Those independent minded citizens in Vermont have joined the West Coast Blue Staters in talking secession from the parts of the country that seem intent on returning to the 16th century.
The Green Mountain Manifesto
THE MIDDLEBURY DECLARATIONIt would appear that at least some in Vermont have rediscovered the principals on which this nation was founded. In the late 60s and early 70s they were called "hippies".
At a historic conference at the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont, forty small-is-beautiful decentralists met on November 5-7 to discuss options for planning for life after the collapse of the American Empire which they believe to be unsustainable, ungovernable, and unfixable. Sponsored by the Second Vermont Republic and The Fourth World, the conference attracted attendees from eleven states and England.
The conference was led by Human Scale author Kirkpatrick Sale, Emory University Philosophy Professor Donald Livingston, management consultant Robert Allio, former Duke Economics Professor Thomas H. Naylor, and University of Vermont Professor Frank Bryan.
The Second Vermont Republic is a peaceful, democratic, grassroots, libertarian populist movement committed to the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic. The Fourth World, which publishes The Fourth World Review, a periodical inspired by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, is committed to small nations, small communities, small farms, small shops, the human scale, and the inalienable sovereignty of the human spirit.
At the close of the meeting half of the participants including Kirkpatrick Sale, Donald Livingston, and Thomas H. Naylor signed The Middlebury Declaration which calls for the creation of a movement that will "place secession on the national agenda, encourage secessionist organizations, develop communication among existing and future secessionist groups, and create a body of scholarship to examine and promote the ideas and principles of secessionism."
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