6/10/2008
CFN has issued a major
press release.
Click to read our important announcement and
contact us if you have any
questions!
5/18/2008
Check our
events page for upcoming
town hall meetings! Several more cities are being scheduled. Check
back continually for updates as we confirm more meetings. Please
attend and show your support!
Next is the Valley /
Waterloo Town Hall Meeting tomorrow at 7:00pm at DC West High School
in Valley.
click here for
the press release
5/9/2008
Thank you to everyone
who attended our Bennington and Gretna Town Hall Meetings!
4/30/2008
Please check out our
new weekly locations page
and the
signing places
section of our petitions
page to find out where you can sign the petitions!
4/30/2008
CFN is hosting a
Bennington Citizens' Meeting at Bennington High School on
Thursday, May 1 at 7:00pm. Please attend to show your support!
click here for the press release
We are also hosting a town hall meeting in Gretna on May 8 at
7:00pm at the Gretna Legion Hall. Please attend to show your
support!
4/30/2008
Thank you to everyone
who helped at the Bennington Blitz and Husker game! I will add some
photos to the media gallery
soon!
4/6/2008
Bennington Blitz
- April 11 and 12
Husker Spring Football
Game - April 19
60+ volunteers needed!!!
(click above for schedules)
email volunteer@freenebraska.net
to sign up to help!
4/4/2008
Thank you to
everyone who was able to help out with our second Gretna Blitz and
our Elkhorn Blitz events! The events went well, but we need many
more willing volunteers if we are to reach our goal of about 80,000
signatures by the end of June! So, please
sign up today and get your
friends and family involved!!!
Please, send an email to
volunteer@freenebraska.net if you would like to volunteer
your help. We have locations that you can sit at weekly, you could
distribute door-hangars, you could circulate petitions, you could
help at our blitz events, etc etc etc! Whatever capacity you're able
to work in, WE NEED YOU!
Please visit our new events
and weekly locations pages
and consider becoming a volunteer!
Our Bennington Blitz event will take place on April 11th and 12th,
and we will also be circulating at the Husker Spring Football Game
in Lincoln on April 19th. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
In addition to our current
signing places, we
have confirmed a few locations
where we will circulate at weekly to collect signatures, and we are
sending bulk mailings to everyone within targeted zip codes. We are
working on gaining weekly locations in many other areas, and we'll
keep the weekly locations
page updated as much as possible. There are also many other updated
sections on the website, so be sure to check them out!
3/28/2008
Our
Elkhorn Blitz
event will take place tomorrow and Sunday, so please stop by one of
our 9 signing place locations and 3 mobile locations to sign the
petitions!
Saturday - 10:00am until 9:30pm
Sunday - 2:30pm until 8:30pm
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Please contact Leon Lohrman, the VPC Volunteer Coordinator at
volunteer@freenebraska.net to volunteer for shifts. If you would
like to help us circulate petitions, hang door flyers, etc. during
our blitz events, please
contact us immediately!
3/28/2008
Please visit our
petitions page for
updated information about signing place locations and our 38
targeted counties!
3/28/2008
Thank you to our
speakers, our legislative candidates, our entertainment, our
caterers, Indian Creek, and everyone who attended or contributed to
the success of our Nebraska Tea Party fundraising event!
We now have 85 volunteer circulators in over 13 counties statewide!
We need 38 total counties though, so please
sign up to help us!
Thank you to all of our circulators and Gretna Mayor Tim Gilligan
and his wife who were able to join us at our Gretna Blitz Event!
3/28/2008
Please visit our
contact page for new
information about how to
contact us and our Volunteer and Petition Coordination committee
members.
3/3/2008
Get your tickets for our
March 7th (Friday) fundraiser dinner,
The Nebraska Tea Party,
today, and support our statewide effort to fight for independence
and local control throughout Nebraska!
Our Volunteer and
Petition Coordination Committee (VPC) is now organized, and it held
its first official meeting yesterday. By next week, it will become
our "point of contact" and organizing committee for all of our
circulators, volunteers, and events statewide. If you are interested
in serving on the committee, please
contact us for details.
We are now circulating in
11 counties statewide, and are continuing our expansion every day!
More information coming soon! A County map of Nebraska is now
available on our downloads
page.
2/27/2008
We are circulating
petitions statewide, and so far, signing places have been
established in Elkhorn, Gretna, Waterloo, and Valley. Please check
the petitions page for
details. We are also currently working to add locations in other
cities.
Among other updates, a
section for "specific questions" has been added to the
petitions page.
2/25/2008
Circulators - Please send your B&W petition forms back to Citizens for a
Free Nebraska if you still have them, and obtain updated copies immediately. Please
contact us
if you haven't received an email asking you to do so and explaining
why this is necessary.
2/18/2008
Two upcoming events
(Please click for more details):
Thursday, Feb 21 -
Informational / Organizing Event
Friday, Mar 7 -
"The
Nebraska Tea Party"
Fundraiser
Dinner
note: Our actual statutes, other materials, and updated information
will be uploaded to the website within the next few days.
11/14/2007
We had overwhelming
support at our
Elkhorn Citizens' Meeting! Thank you to all of those who
attended! The statutes are being finalized, and we hope to have the
petitions ready next week, but we'll let you know exactly when they
come in.
11/11/2007
FreeNebraska.net signs
have been posted in the subdivisions
of 4 cities
State-Wide
Implications letter uploaded to the website
11/10/2007
Flyers have been posted
in 13 of the "immediately endangered" cities. Our response from the
community has been tremendously supportive.
Support Citizens for a Free
Nebraska Online form
uploaded to the website
11/02/2007
Our first major
press
release has been sent out to every newspaper in the State of
Nebraska, and also to the metro-area's local television and radio
stations.
The website is still
under development, but there has been a significantly substantial
update.
10/31/2007
"An Elkhorn Citizens'
Meeting" Town Hall meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday,
November 14th at 7:00pm at the Elkhorn High School auditorium.
Meeting Location: 1401 Veterans Drive, Elkhorn NE 68022
Please check back continually for updated information.
Our website is still under construction. Thank
you.