As if Libertarians need an excuse to party, this holiday season we’ve got 2!
In lieu of our Monthly Happy Hour Meeting, we’re celebrating a month of holidays and a birthday (some might say 2 birthdays).
When: Saturday, December 11, 2021 @ 7PM
Where: Mister Tramps Sports Pub & Café @ 8565 Research Blvd., Austin TX 78758
in the private back room
What: Holiday Giving and Liberty Celebration
On December 11th the Libertarian Party turns 50 years old. That is a half-century milestone, the Golden Anniversary of the little party that could!
And December marks a month full of holidays, from Chanukah ending on the 6th to the Yule Winter Solstice on the 21st to Christmas on the 25th to Kwanzaa starting the 26th, and maybe more. It’s a time to remind us of caring & giving and creating peace & joy; quintessential libertarianism.
Caring Libertarians
We’ll be collecting new and gently-used nonperishable items or unopened food items for contribution to one or more charities of our choice from anyone attending who may bring them. You choose the charity(s), and anyone wishing to make room in their homes for new gifts can bring things to donate.
Yankee-Swap
We’ll be sharing liberty-themed gifts among one another, for anyone who’d like to shop for that (not-too-expensive) special symbol of freedom that someone else may use and enjoy, sort of a Libertarian Secret Santa.
Wondering what to get? Some Suggestions:
- T-shirts, yard signs, bumper stickers, and more from the Libertarian Booster PAC
- Completely legal CBD and Delta-8 THC products from Nugg of Knowledge
- A variety of cool stuff from Pound Town
- Books by the Tuttle Twins
What are your ideas & sources?
Liberty Giving
Libertarians are charitable so people don’t have to feel stuck depending on government. Not to mention giving gives us the warm fuzzies. So what, if anything, can you contribute, and to where?
So come as you are, or in your dressiest dress or ugliest sweater, bring friends, and bear gifts or not!
Come eat, drink, and be merry with us in a room full of liberty-minded fun folks!
We are pleased to present special guest Dr. Mary Ruwart, Ph. D., who will speak on “Do Vaccine Mandates Protect our Health or Threaten our Freedoms?”
Dr. Ruwart has a Ph. D. in biophysics. She spent 19 years as a pharmaceutical research scientist for Upjohn Pharmaceuticals and has written extensively on the subject of government regulation of the drug industry. She has also written books on communicating Libertarian ideas, such as “Healing Our World.”
Dr. Ruwart’s Libertarian activism is widespread. In Texas, she has run for U. S. Senator and State Comptroller. She has sought the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination. She is currently chair of the party’s Judicial Committee. On the international front, she is chair of Liberty International, which brings together libertarians and fellow travelers from around the world.
Please join us for what should be a memorable presentation. And please note our new date & time this month; same as last month, 3rd Monday at Mr. Tramps on 183N:
Monday, November 15, 2021, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
doors open early and stay open late
Mister Tramp’s Sports Pub & Cafe
8565 Research Blvd, Austin TX 78758
in the private back room
This month we’re pleased to welcome the family of Garrett Foster as our special guests on Monday, October 18, 2021 at Mister Tramps Sports Pub & Café (note new date & place).
Garrett loved & defended liberty, publicly supported & stated his intention to vote for the Jo Jorgensen / Spike Cohen presidential ticket (and his mother credits him as the reason she did vote for them), and passed tragically in Austin, Texas last year. What followed has been a travesty.
With the love of her life killed in cold blood before her eyes, Whitney’s nightmares persist having witnessed the horror playing out in front of her.
It’s been hard on her and his families, too, especially as it appears the deck is stacked against justice, with media and a faction of the population having already convicted the victim, and even the president of the local police union standing by their loved one’s killer.
We hope you’ll join us this month to warmly welcome Garrett’s mother Sheila, sister Katie, and fiancé Whitney.
Rep. Chip Roy (R) represents part of Travis County in D. C., including downtown Austin. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. In this case, Roy promises to vote against the monstrous National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) unless the leadership removes the new military draft registration requirements for young women.
Libertarians oppose the Selective Service System and believe that young men shouldn’t have to register either. Roy hasn’t gone that far, but at least he doesn’t want women to share the pain. I hope he succeeds, but I serious doubt it when up against the Military-Industrial Complex juggernaut that says this is a “must pass” bill.
“The Supreme Court has long held that content‐based government regulation of speech is presumptively unconstitutional under the First Amendment.”
The U. S. Supreme Court will be hearing a free speech case from Austin. Libertarians oppose government sign ordinances as violations of free speech, and we hope the high court will agree.
Libertarian Party of Travis County 