Hey Crashers,

BureauCrash is getting table space at Warped Tour again this year and we need you help. If you are willing to volunteer to work the table in a city near you we will give you a free ticket and throw some swag your way. We can have up to 4 Crashers per city, and it's first come first serve. If interested send an e-mail to XaqFixx@bureaucrash.com and include your name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address, Date and City of the show (or shows) where you can help. Click here to view the cities and dates.  read more »

If a drug is a approved today, how many people had to die waiting for the FDA to act? This may be the question Abigail Burroughs's father asked when his twenty-one year old daughter died of cancer. She had been denied access to two drugs in testing with the Food and Drug Administration. They were later approved.

Every year pharmaceutical companies produce lifesaving drugs. They test these drugs. Then the FDA gets involved. They provide rigorous, additional testing. Nothing wrong with that, right? Wrong. The FDA prevents patients, even those who are terminally ill, from accessing these drugs until they have been fully tested, which can take years. On September 18th join Bureaucrashers at the FDA rally (5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD)in fighting against death by regulation.

It was great seeing all you guys at LSS! Much fun, as always. I especially enjoyed Ja$on & Tom's ongoing reenactment of McCartney & Michael Jackson's, "The Girl is Mine", though I still can't figure out who was who. (You'll have to let me in on that one, one day ;)

Xaq -- Good to finally meet the man behind the myth. If you remember what the hell we were talking about after the bottle of Jack was passed around, ...remind me ;) I know I owe you an email -- get that to you soon.

Erin - Now that I know you're such a dancin' machine, I'll have to remember to bring my rhythm with me next time! (I know it's around here...somewhere.)

Peter & Agata - As always, it made my year to see you again! My love to you both, even if that is illegal in most states & all the provinces.

As for everyone else I met this year (whose names I'm sure will return to me just as soon as I see your faces again in the pictures...and maybe your name tags too), it's always so energizing spending a beautiful weekend camping with so many active libertarians; without a statist for miles! (Or at least a couple hundred acres.) It keeps me fighting.

For those crashers who haven't been to a Liberty Summer Seminar yet, you've got to jump on the bus & get there next year! It's required.

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-- sh(A)ne --
Minister of Truth

And (coincidentally), 25 days from Crash Across America, 2007! The seventh annual Liberty Summer Seminar is fast approaching. Falling on the August 18-19 weekend, the overnight retreat features a concert, incredible food, great people, and a bevy of pro-liberty speakers. We even have a theme song!

Make sure to register at LiberalStudies.ca before July 28th to save $10 on registration. The price is $55 for students and $75 for everyone else. After the 28th, it will be $65 and $85, respectively.

More info after the jump...  read more »

Hey Crashers! It's summer time again, and time to help spread the word about BureauCrash. Warped tour is fast approaching and we need volunteers, New York and DC are already booked up, but we are trying to get tables in other cities. If your town, or a town near you is listed of their website and you can help please hit me up ASAP with an e-mail. We need 2 people per show, but can get up to 4 free tickets, and a Free BureauCrash shirt!. BureauCrash HQ will ship you the materials you need to make it happen, and I will be your contact with any questions. If you want to get more involved, or meet like minded people, now is your chance!

Along with our mothership, CEI, America's Future Foundation, Institute for Humane Studies, the Marijuana Policy Project, State Policy Network, Science & Environmental Policy Project, The Atlas Foundation, Capital Research Center and other fine organizations Bureaucrash sponsored a tribute to Milton Friedman on Monday, January 29th. Check out our evite here.

The event was at Porters located on 1207 19th St. NW in the heart of darkness known as Washington, DC and kicked off at 8:30PM. At 10PM we watched "The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman". We'll feel "Free to Schmooze" with $3.00 Miller Lites, $4.00 rail drinks and $4.00 house wine. Everyone is invited, especially crashers.

Who: Crasher Xaq, Crasher Garland, Anders Manga
What: BureauCrash Outreach at Eccentrik Festival
When: Saturday October 7, 2006
Where: The Pourhouse, Raliegh, NC

Crasher Galand was there as a vendor selling the wears Eclectic Circle, her virtual artist co-op,  Anders Manga was there to Rock and Roll, and Crasher Xaq was there to help run both the EC and AM booth when they needed breaks.  We all had another mission: Promote BureauCrash! 
Garland talked, and gave flyers to, every one of her customers and vistors, while Anders Manga talked about the awesomeness of BC to everyone in earshot.  Overall the outreach went great, met some really good people, hopefully Magpie and Kevin are reading this. now, check out some pics:

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We've been a little busy behind-the-scenes aiming for another breakthrough year with the Seminar. We have a few speakers already lined up, and are busy working on attracting more.

Last year, we had 65 attendees. 65!

That's a big number. Especially when you consider the fact that my mother fed all 65 without any background in feeding a small army, and without a single complaint. In fact, plenty of people cite the food as reason enough to spend the weekend.

But with speakers, 40 acres of trails, a swimming pond, a concert, a campfire, and the chance to sit down and really hash things out with people like Jan Narveson, Ezra Levant, Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, Pierre Lemieux, Tasha Kheiriddin, Claudia Hepburn, Mark Mullins, and so on (yup, they have all been attendees and speakers at the Seminar), it really is the not-to-be-missed liberty event of the year.

