What a weekend! LOLAs met in Atlanta this weekend and discussed ideas and goals for 2010. It is going to be a great year. With chapters popping up all over the country, we're going to create a handbook to send out ASAP; complete with our mission statement, values, stances on a number of core issues (but not all!), and most importantly, some best practices. We'll also need to get something back -- namely numbers. We will want to know how many members you have, how many meetings/trainings/etc. you hold, and what we can do to support YOU (be it with speakers, mailings, ideas, or whatever you might think of). This will help us get grants and ultimately be able to help a lot more with what we can provide each chapter and promote LOLA as an organization. It's time to not only mobilize ladies in the movement, but to bring more in. Here's to liberty!

This is some text prior to the author information. You can change this text from the admin section of WP-Gravatar As a child growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I knew I wanted to work toward a positive change in the world. In order to do the most good, I thought I'd have to work to change government policy. After years of studying international relations and then moving to Washington, D.C., my goal to work at the United Nations began to fade. I was (and still am) huge on civil liberties, yet when I came here and started campaigning for libertarian candidates (while I looked for a job promoting international peace), I learned that the expansion of government is inevitable given our political process. It is in the government's self-interest to claim more power, and the only thing that will change that is the people. There is no turning back for me! Now, I'm just doing my part to educate people about liberty and its relation to limited government, free trade and its relation to development, and a non-interventionist foreign policy and its relation to peace.