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	<description>Seeking Vermont Independence from the American Empire</description>
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		<title>Vermont Sí, Yankee No</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Why was anyone surprised that a federal judge recently ruled that the state of Vermont does not have the right to decide whether or not an aging, leaky, unsafe nuclear power plant operated by an out-of-state company with a record of lying and misrepresenting the truth should be allowed to continue operating in Vermont?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George F. Kennan: Godfather of the Vermont Independence Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the publication of John Lewis Gaddis’s new book George F. Kennan:  An American Life (Penguin Press, 2011), the name of the former dean of the American diplomatic corps is once again on the national radar screen.  When George F. Kennan died on March 17, 2005, at the age of 101, few Americans were aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Sanders Plays to the Occupy Wall Street Crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So taken by the Occupy Wall Street movement is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders that he has proposed a Constitutional amendment addressing two of the major concerns of many OWSers, corporate personhood and political campaign finance reform.  Sanders recently introduced &#8220;The Saving American Democracy Amendment&#8221; which would ban corporate personhood and political campaign contributions by corporations.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Priests of Technofascism   2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Benedict XVI  &#8211;   Pope
Ben S. Bernanke &#8211;  Federal Reserve Chrmn
Lloyd C. Blankfein  &#8211;  Goldman Sachs Chrmn
Hillary Clinton  &#8211;  Secretary of State
Rahm Emanuel  &#8211;   Mayor of Chicago
Bill Gates   &#8211;   Microsoft Founder
Stephen Harper  &#8211;  Canadian Prime Minister
Angela Merkel  &#8211;  German Chancellor
Rupert Murdoch   &#8211;  News Corporation Chrmn
Benjamin Netanyahu  &#8211;   Israeli Prime Minister
Grover Norquist   &#8211;   Americans for Tax Reform
Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Shumlin Threatens Academic Freedom at UVM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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On November 8th Governor Peter Shumlin launched a preemptive strike against academic freedom at UVM in a speech which he delivered on the UVM campus.  Without any justification whatsoever he arbitrarily announced that the strategic priorities of UVM should provide &#8220;greater focus on the sciences, engineering, technology, and mathematics.&#8221;
There is irony in Governor Shumlin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1994 Christian Children&#8217;s Fund Scandal: Precursor to the Penn State Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s connection to the university’s football related sex scandal was not his first brush with scandal involving a major organization under his watch.  In 1994, while he was Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Spanier was also Chairman of the Board of the Christian Children’s Fund, the largest child sponsorship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and Man (and Secession) at Yale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I team taught a course on corporate strategy back in 1980 at the Yale School of Management with economist Martin Shubik and former New York Times chief financial officer Leonard Forman, I never dreamed I would be invited back to Yale thirty years later to be the keynote speaker for a debate on, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independenistas Support Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement Occupy Vermont movements have sprung up in Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, Brattleboro, and several other Vermont towns since the movement began in New York City on September 17th.
The Burlington group holds Sunday afternoon rallies in City Hall Park followed by Church Street marches and demonstrations in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Network</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-network</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-network#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Vermont Republic – Think Tank and Citizens’ Network
Website www.VermontRepublic.org
Telephone 802-425-4133
Address P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT 05445
Vermont Commons – Award-winning Newspaper
Website www.vtcommons.org
Email  editor@vtcommons.org
Telephone 802-425-4133
Address P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT 05445
Vermont Independence Alliance – Grass Roots Organization
Website www.vtindependence.org
Email  carbonpenguin@yahoo.com
Radio Free Vermont – Vermont Music
Website www.RadioFreeVermont.org
E-Mail RadioFreeVermont@gmail.com
Telephone 802-748-3475
Address P.O. Box 28
E. St. Johnsbury, VT  05838
Middlebury Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Second Vermont Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years before I moved to Vermont, on October 9, 1990, the Bennington Banner published my article entitled “Should the U.S. Be Downsized?”  Four years later in Challenge (Nov.-Dec. 1994) I wrote “The time has come both for the individual states and the federal government to begin planning the rational downsizing of America.”  Continuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Years of SVR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVENTS
October  11, 2003 – SVR holds first statewide meeting at Bread &#38; Puppet Theater in Glover, VT.
June  19, 2004 – Parade in downtown Montpelier with Bread &#38; Puppet followed by State House rally attended by 350 people.  Vermont declares independence.
November  5-7, 2004 – SVR and the Fourth  World sponsor an international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Alliance</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-alliance</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-independence-alliance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Cropp
 
