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sorry that was me who posted...and another note of...

2005-12-19T11:43:00.000-08:00

sorry that was me who posted...

and another note of interest:
our next event in January is a joint presentation by Frank Bryan and John McClaughry authors of the Vermont Papers talking about how the SVR can develop a constituency for their devolution vision in Vermont.

this is hopefully leading up to our next fall convention that will be a mock shire moot/social forum/bio-regional congress...

some points of interest...did a presentation to ab...

2005-12-19T11:38:00.000-08:00

some points of interest...

did a presentation to about 30 greens, paleos and progressives in Maine this past weekend with the chair of the SVR board and Vermont Commons editor showing his "Independence Trilogy"...in the crowd via personal invitation by me was none other than John Rensenbrink the founder of the Association of State Green parties which became the Green Party of the US.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=972

I want to start reaching out to the Free State project in NH (I am a member) and the Green Party in Maine where the Greens '04 VP candidate Pat LaMarche is running for governor.

ultimately Vermont wants to confederate with NH, Maine and the Canadian Maritimes to form a new country called "New Acadia" about the size of Denmark but run under a system like the articles of confederation where power is devolved to local town meetings (face-to-face democracy) and then confederated via bio-regionally based "shire" (ward) republics.

for the economic devolution model we will be looking to the north where in the Province of Quebec alone, there are over 2,000 non-financial cooperatives with assets exceeding $2 billion (Canadian).

of course the catholic distributist Antigonish movement in Nova Scotia will be the inspiration...

http://www.commonfocus.org/roots/antigonish.shtml

I just wanted to add my Amen to the chorus!http://...

2005-12-16T08:42:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to add my Amen to the chorus!

http://www.ecodema.org

On a point of information, Vermont was actually a ...

2005-12-16T04:33:00.000-08:00

On a point of information, Vermont was actually a de facto principality of the constitutional monarchy sort under Ethan Allen, and he was trying to arrange a more formal protectorate system in association with the British in preference to acceding to the USA if he could not manage full independence long term. Think Monaco's connection to France, or San Marino's to Italy.

Yep, they're blueskins.- Josh

2005-12-16T02:56:00.000-08:00

Yep, they're blueskins.

- Josh

Larry, American Conservative has printed a lot of ...

2005-12-15T15:04:00.000-08:00

Larry,

American Conservative has printed a lot of anti-plutocratic stuff in the past (e.g., Kevin Phillips). I'm glad to see so many different subcurrents starting to jell together.

MDM,

Damn straight! Likewise, ecotopian Washington and gun-totin' Idaho.

I am so glad the American Conservative wrote such ...

2005-12-15T12:19:00.000-08:00

I am so glad the American Conservative wrote such a fine article on the Vermont independence movement, and that it was posted here as well. By the way, I met Thomas Naylor and not only is he a good libertarian populist, he is also a very fine person and a pleasure to talk to.

After secession, green Vermont and libertarian New...

2005-12-15T10:40:00.000-08:00

After secession, green Vermont and libertarian New Hampshire can align against Leviathan!