Semi-Monthly Freedom Haven newsletter

The one-stop semi-monthly update on the doings of the Freedom Haven project.

October - December 2024

Table Of Contents

Table Of Contents

A quick thought

Seateading: Mankind is already starting to populate the oceans today

Learning from what has worked so far.

Our past and present

Our future

Question from our members

“What are the next steps for finding sponsors for this project?”?
- Tony Olsen

Upcoming Events

Links to recent articles, interviews, podcasts, etc

How can you help the project

Monthly Freedom Haven constitution section mini-overview

Property

Misc

Contact The Author

A quick thought

Seateading: Mankind is already starting to populate the oceans today

Learning from what has worked so far.

Our past and present

This graph shows how we are slowly populating the oceans with over 30 million people visiting floating hotels inside floating cities (with thousands staying for months (#CruiseshipCrew) and a few staying for years). When talking about #seasteading, we should consider the largest market for people sleeping in housing on the open ocean water (including outside the #EEZ): the #Cruiseship industry.

Our future

Mankind WILL continue to populate the oceans - it's only a matter of which industries will carve out the largest portions of this future market.

Traditionally, seasteading has focused on selling expensive housing to the wealthy (who, in this difficult socialist economy, rarely buy it) - instead perhaps we should focus on cheap housing to the poor in an economically-free location where they could create wealth (perhaps in the underutilized manufacturing-on-the-high-seas industry) in a free market. Then their future wealthy children would be in a position to buy the wealthy housing.

Thoughts?

(Screenshot from: https://www.statista.com/.../number-of-passengers-of-the.../ )

Thoughts on this article? Please come and join the discussion!

Question from our members

“What are the next steps for finding sponsors for this project?”?
- Tony Olsen

“Write letters to business owners that are affected by what you're talking about.

Make a seminar. Send invites

Brochures are not bad ideas.. create that community locally and start living/prototyping it now

…
the word campaign has meaning”

• Carl Copp

If this subject is of interest to you, come join the discussion.

If you have a question you would like answered, please post your question on our facebook group or contact us through any of our other social media accounts or email.

Upcoming Events

Online calendar can be found here: https://freedomhaven.org/events/ 

• 2/1/2025: Monthly Freedom Haven project casual face-to-face (first Saturday of each month at the same time). NOTE: We’re NOT using Zoom anymore - switching to a new Discord server.
  https://discord.gg/NGJgepzju8 

• 2pm Eastern EDT
• 1pm Central CDT
• 12pm Mountain MDT
• 11am Pacific PDT
• 6pm UTC (GMT)

• 3/1/2025: Next Monthly Freedom Haven project casual face-to-face
• More at: https://freedomhaven.org/events/ 

Links to recent articles, interviews, podcasts, etc

Click on link(s) in each item for additional details. List can also be found online here: https://freedomhaven.org/articles-and-links/ 

If you've seen any related recent articles or podcasts not mentioned here, please let us know.

** 2024 **

• 9/18: The Seasteading Institute: Carly Jackson talks about Freedom Haven’s initiative to build a free market community on a new Floating City on the high seas
  
• 6/18: Free Talk Live: Bonnie, Aria, and Tony discuss the Freedom Haven project updates (from time stamp 7:08 to 22:52). Click here for only the interview audio.
  
• 1/20: A reading of the latest version of the Freedom Haven Constitution (version 1.05, last updated 9/22/2023)
  

** 2023 **

• 12/30: The Freedom Haven project made the front page of the Daily Gate City newspaper.
  
• 10/24: Zoom meeting with the naval architect Nicholas Barczak, PE where areas of the Freedom Haven project design and plans were refined.
  Video: https://youtu.be/0VRjKGupElU 
  Meeting Take-aways: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQRcCVAKK5vzKxrbUMuZsmLj78ZuKDQipOvw34mY0IxWuFS18SDPlUWY41sekK_dBOcwSCudcswfU2z/pub 
  
• 9/4 and 9/9/2023: The Freedom Haven project participation in the 9/4 Keokuk, Iowa, Labor day parade, and fundraising in the 9/9 Fort Madison, Iowa, Rodeo parade.
  
• 7/27: Ernest Hancock, from Freedom’s Phoenix, explores some of the details of the Freedom Haven project in this 1 hour and 41-minute podcast. https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/347407-2023-07-25-2023-07-26-ernest-hancock-interviews-anthony-olsen-freedomhaven-org.htm 
  
• 7/13: Jake Cook, from “Nation of Jake“, interviews Tony Olsen on the subject of the Freedom Haven project on News Talk radio 98.9. 12-minute interview starts at timestamp 19:52 (Click on “Show Description” and then the corresponding “2:33 pm…” section link or listen directly to only the interview).
  
