[Free State Region]:
Manchester area with less controversy
Manchester Forkupines
Purpose: discussion of liberty related/of interest things in the area
Activities: Discussion
Target Segment: Manchester porcs and porcs who frequent Manchester
Expectations to remain a member: Must follow admin’s requests. No bringing up controversial topics that are not Manchester region specific. A few verbotem topics (fascism, abortion, …) Don’t spam (light local ads okay)
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Contact Nate the trucker for access
Contact: Nate the trucker
[Free State Region]:
Happenings in and around Manchester, emphasis on liberty!
Manchester Porcupines
Purpose: Discuss Manchester happenings, minus the controversy
Activities: Discussion
Target Segment: Manchester area Porcs and Porcs frequenting Manchester
Relationship to other groups: This is a more inclusive group. There is also a Signal group called Manchester Forkupines which is more stringent. A few different FB groups as well. Debates should go to the various discourse groups or to Anything Goes.
Membership size: 180
Geographical Center: This virtual group often sets up local meetups
Requirements to Join: Should be known to one of many admins
Expectations to remain a member: Debate Free. Argue abortion, get evicted.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Reach out on other boards to find an admin who will add you?
Contact: Several Admins
[Free State Region]:
North Country on Signal
NC Porcupines
Purpose: Discuss North Country planned activities and interests
Activities: Discussion
Target Segment: North Country Porcupines, and Porcupines who are interested in attending North Country events
Relationship to other groups: FB groups, and IRL groups
Membership size: 25
Geographical Center: Signal but IRL events planned
Requirements to Join: Be known to someone in North Country
Expectations to remain a member: Contribute to discussion, attend events
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Contact Fletcher or Gaston
Contact: Fletcher/Gaston:
[Free State Region]:
Seacoast on Signal
Freecoast Liberty
Purpose: Virtual meetup of Porcupines and Porcupine-prospects interested in Seacoast activities
Target Segment: Porcupines who live in the Seacoast region, or who come often to the Seacoast. Prospective movers who are highly interested in moving to the Seacoast.
Benefits: Talk about local issues and plan upcoming events
Relationship to other groups: The SHELL signal group is for SHELL members to plan SHELL events and SHELL business. Discussions that veer into long discussions will be asked to be moved to Discourse or Anything Goes.
Membership size: 280
Geographical Center: Seacoast
Requirements to Join: Must be brought in by a Seacoaster. Introduce yourself and your interest in the seacoast.
Expectations to remain a member: Follow admin’s requests for which topics are permitted in the group.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Introduce yourself to a seacoast and ask to join. Be sure to intro yourself when you join so people know who you are.
Contact: Joël/Sarah
[Free State Region]:
Pemi Valley on Signal
Pemi Valley Porcupines
Purpose: Discussion regional activities and business for Pemi Valley region
Target Segment: Pemi Valley Porcupines, prospects highly interested in Pemi Valley, and Porcupines interacting with Pemi Valley often
Membership size: 30
Geographical Center: Pemi Valley (e.g., Plymouth)
Requirements to Join: Meet with Pemi Valley and ask to join
Expectations to remain a member: Be engaged with Pemi Valley
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Contact Pemi Valley admins to discuss joining. Best go to a meetup.
Contact: Alex/ Derek/ Ken:
[Free State Region]:
Do stuff in Portsmouth
Portsmouth Porcpuinss
Purpose: Gatherings and discussions on Portsmouth
Target Segment: Portsmouth and Portsmouth favorable porcupines
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Jeffrey Y
[Free State Region]:
Connect with Sommersworth Porcupines
Somersworth
Purpose: Somersworth
Target Segment: Somersworth
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Free State Region]:
Unknown
Upper Valley Porcs
Primary platform(s): Signal
[Hobbies]:
FSP mushroom lovers, hunters and growers
Free State Mushrooms
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Hobby]:
Unkown
porc automotive diy/fab/resto
Purpose: Unkown
Target Segment: Unkown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unkown
[Socializing]:
Network with people your age and build a social web.
Liberty Adults under 30
Purpose: Network with people your age and build a social web. Air out your frustrations about out of touch old people, or just chat about whatever. Strictly 18+ but the 30yr old age limit isn’t necessarily strict, I figure as people get too old to relate they will self filter out of the chat.
Target Segment: Porcupines under 30
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Join on signal. Must have someone vouch for you.
