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LIVE FREE REPORT
Winter 2009-10
LIVE FREE USA, P.O. BOX 3295, MUNSTER, IN 46321

NOTCE! The Post Office Box in Dolton Illinois will be closed by March of 2010. All literature, letterhead, website postings and other references to Live Free, USA must show only the Address below:
LIVE FREE USA, P.O. BOX 3295, MUNSTER, IN 46321

LIVE FREE IS ON THE MOVE!

After several years of slow progress we are finally making real progress again. It’s nice to be able to write about good news for a change. Here is the situation as we end 2009.

1. Membership is up about 20-percent from 07-08

2. Funds are up about 15-percent from the start of 2009 even though we spent more than in past years

3. We held about twice as many activities as the previous year, but all the work was done by the same small staff.

4. We have a number of active younger members with the skills and enthusiasm to become leaders, organizers and instructors in 2010.

Of course, the most important item is number four. Only with more active leadership and staff help can we expand programs, support membership growth and use the funds effectively. That is the challenge for 2010. The plan is to build up the core group, improve the web site, publications and programs and then launch a full-scale advertising campaign to bring Live Free USA to the next level. That level is a nationally recognized force for promoting, teaching and defending individual self-reliance and independence. WE CAN DO THIS! The next few months are critical. We need all of you to keep contributing, keep helping and keep recruiting. Those of you that may have been discouraged in the past need to rededicate and jump back in. We have come so far and worked so hard for so long. Lets not let it go when we have the momentum.

Live Free Report
& American Survivor

Thanks to everyone for your favorable comments on our newsletter. But, it is a problem. The American Survivor (formerly Directions) newsletter is the oldest survival self-reliance newsletter in the USA. It started publication in 1976. Editors are hard to find and harder to keep. After going through our 4th editor in 5-years it got dumped back on me. I am already doing duties as President, conducting classes, and many other tasks. As a result of the added newsletter job, I have not been able to get out Live Free Report since last spring. I also have not run any ads to get more members. The only reason I was able to get the newsletter out through the year was because I did several issues ahead back in November of 08 while on disability from my job. At this point I have no extra issues in the pipeline and few new articles. We still need a reliable editor or we will start to lose somewhere. Hello!

Officers for 2010?

It is time to start working on a slate of officers for 2010. We have some officer doing a great job a few filling in, but unable to give the time needed to do the job, and several posts open. We also have very few Directors with Deputy Directors to help them get it done.

Ø Do not hesitate to step up for a Directorship or Deputy Directorship that is already filled in 2009. Many officers have help posts for over 10-years and would welcome and support a replacement with new ideas and energy.

Ø Do not wait for directions and permission to set up a program or act on an idea. I like to be told about what is being done more than what can be done or should be done. ACT!

A healthy organization should see changes. I would love to see 50% new officers on the slate. Maybe even a few contested offices. I would love to give the annual Members Service Awards to different members in 2010.

Elections are in March 2010, but we need to hear from candidates now.

Website Upgrades Planned

The website is one important area I have had to neglect in order to do the newsletter and the programs. We seem to have a shortage of technical skills in this area so no help was forthcoming. Without a world class website, Live Free USA simply does not exist for a great part of the world. Pouring money into the site without the staff to handle the resulting memberships, and communications would have been a waste. Now we have the opportunity to get back in the game. We have some new technical support and funds that we intend to use to build a site that will serve our members, provide great information and even rais some funds. We hope to be able to provide video programs and let members join and download publications through the site by early 2010.

DVDs and CDs On The Way

Another project slowed by lack of help has been the DVD, CD project. This is intended to get our great collection of survival and self-reliance programs and publications out to the public instead of gathering dust in our cabinets. Soon we will have available.

Ø DVDs with 3 or more US Army (1950s and 60s) survival and medical training films

Ø DVDs with 3 or more Live Free survival and preparedness classes and field programs

Ø CDs with 100 Survival Papers and the book Life, Freedom and Survival by Jim Jones as PDF files

Ø CDs with narrated Power Point class presentations

All will be available by mail order or through the website.

Hey Where Are The Photos?

With all of the action this year, why are there no photos of the Live Free activities in the newsletters? Well, we did get most of it on video tape for the coming DVDs, but NO ONE TOOK ANY STILL PHOTOS! So we don’t have any. We didn’t even have enough photos for the usual annual book. Oh well. Maybe someone will do that next year.

HOLD THESE DATES!

Sunday March 21st 2010 : Live Free USA Annual Meeting and Luncheon at Noon at Cabala’s Conference Center in Hammond IN.

Saturday May 1st 2010: Camp Independence at Tippecanoe River State Park Indiana. Friday (4/30) night check in and Sunday (5/2) morning checkout for cabins. Families and groups welcome. A full schedule of survival and self-reliance programs will be presented.

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