Bitcoin – Dwolla – In-person – PayPal

click one of the payment methods above or
scroll down for raffle details & to learn more about MARV

Listed below are payment methods and links to more about MARV

Bitcoin – let’s be completely anonymous!

1. Enter your email address in the field below and hit submit
2. I’ll respond with with a unique deposit address
3. After you send the Bitcoins I’ll associate the public transaction record with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

Oops! We could not locate your form.

Bitcoin to Raffle Ticket Exchange Rate:
. 5 BTC for one ticket (5BTC/ticket); 9.75 BTC for two tickets (4.9BTC/ticket);
14 BTC for three tickets (4.7BTC/ticket); 17 BTC for four tickets (4.3BTC/ticket);
21 BTC for five tickets (4.2BTC/ticket); 21 BTC for each additional 5 raffle tickets
(e.g. 42 BTC for 10 tickets, 63 BTC for 15 tickets, etc.)

If the raffle ticket selected on June 23rd matches your number I’ll email you! (so it is important to provide an email address that you check)

Curious about Bitcoins? Check out this 1-min 44-sec video to learn more.

Dwolla – send payment directly from your bank!

If you already use Dwolla:

1. Log-in to Dwolla, click on the “Send” button on the left and enter my email address “peteeyre[@]gmail[.]com” as the recipient (be sure to remove the brackets, which were included to minimize spam)
2. After you transfer the money I’ll associate the public transaction record with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

Dwolla to Raffle Ticket Exchange Rate:
$25 for one ticket ($25/ticket); $48 for two tickets ($24/ticket);
$69 for three tickets ($23/ticket); $88 for four tickets ($22/ticket);
$105 for five tickets ($21/ticket); $100 for each additional five tickets
(e.g. $205 for 10 tickets, $305 for 15 tickets, etc.)

If you don’t-yet use Dwolla:

1. Create a free account at Dwolla. You’ll be asked to connect your bank account (*note that I’ll never see/receive that information)
2. In one or two days Dwolla will send two small micro-deposits to your bank. When that happens, log-into Dwolla and confirm the amount
3. Then, click on the “Send” button on the left and enter my email address “peteeyre[@]gmail[.]com” as the recipient (be sure to remove the brackets, which were included to minimize spam)
4. After you transfer the money I’ll associate the confirmation number with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

If the raffle ticket selected on June 23rd matches your number I’ll email you!

In-person – let’s do it face-to-face!

Want to pay with cash or silver? Hell yeah! This is the best value as there’s no overhead or tracking.

Cash (or equivalent in silver) to Raffle Ticket Exchange Rate:
$20 for one ticket ($20/ticket); $40 for two tickets ($20/ticket);
$60 for three tickets ($20/ticket); $80 for four tickets ($20/ticket);
$100 for six tickets ($16.7/ticket); $100 for each additional six tickets
(e.g. $200 for 12 tickets, $300 for 18 tickets, etc.)

I will be in Keene, NH most days until the raffle. If we don’t cross-paths here I hope to see you at one of these events:

• New England Metal and Hardcore Fest – April 20th – WORCESTER, MA (I’ll be there because I love metal)
• New England Liberty Love Fest – April 28th – WORCESTER, MA (I’ll be at a vendor table for CopBlock.org & FreeKeene.com)
• Extravaganja 2012 – April 28 – AMHERST, MA (my colleague Ademo will be present doing outreach for CopBlock.org)
• Porcupine Freedom Festival – June 18-24th – LANCESTER, NH (MARV will be parked near the pavilion)
• (this list will be updated when relevant)

If you’re also attending any of the non-PorcFest events and want to give me a heads-up to look for you email “peteeyre[@]gmail[.]com” (be sure to remove the brackets, which were included to minimize spam).

If you pay with cash or silver I’ll collect your email address and we’ll agree on a confirmation number (which will be emailed or signed in duplicate so both parties have a record). I’ll then associate the confirmation number with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

SquareUp – use your debit/credit card

If I see you in-person you can get raffle tickets by paying with your debit/credit card. The same exchange rate listed above for cash/silver applies.

1. I’ll open SquareUp application on my phone & enter relevant details (total, name, email, confirmation number)
3. I’ll swipe your card, you sign & you’re emailed sent a receipt
4. I’ll associate the confirmation number with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

If the raffle ticket selected on June 23rd matches your number I’ll email you!

PayPal – I take plastic!

If you already have a PayPal account or want to pay with a credit or debit card this may be your option.

