEs, capitalism in general (to kind of de-demonize the term), fiat money systems & END THE FED, Privatizing education, and this Friday we're going to do one on Imperialism and Empire.

This has been very successful so far, and I suggest that other groups start doing their own FREEDOM FRIDAY!

I love this idea. Great to do it weekly.

If you don't mind sharing your materials, it would be nice to post them here as attachments so others can see what you're working with. (I'll enable the attachment function for this forum - when you make a post there will be a box below the Preview and Submit buttons to attach files.)

I'd be interested to see what your flyer looked like for GSEs and how many people even heard the term before the recent, inevitable Fannie/Freddie meltdown.

No problem. I'll send the pdf your way (it won't let me upload pdf files for some reason). It's nothing too fancy, but hey, it's designed to pull people in and give them a little bit of information as quick as possible. LI style for sure.

Oh, and lot's of people knew what they were, but really did not relate that fact to Fannie and Freddie.

Anyway to allow pdf's Chris?

Woopsie. Should work now. Let me know if any of the files are bigger than 3 MB.

No Problem Chris, here are three of the fliers we have used so far. I can't find the one on education, I'll post it up when I find it. A couple of them work better for handouts and the Imperialism worked great for wall posters.

See attached

[Edited note: I found the education one in addition to one of the quotes we used by Mises on capitalism that can be cut into three separate sheets: You can only upload three documents per post, so please see post number 11--I think--to find the other two.]

Cool. Keep posting your flyers & handouts as you make them - other schools can easily use these or get ideas to make their own.

I'm going to link to this topic in a few places - it will be on the YAL blog today or tomorrow.

It might be good to include the YAL website as one of the links on the fliers. After all, the purpose of YAL is to appeal to the college crowd.

Kevin, we do that on some fliers, but this is a campaign, like I said in my initial post, that is to remain nameless. Sure we have fliers that have our group's name on them, but we do not put our names on these. Why? Because the whole idea is to create the atmosphere that there are a bunch of libertarians on campus, not just the same old guys. Plus, because no one knows who is posting them, we are not restrained by the flier rule at Wake. We can put them wherever we want without having to worry about the school tracking us down and punishing our group (which happens to a lot of groups by the way).

I hope I may have clarified that while it is ok to put YAL on some fliers (like ones for informational and regular meetings, etc.) this campaign is best done without a name. Try it, it works really well.

Here are the other two [now three] my group has used so far!

[edit: Also attached is the small handout we are using for imperialism and empire: These are great to leave on chairs in classrooms (only put in 10-20% of the seats in each class, it creates the "I want to see" mentality), the library, tables, etc.]

Yeah I must say this looks fantastic. It's also great that you have made them available, chapters that are just starting out may not be too familiar with the content of the issues, or need something to put volunteers to use should consider employing this.

Thanks a bunch, going to add this to our activities.

edit; I just took a good look at the ones you posted, these fliers are extremely well done. Great work,

Great idea! I'm going to bring this up to our group here at UNC Charlotte and see if we cant get something like this going here. November was sickening around campus, seeing all the Obama-zombies running around campus calling for "Change". Good luck with continuing this at Wake Forest!

This is outstanding.

How many people do you have in your Chapter, at your school, and what type of involvement do you get from your campus?

Thanks for the praise, it is indeed a very effective tactic.

I have about 35 people signed up and a variable amount who are active. Beings we are a new student organization, we have only had the opportunity to operate incognito with the campus for the better part of the time (e.g., with such campaigns as freedom fridays). However, we have tabled several times and got coverage from the campus newspaper which is quite the force in the community, in addition to invitations to participate in student panels, etc. In short, our work has only begun, but it has begun with a definite BANG. The campus is beginning to see the real change and I hope this will be a nationwide trend. Literally, people think there are a ton of Ron Paul supporters and libertarians at Wake. Obviously, I can't go into the minutiae, but just know that some hard work has pushed us a very long way.

See our article in the OGB here:
http://www.oldgoldandblack.com/article/ ... to_campus/

bump! Great idea!

And the flier for this week = TAXES. See below for attached and, if this is your first time visiting this thread, check out the other fliers we have used so far in the other posts of several other fliers we have used!

FREEDOM FRIDAYS! wooo wooo! Taxes... booo

Keep them coming, Jared.

Here is a simple "2008 Bailout" poster I made.

Great flier man! Short, sweet (well, not so sweet, lol) and to-the-point! I might print some of these off and use them!

Thanks! If you ever visit Ohio State, don't be surprised to see some of your posters up hah.

Here's another simple one I did. It's critical of the "war on" programs.

If you don't mind me asking, which bailouts are included in that figure? Most people know only of the "$700 billion bailout," which was really that much plus another $150 billion in pork. I remember the early bailout and the stimulus, but I do not remember the total going over 1.5 trillion, unless you are including promises made by the Fed.

Here is the article I got the numbers from, http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/big-bailouts-bigger-bucks/.

Which sites this article, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=an3k2rZMNgDw&

Bloomberg also has this breakdown, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=i0YrUuvkygWs. Using this site, the current amount seems to be $2.84 trillion, but the possible max is $7.76 trillion. It does include fed promises, last year's $168 billion stimulus, and loan guarantees. So I guess a better term to use would be "2008 Rescue packages" than "2008 bailouts".

our first weekly flyer. Thanks for this idea, it was a big hit in our group. Attatched!