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	<title>Second Vermont Republic &#187; SVR &#8211; Historical Documents</title>
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	<description>Seeking Vermont Independence from the American Empire</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>Vermont Independence Network</title>
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		<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>Eight Years of SVR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:49:12 +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>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>The Second Vermont Republic Mission Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank committed to: (1) the peaceful breakup of meganations such as the United States, Russia, and China; (2) the political independence of breakaway states such as Quebec, Scotland, and Vermont; and (3) a strategic alliance with other small, democratic, nonviolent, affluent, socially responsible, cooperative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press:  In Vermont, Nascent Secession Movement Gains Traction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 3, 2007
MONTPELIER, Vt. – At Riverwalk Records, the all-vinyl record store just down the street from the state Capitol, the black “US Out of Vt.!” T-Shirts are among the hottest sellers.  But to some people in Vermont, the idea is bigger than a $20 novelty.  They want Vermont to secede from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support SVR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please help us save Vermont, America, and the rest of the world from the American Empire by helping tiny Vermont lead the nation into disunion.  If SVR is to move to the next level, electing members of the state legislature who are open secessionists, we need your financial support.  Those who contribute $100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Independence Convention 2008 Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont Independence Convention 2008: James Howard Kunstler &#8211; Part 1
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Vermont Independence Convention 2008: James Howard Kunstler &#8211; Part 2
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Vermont [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Secession Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the Lyrics the Song
Read the Essay about the Song
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		<title>Vermont Secession Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview on Iranian Press TV
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Glenn Beck: Torn in America
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		<title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/frequently-asked-questions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Second Vermont Republic?
The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank committed to the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791 and more broadly to the dissolution of the Union.
What is the primary objective of the movement? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Others Have Said About the Vermont Independence Movement</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/what-others-have-said-about-the-vermont-independence-movement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Tom Paine for the 21st century.  A surprisingly compelling argument for applying the small-is-beautiful philosophy to the United States itself.”
&#8211;Jay Walljasper
Editor of Ode magazine
“I must assure you of my pleasure in, and approval of. . . the Second Vermont Republic.   The assertion by Vermonters of a sensible foreign policy is wonderfully to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Manifesto</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughtful Vermonters, opposed to the tyranny of the United States government, corporate America, and globalization, believe that Vermont should once again become an independent republic as it was between 1777 and 1791.
First, we find it increasingly difficult to protect ourselves from the debilitating effects of big government, big business, big markets, and big agriculture, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Declaration of Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Declaration of Independence by the People of the
Sovereign State of Vermont
&#8220;When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Radical Imperative</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few Americans realize that Vermont is hands down the most radical state in the Union in terms of its commitment to human solidarity, sustainability, direct democracy, and political independence, and it’s been that way for a very long time. With its 237 or so annual town meetings, the Green Mountain state is by far the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middlebury Declaration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We the undersigned participants of Radical Consultation II held in Middlebury, Vermont on November 5-7, 2004, are convinced that the American Empire, now imposing its military might on 153 countries around the world, is as fragile as empires historically tend to be, and that it might well implode upon itself in the near future. Before [...]]]></description>
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