1. Select the desired number of tickets from the drop-down below, enter your relevant information and pay
2. I’ll associate the confirmation number with the corresponding raffle ticket(s) on MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

Select Number of Raffle Tickets

1 ticket – $22.00 USD 2 tickets – $44.00 USD 3 tickets – $66.00 USD 4 tickets – $88.00 USD 5 tickets – $105.00 USD 10 tickets – $210.00 USD 15 tickets – $315.00 USD 20 tickets – $420.00 USD 25 tickets – $525.00 USD 30 tickets – $630.00 USD

*Bitcoin was calculated when BTC = 4.9FRN

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MARV Raffle Ticket Holders

For transparency this spreadsheet is both public & updated frequently.

The “Raffle Tickets Sold” is the total amount of raffle tickets sold thus far. The “Raffle Ticket #” number is the physical raffle ticket (from a roll of raffle tickets) that will be entered into the drawing. The “Confirmation #” is the associated confirmation number(s) from individual purchases via Bitcoin, Dwolla, SquareUp or PayPal. Raffle tickets bought with cash or silver are manually assigned numbers, which too are added to this column.

Raffle Details

• there is no maximum number of raffle tickets that an individual can obtain
• online donations for raffle tickets (Bitcoin, Dwolla & PayPal) will cease at 11:59pm EST on June 15th (to ensure all transactions go through prior to the drawing)
• in-person donations for raffle tickets will cease at 11:59pm EST on June 23rd
• a random raffle ticket will be selected at 12:00am EST on June 24th (the last night of PorcFest in Lancaster, NH)
• the holder of the winning raffle ticket (MARV’s new owner) need not be present to win
• MARV’s new owner – if not present at PorcFest – will be notified via email the evening of June 24th
• MARV’s new owner can take possession of MARV at noon on June 25th in Keene, NH. Alternatively, if MARV’s new owner is not in the region delivery options can be agreed-upon (who is responsible to cover costs)
• if under 500 tickets are sold* the raffle will be called off and 100% of donations will be returned (*this number will never be raised, but may, at the discretion of Pete Eyre, be lowered)
• if over 850 tickets are claimed MARV’s new owner will be given $1,000 (to use for gas or anything else)

More MARV-related content

• MARV’s bio on MotorhomeDiaries.com
• MARVS’s bio on LibertyOnTour.com
• playlist: Meet MARV: The RV – become more-familiar with MARV as a recreational vehicle
• playlist: Meet MARV: The Crew-Member – see MARV in action as an integral part of liberty-advancing projects
• MARV-related posts/videos from Motorhome Diaries
• MARV-related posts/videos from Liberty On Tour
• MARV-related posts/videos from Cop Block
• pictures of MARV and some of the people met when on the road with Motorhomediaries.com

Questions? Please leave as a comment, to which I’ll respond, so that others can benefit from the exchange as well!

All updates about the raffle will be posted to peteeyre.com & linked to from this page (peteeyre.com/marv)

But who will take care of the poor [in the absence of government]?!

Such questions are often posted by those who haven’t through through a reality without a top-down, centralized bureaucracy that can only give to some what it takes from others. I don’t berate those who have such a knee-jerk reaction when they hear someone advocate for a world without institutions based on violence, after all, most people are exposed only to the religion of the State in gun-run schools and via the lamestream media. But think about it for a moment – how frugal or cost-effective would your expenditures be if you had unlimited access to everyone’s money (or could just print money out of thin air)? Not very. Or how likely would you be to learn from bad purchases? Not very.

Yesterday I joined a number of other individuals to distribute Thanksgiving meals to those less-fortunate. Rather than pander for an assistance program to receive more funding we chose to act on our own volition. After all, it’s not charity if done at the barrel of a gun (which is exactly how underlies every government anti-poverty program).

Stealing is wrong, whether done by a stranger on the street or someone who has an extension at the IRS office. Whatever is done by government employees is either immoral or done inefficiently.

Major props to Amanda Bouldin for spearheading a damn successful Basket Brigade here in the ‘shire. Be sure to listen to Amanda’s suggestions at the end of the video on how to get a Basket Brigade off the ground in your area if you’re so interested. Or, if you engage in your own civil society activities that you think others may be interested in leave them as a comment so we can achieve liberty in our lifetime!

More:
Basket Brigade of NH website
Voluntaryism
Free State Project
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State edited by David Beito, Peter Gordon & Alexander Tabarrok
The Voluntary City by David Beito
Liberty On Tour’s First Time Here? page
Liberty On Tour’s Resources page
David Beito on the Voluntary City and Civil Rights on MotorhomeDiaries.com
Capital Access interview of Amanda Bouldin and Kate Muller about the Basket Brigade

Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root
CURRENT POT: $400 (as of Sat. Oct 3rd)

UPDATE: October 18th, 2011
Drew Phillips Takes OWS Video Contest

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

Striking the root is a concept advocated by abolitionist, individualist anarchist and trancendetalist Henry David Thoreau. He believed that striking the cause (the “root”) was preferable to hacking at the effects (the “branches”).

