If I wanted to start my own college level liberty activist type group...

[Reason]

I have thought about this for awhile now...

I really don't have any other friends that are interested in politics unfortunately and I think that has been the main reason why I haven't gone through with this.

I was talking about it tonight with my g/f and she was giving me some support and thinks I should go for it.

I am wary because I have never done anything like this before and don't even know where to start really, I guess ask my college what it takes to start a group/club?

I don't really know what this groups goals would be, I don't think there is a C4L chapter in my city and I don't know if I would want to try and start one and be under their control.

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

I am just tossing this idea around in my head atm.

[dannno]

Why not YAL?

[JoshLowry]

Have you ever heard of YAL?

www.YALiberty.org

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

YAL and SFL (Students for Liberty) are two good groups that you can start up a chapter under. You can also just generally make a libertarian club.

[Reason]

Why not YAL?


Have you ever heard of YAL?

[/URL][URL="http://www.YALiberty.org"]www.YALiberty.org (http://www.YALiberty.org)

Yeah, I guess I haven't looked too much into what exactly being part of YAL would actually mean.

This group is in my city but not anywhere near me or my college.

http://yal.ucsd.edu/

I am looking at the "CHAPTER PLAN PDF" right now for YAL

I am unsure, this seems intimidating to start with no help lol

[dannno]

Yeah, I guess I haven't looked too much into what exactly being part of YAL would actually mean.

This group is in my city but not anywhere near me or my college.

http://yal.ucsd.edu/

Contact them, tell them you want to create a chapter at your school (sdsu?) and you want to get both groups working together. You can have meetings at your individual school, but this will help when either of you guys need to get more people together for something.

Ask for advice about how they got started. The process might be different at your school, but most of the advice should apply. Then you can get in contact with YAL and your school. You'll probably need to advertise around, or setup a booth somewhere on campus. Might take a good amount of free time to get things going, but once you find other people who are interested then they can help with getting more people and other responsibilities.

Maybe you can ask the SDSU group if they have people who want to come help work a booth with you and help get more people involved at your school, they might already have supplies for that too.

[dannno]

You won't be at that school forever, but if you can start a successful YAL chapter you can potentially create a legacy.

I wish I was in school when this movement started.

[__27__]

YAL is a great group to belong to, it's really brought people together under the banner of individual liberty who all separately felt like they were lost in the sea of socialism on my campus. We've done really well so far (only being less than a year old) and will be growing again shortly as the campus libertarians merge with our group. We've done some great things on campus already, and woken many people up to at least take another look at the two parties and why they don't represent them.

Here's some pics from our Berlin Wall anniversary event:

"Rebuilding the wall":

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm290/Timps27/week4andYAL033.jpg

Myself and YAL chapter Pres. arguing with a history professor who brought her class out to talk with us (and was convinced the FED was NOT a private bank):

[Ihttp://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm290/Timps27/week4andYAL050.jpg


Flying the Gadsden Flag during our demonstration, approved by the school:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm290/Timps27/week4andYAL044.jpg

[Reason]

Okay, I am going to get in contact with that UCSD group and go from there.

[DjLoTi]

The YAL is cool, or you could look in your local student government, or maybe check out a list of clubs available. Maybe you'll find something neat.

[nayjevin]

If it were me, I would start a coffee club - 'political discussion with civility and intellectual honesty.' narrow it down only slightly with something like 'a group of people who want to honestly examine the issues, seeing past propaganda and political agenda'.

Nothing against YAL or the others, which are great as well.

[Che]

yea, i go to UC school too but, it's unbearably difficult to find any political intellect that alligns with the philosophy of individual liberty and limited government(heck, ask anyone if they ever heard of anarchcocapitalism). I agree with nayjevin, it's good idea to just convert ur close friends and slowly expand into YAL.

[0zzy]

I have thought about this for awhile now...

I really don't have any other friends that are interested in politics unfortunately and I think that has been the main reason why I haven't gone through with this.

I was talking about it tonight with my g/f and she was giving me some support and thinks I should go for it.

I am wary because I have never done anything like this before and don't even know where to start really, I guess ask my college what it takes to start a group/club?

I don't really know what this groups goals would be, I don't think there is a C4L chapter in my city and I don't know if I would want to try and start one and be under their control.

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

I am just tossing this idea around in my head atm.

where do you go to school?