Contact: Dylan
[Socializing]:
Social and political events in NH
NH Social Club
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Socializing]:
Unknown
Free State Singles
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Outdoors]:
Sail and sing for a week on a tall ship out in Atlantic in the August/Sept
FSP Tall Ship Sing & Sail
Purpose: Coordinate Porcupines who want to sail for a week on a tall ship out in the Atlantic in the August/Sept time frame, usually w/ music.
Activities: Coordinate annual tall ship sails
Target Segment: Sailors and singers
Relationship to other groups: Sailing group
Membership size: 5
Geographical Center: Virtual; shipboard
Primary platform(s): Signal, Shipboard
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Outdoors]:
Decentralized excursions into the NH wilderness
Free State Explorers
Purpose: decentralized excursions into the outdoors
Target Segment: Outdoorsy types
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unkonwn
[Outdoors]:
Share pictures of our outdoor adventures and try to get together
Free State outdoors, share, plan
Purpose: Share pictures of our outdoor adventures and try to get together
Target Segment: Outdoor phorotographers
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Outdoors]:
Out of shape? Recovering from an injury? Let’s go on some easy hikes and get started
Hiking for Starters
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Arts]:
Acting on Stage Like You’re Free
Free State Theatre
Purpose: to put on plays and shows and vignettes and readings and mocumentaries
Activities: Exercise your theater bug. Demonstrate your skill.
Target Segment: Budding thespians
Benefits: Exercise your acting skills. Write plays.
Membership size: 35
Geographical Center: Virtual and IRL around the state.
Requirements to Join: Porcupine who wants to act
Expectations to remain a member: Support the actors.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Please share your interest in joining.
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Arts]:
Making music in a Free State
Musicians in the Free State
Purpose: Discuss jamming, equipment, shows, band formations.
Activities: discussions on line and jamming and playing IRL
Target Segment: Any Porcupine aligned musician
Membership size: 21
Requirements to Join: Click and intro yourself.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Arts]:
Unknown
Metal in the Free State
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Arts]:
Unknown
The Music
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Political Activism]:
Activism that requires minimal effort
SLACKTIVISM
Purpose: Announce easy ways that Porcupines can advance liberty from the comfort of their home.
Activities: Post and engage in easy activism opportunities such as emailing reps or doing remote testimony by signing in. Do polls. Testify on line. Upvote videos.
Target Segment: Porcupines who are willing to spend a few minutes every once in a while to advance a liberty or free state effort from their home.
Benefits: Help from your couch
Membership size: 50
Geographical Center: Virtual
Expectations to remain a member: Not for chit-chat, memes, debate, or anything that does not comprise slacktivism
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Political Activism]:
Want to know whom to vote for?
Liberty Ballot (CrowdSourced)
Purpose: Porcupines, including political leaders, offer their opinions on Free State political matters, including voting.
Activities: During voting season, recommending Ward level voting. In between, strategizing political steps
Target Segment: Porcupines who want to make the maximum impact in their voting in their ward and want to understand the lay of the land. Senior political leaders who want to explain what is going on politically.
Membership size: 50
Expectations to remain a member: Be cool
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Political Activism]:
Your one stop shop for liberty activism for the 2024 election season
2024 Election Action Center
Purpose: Your one stop shop for liberty activism for the 2024 election season
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: unknown
[Political – single issue]:
Expand medical freedom in the free state
Free State Medical Freedom
Purpose: Expand medical freedom in the free state
Target Segment: Porcupines who focus on medical freedom
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Contact admin or seek other members
Contact: Sarah F
[Political – single issue]:
Israel, Zionism, Arabs, and You
Israel, Palestine, or You
Purpose: Location for the common and endless debates over israel, Palestianians, Zionism, Zionism capture of DC, etc.
Target Segment: People who like to argue the Israel/Palestinian/Arab/Zionism questions
Relationship to other groups: Other groups often will send debating members here to relieve their group of this debate that threatens to take it over
Membership size: 15
Geographical Center: Virtual
Requirements to Join: Join up if you’re interested, or if another group points you to it.
Expectations to remain a member: Speak civilly to one another on this sensitive topic.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Political – single issue]:
First before, first again
N.H. Independence
Purpose: Discuss the politics, feasibility, diffusion, logistics, education of New Hampshire independence
Activities: Discussions
Target Segment: Porcupines who want NH to eventually secede.
