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Below are key stories of Libertarians at work changing the paradigm towards voluntary governance tools, their use in the culture, and LIO participant projects.Get to speed by reviewing our blog, or share your story or project at GUESTBOOK, or get involved at VOLUNTEER. Libertarians are persons who have pledged to respect rights through non-initiation of force, and advocating voluntary alternatives to coercive governments or programs.Over 600,000 have taken the pledge worldwide since 1970, and many more better their lives and communities with Libertarian tools. Have you?
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St. Petersburg, Florida, Ongoing, first published October 2007--The paradigm is Libertarians don't lead change by not getting into the community...or if they do, 'car wash' Libertarian activists are Libertarian lightweights who blindly attack government structures. Change your paradigm. For while courts from California t...
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Costa Rica, October 2008--The myth is that Libertarians can't get elected to high office and are right-wing anyway. Change your paradigm.
Libertarian centrists are pushing conservatives and progressive wings to think anew with a hardening line as they declare choice an inherent theme of human right...
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(Photo: Mongolian Prime Minister Elbegdorj Tsakhia, known as EB to friends, addresses the ISIL world Libertarian conference on improvements there using Libertarian tools.)
Ulan Bator, Mongolia, February 2008--T...
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Seminole County, USA, July 2007--The paradigm is that social change can only be done by elected Libertarians...and environment hating Libs can't get elected to anything locally important. Change your paradigm.
Bookseller Mike Barr is one of the growing number of Libertarians being elected to county Soil & Water...
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SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia USA, July 2007--The myth is that we're a long way from Libertarian-oriented cities. Change your paradigm.As Libertarian concepts of emphasis on rights and voluntary alternatives to coerced government programs spre...
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(Photo) Libertarian in local public office architect Bill Sachs successfully testifies on abuses in restoring voting rights that led to legal changes as part of coalition effort.
Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, November 2006--The myth is Libertarians can't form...
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(Photo) Liberal and Libertarians meet in the Phillippines to start new civic think tank, advised by Libertarians from India..
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2006--The myth is thyat Libertarian-oriented think tanks aren't spreading. Change your paradigm.
(Updated article) Libertarian and ...
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Austin, Texas, USA--The paradigm is that Libertarianism is about just politics. Think again.
"As a result of the LIO communities project, over 2000 Libertarian and Libertarian-oriented or using communities have been developed and registered since effectively zero in 1976, when the project began."
So says LIO advisor and project co-ordinator Terry Parker, who is preparing a short overview and manual on the subject and himself created a cl...
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(Repost of previous 2002 LIO advisory)
Portugal, EC--The paradigm is voluntary drug use is hopeless. Think again.
In 1999 a contact group led by LIO advisor Dr. J. Figueres Gomes de Lemos successfully implemented a plan for decriminalization of all drugs in Portugal. This goes beyond the de facto decriminalization in Spain, and is a "major step of transition" according to LIO advisor nobelist Dr. Milton Friedman, who expressed the hope that it will be neutrally m...
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