We could use your help and input. Got any ideas for incredible speakers, or events? Maybe you have that one brilliant idea that will push us to 100 attendees. Maybe you know Penn Gillette or P.J. O'Rourke, or Clint Eastwood. Or maybe Kurt Russell or Drew Carey are your neighbours in Muskoka.

Send us an email and share your pearls of wisdom, and your thoughts.

Are you in a position to support us financially? Do you have $50, $100, $1,000, or some other amount of money that you can send our way to help us cover our costs, sponsor a speaker, build our organization, and offer scholarships to students? $50 is enough to give one student the chance to attend the Seminar. $200 is enough for four!

Perhaps you have some old liberty books, trinkets, and baubles lying around? We can sell those, or give them away as prizes, at the Seminar. Just let us know.

And, of course, if you have a blog, and are willing to post a little advertisement, do let us know as well. This is probably the single best piece of new advertising we started last year. Our website was burdened with more hits than we knew what to do with just because of a banner ad on a blog just like yours.

Your energetic and engaging discussion of Bureaucrash was both an entertaining and educational outline of the organization. The enthusiasm and exuberance that you expressed was rather infectious and compelling.

- Michael Johnston

A great event as always. There were about 40 – 50 people there, all of whom were in attendance for Heather's presentation. We only signed up about 15 people, seeing as most of the people there signed up for membership last year. We found a new Canadian crasher-in-chief in SpikeyMike. We cemented a great relationship with the the band DJ Dad/MC Mom who will perform under the Bureaucrash banner at future events, including the IL LP convention in November.

The Conservative Political Action Conference was THE event of the year for Bureaucrash Contraband. The $1250 entrance fee was generously covered for us by a donor and we sold over triple that amount in contraband. We received a fantastic reception as the vast majority of young navy blazer-clad kids admitted to believing in limited government and had no problem agreeing to our statement of principles. They liked our approach of circumventing party lines and focusing on creative activism.

Lancaster, NH

It was good to see you again at the Free State Project fest. Your high energy speech seemed to get the audience revved. I heard a number of nice comments about your talk.

- Jim Bovard

In the afternoon, Heather Talley of Bureaucrash spoke. I recall her from the National LP convention in Atlanta, at which they staffed a booth. These are the movement's international Liberty Youth of style and substance… They make liberty seem avant-garde… What can you say about a group that actually has a t-shirt with a bust image of the professorial capitalist FA Hayek under which big capital letters announce BAD ASS!… Good stuff, check it out; I now have my Christmas list filled for my nephews and nieces.

- Brian Wright

I got to hear [Heather's] presentation for Bureaucrash, and I plan to heavily plug into their activist network in the upcoming year. I really think that they can help floundering libertarian activists to network with each other and so get more accomplished in their local area.

- Bill Walker

I was more than impressed by your presentation, and the things Bureaucrash has done. I'd like to invite you to appear on my radio program, which is on Monday through Friday from three to six pm. We have Rush Limbaugh as a lead-in, so the audience is fairly sizeable, with a potential of ninety-thousand on three stations in NH. You got a lot of people energized.

- Gard Goldsmith

Crasher Puppetsturn and Heather met Ted Nugent, who was the keynote speaker. He was happy to hear about what we did and like the Communism Kills shirt we gave him so much he bought one for his son too. Nationally syndicated radio host Mark Larsen broadcasted live from the conference for a few days. He bought three shirts from us and claims to have plugged us repeatedly on the air.

The tour offer free tables to non-profit organizations. Apparently almost no one knows about this so it’s easy to get them even at the last minute. People were really excited to hear about what we do because most of them had just been accosted by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who was imploring them to stop eating KFC. Most of the people there felt alienated by PETA. (As one guy put it, “They told me I can’t eat KFC anymore. Ain’t no way you going to tell a black man not to eat his chicken.” And this is a direct quote I promise.) So they really liked hearing what we had to say, which was more along the lines of, “We want the government to stop acting like your nanny. We want you to have the freedom to make decisions for yourself.” This is definitely something we have to do on a much bigger scale next year.

Crasher Heather spoke to the 2005 Libertarian Party of Illinois’ "Take Action for Freedom" Nominating Convention that was held in Springfield on Friday, November 11th through Sunday, November 13th. Here is what they wrote in their newsletter, the Libertarian Current [pdf]:

Friday night’s guest speaker, Heather of Bureaucrash, kicked off the convention with her enthusiastic style, commitment and voice of experience. Heather shared Bureaucrash’s edgy and innovative tactics for promoting free thinking capitalist ideas and was the perfect example of “Taking Action for Freedom”.

Heather’s fresh wit, dedication and ability to have fun shaking things up a bit and fighting for a cause she believes in was the message Friday night’s crowd will not soon forget.

For more information on Bureaucrash visit: www.bureaucrash.org

A weekend retreat in the hills of southern Ontario, the Liberty Summer Seminar is an annual opportunity to introduce yourself to, or rejuvenate your commitment for, liberty. A weekend of lively discussion and enthralling debate with time left over for tennis, golf, swimming, hiking or volleyball. Now in its third year, this year's Seminar will be held on the weekend of August 9-10.

AUTHOR: pmjaworski