The effects of corporatism and subsequent gaps in wealth that exist between the haves and have nots are obvious. Those active with Occupy Wall know this better than most. However, to not recognize that these are only things that stem from a root cause is to unfortunately miss the matter.

What is that root? It is the state, that group of individuals who claim a monopoly on the use of “legitimate” violence within a geographic location. Is it not the state that “permits” corporate class plunder? One must focus on the state and not just its allied corporate class.

OccupyWallSt.com describes Occupy Wall Street as a:

leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.

Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root! aims to speak to these people. They are already disillusioned with the Statist Quo. They know things are messed-up. But many (- not all!) focus their attention on berating corporations and banks. Do people operating corporations and banks do fucked up shit? Yes. But that’s only due to the existence of the great fiction of the State. It’s just classic rent-seeking.

Can YOU make a video that communicates the ideas of
complete liberty to those at the Occupy Wall Street protests? Do it!

Criteria:

• The names of sponsors (listed below) must be included in the video for a minimum of ten seconds (all the organizational names can be put on the same screen)
• Save for YouTube’s 15min-max, there are no other constraints, so be creative!

Prizes:

• Best video – 2/3 the total raised for the Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root! video contest
• Runner-up video – 1/3 the total raised for the Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root! video contest

Judges:

• Pete Eyre of Cop Block & Liberty On Tour
• judge list will be expanded shortly
  

Deadline:

• 11:55PM EST on Sunday, Oct. 16th
• Post your video on your own outlet & email us a link with “Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root” in the subject line
• Questions? We’re here: OperationStrikeTheRoot [at] gmail.com (replace the “[at]” with “@”)

Money:

CURRENT POT: $300

• Each of the sponsors below have already contributed $100 toward the Occupy Wall Street: Strike The Root! video contest (CopBlock & LibertyOnTour donated $100 together)
• If YOU think this is a worthwhile investment, a good bang-for-your-buck, please considering donating as well. All funds will go to the winners. Think of this as an X Prize or crowdsourcing at its finest – we’re a community after all!

Video Posting:

• Winners will be announced by 3PM EST on Tuesday, Oct. 18th
• The videos chosen as “best” or “runner-up” will be posted on the respective YouTube channels of all the sponsors
• Attribution will be given in each video description and the announcement post (if your video is selected we’ll contact you – you can choose to share whatever you like – remain anonymous, provide your full name and a paragraph overview about yourself, your aims, your projects, or anything in-between

Resources:

• Resources by Liberty On Tour
• Market Anarchism FAQ by Center For a Stateless Society
• Occupy Wall Street on Cop Block
• Anonymous – Occupy Wall Street, Sep 17th video shared by guarf78

More resources:

• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt as PDF, via FEE.org, on Google Books, via Mises.org, via Amazon
• I Must Speak Out: The Best of the Voluntaryist by Carl Watner as .PDF, on Google Books, on Amazon
• Justice Without the State with Bruce Benson as VIDEO, based on the book The Enterprise of Law from Mises.org, on Amazon
• The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose book for sale

Sponsors:

• Cop Block
  Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goals of police accountability, education of individual rights and the dissemination of effective tactics to utilize while filming police. We seek to highlight the double standard that some grant to those with badges. By documenting police actions whether they are illegal, immoral or just a waste of time and resources then calling the police stations involved (ideally while recording and then later sharing your conversation), we can work together to bring about transparency and have a real impact.

• Freedom’s Phoenix
  Freedoms Phoenix is the premier Freedom, Liberty, Peace and Love R3volution website in the world. Our network is re-igniting the flames of freedom one mind at a time. Today’s governmental structure is imploding under its own weight, and its death rattles aren’t going to be pretty. At Freedom’s Phoenix we observe, comment and try to stay out of the way. We know Freedom will rise from the ashes, and we want to make sure that everyone’s Freedom is never signed away again by those who believe they have the power to do so.

• Liberty On Tour
  Liberty on Tour couples on-the-road activism with new media to advance the voluntary society. Through in-person interactions, online networking and constantly-varying content, LOT advocates for self-government, personal responsibility and consensual interactions.
• Strike The Root
  Strike The Root is a daily journal of current events and commentary from a libertarian/market anarchist perspective. The mission of STR is to advance the cause of liberty, primarily by de-mystifying and de-legitimizing the State. STR seeks a world where people are free to live their lives as they see fit, as long as they don’t use force or fraud against peaceful people.

Want to get on-board as a supporter?
Email us at: OperationStrikeTheRoot [at] gmail.com (replace the “[at]” with “@”)

They scream self-ownership! You can put what you want in your body (coffee) and have the right to defend it (guns). And a portion of sales will be donated to Liberty On Tour!