Relationship to other groups: FB; website
Geographical Center: Signal, Zoom
Primary platform(s): Signal, Zoom
Contact: Unknown
[Political – single issue]:
Talk about Body Freedom
Body Freedom Village – Info
Purpose: Chat here about BFV for PF
Target Segment: Porcupines and adjacent who engage in nudity at PF and other places
Membership size: 60
Expectations to remain a member: No trolling. This is positive for this group
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Jeff Y
[Political – single issue]:
Good news about Milei and Argentina
Milei News Chat Group
Purpose: Discuss Javier Milei and Argentina politics.
Target Segment: Milei positive Porcupines and Porc-Adjacent
Membership size: 60
Geographical Center: Signal
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Scott Sheller
[Political – single issue]:
Health freedom is non-negotiable
Health Freedom NH
Purpose: Grassroots effort for bodily autonomy, informed consent, and medical privacy
Target Segment: liberty and health-minded people driving health freedom and body autonomy paradigm shifts
Benefits: making connections, getting involved, sharing life & being in the loop. Members are vetted.
Membership size: 130
Requirements to Join: Must be vetted
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life, Website
Information about joining: You must be vetted. Contact website
Contact: Unknown
[Political – single issue]:
Live free, die free.
Die Free
Purpose: Allowing Granite Staters the self-ownership to die as they choose, by removing laws that prevent us from getting the proper chemicals and the proper assistance should we want it.
Activities: Discussing, sharing videos and talks, testifying, alerting, meeting in real life
Target Segment: Porcupines who believe we have absolute ownership over our own bodies, and may choose to die however we choose, and anything less is slavery
Relationship to other groups: New Hampshire Alliance for End of Life Options (NHEALO, also “NH Options”) is a primarily progressive NH group that leads political action to pass legislation. Drinks over Dying is a group that allows people to meet and talk about dying. Death Cafe is similar
Membership size: 35
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Political – single issue]:
Unknown
FSP Cannactivism
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Political – single issue]:
First before, first again
N.H. Independence
Purpose: Discuss eventual NH secession from DC
Target Segment: People interested in the ins and outs of NH secession.
Membership size: 84
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Political – single issue]:
YIMBY Porcupines
Primary platform(s): Signal
[Political org]:
LPNH members
LPNH Fan Club
Purpose: Place of Libertarian Party of NH members to discuss liberty, LP, political, and LPNH things.
Target Segment: LPNH paying members
Relationship to other groups: There used to be a FB group, which is largely ignored? There are subgroups (committees, special interest, etc) one might join by invitation.
Membership size: 60
Requirements to Join: Be a paying member of the LPNH.
Expectations to remain a member: Don’t be a dick.Maintain your membership
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Contact an LPNH executive committee member if you are a paying member.
Contact: LPNH Executive Committee
[Political org]:
If LPNH is too milquetoast for you, you may be Free State Based
Free State Based Caucus
Purpose: Explore beyond LPNH as a right Ipaleo) liberty political org
Activities: Discussions, meetups
Target Segment: “Based” members of LPNH or ex-LPNH.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Ask in LPNH Fanclub, go to meetups, and ask to join
Contact: Unknown
[Discourse]:
Chat w/ Porcupines about the Big News of the day
Chat: Big News
Purpose: Talk and opine about big national news as it breaks.
Activities: Discussion
Target Segment: People who like to follow national news and want to talk amongst the Porcupines about it.
Benefits: Keep up to date w/ big news and find out what various Porcupines think.
Membership size: 50
Geographical Center: Virtual only
Requirements to Join: Just join
Expectations to remain a member: Don’t be a dick
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Discourse]:
For topics that no other group wants … yet.
Porc Anything Goes
Purpose: The final repository for discussions you can’t have anywhere else.
Activities: Discuss topics that don’t fit in other groups. Whatever you want.
Target Segment: Porcs who like to talk about things most others don’t talk about.
Benefits: Come here to talk about topics that the other groups aren’t intereted in. If enough people are interested in a topic, you can always create a new group to focus on that topic.
Membership size: 40
Geographical Center: Signal
Requirements to Join: Porcupine
Expectations to remain a member: You have to be a real dick to get kicked out of this group. Don’t be a real dick.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Discourse]:
When you’re ready to argue and to learn from one another, come here with your topic.
Liberty Discourse
Purpose: Debate topics back and forth on line
Activities: When a topic becomes too hot in another group, bring it here to debate.
Target Segment: Argumentative sorts. Helps if reasonable.
Benefits: Clear other groups of debates. Get the on line debaters in one room. Talk over controversial topics.
Membership size: 140
Geographical Center: Signal oly
Requirements to Join: Porcupine with a topic you want to discuss. Invite others to come and debate it on this page.
