Dear
friend of liberty:
This
link leads to a treat for you:
Discover Liberty!
Our goal is to reach no fewer than 200,000 people
in the coming year with this great new tool -- person-to-person,
face-to-face!
Discover Liberty is designed to make our acclaimed Operation
Politically Homeless (OPH) outreach booth more powerful and more
effective than ever before.
Libertarian activists will be using Discover Liberty to
introduce students, journalists, and the general public to the
ideas of liberty.
Exciting? Well, that's just one of many,
many great projects the Advocates is undertaking -- work no other
libertarian organization is doing. Please let me tell you more!
FACEBOOK: OVER 1,000 DOWNLOADS
A DAY -- AND RISING!
Facebook is the incredibly popular and highly influential online
social networking site -- with 25 million-plus users. It's been
spotlighted by every major TV news show, newspaper and news magazine.
The Advocates was one of the first organizations in the world
to take up Facebook's offer to let outside organizations provide
programs ("apps") and services to their users.
We created a World's Smallest Political Quiz app in Facebook --
and it's a smash hit.
Already over 1,000 people per day are taking
the Quiz at Facebook, and it's one of the most popular
of all political apps at Facebook -- with over 100,000 users so
far!
Now Facebook users can use the Quiz within Facebook to
spread the ideas of liberty to this enthusiastic and very influential
demographic. Ideas can roar through social networking communities
like Facebook at astonishing speed.
More good news: we're working to duplicate this success at other
online sites. Stay tuned!
HOW WE REACH PEOPLE -- BY
THE MILLIONS!
The Advocates is bringing the good news of liberty to the world
-- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To MILLIONS of people.
Let me share some libertarian success stories with
you!
Our exclusive world-famous World's Smallest Political Quiz has
been taken online OVER TEN MILLION times. Currently
the Quiz is taken online FIVE THOUSAND TIMES -- every day!
We've also distributed over EIGHT MILLION cardstock Quiz cards --
each one a self-contained outreach kit for libertarianism.
LIBERTARIANISM -- IN AMERICA'S CLASSROOMS
For decades, libertarians dreamed about getting our ideas into America's
classrooms. Now the Advocates is doing it!
Libertarianism in America's top textbooks: The
Quiz is now in the online supplemental material of OVER A DOZEN
high school and college textbooks -- including some of America's
most popular textbooks, by major publishers including McGraw-Hill,
W.W. Norton, Prentice Hall, and Houghton Mifflin.
QUIZ
POWER
.
When
people take the Quiz, they are offered a treasure trove
of information on libertarianism. The Quiz not only introduces
people to libertarian ideas -- it serves as a gateway to
the libertarian movement and successful libertarian activism!
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These
texts are used in thousands of classrooms!
Example: Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy
-- published by Pearson Education, the world's largest educational
publisher -- sends students to "take the quiz that will indicate
your political ideology."
That's right: for tens of thousands of students, libertarianism
is now part of the curriculum. Thanks to the Advocates!
Reaching education leaders: Almost every month
we promote the Quiz to:
*
13,900 public school board presidents.
* 3,604 charter
school principals.
* 22,700 private
school principals and teachers.
They decide what is taught in schools -- and what is NOT.
Further, we've sent THOUSANDS of Quiz cards to teachers for classroom
use -- at their request!
Teachers love the Quiz: Joel W. Cade, a Philosophy
instructor at Loyola University, Chicago, says: "I have found
the Quiz to be amazingly accurate and an invaluable tool for my
political philosophy courses."
What great news! Instead of being ignored, as in the past, libertarianism
is now becoming a vital part of the "political map"
taught to students.
TAKING LIBERTARIANISM TO
POLITICAL LEADERS
Wouldn't you love to personally hand the World's Smallest Political
Quiz to America's most powerful and influential political
leaders?
The Advocates is doing it!
Almost every month, our carefully targeted advertising campaign
brings the Quiz to over 16,000 U.S. elected officials.
This includes every U.S. Senator, every
U.S. Representative, every governor, and every
state legislator. And 8,440 municipal officials.
