2012
March 21:
ALF now has a PayPal account and a Donate button at the bottom of each page. As we say on the Join page: "You can make a contribution of any amount you want by clicking the "Donate" button at the bottom of any page. We use donations to pay for printed material and newsletters distributed at conferences and other related expenses. Upcoming projects include making CDs/DVDs of the "Autonomy and the Family Conference" that ALF co-sponsored a number of years ago. We will also soon be starting a drive to raise funds to publish a reprint of the Suzanne LaFollette book Concerning Women. You can read about LaFollette by clicking here. Watch for that announcement soon.
Sharon Presley will be speaking on "Women Resisters to Authority" for Women's History Month at Argosy University in Chicago on March 28. If you are in the Chicago Area and would like to attend, send us a message via the Contact page or contact Sharon on her Facebook page and she will put you on the guest list.
February 3: Incensed by the ill-informed and vulgar video, "Is Feminism Socialism with Panties" done by Stefan Molyneux and tired of the litany of other ill-informed anti-feminists among both conservatives and libertarians, a group pf libertarians, including ALF Board of Directors members Ross Kenyon and Sharon Presley , posted a collective rejoinder on Facebook on Jnauary 31, 2012. CLICK HERE. Many ALF members also joined in signing the statement.
January 10: In anticipation of applying for 503(c)(3) nonprofit status, ALF has changed the structure of its governing board from National Coordinator and Coordinating Committee to Executive Director and Board of Directors. We welcome Ross Kenyon and ArLyne Diamond to the new Board of Directors. We also welcome new Secretary Penny Burbank and new Treasurer Laura Twombly Trinies.
ALF also had a new address: 1155C Arnold Dr. #418, Martinez CA 94553.
2011
December 17: A new essay has been added to the Essay page: "Libertarians Against Empathy: Is “Logic” Enough? by Ross Kenyon. CLICK HERE for the essay. In this essay from ALF News 83, Kenyon chastises those libertarians who imagine that empathy toward others is somehow not "logical" or is too "politically correct." Writes Kenyon: "If we seek to be free from the government regulating us from afar, and we seek to have the market free to supply whatever we demand, it is up to us to demand a world of virtue and kindness." As libertarian feminists, we agree. Not being able to empathize with other is not a virture; it is a psychological deficit and will only set back the spread of libertarian ideas.
November 4: A new issue of the ALF Newsletter is now available. For a pdf of the ALF News 83 Fall 2011 issue, CLICK here. other back issues are available by CLICKING here. The lead article is "Government Is Women's Enemy Revisited, Part 1" on how women's reproductive freedom is slowly being eroded away through government actions. The next installment will deal with how government regulations make day care unaffordable for many and how marriage tax regulations harm women. In the current issue. an article by new ALF member Ross Kenyon looks at the issue of empathy and why is is important to libertarians.
Sharon Presley's talk at Libertopia was well-received. The video will be available soon. Meanwhile the version of her talk on the same topic (see below) given at UC Berkeley in September for the local Students for Liberty group can be see on YouTube by CLICKING here.
ALF has a new physical mail address. See Contact page for new information.
October 13: Sharon Presley's talk "Government Is Women's Enemy" at Libertopia in San Diego will be Friday Oct. 21 at 2pm. See Libertopia.org for further details. The critical workshop is on Saturday at 4pm. The longer version of this talk done at UC Berkeley (see below) is now available on YouTube. CLICK HERE for the link.
Sharon will also be speaking at UC San Diego Thursday Oct. 20 at 8pm. The topic is "Standing Up to Experts and Authorities."
September 27: A link to an additional article has been added to the Essays page: "No Authority But Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom" by Sharon Presley [on Voltairine de Cleyre] CLICK HERE to go to Essays page.
We now have new photos of Suzanne LaFollette. One is a hi-res photo we obtained from the Library of Congress, the others are courtesy of Carol Moore's cell phone. They were taken at the Library of Congress Photos Archive room. Thanks, Carol! CLICK HERE for the LaFollette page.
August 7: ALF has started a section for practical libertarian alternatives in our Links section, This list will grow over time. We started with several links to homeschooling websites, several of which are done by libertarians. Click here for Links
July 22: There's an excellent bio of early 20th c. libertarain feminist Suzanne LaFollette by Jeff Riggenbach titled "The Life and Work of Suzanne LaFollette at the Mises Institute blog. Click here
Sharon Presley will be speaking on "Government is Women's Enemy" at Libertopia Oct. 21-23, 2011. Click here. She will also be doing a workshop on critical thinking there. Exact times and dates to be announced later.
July 12: Sharon Presley will be speaking at her old alma mater Cal (University of California Berkeley) on Sept. 14. This talk, sponsored by the local Students for Liberty group on campus, is titled "Government Is Women's Enemy." Details on time and location will be announced later this summer.
April 22 : A newly reorganized and redesigned ALF website goes live. Please see our new features by clicking on Speakers Bureau, and Resources, as well as newly added articles under Resources/Essays, a new contact form, and a new Libertarian Feminist Heritage paper on the late Joan Kennedy Taylor. The essay on Suzanne La Follette now includes a photo of her as well as an obituary from National Review where she worked as managing editor in the 1950s. Click here for La Follette update.
A references/recommended reading list from Sharon Presley's talk on how government harms women given at the Students for Liberty Conference is now posted on the Essays page. For a direct link to it, click here.
If you want to show your support of ALF by joining, the membership is FREE until June. Click here to join.
January 5: Sharon Presley will deliver a talk at the International Students for Liberty Conference to be held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC on Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 10:30am. The talk is titled: "How Government Harms Women and the Nonharmful Alternatives." For more information, click here.