 
Over the course of last year’s political season, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet an enormous number of Vermonters who support our state’s political independence.  In my travels assisting Dennis Steele with his gubernatorial campaign, I came to find that such people come from all walks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Named One of the Top 10 Aspiring Nations by Time Magazine</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-named-one-of-the-top-10-aspiring-nations-by-time-magazine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Second Vermont Republic has been named by Time Magazine as one of the “Top 10 Aspiring Nations” in the world.  Other regions appearing on the list include Scotland, the Basque Country, Tibet, South Ossetia, Kurdistan, Quebec, Western Sahara, New Cascadia, and Padania.
Short descriptions of each of the ten aspiring nations can be found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vermont Patriot&#8217;s Pledge for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
 
 
 
As a Vermont patriot, I hereby pledge to work tirelessly to (1) bring home the Vermont National Guard troops; (2) stop all of the immoral, illegal wars in which the United States is engaged including those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America; (3) end the highly racist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition for a Free and Independent Vermont</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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Whereas the State of Vermont was constituted as an independent republic by the adoption of its Constitution on July 8, 1777, and remained such until it joined the United States in 1791,
Chapter I, Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Vermont affirms:
That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Public Radio: The Voice of the American Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Hardly a week goes by in which neither Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, nor Peter Welch appears on Vermont Public Radio’s noonday program known as “Vermont Edition.”  The widely listened to news interview show is replayed each evening at seven o’clock.
As the leading Vermont spokespersons for the American Empire, it is important that their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Secessionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_secessionists_20100426/
Posted on Apr 26, 2010
By Chris Hedges
Acts of rebellion which promote moral and political change must  be nonviolent. And one of the most potent nonviolent alternatives in the  country, which defies the corporate state and calls for an end to  imperial wars, is the secessionist movement bubbling up in some two  dozen states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Secessionist Music from Dubnotix</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secessionist MP3
Totalitarian Democracy MP3
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		<title>Breaking Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories and Photos by Peter Miller, as published in Vermont Magazine
Breaking Away (pdf)
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		<title>Independent Music and Independent Vermont Go Hand in Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.7dvt.com/2010free-last
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		<title>Announcing the Once and Future Vermont Republic&#8217;s New Silver Token</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What might the medium of exchange of a free and independent Vermont look like?  Just like the recently minted Second Vermont Republic’s Scott Nearing 50 Clover Silver Token.
Who in the world was Scott Nearing?  Scott and Helen Nearing were political activists who lived in Jamaica, Vermont between 1932 and 1952 and embraced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secession Movement Spreads Well Beyond Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted Saturday, Sep. 19, 2009
&#60;strong&#62;Star-Telegram&#60;/strong&#62;
Fort Worth, TX
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com
AUSTIN — As head of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Daniel Miller of Nederland believes it’s time for the Lone Star State to sever its bond with the United States and return to the days when Texas was an independent republic.
&#8220;Independence. In our lifetime,&#8221; Miller’s organization proclaims on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SVR Supporting Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support the work of the Second Vermont Republic by becoming a supporting member.  The following levels of membership are available:
Scott &#38; Helen Nearing Community   $1,000
Green Mountain Club     $500
Vermont Patriot     $100
Student    $20
Send your check to:
Second Vermont Republic
P.O. Box 544
Charlotte, VT  05445
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		<title>How Is America Going To End? Who&#8217;s most likely to secede? By Josh Levin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate.com article by Josh Levin August 5th, 2009
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		<title>&#8220;Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire&#8221; by Bill Kaufman, appearing in Orion magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
Or, the sweet smell of secession
by Bill Kauffman
Published in the July/August 2007 issue of Orion magazine
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/issue/300
In the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, frustrated liberals talked secession back to within hailing distance of the margins of national debate—a place it had not occupied since 1861. With their praise of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Devoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Antoine Robitaille
Le Devoir
POLITIQUE, lundi 6 juin 2005, p. A4
Des indépendantistes vermontois dans les montagnes russes du PQ
Robitaille, Antoine
Il n&#8217;y a pas que les participants au congrès qui ont été sonnés par la démission de Bernard Landry, samedi soir. Ce fut le cas d&#8217;observateurs étrangers présents au congrès, dont deux membres d&#8217;un groupe prÃ´nant
l&#8217;indépendance du [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salon.com: Long Live Secession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Long Live Secession&#8221;
By Christopher Ketcham
Jan. 20, 2005 &#124; The idea of an American right of secession &#8212; a state&#8217;s right to abandon the union &#8212; today invites a veritable cyclone of scorn and bafflement. Secessionism, you will be told, is immoral, treasonous, seditious, the failed machination of slave-holding Southerners whose nutty dream died in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Conservative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 19, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative
Free Vermont
Green Mountain boys ponder secession.
By Bill Kauffman
Organizers billed the Vermont Independence Convention of Oct. 28 as “the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861.” North Carolina, the final state to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times: A Vision of a Nation</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-new-york-times-a-vision-of-a-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER APPLEBOME
Published: October 18, 2007
OUR TOWNS
A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S.
Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times
Kirkpatrick Sale is at home in Cold Spring, N.Y. He is the director of the Middlebury Institute, dedicated to secessionist issues. 
If any New Yorker were to become the theoretician for a new secessionist movement, it figured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Washington Post &#8211; April 1, 2007   &#8220;The Once and Future Republic of Vermont&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan
BURLINGTON, Vt.
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utne Magazine</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/utne-magazine</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/utne-magazine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jay Walljasper 
How to be an Expat Without Leaving Home
An independence movement arises in Vermont
January / February 2004
By Jay Walljasper,
Utne magazine
American history, mathematically speaking, has been a story of constant addition. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, there were 13 colonies wanting to break free of British domination. They eventually teamed up, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont and the Second Republic in Berlin paper on August 17, 2007</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-and-the-second-republic-in-berlin-paper-on-august-17-2007#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Dr. Christoph von Marschall