These officials make decisions that affect your life -- every day.
Don't you agree it's vital they know about, and understand, libertarianism?
TAKING LIBERTARIANISM TO
TOP JOURNALISTS
Wouldn't you love to take libertarian ideas to America's top journalists?
The Advocates is doing it!
Every few weeks, we publicize the Quiz to 600 of America's top journalists.
These are America's media elite -- the people who
decide what is in your newspaper and on the television news.
Many journalists are fascinated by the Quiz -- and bring it to the
attention of millions of readers.
Example: In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
Randy Salas urged: "Answer the 10 questions on the World's
Smallest Political Quiz, and you'll quickly find out your political
leanings."
So many newspapers have praised or reprinted the Quiz -- including
top U.S. papers like the Washington Post, USA Today, and
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Television and radio news personalities -- including Chris
Matthews, Alan Colmes and Neal
Boortz -- send their audiences to our Quiz, too!
Literally MILLIONS of Americans encounter libertarian ideas this
way.
BUILDING A GRASSROOTS "ARMY"
FOR LIBERTY!
America desperately needs a thriving, powerful, effective libertarian
grassroots movement. And the Advocates is building it and supplying
it!
You want libertarians to be master communicators
of our ideas. We've created an arsenal of tools to make this happen.
We've distributed OVER 7,000 sets of our acclaimed audio course,
"The Essence of Political Persuasion" by Michael Cloud.
Our online Liberty Communication Center teaches
activists the very best ways to make the case for liberty. It's
available 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- for free.
We publish unique, activist-oriented books such as the best short
introduction to libertarianism available: Libertarianism In
One Lesson by David Bergland. And Harry Browne's great guide
to using libertarian soundbites, Liberty A-Z. And Michael
Cloud's Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion.
We offer a whole library of audio and video material about
effective libertarian activism.
Our Liberator Online email newsletter reaches 70,000 SUBSCRIBERS
-- making it the world's largest-circulation libertarian publication
-- chock-full of libertarian commentary and expert outreach instruction.
* Harnessing
celebrity "star power" for liberty: Imagine
major Hollywood celebrities and other well-known personalities
promoting libertarianism. That's why we created our famous "Libertarian
Celebrities and VIPs" Web site. Last year OVER 250,000 PEOPLE
visited it -- to learn why world-famous figures like DREW CAREY,
CLINT EASTWOOD, KURT RUSSELL and others are enthusiastic libertarians!
* Instant
online libertarian answers: Each month TENS OF THOUSANDS
of people visit our Libertarianism.com introductory
Web site to learn about libertarianism and the libertarian movement.
WE
NEED YOUR HELP TO REACH NEW MILLIONS THIS YEAR!
In the coming months we want to expand into new areas of both online
and offline outreach. We're excited!
But we need your help! Your contributions are urgently
needed right now to help us continue the great programs I've described
here AND to move ahead.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Times are tight. To be blunt, our donations are down. We urgently
need your support right now.
I've lined up some great gifts as our "Thank you!" for
your support. (CLICK HERE for more
information about these gifts.) But the best gift I can give you
is the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting one of
the most effective libertarian organizations in the world,
at a time when your help is especially needed.
Please
use
our secure Web page to make your donation now.
Thank you!
For liberty,
Sharon Harris
President, Advocates for Self-Government
P.S. Fundraising experts told me not to include
a link to Discover Liberty. They said you'd read it instead
of my letter. That you would be distracted by it and wouldn't
take the time to make a donation.
But I'm betting you'll be so pleased with this new Advocates project
(and our other great success stories) that you'll prove
the experts wrong.
Can I depend on you? Donations are down. We need your support today.
Getting 200,000 copies of this beautiful outreach piece in the hands
of new potential libertarians, putting the Quiz in the hands of
students everywhere, introducing millions to libertarian
ideas -- all of this is made possible by dedicated people
like you. Your contribution really, really matters. Thank
you!
Use
our secure Web page to make your donation now.
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