Some think Porcfest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival held in Lancaster, NH each summer, is nothing more than a week long party with people who do nothing more than eat, drink, smoke pot and bitch about the man. Ok, for a good number of people that’s true and there’s nothing wrong with that but alot more goes on at Porcfest as well. So much that you’ll find yourself debating between which event(s) to attend, or you’ll end up splitting events scheduled at the same times.
*With so much going on we just realized this content from PorcFest had yet to be published – here you go!
When traveling the country we’re constantly asked, “What is Porcfest?” And the answer, “That the Porcupine Freedom Festival (or PorcFest) is the Free State Project’s summer event” doesn’t do it justice. To fully understand the magnitude of Porcfest you have to experience it. Over 1,000 people – nearly all of which subscribe to ideals of less government, no desire to control others and prefer to be left alone - camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire peacefully and without the government’s hand on their shoulder.
PorcFest Recap
What can I say about my first PorcFest? It wasn’t some big moment of realization. I knew PorcFest was going to be awesome, and my experience lived up to that expectation. Having been to Liberty Forum in 2009 and 2010, I was struck by the size and diversity of the group compared to the crowd at both Liberty Forums (which I thought had an impressive turnout at the time, too). It’s obvious that the liberty movement in New Hampshire has grown a lot in the last year and a half.
By Kelly Patterson:
There is an oft-repeated quote by Gandhi in which he stated “there is no path to peace, peace is the path.†After spending a week in the mountains of New Hampshire attending my first Porcfest, I’ve become pretty convinced that the same holds true for freedom. The ultimate way to achieve freedom isn’t to ask some politician to deliver it to you or even to demand it from those who have taken it away. Rather, the path to freedom is simply to be free.
Jim Johnson (Keene, NH) and John Kurtz (Orlando, FL) may have never met but they have alot in common, especially at the moment, as they’re both currently in a cage for standing up for their (and your) rights.
Jim Johnson is a peacefully man, one that has helped us repair and maintain MARV time and time again, who’s caged for refusing to pay a trespassing fine and for failing to fill out financial information. Yep, in ‘america’ your taxes will be used to build 40 million dollar prisons, that house 7 violent offenders out of 167 inmates – according to the Superintendent of Cheshire Co Jail, but when you go to take a walk around it they forcefully throw you inside. That’s why we made this video to encourage others to help support Jim through his painful stay at the house of corrections.
