- Freedom Rally
Join us for the MassCANN Freedom Rally and leave the driving to us!
We’ll help you get there and back on the Fun Bus, but you’ve got to help us and buy a ticket in advance, so we can know when the bus is filled up. We’ll put online ticketing here on the site in the next day.
FREEDOM RALLY 2010 website
Volunteer to help out at Freedom Rally!
Freedom Rally 2010 Vendor Information
Freedom Rally Fire Regulations
Top Ten Ways Bands Can Get Booked to Play the 2011 Rally
2010 Entertainers:
ONYX, Planetoid, Prospect Hill, Age Against the Machine, Myster DL, DJ Slim, Casey Desmond, SuperPower, The Force, Amber Ladd, Termanology, Rob Potylo, Bigg Nez, Matalon, and more TBA
Speakers Expected:
Gary Johnson former Governor of New Mexico
Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party Candidate for Governor
Tags: allies, blog, Boston, bus, cannabis, event, festival, music, pot, rally, tickets, tour, transpo
Category blog, bus, tour |
- beer in Beantown
Boston Pub Tour DETAILS.
Boston has a lot of history and a lot of pubs – what could be better than a tour to check out both?
Coming 9 October, but we’re ready to ticket now with our new online ticketing feature! This tour will cover beer variety (Sunset Grill has a 16 page beer menu with 112 taps and 4oo bottled beers), local brew (Cambridge Brewing was one of the first brew pubs in the country), beer food (a couple of places), beer and revolution (the Green Dragon was where the Boston Tea Party plot was hatched), beer and more history (The Bell-in-Hand Tavern is the oldest tavern in the country), quality beer (Jacob Wirth has the finest Euro brews), beer and the Irish (The Black Rose has 2 stages of Irish music).
Best of all, you won’t have to find parking in Boston or drive home when you shouldn’t. We take care of all that. Just click the Boston Pub Tour page for details and ticketing.
Boston Pub Tour DETAILS.
Tags: allies, beer, blog, Boston, bus, food, history, Irish, music, parking, pub, ticket, tour, transpo
Category blog, tour |
- BANG!
What can I say? You have to go to this! – the event is the tops! Just go to their site and read the line up, then pack up and go! AltOrgs will have a few tents to rent at the AltExpo booth if you don’t own one. We’ll even put it up for you and take it down and pack it up!
Rally website: http://livefreeordierally.com
Category Uncategorized |
The Boston GreenFest is going on this weekend, and of particular interest is the One Gallon Challenge. Cars start 110 miles from the show and are given one gallon of fuel. There’s a big push to develop a 100 mpg car; this contest will test several teams’ designs.
Other interesting activities include:
- Native American Drum & Dance Ceremony
- Green Jobs Forum
- Gubernatorial Green Debate
- Over 200 Exhibitors
- 75+ Live Performances
- The Great Escape with Alexanderia!
- EcoCafé, EcoGallery, EcoBazaar
- GreenFilmFest
- EcoFashion and Salsa EcoFashion Show
- One Gallon Challenge
- GreenFest Time Tunnel
- EcoPhoto Contest for Boston Public Schools
- Fun for Kids!
The AltOrgs tour will leave from the Exit 6 Park and Ride lot in Nashua Saturday. Let’s meet at 10:00 and leave no later than 10:15. Then we can leave the Festival at 16:00 to get back in Nashua ~ 17:00.
We hope to build a larger network through the allies we have in the alt. energy movement.
I’m hoping to at least sit in this ride:
- Roopod - 2 cylinder diesel
I know it doesn’t have the skins on, but I love a cutaway view anyway.
TheRoopod
Roo Trimble, the designer and fabricator says:
About a year ago (2007) I began to dream about building a car that would embody, what I believe are the most basic common sense features of light weight and economy, and so, my ROOPOD project was born!
- RooPod Artist's Concept
…when I came across the sticker inside the door of my VW New Beetle…it said…3,704 gvrw…that’s how much it’s supposed to weigh fully loaded…3 passengers, the driver and fuel/cargo etc…Then I thought, yikes! For a small car, when I drive this car myself…I can take about 600lb off that weight and get about 3100lb actual weight …I am dragging around just under 3000lb of car just to carry my 250lb body around…I am not so hot at math, but if you divide say 2800 by 250 you get a ratio of 11.2:1 and then I realized, out of my 1 gallon of gas I buy for this car, I use 11 parts to carry the car around, to the one part that is used to carry my weight. If I add a passenger, I do a little better, even another big guy like me…lets say 500lb and that brings the weight up to 3050lb so that ratio is 6.1:1 a lot better but still six parts of my gallon of gas goes to move the car around…! I won’t even talk about more passengers as it is incredibly rare to carry more than one…
- RooPod LF qtr, wheels from Mini
I thought: I can do better than that! I think I can build something that will get me around, in relative safety and comfort and improve that ratio a whole hell of a lot! Then the head scratching began. My eventual goal…A ratio of 1:1 with two people in my vehicle…my numbers would go like this…very simple…250X2 (two of me) (500) that gave me how much my car would get to weigh 500lb.