Expectations to remain a member: If the topic becomes too overwhelming the admin may ask you to take it to Anything Goes, or you can create your own group for perennial topics (e.g., Abortion; israel)
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Nate
[Discourse]:
Civil discourse w/o the nastiness
No Trolls Discourse
Purpose: Civil discourse, but no other rigid rules YET. Your comments should contribute to the discussion. Some suggestions:
Target Segment: some form of libertarian who engage in good faithargumenxt, without laugh emoji, memes, and slurs discourages people from sharing controversial ideas. higher quality than the propaganda on Buzzfeed / Breitbart
Benefits: Attempt at more civil discourse
Relationship to other groups: Liberty Discourse may be more rough and tumble.
Membership size: 65
Geographical Center: Virtual
Expectations to remain a member: No laugh emoji, memes, and slurs
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Jeff Y
[Discourse]:
The debate before the debate
IRL Debate Warmup
Purpose: Live Free & Debate members can pre-debate upcoming in real life debates
Target Segment: Live Free & Debate members who want to debate upcoming debates
Relationship to other groups: Live Free & Debate group focuses on setting up debates. This group allows members to debate the debate topics. Liberty Discourse group had virtual debates which do not end in IRL debates
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Discourse]:
How Does This Tweet Help or Hurt?
Mean Tweets Discussion
Purpose: Group where people who want to complain or opine about Porcupine tweets (e.g., LPNH’s) being too mean or counterproductive, and discuss tactics and strategies with those who appreciate more bold SM approaches.
Activities: Review tweets, discuss SM strategy and tactics
Target Segment: Porcupines who believe certain SM hurts the movement, or who believe bold SM can help the movement.
Benefits: Give feedback and learn SM techniques and rationales.
Relationship to other groups: This is a sink for all the discussions around social media that often clog up other discourse groups.
Membership size: 2
Geographical Center: Virtual
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Discourse]:
the New Revolution
Primary platform(s): Signal
[Community group]:
The SHELL on Signal
Shell Members
Purpose: Discuss SHELL business and SHELL events
Target Segment: Paying SHELL members
Relationship to other groups: Freecoast and FSP.Org/Community advertises SHELL activities. Please send debate to Discourse or Anything Goes
Membership size: 40
Geographical Center: Virtual and at The SHELL
Requirements to Join: Become a paying member of The SHELL community clubhouse.
Expectations to remain a member: pay monthly membership dues and help The SHELL thrive
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Join The SHELL and ask to be added.
Contact: Scott Sheller/Stephen Nass:
[Community group]:
Tell FB Free Staters what’s going on in the Free State
Free State Prickle
Purpose: Internal communications amongst Free Staters on FB
Target Segment: Free Staters on FB
Relationship to other groups: This is suitable for internal communications. Free State Project group is only for out-communications to prospects.
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Mickey Mullin
[Free State Information]:
Sponsors of the Free State
Porcupine Patrons
Purpose: A place for regular financial contributors to the Free State Project to discuss its opportunities
Activities: Share big ideas for the project; support ongoing initiatives. Initiate initiatives.
Target Segment: Investors in the Free State Project
Benefits: Ability to opine on matters where FSP Board and directors can easily see. Connect with real movers and shakers who are willing to put their saved labor on the line for the project.
Geographical Center: Signal
Requirements to Join: Contribute financially regularly or largely (esp monthly) to the Free State Project.
Expectations to remain a member: Continued financial support. Support of the project. Support of initiatives. Bringing opportunities to the Project.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: If you contribute $$ regularly, ask the FSP Director for access.
Contact: FSP Director
[Free State Information]:
Tell out-of-state liberty lovers why they should move here to help build our libertarian homeland
Free State Project
Purpose: Communicate to out-of-state FSP-curious cool things happening in the Free State for FOMO
Activities: Answer questions, offer opinions, share events and stories
Target Segment: Porcupines dedicated to helping move more libertarians to NH.
Benefits: Can access the people who self-select on FB to find out more about the Free State.
Relationship to other groups: FB Prickle is for internal communications, whereas this is for out communications.
Membership size: 10700
Geographical Center: Virtual
Expectations to remain a member: Do not troll, nor air dirty laundry. This is a selling site. If you can’t hold back, go elsewhere.
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Chris Lopez
[Free State Information]:
Learn about the Free State
Free State Tours
Purpose: Guided bus tours around the state
Target Segment: Out of staters, or newly moved
Membership size: 95
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Free State Information]:
Free State on Discord
Free State Project (Discord)
Purpose: Discord chat about the FSP
Target Segment: Out-of-staters interested in the Free State movement and Porcupines interested in bringing newbies here.
