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		<title>Americans Rediscover the Right of Self-Determination</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a hiatus of nearly 150 years following the Civil War, over a million Americans have recently rediscovered the word secession, one of the most toxic, politically incorrect words in American English.  Never mind the fact that our nation was actually born out of secession from England back in 1776. Since the re-election of Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eerie Silence of American Lawyers, Clergy, and Academics in Response to Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the height of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements back in the late 1960s, the political activism of three professional groups contributed significantly to the success of the two movements – lawyers, clergy, and academics.  Liberal attorneys challenged the constitutionality and legality of racial segregation as well as the Vietnam War.  Mainline Protestant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vermont COOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mission: The Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence COOP provides an organizational news model that is transparent and equitable, one that balances crowdsourcing of actions, access to leadership positions, and governance by an accountable decision-making body. The Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence COOP will enable contributors here in the Green Mountains and beyond to financially, intellectually and organizationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kairos Radical Imperative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kairos: A Greek word for a very special time fraught with decisive consequences for good or evil when momentous things are happening, new possibilities arise, more degrees of freedom emerge, and the opportunity to seize the moment appears.  A time for renewal and nonviolent action when the forces of light rise up against the forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and Nationhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I watched all the muscle flexing and prideful posturing of both candidates for President during the debates, a quote from one of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s sermons came to mind: &#8220;God’s victory means our defeat, our humiliation; it means God’s derision and wrath at all human pretension of might, at humans puffing themselves up and thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamaland: Vision Free, But Very Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How was it possible for President Barack Obama to have accomplished so little in four years and to have completely betrayed the liberal political base of the Democratic Party and yet still defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney?  An underfunded economic stimulus package and a flawed, unsustainable health care program were said to have been his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Years of SVR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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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 conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Vision of the Future for SVR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past nine years SVR has evolved beyond the stage of simply wanting to free Vermont from the clutches of an immoral, unsustainable, ungovernable, unfixable empire.  It now views itself in a much broader context. Vermont, like most small nations and most aspiring nations, finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the chaos of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Iran&#8217;s Geopolitical Model?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The demonization of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the White House, the State Department, Bibi Netanyahu, AIPAC, and the American media reminds me of the vilification of blacks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the American South by white racist politicians in the 1960s. According to the received wisdom to which most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Niche for the Moribund Non-Aligned Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Secretary-General of the fifty year old Non-Aligned Movement, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be in a unique position to inject new life into the moribund 120-member organization by positioning it to confront the American Empire and its principal apologists – Israel, England, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and NATO. The NAM was organized in 1961 [...]]]></description>
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