Tags: allies, alt-energy, blog, Boston, car, competition, design, diesel, event, exhibitors, festival, film, fuel, green, network, new products, tour, transpo, wheels
Category blog, tour |
- Providence, RI - Anarchist Book Fair
AltOrgs is taking the main tour fleet to another event, but…
There is a lot of interest in this event, so we’ll assist in organizing ride-sharing to the 5th Providence Anarchist Book Fair.
Write us at tour@AltOrgs.com and we’ll get the folks together who want to go.
From their infoshop site:
Fifth Providence Anarchist Bookfair + Open Call For Workshops!
COME TO THE 5TH EVER PROVIDENCE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR! FUN! BOOKS! MUSIC! DANCING! REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS!
August 14th from 1pm to 1am on Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island we’ll be throwing the 5th annual Anarchist Bookfair as part of local community art center AS220′s Foo Fest, a one day bloc party downtown, celebrating their 25th anniversary. The festival this year has a $5 cover and is geared towards a family friendly focus! Bring the kids! In the evening local bands will be playing as the festival takes a street party atmosphere!
GROUPS AND VENDORS CONFIRMED SO FAR!
AK Press, Wooden Shoe Books, North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, Just Seeds, Lucy Parsons Center, PM Press, Symposium Books, Icarus Project, Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement/Anarchist Black Cross, Industrial Workers of the World, Heart and Fist Distro, Elm City Infoshop, Farmacy Herbs & More!
OPEN CALL FOR TABLES & WORKSHOPS!
In the past there have been workshops and participatory presentations on radical and revolutionary topics, please feel free to submit workshop proposals or hit us up to get a table if you are an independent distributor of anarchist or anti-authoritarian radical material, tables can be reserved for $50. Please contact us for more info:
providenceanarchistbookfair@gmail.com
Anyone want to go and set up an ALL presence there? email us at tour@AltOrgs.com and it can happen.
Tags: allies, anarchist, arts, block party, blog, books, carpool, dancing, fair, food, kids, music, network, party, Providence, street, table, tour, vendors, worrkshop
Category blog, tour |
- Sander's Rebel Moon
Of the 4 awesome events scheduled for this weekend, we got the most demand for the Catskills Truth Gathering, so we’re taking the Alt-Wagon to this. If we get more sign-ups, we’ll up-size to the Alt-Van then. Don’t make us go all the way up to the Alt-Bus! We will if we have to, though. Also, one of the other events is coming together with a secondary tour!
We met Sander Hicks at previous 9/11 Truth events and he’s a real live wire! At this event, he’s going to introduce the Truth Party, play in the band and serve some Truth Home-Brew! Here’s the scoop from the site for the event:
Save the Country. Change the World.
A conference, a gathering, a be-in, & teach-in. A communal vacation from stress and the economy, a big open mike.
We are visualizing a new direction to peace and truth for the USA.
This is how we can take the country back, and unite a huge amount of people, around the simple virtues of peace, truth, transparency, and really good homebrew.
Join the top leaders in Peace and Truth activism. Come to the Truth Gathering.
Confirmed speakers list and info here.
In honor of the Truth Gathering, band Rebel Moon are doing a free mp4 release of their new single. The Waltz for Rachel Corrie, backed up with a snappy B-side, No Conspiracy Theory.
AltOrgs tour features include:
- Transportation starting in Milford, New Hampshire
- Pickup in NYC (Wakefield/241 St, Bronx – end of #2 train line)
- We provide tents, you provide bedding
- You provide groceries, we provide refrigeration in the car
We’ll post all other tour details to the details page here (not yet created).
Tags: 911Truth, allies, Alt-Wagon, blog, camping, Catskills, con, enterprise, event, flyering, food, music, network, NYC, strategy, table, tour, transpo
Category blog, tour |
- Marx-Lenin-Mao
I told a new mover to New Hampshire and a new friend that I was considering taking the Alt Orgs tour to the 5th Annual Providence, Rhode Island Anarchist Book Fair next weekend. He returned by saying “Aren’t they all a bunch of communist types?” and that instantly grated on me, so I shot back, “Well, you’d just have to go to find out, wouldn’t you?” I felt badly that I’d responded so sharply, so in an email a day later, I apologized and tried t explain my thoughts better. I’m trying to be a kinder and gentler kind of freedom promoter, generally, so after a day to let my thoughts sink in, here’s what I said.
First, an apology. I jumped on you when I thought you were committing Libertarian Sin #1: collectivist prejudice re other people. I’ve got to stop reacting so quickly and be more welcoming to people. I don’t think I handled that right.
You said something like “Aren’t they all communist anarchists?”, or something like that. I will say that type of question really rankles me, though, especially coming from libertarians. What is true is that I have no idea who will be at the Providence Anarchist Book Fair, and it is true that I have no idea what those people that I don’t know believe. For some reason I was in a mood or state of mind to snap back with a quick: “Well, you’d have to go there to find out, wouldn’t you?”, which I think was rather tart of me. So, please don’t think I’m being harsh. It’s just one of my peeves and I’ve got to tame my responses a little so as not to offend, probably.
