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==<!--[[Image:red_ring.png|15px|left]]-->Featured article: [[50th Birthday Party]]==
==<!--[[Image:red_ring.png|15px|left]]-->Featured article: [[Media:LPNews_1990-1_V5-N1_.pdf|LP News - January 1990]]==
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While the Democrats and the Republicans vainly try just to keep up with the
pro-freedom tide in Eastern Europe, the
Libertarian Party has surged far ahead to
take a position that puts it on a cutting
edge ahead of those events.


[[File:CA-43 2021-12-11 birthday-cake.jpg|222px|left]]
Traditional politicians, right and left,
The LP [[Historical Preservation Committee]] encouraged Libertarians nationwide to join in a '''50th Birthday Party''' for the LP on 11 December 2021.
keep mumbling “what’s going to happen
 
next?” and trying to put themselves in
The LP is generally considered to have been "born" on 11 December 1971, when the group who had been calling themselves the "Committee to Organize a Libertarian Party" [[Document:Minutes 11 Dec 1971 Committee to Organize a Libertarian Party|decided to actually do it]]!
comfortable compromise positions. The LP,
 
meantime, has declared, through a resolution of its executive committee, that the
'''Goals'''
cold war seems dead and that the way to
<br>
get ahead of the events is simply to withdraw promptly from NATO and get on
Increase awareness of the LP's history. 
with a world of open borders and free trade.
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Promote collection of material/recollections.
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Encourage formation of state/local history committees/projects.
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Encourage participation in LPedia.
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Bring activists together for fun/celebration/camaraderie.
 
The concept was to hold celebrations all across the country, with local activists making whatever arrangements made sense to them. The HPC set up up a Zoom meeting to link all the local events together so that people in the various physical locations could share what they were doing.


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Revision as of 06:14, 2 February 2022

Featured article: LP News - January 1990

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While the Democrats and the Republicans vainly try just to keep up with the pro-freedom tide in Eastern Europe, the Libertarian Party has surged far ahead to take a position that puts it on a cutting edge ahead of those events.

Traditional politicians, right and left, keep mumbling “what’s going to happen next?” and trying to put themselves in comfortable compromise positions. The LP, meantime, has declared, through a resolution of its executive committee, that the cold war seems dead and that the way to get ahead of the events is simply to withdraw promptly from NATO and get on with a world of open borders and free trade.

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