Primary platform(s): Discord
Contact: Unknown
[Free State Information]:
Ins and Outs of Concentration Strategy for NH
Concentrating Better
Purpose: * What is, iIts central role, how applied, its impact, challenges, discoveries, where stands, how to increase to speed, smaller concentrations (e.g., “Free Town Project” outside/inside NH)
Activities: Learn what it is and how it gives us an advantage, where we are, what its implications are, and how to utilize it.
Target Segment: Free State Strategists
Relationship to other groups: Underlies many groups, especially groups that proseltyize the Free State, or want to utilize NH”s greater concentration for advantage.
Membership size: 30
Expectations to remain a member: Be kind Be respectful. Differences are expected. State your difference and move on.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Free State information]:
Explaining the Libertarian Homeland to newbies
Intro to FSP and NH Liberty
Purpose: Friendly Porcupines offer potential & new movers answers and pointers about liberty, about the Free State Project, about the larger Free State movement, about various liberty communities, and about how to connect, integrate, and impact.
Activities: Listen to newbie questions. Write or copy over answers.
Target Segment: For potential & new movers trying to get the lay of the NH land. For our friendliest Porcupines who are willing to suggest answers and pointers as to what we are doing and how they can best connect up
Benefits: Newbies get a great overview from friendly knowledgable Porcupines, and basic questions are replicated and not clogging up the other groups.
Relationship to other groups: The is the base level group for new movers or for prospects to learn the basic information that the other groups assume.
Requirements to Join: Porcupines: Friendly and willing to explicate. Newbies: Curoius
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Free State Discussion]:
Concentration Strategy, Diffusion, and Winning
Concentrating Better
Purpose: Understand what Concentration Strategy is and how to improve
Target Segment: FSP thinkers and newbies
Benefits: Understand the unique strategy undermining our movement
Relationship to other groups: Intro to FSP gives newbies intro to basic concepts. Converting Better is discussion about Converting Strategy. Free Town Project is conversation about concentrating movers into one town to accelerate diffusion three.
Expectations to remain a member: Stay on topic.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Free State Discussion]:
Converting more normies faster to libertarianism
Converting Better
Purpose: Discuss improving methods to convert nonlibertarians to liberty.
Activities: Discuss methods
Target Segment: People who know how to convert and/or want to learn how to convert better
Relationship to other groups: Concentrating Better is for discussion about doing the Concentration Strategy better.
Membership size: 10
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Free State Discussion]:
This time doing Free Town Project right.- without bears
FreeVille – Free Town Project 2
Purpose: Discuss the possibility and requirements for a group of Free Staters to concentrate – successfully – in a single town – accelerating the concentration there and advancing liberty there the fastest.
Activities: Strategizing and planning and choosing
Target Segment: Free Staters interested in concentrating in a small NH town and there building has the maximum liberty. Could be those interested in moving and building, or those who have ideas about how to do this well this time
Relationship to other groups: Concentrating Better discuses diffusion in general and its from where this forked.
Membership size: 10
Requirements to Join: Must be interested in supporting a successful Free Town Project
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Denni Pratt
[Event Communication]:
Announcements of upcoming inter-regional events and groups
NoChat:Events/Groups for Porcs
Purpose: Share open porcupine events that are inter-regional – where you want others to come. Share also new or expanding groups.
Activities: Think of this as a listing of upcoming events that may or may not appear on the FSP.Org calendar, but are available to you as a community member of the FSP.
Target Segment: Members of the FSP who want to find their subgroup, or do something fun, or find new things to work on,.
Benefits: Get a good overview of the set of activities taking place in NH.
Membership size: 300
Geographical Center: Virtual listing, but the events are all over as well as virtual
Requirements to Join: Should be FSP proponent – interested in expanding the Free State via activities that include politics, community development, social, single issue, etc.
Expectations to remain a member: Please do not discuss, comment, ask questions, etc. on this board. DM the poster, or there is a separate group “Chat:Events” that supports wide-ranging discussions of events.
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis
[Event Communication]:
Talk about the events and groups listed in NoChat: Events/Groups
Chat: Events/Groups for Porcs
Purpose: Allow discussion, comments, questions, proposals, coordination around chats and groups that are announced on the Events/Groups NoChat group
Activities: Discussions around activities
Target Segment: Active Porcupines coordinating events or groups
Benefits: Get to talk about what’s gong on
Membership size: 200
Geographical Center: Virtual but impacts IRL
Requirements to Join: Be a Porcupine. Especially good for organizers so can talk about their events and answer questions.
