Secession Convention in Vermont Nov 4-5

The Middlebury Institute (Vermont) for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination came out of a November 2004 "radical consultation" of individuals in Middlebury, Vermont. The group put out the impressive Middlebury Declaration.
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One of the group's leading members, Kirkpatrick Sale, author of the book HUMAN SCALE, is Director of the Institute and is organizing a second meeting of a few dozen secession-oriented individuals the first weekend in November, 2006. (Needless to say, these aren't election-geared activists!)
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According to the Institute's page, in the last six months a dozen organized groups, another dozen potential groups, and a number of individual scholars, researchers, and journalists have shown interest in attending the conference. I haven't decided if I can make it to the convention.
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However, the popularity of my RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH GOVERNMENT t-shirt I sell at CafePress.Com the last couple months convinces me millions of people are ripe for an alternative to our obviously failed constitutional system.
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Of course, my main fear is that any secessionist movement will rapidly degenerate to just another movement of men with guns fighting other men with guns. So a nonviolent movement friendly to women's needs and views is very important to me. See my article Woman vs. the Nation State.
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Below is the leaflet I've been passing around at a lot of events to start building a local DC group -- especially one that can host a regional secession meeting in the spring in D.C.
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It is STILL the “right of the people to alter or abolish” government...
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The 1776 Declaration of Independence declared the above. The 1789 U.S. Constitution was written as an EXPERIMENT in REPRESENTATIVE and MAJORITY RULE democracy. After 217 years we can clearly see the EXPERIMENT has FAILED. Representative, majority rule democracy has become rule BY the SPECIAL INTERESTS and FOR the SPECIAL INTERESTS.
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Corporate and military-industrial lobbyists, professional lobbyists, government bureaucrat lobbyists, and even foreign governments and their supporters have a stranglehold on our political process, suppressing our rights and choices, stealing elections, looting taxpayers, destroying the economy, promoting terrorism and bringing us to the edge of nuclear Armageddon.
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Yes, it is time to greatly ALTER or even ABOLISH our governmental structure. While you are thinking about ALTERNATIVES...
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Check out SECESSION.NET - hoping soon to help create a worldwide Secession Network based on principles of: Right to Secede - Community-Based Secession - Libertarian/ Decentralist Political Processes - Nonviolent Secession and Institutions. Radical political decentralization–with secession as its bottom line strategy--is a movement whose time has come. Tens of millions of activists worldwide are committed to national, ethnic, religious and regional secessionist movements described variously as: self-determination, independence, autonomy, sub-national, micro-national, separatist, sovereignty, indigenous, homeland, Fourth World.
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Ideological movements promoting individual, community or regional rights to secession include: anarchist, libertarian, decentralist, devolutionist, cantonal, green, bioregional, "small is beautiful," communal, survivalist, pacifist and futurist.
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Secession.Net presents an alternative of self-determining, self-governing communities networking and confederating as necessary at the regional, continental and worldwide levels. And it promotes direct, consensus-oriented democracy - as well as libertarian contractual and trans-territorial - governance (or non-governance) alternatives.
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Read the Middlebury Declaration and you'll see similar sentiments.