James Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer and author from Buffalo, New York. He is the CEO of LibertyMovement.org, which promotes direct action strategies to achieve liberty. He is the author of 13 books and monographs, several peer-reviewed scholarly articles and several bar association reports.
He is an Associated Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and was a student of the founder of the modern liberty movement, Murray Rothbard.
His books include: Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids (2009), Direct Citizen Action (2010), Progressivism: A Primer (2014) and The Second Amendment Works (2020). His latest book is Exposing the Two Big Lies of the Gun Control Movement: Replacing Gun Control With Violence Control, published in 2024.
I founded Free New York, a hardcore libertarian policy group based in Buffalo, NY, in 2005. We made a big impact on local politics for several years and raised about $25,000. We had a brick-and-mortar office, garnered loads of publicity and published about 15-10 policy studies. We were not able to attract the big money that politics requires, so we ceased operations around 2010. That experience helped me develop the concept of direct citizen action in lieu of conventional politics which is rigged.
The problem isn't managing the LP's tiny budget, but developing new strategies and marketing that will grow the party and attract money people. Money people want to back ideas that are likely to win as opposed to those that have failed for decades. I would devote a portion of the budget to new direct action ideas such as SchoolExit and voting with your feet.
Only for long-term capital expenses that will grow the Party.
Taste of Freedom, Buffalo, Summer of 2005. A day-long libertarian festival in an abandoned railroad station in inner-city Buffalo. (Following up on two prior meets in the Northtown suburbs and Southtown suburbs.)
Food, merchants, political groups and candidates. 550 people paid ten dollars to attend. One of the largest fundraisers of its kind in Buffalo history, I'm sure.
In 2011, we held a rally for Ron Paul in Buffalo on two days notice that attracted about 700 people, caused a traffic jam and was covered by the entire local media and was on the front page of the Buffalo News.
In 2011, I was petition coordinator for Jack Davis for Congress. We got 12,000 signatures in just ten days to get on the ballot. I drove to Albany and filed the petitions personally.
I am considered one of the top election lawyers in New York State and have worked for independent Democrats, independent Republicans, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party and the Conservative Party. I won about ten cases in a row a few years back.
Just with Free NY, we had a primitive database with about 500 people that I used to send out updates.
I just run my own accounts on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. I produce a steady stream of hardcore libertarian content with modest traffic.
Most of my fundraising experience was raising money for drug legalization. I received a $75,000 grant from the Koch Brothers for a pilot project, produced a massive prospectus on how to end the drug war, but they chose not to fund the project. I was told it was because of complications from the Iraq War affecting the regulation of energy companies (fear of blowback).
For Free NY, we had over 500 people at a fundraiser for a hardcore libertarian org in heavily Democratic Buffalo, NY.
Not really.
I work well with others. I have run several organizations or committees that were more successful when I ran them than they were before or after. I have worked with several teams of attorneys, notoriously difficult people to work with, with minimal problems. I have worked on many political campaigns with no issues.
Please review my three resumes, legal, political and policy, in my 19-page memo on X and Facebook. I am I believe the most experienced political operative in the liberty movement. 56 years experience with six different parties. 13 books/monographs. Hundreds of articles and speeches, several peer-reviewed publications. 42 years experience as a trial and appellate lawyer, election lawyer, Second Amendment lawyer, police misconduct cases, have litigated 8 of the 10 Bill of Rights amendments.
I was president of Free New York, a policy group in Buffalo. We had a fundraiser that attracted over 500 people. I was Chair of the Erie County NY LP twice (one of the largest counties in NY). We were extremely active and were frequently in the media. I was vice-chair of the law reform committee, NY County Lawyers Association. We held the panel discussion and issued the report that jump-started the drug legalization movement in the late 1980s. I was chair of the human rights committee, Erie County Bar Association in the 1990s. We were extremely active, issued several reports and sponsored a tour of the Erie County Holding Center to highlight the horrible conditions in the facility. I was also a member of the NYLP State Committee.
One standard: did we increase American liberty? We need to end the virtue-signaling, virtue-spiraling, endless infighting and bickering.
We need entirely new strategies and marketing. Please see my 19-page memo on X and Facebook. We need a new marketing committee, a rapid response team, a new logo, an international strategy conference and a brick and mortar Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. We need to adopt direct citizen action as our primary strategy, while continuing to run candidates.
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