Here is the link to the website:

Der Tagesspiegel:  www.tagesspiegel.de

They even put the fairy tale picture of a house in between green hills and blue sky, which was the illustration in the print version on the first page of culture and art section, on the internet. So you have an imagination, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Mas Lejos de la Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: LA VANGUARDIA
Barcelona, Spain
August 20, 2007
Attachment 
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		<title>Free Vermont Radio</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-radio</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/free-vermont-radio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to buying locally and supporting Vermont made goods and services, fifth generation Vermonter Dennis Steele truly puts his money where his mouth is.  The Kirby businessman and Vermont Patriot has just launched a new Internet radio station, Free Vermont Radio, entirely devoted to promoting Vermont musicians and their music worldwide.
The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overinstitutionalization in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An institution is a self-perpetuating social organization created to achieve a specific purpose, which enables its founders and their allies to maintain power and control over other members through a set of formal rules and regulations.  Overinstitutionalization has overwhelmed America and resulted in a loss of community; economic, political, and social chaos; as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington on Entangling Alliances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.  Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Madison on War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded…. In war…the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people…. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Praise for the Vermont Independence Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas J. DiLorenzo
“Citizens of every state should learn about the Second Vermont Republic which, for several years now, has been laying the groundwork for Vermont to secede and once again become a free and independent republic, just as all the states thought of themselves as being prior to 1865.”
&#8220;The Rush Towards Socialism –
and How To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker Article Features SVR Convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic’s November 7th Vermont Independence Convention was featured in Ben McGrath’s piece entitled “The Dystopians” which appeared in the January 26, 2009, issue of The New Yorker.  McGrath’s cogent article on contemporary doomsayers and the current economic meltdown includes interviews with Russian writer Dmitry Orlov (Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bread &amp; Puppet Livens Gathering of Pro-Secession Advocates at Statehouse</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/bread-puppet-livens-gathering-of-pro-secession-advocates-at-statehouse#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY SALLY POLLAK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • NOVEMBER 16, 2008 
MONTPELIER &#8212; A little levity, courtesy of the Bread and Puppet Theater, filled the Statehouse on Nov. 7. 
Just in time. 
After a morning in which speakers bemoaned the state of the U.S. &#8212; and suggested that seceding from the union is Vermont&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights of the Vermont Independence Convention</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/highlights-of-the-vermont-independence-convention#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 200 people visited the House Chamber of the Vermont State House on November 7 for a festive event sponsored by the Second Vermont Republic.  The Vermont Independence Convention took the form of an all-day forum, circus, and medicine show entitled “The Vermont Village Green: Alternative to Empire.”  It consisted of a potpourri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Secession Book Release</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title:  	Secession: How Vermont and all the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire
Author:  	Thomas H. Naylor
Dedication:  	George F. Kennan
Foreword:  	Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher:  	Feral House, 1240 Sims Way, Box 134, Port Townsend, WA  98368
Ordering:	info@feralhouse.com, amazon.com, or your local bookstore.
Price:			$12.00 (117 pages)
Summary:
The headline of an Associated Press release dated 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techno-Fascism Poster</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/techno-fascism-poster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Bovinestas Poster</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/bovinestas-poster-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Untied States of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  New Acadia – Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (and possibly four Atlantic provinces of Canada)
2.  New England – Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
3.  Upstate New York
4.  New York City
5.  Pennsylvania Republic – Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
6.  New Republic - District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
7.  New [...]]]></description>
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