From: http://www.ronpaulbuttons.com/Guns-and-Coffee-T-Shirt-TS-GunsandCoffee.htm

Guns and Coffee ~ T-Shirt

Open carry? How about in your favorite coffee shop? Starbucks doesn’t discriminate, neither do we!  See Starbuck’s policy statement regarding their gun-toting customers here!

Wear this special edition T-shirt and show your support for sound public policy, the 2nd amendment, and coffee. Our “Guns and Coffee” T-shirt is one of a kind. Wear it with pride and get the Button too.****

****A portion of the proceeds for the sale of this special edition T-Shirt will benefit our friends at Liberty on Tour! 

 

I actually got my Guns and Coffee t-shirt last Sept. when on the road with LOT: 2010. I traded a LOT shirt straight-up:) That shirt was our first edition, with the LOT logo on the front and the URL on the back. Now on our Support page we have “This Is What a Voluntaryist Looks Like” t-shirts with the URL on the back.

Looking for other badass gear? Check out the revamped CopBlock.org/Support

That’s the problem we found while trying to film several of the activities this year, it was hard to pick between Bob Murphy and Dan D’Amico or Round Tables and Football (I choose football and was the MVP – just ask anyone). We did our best to get as many as speakers/events on video as we could, it just wasn’t possible – especially after the Manchester PD took two of our cameras.  So here’s a video of the speakers, events and activities that we caught this year at Porcfest. If you don’t see something in here that interest you to come next year, you’re a statist and need to head to LibertyOnTour.com’s Resources page immediately.

When traveling the country we’re constantly asked, “What is Porcfest?” And the answer, “That the Porcupine Freedom Festival (or PorcFest) is the Free State Project’s summer event” doesn’t do it justice. To fully understand the magnitude of Porcfest you have to experience it. Over 1,000 people – nearly all of which subscribe to ideals of less government, no desire to control others and prefer to be left alone - camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire peacefully and without the government’s hand on their shoulder.

Even my words can’t describe it, so we (props to Pete Eyre for filtering though the mountain of Porcfest footage and editing this) chopped up this video. Here’s what you missed at Porcfest 2011, loser.

This year was my first time attending the Porcupine Freedom Festival and I had such an awesome time, I wanted to share my experience with all of you.

We arrived Monday and parked MARV conveniently close to the showers as well as agora alley around the corner.  Just about anything we could need was available at the venders at PorcFest from several different types foods to hand-rolled cigarettes to special brownies.  I didn’t get to as many events as I would have liked to, but I had a lot of fun nonetheless.  As cliche as it may sound, my favorite of PorcFest was the people and just as valuable were the many conversations on alternative currencies, off-the-grid living, agorism in action and the benefits of a voluntary society.  With the beautiful scenery and, besides the occasional shower, the beautiful weather of Northern New Hampshire, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend a week whilst my hometown was practically boiling down South in the Summer heat.

I thought I’d see how some of the other first-timers were doing, so I put together this video to show all those who didn’t attend it this year what they missed.  You won’t want to miss PorcFest 2012.

I am now in Des Moines, Iowa, after my 4th day of the 10 day caravan (I have completed 3 days of eastward travel out of 8 planned).

I have been updating my website, www.libertycaravan.org, every day but forgot to post the links on here.

Day 1 pictures, a few:

Day 1 pictures – all are on my flickr account here.

Day 2 report: Denver sightseeing and shopping on Sep 8.

Day 3 report: Denver to Kearney, Nebraska on Sep 9.

Day 4 report: Kearney to Des Moines, Iowa on Sep 10. Two meetups planned but no one came.

I am uploading Day 2 pictures now onto the flickr account, which is a lot quicker than any of the other sites I have tried, and then days 3 and 4 should be quick as there were a lot less pictures the last couple of days. Most of the Day 2 pictures are from the Denver Zoo and then a site I visited in Fort Collins, Colorado. Maybe I’ll make those separate lists so everyone doesn’t have to look through them all to find the other, more interesting pictures.

Today I leave for Chicago, about 5 1/2 hours of driving, and no sightseeing planned so I expect, finally, to get to the hotel quite early and have lots of time for catching up on stuff I haven’t been able to do every day. That will be my halfway point so I will write a special piece on here about that as well.

Basically, I did 5 hours of driving, from Dinosaur, Colorado to Denver, stopping along the way to talk about the Free State Project and take some photographs. My photographs are not included in the above link. It will take some time to upload my pictures, but I will link to the pictures when they are done uploading. I also had a meetup in Denver earlier this evening. For anyone wanting the nitty-gritty of my trip and meetup, I will post the detailed version tomorrow as well.