HOME   WHO WE ARE    IN ACTION    IN THE NEWS    GET INVOLVED    CONTACT The Freedom Players is part of an emerging citizen movement to stop exploitative gambling in America. Citizens came from across the country to join our first Freedom Player action held in Lynden, Washington in February 2008. The Freedom Players intend to spotlight the most blatant form of exploitative gambling - slot machines and video poker machines. Our action is simple but its implications are enormous. We enter the casino, sit down at the slot machines, put in our money - and don't push the 'play' button. We are simply playing the machines the way we want to play them. Apparently, it is not fast enough for the casino owners who consider it entertainment only when you're losing money, sharply contrasting the frantic, continuous play the design and technology of the machines are intended to induce. While we played the machines, some of us talked. Some knitted. Some read a book. All of us exercising our freedom to play these machines in such a way as to awaken the conscience of our country about exploitative gambling and our government's role in it. What The Freedom Players Aim to Achieve 1) Immediate Congressional action investigating the design, technology and marketing of gambling machines. 2) Immediate Congressional reform of the Indian Gaming Rights Act which has far exceeded the intent of the original legislation when it was passed twenty years ago. 3) Stop these exploitative machines from being the preferred method of our government to raise tax dollars to pay for public services.