• 6/21: Aria and Mr. Nobody at Free Talk Live discuss the Freedom Haven project. (20-minute discussion starts at timestamp 1:16:01 in the stream).
  https://freetalklive.com/?ppplayer=a65e130e8b56ac0cda02d6d069031b57&ppepisode=41cc6ffa5f6d0608c081e2962e6d761d
  
• 6/19 through 6/22: Raw video of some of the various Freedom Haven presentations that were made at PorcFest 2023.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEw6a01QHI&list=PLW8gwky7Z_zMN1bOAmIAbde6x3ezBpM_B 
  
• 4/25: Clips from the Atlas Shrugged Movies that inspired the Freedom Haven project
  https://youtu.be/GMYusGkeJqQ 
  
• 2/20: Freedom Haven mentioned in reference in NBC10 Boston’s report on PorcFest 2022.
  https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-new-hampshire-an-nbc10-boston-original/2920007/ 
  
• 1/31: Freedom Haven mentioned with other projects in CoinTelegraph magazine’s article: “Why are crypto fans obsessed with micronations and seasteading?” https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/20-wild-attempts-to-create-crypto-micronations-or-communities 
  
• 1/26/2023: The Seasteading Institute updated the Freedom Haven description on their active projects page: https://www.seasteading.org/active-projects/ 
  
  ** 2022 **
• 12/23/2022: Update on triangle prism sphere core concrete units that make up the concrete platform: https://grabcad.com/library/2022-12-23-triangle-prism-sphere-core-floating-concrete-unit-28-single-only-1 
  
• 11/16: Update on concrete platform design (with link to CAD files and 3D model webpage): https://www.facebook.com/groups/LibertarianSeasteading/posts/1235996050313291/
  (Previous 10/06 update can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5740571545963066 )
  
• 11/13: Annual Archive of the Freedom Haven Project: Everything that anyone would need to pick up the project where we left off. We are committed to remaining an Open-Design project.

• Contains most recent model files, images, and web site and group backups.
• Does NOT contain: list of unencrypted patrons, since only those who wish to have their names appear publicly are shared unencrypted.
• Available in 2 formats:

• Torrent P2P sharing: https://freedomhaven.org/Tony/FreedomHaven/FreedomHavenProject.torrent
• Google drive 7z compressed file (viewers will need 7-zip to uncompress the file – also may only work from desktop computers): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wfEVOkq5DGI0R6osR56GMHWO8GK2ICFJ/view?usp=sharing

• Financial update: https://freedomhaven.org/Tony/FreedomHaven/FreedomHavenFinancialGoalsUpdate.png . More at: https://freedomhaven.org/articles-and-links/ 
  

How can you help the project

• If you haven’t already, become a patron by donating to our Freedom Haven exploratory campaign (aka: Phase 2):
  https://freedomhaven.org/plan/ 
• Participate in the monthly ideas contests and help us discover good solutions and help encourage the participation of others
• Help market the project through your own innovative imaginative grass-roots efforts
• Invite your courageous, pro-freedom friends to the “Gathering Freedom Haven” group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LibertarianSeasteading 
• Volunteer your time to the project: www.facebook.com/groups/FreedomHavenVolunteers/ 

(Last updated 01/07/2025)

Monthly Freedom Haven constitution section mini-overview

The Preamble of Freedom Haven Constitution:
We the individual People, in order to secure the Human Right to Defend ourselves, to limit the scope of Government, and to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, so that we can have the chance to learn, grow, and work towards achieving our greatest individual divine potentials (so that through our efforts, and without Compulsory Means, prosperity may flow unto us forever and ever), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Provinces that form the Country of Freedom Haven.

Property

• PROPERTY (or TANGIBLE PROPERTY) is anything that you can touch that can be owned.

• You cannot own another sentient Human Being. You (and only you) own your body while you are alive.

• Long term actions that are deliberately intended to produce sleep deprivation can cause brain damage (which is Property damage), and if that leads to deliberate death then this is Murder.
• Deliberately damaging someone's hearing through loud noise is also Property damage, but (in certain areas where loud noise is expected) it is expected that people take their own precautions (within reason) to prevent hearing damage.

• The only items Government recognizes as Property are tangible items.

Join the discussion on this section at this link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreedomHavenGov/posts/2116071305576852/ 

Misc

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Contact The Author

Tony Olsen