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Libertarian Party of NY: Mailing Lists |
| lpny_announce | If you only join one list, let this be it! It's for occasional announcements only, a one way, moderated list. No discussion here--any replies or postings will be bounced to the list moderators. If you have items (of interest to NY libertarians) to be announced, let us know |
| college students |
The Liberty Students list was started in 2000 by Aaron Biterman, a student at American University, in Washington, D.C., it is somewhat low-volume (seven messages a day during election season), and has over 500 members.
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| lpny_activists | Real Live Activist Planning! This list features tactical planning for activist activities like OPH (Operation Politically Homeless), seminars, and rallies. A calendar of upcoming events possible for outreach is sent every week, and a file of recurring events (weekly, monthly and annual events) is sent to this list monthly, on the first of each month.
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| lpny_candidates | This list is for past, present and potential Libertarian candidates for office in New York state. If you have suggestions for a candidate or want to be one, let us know!
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| lpny_committee | This list is for state committee business. Per our bylaws, all members are permitted to join this list in read-only mode to observe committee business. Party officers, former officers, and special advisors to the committee are able to post to the list. Members with something to add to our conversations, please ask your rep or another member of the state committee to forward it to the list for you. |
| lpny regional |
On these local lists, we focus more on relevance to the area covered than on quantity of postings. Other than lpny_manhattan and now Ithaca_LP, which are active lists in their own right, these lists are meant to supplement other libertarian lists you might be on, with news that's local for you. Share those news stories that affect your county!
Junto/NYC: An email discussion list has been established to discuss Junto
speakers and topics of interest to the Junto members--a group of objectivists, libertarians and conservatives who gather monthly.
More info about the Junto and other NY meetings
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| lpny_legal | This list is to discuss possible legal manoevers to advance libertarianism in NY. All are invited who share our views on the subjects discussed, such as preventing most or all current eminent domain proceedings, the illegality of NY State bond issues, discussing the defense of people facing prosecution for a victimless crime, planning our next election law suit, coming up with bills to ask legislators to propose, etc.
Also see: NYS Legislative Watch. We're looking for a co-editor to send postings to this moderated list about NYS legislation from a libertarian perspective. |
| lpny workgroups |
Lists for Workgroups These lists are for self-forming committees of people who want to help the Libertarian Party of New York. In the words of Jason Auvenshine (Chair, LPAZ) PARTICIPATION: Membership in these committees will be based on the "give a damn" principle. Anyone who "gives a damn" about the issue can be on the committee. No insider connections or shiny badges of any kind are required.Please stick to the topic and respect the ideas of others on the list. People are encouraged to 'bluesky' their ideas in the hope that they inspire others. If you have a suggestion for another committee, please create the list and send the particulars to the website editor. Subcommittee: 2006 Statewide Candidate Search Committee Goal: To find a libertarian candidate who can win us ballot status in 2006, with 50,000 votes! This committee is headed by Werner Hetzner, and is an official sub-committee of the LPNY. Interested members are welcome to join. The list is moderated. Subcommittee: Membership and Interest Group Relations Goal: Increase number of members, retention of members, and activity from members. Also, better networking with interest groups (issue groups) in New York in the search for libertarian allies and supporters.
Subcommittee: Petitioning Goal: organize for the next petitioning drive; learn from previous ones.
Subcommittee: Bylaws Goal: discuss possible changes to the bylaws for the upcoming year.
Subcommittee: Media
Subcommittee: Literature Goal: Keeping our affiliates and members supplied with cost-effective public education materials. Making sure it gets distributed. List closed due to lack of interest... Goal: to brainstorm fundraising ideas and propose spending on items that will maximize our advances for liberty in New York.
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| pro-legalization |
Get updates about the Million Marijuana March planned for May 6th, 2000, and other activist news... join the mayday mailing list for general news. Or, join the mmm-mobe group to talk about bringing all the pro-pot activists together for this special day and other steps towards full legalization--starting with the repeal of NY's racist Rockefeller Drug laws.
Sign up for the mailing lists at Drug-Sense. Several people work to clip articles for this list, which is part of MAP (Media Awareness Project). For news and news analysis from DRCNet, sign up at http://www.drcnet.org/signup.html.
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| technology |
Declan McCullagh is a writer for Wired as well as the publisher of Politech, and keeps a libertarian perspective on the government's reaction to new technology. He's very well informed, and can keep you that way, too. See http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
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| second amendment rights |
Join the Gun Owners of America's list. It's very light traffic, high quality info about important events in the right to keep and bear arms movement. Write to goamail@gunowners.org to be added to the list, and mention what state you reside in to get targetted alerts.
There's also the group Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership... they are also uncompromising supporters of the second amendment (and all the rest of them as well). To sign up for their list, please see http://www.topica.com/lists/jpfo_alerts.
More RTKBA lists:
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| other |
Joe Dehn's list of libertarian mailing lists: Lists
from the Dehnbase
Fidonet's Libertarian forum... called the Liberty echo.
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| list etiquette |
Please don't subscribe your friends to any mailing lists without asking permission first! Think twice before posting! Make sure what you're posting is about libertarianism! Respect the time of the other people of the list. In particular, non-libertarian jokes and virus warnings are rarely appropriate. If you have a large file to share, you can make arrangements with the list owner to post it online and only put a URL in your message to the list. Never send subscribe and unsubscribe messages to the mailing list. Save the introduction letter you receive for unsubscription instructions. (Often they are printed in every message you receive from the list: check some of the mail you're getting to avoid embarassment.)
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It's easy, it's free. All you need is an e-mail account (email is free, too), if you have a computer already.
Try setting your own list up at groups.yahoo.com.
Make sure you let the editor know about any lists you recommend for New Yorkers that aren't on this page..
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