So, to de-tangle all that, I’ll tell you what I do believe re other kinds of conferences, fairs, meeting, etc.:
- I don’t know where most people there stand;
- I’m curious where the heads of the attenders are;
- I want to find out what their passions are in relation to the state, war, justice, economics, etc.;
- I want to find out what’s the key thing that gets in their craw about the state or other injustices;
- I want to find out if that bug of theirs is similar to mine, to see if we have any common ground;
- I want to find out if we are using any common vocabulary and concepts;
- If we are using a different vocabulary or concepts, I want to try to build common vocabulary and concepts that’ll allow us to communicate better;
- I want to see if I can influence people who come to different conclusions than I do re the state, then (on to) strategies and tactics to build a better society.
In other words, I see myself as more of a missionary entering into the hurly-burly of the world to see if there are any prospective brethren.
I have a bug about what I call the approach of “intellectual perfectionism”, which is what I call Ayn Rand and her followers’ approach (and I speak as one of those followers who have, I hope, grown in wisdom). That approach entails meeting someone, then, if you disagree one iota, arguing with them til you convert them (rare) or really escalate til you’re red in the face and totally alienate them (frequent outcome).
So, I don’t go to meetings to find people in perfect agreement with me (wouldn’t that be nice), I go to see what amount of brotherhood exists already and if there’s enough, then let’s enjoy that — then, see if I’m wise and persuasive enough to help build that amount of brotherhood to a greater level. In any event, we can often become allies on some issues, which I think is a good outcome.
So, that’s one statement of the “Alternatives Communities” strategy. I wonder if you, the reader, can get on board with that. If you can, you’ll like the series of events we’ve attended and the ones we have planned for the future. This past week was so filled with activities, I had no time to blog, so you might see some catch-up posts with details of where we went in mini-stops on the tour and why we went there and what we got out of it.
Tags: allies, anarchist, Ayn Rand, blog, books, brethren, calendar, collectivist, commies, communicate, concepts, economics, event, flyering, influence, Intellectual Perfectionism, justice, network, passioons, peeves, persuasion, prejudice, state, tactics, tour, vocabulary, war
Category strategy |
- mmm, brownies...
We had a brilliant plan to sell munchies to Jerry Garcia fans! What could go wrong with that plan?
Lack of adequate advance planning, that’s what. Since we only started this tour concept in June and this site in early July and only learned of Jerry Jam at SolarFest, it has been a crash project to throw it all together. Well, other people plan ahead and fill up their available vendor slots early, as Jerry Jam did, alas. It still looks like an awesome event with a good vibe, and you should still go! I bet there’ll be a lot of good people to network with there and I wish I were going anyway. We just won’t be operating the tour bus there or enterprising - I think we’ll spend the time planning the next stop instead to make it really successful.
We also make a lot of mini-stops to promote the tour idea, so we should see you at one of them – I’ll figure out how to put them on a calendar, but not clutter up the main tour page.
We learned something really important about state licensing of food vendors at fairs, though – will post on the “Mechanics” page.
Tags: allies, blog, bus, calendar, enterprise, event, food, Franconia, good vibe, JerryJam, mini-stop, munchies, music, planning, SolarFest, table, tour, WhiteMtns
Category blog, tour |
Tomorrow we’re off to the final days of Burning Porcupine in Grafton, N.H., a week-long networking and camping experience.There will also be a Shire Agorists meeting at 16:00 Saturday at Hoyt Farm where the activities are. Through all our contacts with others at this event, we’ll be promoting this AltOrgs tour and the Alternatives Communities strategy for working together to build a better world. We’ll also be running a couple of mini-enterprises at the farm, and visiting some neighboring communities and properties who have ongoing projects of interest.To ride up with the tour, go to the event details page to see our route – we can include a stop at your house, too and we have camping gear for you, if you don’t have your own. Contact us if you want to go with.
Tags: agorist, allies, AltComStrat, blog, camping, community, enterprise, event, Grafton, network, projects, properties, strategy, tour, transpo
Category blog, tour |
There are several ways you can help us accomplish our mission of influencing people in various alternatives communities:
- Thank you!
- give us money outright! We’ll appreciate it and thank you profusely!
- advertise on our web site (we’ll have to figure out how that’d be done).
- consign merchandise with us at wholesale that we can sell at retail at events.
- join us on the tour and pay a fee for transpo, lodging, food and allow us to make a profit on that
- there surely must be other ways for you to transfer hard-eared cash to us, eh?
Seriously, though, there will be expenses for car, van and bus maintenance and what about all the hours spent typing things like this, eh? we gotta pay that guy, too!
If you would like to financially help with our efforts, please write sponsor@AltOrgs.com.
There are several ways you can help us accomplish our mission of influencing people in various alternatives communities:
Tags: advertise, blog, cash, consign, donate, enterprise, fee, influence, merchandise, mission, money, network, profit, promo, site, sponsor, support
Category blog, sponsor, tour |