Expectations to remain a member: Stay on the topic of the events scheduled. If discussion starts to philosophical, go to the Discourse group. If topic starts to go off on other things, DM or go to Anything Goes
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Prat
[Event Communication]:
Announcements Only of Seacoast events
Seacoast Events -No ChitChat
Purpose: Listing of upcoming events – without any discussion, comments, or questions.
Target Segment: Seacoast folks who just want to be kept up to date on events.
Benefits: Succinct listing of events so can find them quickly and plan your week.
Relationship to other groups: Freecoast signal group. The SHELL signal group
Membership size: 150
Geographical Center: Seacoast
Requirements to Join: Should be known to Seacoast admin or active on Freecoast signal group or a member of the SHELL
Expectations to remain a member: Please do not comment. This is for announcements only. Remain interested in the seacoast region.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Ask to join in either Freecoast or The SHELL groups, or contact seacoast or admin
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Event Communication]:
Quill adjacent event announcements only
Quill #NoChitChat Announcements
Purpose: List announcements of Quill and Quill adjacent events – no chit chat
Target Segment: Quill members interested in events
Benefits: Just a list of events of interest to Quill members
Relationship to other groups: Quill group
Requirements to Join: Quill membership
Expectations to remain a member: Don’t chit chat, discuss, question, etc. (hard out)
Primary platform(s): Signal
Information about joining: Please fill out the form to apply for Quill membership.and then ask to be added.
Contact: Steve Z
[Event Communication]:
Find open Porcupine events all throughout the state
Free State Project Calendar
Purpose: Find open Porcupine events all throughout the state
Target Segment: Anyone interested in attending Porcupine events
Primary platform(s): Website
Information about joining: Look here for what is happinging in the various regions. Send Chris Lopez your event if you want to advertise it to Porcupines.
Contact: Chris Lopez
[Organizing Events]:
Help emerging liberty-for-real societies advance to the next level of liberty.
NH Liberty Forum
Purpose: A once-a-year conference to brainstorm solutions for problems faced by liberty-for-real societies
Activities: Presentations, discussions, brainstorming, connecting, supporting
Target Segment: Intellectuals, planners, visionaries, organizers, founders who not only think about liberty-for-real, but actually want to implement it in real life.
Benefits: Explore the current state of advancement of liberty-for-real societies. Help overcome obstacles. Coordinate with other people who are serious about creating liberty-for-real.
Membership size: 200
Geographical Center: Usually meet in early spring in Concord-Manchester-Nashua area.
Requirements to Join: Buy ticket, give presentation, be exhibitor, volunteer to help, or be a sponsor.
Expectations to remain a member: Provide ideas and support to one another.
Primary platform(s): In real life
eMail: DennisGPratt@GMail.Com
Phone: 781-413-6014
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Organizing Events]:
Plan out your PorcFest
PorcFest Plans
Purpose: Talk about going to PorcFest
Activities: advertise your hub, discuss guests, camping, talks, travel, etc.
Target Segment: Potential PorcFest attendees
Benefits: Connect up and find out who’s going whom you might want to meet and what you might want to do.
Relationship to other groups: PorcFest is also on Telegram, but this tends to be the primary discussion venue
Membership size: 3400
Geographical Center: FB
Expectations to remain a member: Build don’t bitch. Dissing FSP, NH, volunteers, guests, speakers, etc will have you removed.
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Constance Spencer
[Organizing Events]:
Plan your NH Liberty Forum visit
Liberty Forum
Purpose: Discuss the upcoming Liberty Forum
Target Segment: potential attendees, speakers, sponsors
Membership size: 230
Expectations to remain a member: May may bitch. Respectful to FSP, NH, speakers, attendees, guests, volunteers.
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Organizing Events]:
PorcFest on Telegram
PorcFest Attendee Chat
Purpose: Talk on Telegram about the upcoming PorcFest – speakers, events, how-to, connection
Target Segment: PorcFest attendees and potential attendees
Relationship to other groups: PorcFest Plans on FB is primary. This has a lot of folks who refuse FB.
