Tea Party - Successful Event

Today, about a dozen Golden Gate Objectivists participated in the Tax Day Tea Party in San Francisco. We showed up with flags, and a half dozen coordinated posters. I would guess about 600-800 people were at the event, which was very peaceful and outright beautiful, on a nice sunny day in a wonderful setting.

We all felt it was great to be out there, speaking our minds - and most of all, getting the message about Ayn Rand and the Ayn Rand Center out to a receptive audience. All of us had numerous people come up to us throughout the event, talking about how Ayn Rand should be read by everybody. I had a chance to make a few brief comments - and received loud cheers at the mention of Ayn Rand, and her quote about taking up the moral fight for capitalism. We also passed out about 200 flyers, promoting Atlas Shrugged and ARC editorials on the financial crisis and Ayn Rand's relevance - to very receptive recipients.

Overall, I think this was a very successful first event for the relaunched GGO - and I look forward to doing more of these, and having more of you participate.



Here's a short video of the event, to give you a better idea:

GGO - becoming active again

Those of you who have been involved with GGO in the past know that the group has been dormant for the past 18 months or so. The key organizers were all busy with their 'other lives' - completing business projects and moves, starting new careers, and founding new families.

With some of these items under control, and with the urgency and motivation of taking action against the horrible decisions coming out of Washington these days, we are now resurrecting the group. We are:

• Transferring the online presence to Blogger (this site) to make posting easier and more timely
• Starting a regular, bi-monthly (maybe monthly at some point) standing meetings, to make it easier for people to plan to participate
• Moving the e-mail to gmail - to bring all of our online presence under one roof (web site, online discussion group, and e-mail contact)
• Looking for input, thoughts and volunteers to take on organizing roles to make the group be more real.

We would like to see you at one of the next meetings - the first one will be on April 11th at 10 am, at Doyle Street Cafe in Emeryville (www.doylestreetcafe.com, they have a back room we can use). We plan to hold regular bi-monthly meetings at the same location & time, every 2nd Saturday of even months. We will plan other, ad-hoc meetings as well - see other post on the Sacramento Tea Party as an example. If enough people are interested, we can also plan another series of bi-monthly meetings for early Sunday dinners at some convenient location for odd-numbered months. (Suggestions for locations are welcome - should be easy to reach via car, central Bay Area location, and ideally easy by public transport, too, with a private room if we have enough people.)

If you want to be notified of activities, please ensure we have your e-mail address - e-mail us at goldengateobjectivists at gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you soon - and to working together to get an Objectivist voice heard in the Bay Area and Northern California.