L to R: Ethan Lee Vita, Ademo Freeman, Pete Eyre, Nick Ford & Wes Freeman at PorcFest 2010
About a month ago our bud Ethan Lee Vita inquired if we’d be open to him using the LOT brand for a hitchhiking/agorism project he was brainstorming. After a couple back and forths, we were on-board.
In his own words:
Liberty on Tour: Hitchhiking is a project meant to network agorists throughout North America in building stronger connections to each other and publicizing their actions in order to inspire others to step forward into agorist action. It is also meant to discover counter-economists, those individuals forced into the underground economy due to the state, and share with them the knowledge of liberty in hopes of them deciding to become agorists. In this way, liberty can be increased amongst those already involved and introduced to those economically-inclined to liberty.
Ethan, now in Vegas, will soon head east on I-40 to Knoxville. From there, he’ll head south to the Keys then back to the ‘shire in time for his Jan 24th court date.
If you live anywhere along this route or know of potential leads or contacts Ethan may be interested in learning about (such as a place to crash and work together on some counter-economic, agorist, or other alternative organization), please let him know!
Also, though his expenses aren’t great, Ethan is operating on a shoe-string budget, so if you like what he’s doing and have a few bucks to help him grab a bite, consider making a donation. We’ll make sure he gets it (please put “Ethan” in the “Purpose” text field).
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On a related note – We hope Ethan’s project will be the first of many people other than ourselves do through LOT. One of the most-difficult things we’ve found in launching new projects is cutting through competing content for eyeballs and minds. By facilitating Ethan’s project through LOT we can significantly mitigate this entry barrier, as well as provide a ready-made infrastructure (website, social networks, audience and institutional knowledge).
For us, partnering with Ethan – a seasoned hitchhiker (with over 30,000 miles under his belt) with a solid grasp on agorism who is personable and an excellent writer – was an easy decision.
If you have project ideas of your own that may mesh well with the LOT brand let us know. If we or someone else isn’t on-the-road under the LOT banner and your project fits the LOT tradition (some aspect of traveling and a hardcore message) we’ll see what’s up.
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I don’t think people should be promoting this Ethan Lee Vita guy. We had to kick Ethan out of our house because of questionable activities with a little boy. The sequence of events were as follows:
He had to be told not to be up in the little boy’s bedroom after all the adults had gone to bed.
One roommate walked in on Ethan having the little boy giving Ethan a massage.
Same roommate walked in on Ethan having rolled off the couch after ‘cuddling’ the little boy.
Ethan was heard playing VERY explicit gay sex material on the computer for the little boy.
Ethan was told as this point he should stay away from the child as it was freaking people out.
Ethan, after being told to stay away, was seen cuddled up to the boy playing with stuff in the kid’s lap.
Ethan described his activities to another as “cuddling” with the kid.
Just thought people should know what they’d be donating money for.
I thought this might come up at some point, its unfortunate that you feel the need to deny support for activism over personal issues by using this medium, but it is something that should be openly discussed.
I covered my response to this some time ago: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=416317974721
I know what I have donated money for, and believe Kat is wrong, exaggerating, and being irresponsible in her actions. Kat, we’ve already been over this elsewhere and I don’t even think you’ve responded to his public note written some time ago. Are you planning on ignoring it and just lurking in the shadows holding a sign wherever Ethan goes?
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