Membership size: 750
Primary platform(s): Telegram
Contact: Constance Spencer
[Porcupine Segment]:
Unknown
Women in the Free State
Purpose: Women meet to chat
Activities: Discussion; meetups
Target Segment: Female Porcupines
Benefits: Create community
Geographical Center: Virtual and meetups at different homes
Requirements to Join: Unknown
Expectations to remain a member: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Contact Olga Sorens
Contact: Olga Sorens
[Porcupine Segment]:
High tolerance, welcoming, live & let live Free Staters
Friendly Free Staters
Purpose: This is a support group for Free Staters who welcome the diversity of humanity who will seek liberty. We not only “live and let live”, we empathically tolerate even those who live their lives in a manner we might not choose for *ourselves* – even tolerating those who are themselves intolerant of others and even of ourselves – as long as they respect everyone’s self-ownership and its derivatives.
Target Segment: Hyper tolerant, friendly, live&let live libertarians in the Free State
Relationship to other groups: Personal Growth Liberty
Membership size: 25
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Self-improvment]:
Work with others to reduce internal obstacles and gain new skills to achieve even greater success.
Personal Growth Liberty
Purpose: Personal growth is the individual side of freedom, while libertarianism is the external. Many of our most difficult obstacles preventing us from expressing our personal excellence are internal rather than external. In this group, we work to reduce those internal obstacles, even while we focus on external obstacles in other groups.
Activities: We share thoughts, courses, events, activities, tricks, progress, and questions around our personal growth. We also discuss and attend formal seminars and workshops (e.g., Insight seminars), as well as meet to do exercises together in mini workshops.
Target Segment: For Porcupines who seek internal freedom, as well as their external freedom. You should be curious about what makes you tick, comfortable exploring that with others, open to personal questions, available to others’ disclosures, tolerant of each person’s different path and methods, and trustworthy in confidentiality.
Benefits: Frequent ideas for improving your conscious traversal through your life.
Membership size: 60
Geographical Center: Most activity is via Signal group, however, we do travel to events and workshops, sometimes even to seminars outside the Free State.
Requirements to Join: Please introduce yourself when you enter, and share a bit about your personal growth history and personal growth goals. If you are unknown, the moderator may ask you additional questions.
Expectations to remain a member: Confidentiality. Support. No trolling. No screenshots. Mute anyone who is annoying. Lurking w/o engagement will eventually cause you to be removed as this is a high trust group.
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Information about joining: Please introduce yourself upon entering, describe your journey so far and your goals, and your intention for how you might use this group for your benefit.
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Self-improvment]:
Freedom begins within – personal and spiritual growth and community gatherings
Rooted Free
Purpose: To support individuals in living more sovereign, vibrant, and connected lives
Activities: Group retreats, circles, yoga and ecstatic dance, farm to table meals, medicine journeys
Target Segment: For those passionate about evolving and cocreating
Benefits: Decondition from the programming!
Geographical Center: Rooted Free Farm, Henniker NH
Requirements to Join: Free membership – must agree with core values
Primary platform(s): Signal, Facebook, In real life, Website, Membership
Contact: Lauren Noone
[Self-improvment]:
Porcupines broadly focused on health, nutrition, body building and other forms of physical
Fit Porcupines
Purpose: Porcupines broadly focused on health, nutrition, body building and other forms of physical
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Money]:
Learn, teach, buy, sell precious metals on Seacoast
Porc Precious Metals
Purpose: Buy sell precious metals
Target Segment: Porcupines who want to diversify into metals
Membership size: 40
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Money]:
Longest consecutively running crypto meetup in the world
Free State Crypto
Purpose: Crypto related topics and Manchester meetup
Target Segment: Crypto and wanna-be crypto
Relationship to other groups: Other regional crypto groups.
Membership size: 70
Geographical Center: Virtual & Manchester
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Trading]:
Buy/Sell Stuff on the Seacoast
Freecoast Buy/Sell/Trade Group
Purpose: Buy/Sell/Trade items in the seacoast area with other Porcs. Legal items only, please. 👀
Target Segment: Seacoasters and seacoast adjacent interested in trade
Benefits: less expensive items amongst friends
Membership size: 32
Geographical Center: Virtual
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Zer0
[Trading]:
Rideshare to interregional events
Seacoast meet n Ride sharing
Purpose: Coordinate rides to events outside the Seacoast
Target Segment: People who’d like to ride share to Porcupine events outside the region
Membership size: 28
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Gaston
[Trading]:
Buy and sell w/ Porcupines
FSP Porc Sales
Purpose: Buy and sell stuff amongst Porcupines
Target Segment: Free Staters w/ stuff to sell or want to buy within network
Relationship to other groups: Rent-a-porc can hire folks
Membership size: 290
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Constance Spencer
[Housing]:
A central room for liberty lovers to explore the Libertarian Homeland
Independence Inn
Purpose: The Independence Inn provides a central site for liberty lovers to explore the Free State.
