Athens LP Outreach Event at Athens 33rd Annual Human Rights Festival

On Saturday, our Athens LP affiliate participated in the 33rd Annual Human Rights Festival in Athens. Armed with many copies of the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, the affiliate reached out to the attendees and other participants.

Here’s the part of the recap from Athens LP Chair, Doug Harman:

The Athens – Area Libertarian Party Affiliate operated an ‘Operation Politically Homeless’ outreach booth today at the Athens Human Rights Festival. 
We were largely outnumbered by the Liberals, Progressives and some that identified themselves as Communists, but we stood our ground, administered the ‘World’s Smallest Political Quiz’ without reservation or prejudice and honestly posted all of the results. We took a great idea from Wes Benedict last year in DC, of using the Advocates for Self Government’s ‘Nolan Quiz’ chart and applying colored stickers, that corespond to the subject’s acknowledged party affilitation, to the location of the result. Red for Republicans, Blue for Democrats, Yellow for Libertarians and Green for Independents (and one Red with a large black C for the one self identified Communist).

A lot of people who identified themselves as Democrats, Republicans and Independents were surprised to find themselves in the Libertarian quadrant of the chart. One Democrat was quite taken a back and his commentary led Affiliate member J.P. to coin a new slogan ‘The Proud Purveyors of Your Ah-Ha Moment Since 1971’.

 

 

I can honestly say that we, The Libertarian Party, were the only political party represented at the festival today that has never started a war, sent a man into combat to commit government sanctioned murder, or pretended to support something that we really don’t. We are the Party of Principle, We support 100% of The Bill of Rights, for 100% of The People, 100% of The Time.

You can find the note in its entirety here.

Many thanks to Doug and the members of the Athens affiliate for an EXCELLENT outreach event, and if you’d like to view pictures from the event at our Flickr page, you can view the set for this event here.

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