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JOHN CURRAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS - 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 United States -- peacefully, of course. Disillusioned by
what they call an empire about to fall, a small cadre of writers and
academics is plotting political strategy and planting the seeds of
separatism.
They've published a "Green Mountain Manifesto" subtitled "Why and How
Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding from the
Union." They hope to put the question before citizens at Town Meeting
Day next March, eventually persuading the state Legislature to declare
independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
Whether it's likely is another question.
But the idea has found plenty of sympathetic ears in Vermont, a
left-leaning state that said yes to civil unions, no to slavery (before
any other) and last year elected a socialist to the U.S. Senate.
About 300 people turned out for a 2005 secession convention in the
Statehouse, and plans for a second one are in the works. A poll this
year by the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that
13 percent of those surveyed support secession, up from 8 percent a year
before.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/06/03/
in_vermont_nascent_secession_movement_gains_traction/
SECOND VERMONT REPUBLIC
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/
FREE VERMONT
http://www.freevermont.net
FIELD GUIDE TO DFVOLUTION
http://prorev.com/devolution.htm
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JOHN CURRAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS - 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 United States -- peacefully, of course. Disillusioned by
what they call an empire about to fall, a small cadre of writers and
academics is plotting political strategy and planting the seeds of
separatism.
They've published a "Green Mountain Manifesto" subtitled "Why and How
Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding from the
Union." They hope to put the question before citizens at Town Meeting
Day next March, eventually persuading the state Legislature to declare
independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
Whether it's likely is another question.
But the idea has found plenty of sympathetic ears in Vermont, a
left-leaning state that said yes to civil unions, no to slavery (before
any other) and last year elected a socialist to the U.S. Senate.
About 300 people turned out for a 2005 secession convention in the
Statehouse, and plans for a second one are in the works. A poll this
year by the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that
13 percent of those surveyed support secession, up from 8 percent a year
before.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/06/03/
in_vermont_nascent_secession_movement_gains_traction/
SECOND VERMONT REPUBLIC
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/
FREE VERMONT
http://www.freevermont.net
FIELD GUIDE TO DFVOLUTION
http://prorev.com/devolution.htm
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