Target Segment: Visitors, guests, liberty-curious, week-long ad month-long deals
Benefits: Rooms within a 360 degree drive to most porcupine locations: 30 min to Concord, Dover,, Lakes, Epping, Rochester, Moose Mountain. 40 minutes to The SHELL, Manchester, Exeter, Portsmouth. 50 minutes to Ossipee, Henniker, Laconia, Hampton Beach, Weare. Periodic gatherings of Porcupines at the Inn itself.
Geographical Center: Strafford NH
Requirements to Join: DM owner. Get discount code. Register through website
Expectations to remain a member: Treat facilities with respect
Primary platform(s): In real life
eMail: DennisGPratt@GMail.Com
Information about joining: First talk w/ Dennis. get the discount, and use code on website.
Contact: Dennis Pratt
[Housing]:
Demonstrate community by welcoming new Porcupines
FSP Welcome Wagon
Purpose: Help new movers move into their home by unpacking their U-Haul for a pizza party.
Target Segment: Free Staters who want to welcome newbies with a show of volunteer spirit
Relationship to other groups: Free State Project group reaches out to potential movers; this is where we welcome them
Membership size: 950
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Chris Lopez
[Housing]:
Find your home or temporary resting place
FSP Housing Search
Purpose: Find a house in New Hampshire from Free Staters
Target Segment: New movers and movers
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Chris Lopez
[Housing]:
developing housing in the Free State
Liberty Housing Project
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Tech]:
Video editing for freedom
FSPVideo Level 1 Editing Class
Purpose: Learn video editing skills while helping the FSP edit videos for outreach
Activities: Learn video skills from a documentary film maker while you create content that will be used to recruit new liberty lovers to the free state. More advanced classes available.
Target Segment: People interested in video editing and in helping the FSP.
Relationship to other groups: FSP Tech Team; PorcFest; Liberty Foru
Membership size: 6
Geographical Center: IRL and zoom classes
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life, Zoom
Contact: Unknown
[Tech]:
Free State techies
Porc Devs
Purpose: Tech gathering for support, work, ideas
Target Segment: Techies and folks looking for techies
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Business/Jobs]:
Find a job; list a job
FSP Job Alert
Purpose: Advertise or find a job
Target Segment: Job providers and job seekers who want to hire/work w/i the Free State network
Membership size: 3500
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Chris Lopez
[Business/Jobs]:
Find a Porc to do it; Be a Porc who does it
FSP Rent-A-Porc
Purpose: Hire each other for fun and profit and small tasks
Target Segment: Have a skill? Need a skill?
Membership size: 550
Primary platform(s): Facebook
Contact: Constance Spencer
[Business/Jobs]:
Work for Liberty
Work for Liberty
Purpose: A Discord server of >500 people who help each other find jobs and grow projects.
Activities: I help people find jobs.
Target Segment: Active job searchers, people who may be open to becoming employed by a pro liberty organization, entrepreneurs, idea people, people who can post jobs.
Benefits: Get paid to advance liberty.
Membership size: 525
Geographical Center: https://discord.gg/Ap9T2Dts3Q
Requirements to Join: Join the Discord, don’t spam the group
Primary platform(s): Discord
eMail: drigotas@duck.com
Information about joining: https://discord.gg/Ap9T2Dts3Q Always free- including a PDF of the book I wrote (Work for Liberty: a guide to getting a job in the liberty movement, which is now outdated.
Contact: Conner Drigotas
[FanClub]:
Bring the Mises Institute to NH
Mises Club NH
Purpose: Seeking Free State ties to the venerable Mises Institute where they hold programming, visits, seminars, classes, etc here in the Free State, and eventually perhaps even have a “satellite” here in the Libertarian Homeland.
Activities: Discussions, talks, presentations
Target Segment: Porcupines who love Mises Institute
Relationship to other groups: Not related to Mises Caucus.
Membership size: 50
Expectations to remain a member: Stay on topic
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Lukas the German
[Misc]:
Unknown
No New Normal | N.H.
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Misc]:
Liberation per artem
Free State Creative
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Misc]:
Unknown
Sigma Male Meetup announcements
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal, In real life
Contact: Unknown
[Misc]:
Unknown
History Of The World
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown
[Misc]:
Unknown
NH Homesteading Deals
Purpose: Unknown
Target Segment: Unknown
Primary platform(s): Signal
Contact: Unknown