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Vermont Commons is a print journal and online forum for exploring the idea of Vermont independence – political, economic, social, and spiritual. We welcome your letters, thoughts, and participation.

Issue 37 - Autumn 2010

FALL 2010 ELECTIONS FEATURE: Meet Vermont's 2010 Independence Candidates for Statewide Office

The statements and summaries below were provided by the candidates themselves, and are characteristically diverse in their presentations. Some were edited and condensed for space considerations, while the shorter submissions are printed virtually as received. They are listed alphabetically. These statements do not necessarily represent all of the “independence” candidates who will be running in 2010, but only those who responded to Vermont Commons’ invitation to participate in this feature.

GAELAN BROWN

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FALL 2010 ELECTIONS FEATURE (Part 1): In 2010, Voices of Independence Emerge In Vermont Politics (Will Lindner)

Depending on people’s various perspectives, this was either a long time coming or a burst, unexpected and almost precipitous, of commitment put into action – commitment to the principle that Vermonters have principles, that they needn’t and shouldn’t continue to allow those principles to be subsumed by something gargantuan: a corporately and militarily dominated global empire.

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Issue 36 - Summer 2010

MOST LIKELY TO SECEDE: Independence / Secession Day Photo - "Greennecks for Secession."

Ian Baldwin: EDITORIAL: The Not-So-Dire Implications Of Collapse

Thomas Naylor: FEATURE: Imagine Free Vermont, The Switzerland of North America

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Summer 2010 Print Edition

Gary Flomenhoft: BEATING WALL STREET: How To Recover Vermont’s Monetary Commons

Ben Hewitt: THE GREENNECK: Reckoning with Deepwater Horizon’s “Junk Shot”

Ben Falk: HOMESTEAD SECURITY: Forget Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Economic Collapse for a Moment—It’s the Chemicals...

Carl Etnier: TRANSITION TIMES: Vermont On Track To Be First Transition State

Rob Williams: VERMONT VOX POP: The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living - An Interview with Chelsea Green's Margo Baldwin

Robin McDermott: LOCALVORE LIVING: Maintaining the Balance — Old World Ways vs. Modern Technology

Gaelan Brown: AN ENERGY OPTIMIST: Having A FIT For Energy Independence

Jonathan Stevens: SECESSION BRIEFS: Nullification

Jim Hogue: FREE VERMONT MEDIA: Mixed Nuts - Aren't We All? (Or, "In the name of Vermont we defy the world!")

Rob Williams: GREEN MOUNTAIN MUSIC: Nocturnals Emission - Grace Potter's Sexy New CD

Issue 35 - Spring 2010

THE CELLULOID SECESSIONIST: Robin, Good - Hoods in the Woods

THE CELLULOID SECESSIONIST: Iron Man, Part Duh – How NOT To Make A Summer Action Sequel (Film Review)

Elliot Wilkinson-Ray: Scratching the Surface - Why Vermont Must Collect Rent On Publicly Owned Surface Water (FEATURE)

Vermont Commons Contributors (Spring - May/June - 2010)

SPRING 2010 EDITORIAL: The Buck Slows Here - Slow Me The Money, Vermont! (Woody Tasch)

T. Keith Preston: Secession, Not Aggression - Why Progressives And Liberals Should Consider Vermont Independence (FEATURE)

Ian Baldwin: FREE VERMONT MEDIA: The Way of All Empires -The U.S. On The Eve of Peak Oil

Letters to the Editor: Spring 2010 (F16s in Burlington; Free Market Madness?; Do Away with the Federal Dairy Program...)

Ben Falk: HOMESTEAD SECURITY - When the Ecofads Fade, Ditch the Carbon Footprint Calculator and Pick up a Shovel

Robin McDermott: LOCALVORE LIVING - Can Vermont Have Too Many Farmers?

Gaelan Brown: ENERGY OPTIMIST - Vermont’s Energy Future and The Role for Solar Power

THE GREENNECK: Spring Musings

Alexandra Murphy: Vermont’s Town Forest Health Check - Harvesting Wood, Promoting the Commons, Ensuring Sustainability (FEATURE)

Jonathan Stevens: SECESSION BRIEFS - For Independence, The Court Stops Short

VERMONT VOX POP: “On Call” For Collapse - Carolyn Baker Interviews Hancock, Vermont’s Kathleen Byrne

Carl Etnier: TRANSITION TIMES - Planning for the Long Emergency

Kirkpatrick Sale: DISPERSIONS - Secession: Much Ado About Something

Issue 34 - Mud Season 2010

EDITORIAL: Seven For The Senate...And Counting. (Dennis Morrisseau)

Chellis Glendinning: SEXession - Where Are the Women? (FEATURE)

Gary Flomenhoft: Vermont’s Message in a Bottle - Bottling Groundwater Rent for Public Revenue (FEATURE)

Letters to the Editor: MUD SEASON 2010 (Vermont, Taxes, Yankee, and More...)

Sucosh Norton: ENVY’able Alternatives - Electrifying A 21st Century Vermont Without Re-licensing Yankee (FEATURE)

Carl Etnier: TRANSITION TIMES - Village-building Convergence Brings Transition Town Back to Its Roots

Anne Galloway (Vt.Digger): Behind Bars, For Profit - Should Vermont Continue To Privatize Our Prisons?

THE GREENNECK: Disconnection Meditation

Ben Falk: HOMESTEAD SECURITY - Adaptive Design for Climate (and other) Changes

Will Lindner: CROSSLOTS - Little House in South Burlington

Thomas Naylor: VERMONT LIBRE - 350.Org / Copenhagen or Bust

Kirkpatrick Sale: DISPERSIONS - Secession Is In The Air

MUD SEASON 2010: Singing to Keep the Earth in Business - 1% for the Planet's Sonic Collection (MUSIC REVIEW)

Issue 33 - Winter 2010

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MUD SEASON 2010: "Book Of Eli" (FILM REVIEW)

WINTER '10 WEB EXCLUSIVE: "Avatar's" Anti-Imperial Vision - Film Review (Rob Williams)

WINTER '10 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Project Censored 2010 - Book Review (Stephen Lendman)

WINTER '10 WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Collapse'nik Speaks - Resources For Our Times (Rod Carmosino)

Gary Flomenhoft: Vermont's Common Assets: From Banana Republic to Sovereign Commonwealth (FEATURE)

Adrian Kuzminski: Vermont's Pathway Toward Economic Independence, Part II (FEATURE)

WINTER '10 EDITORIAL: January 15 - Vermont Independence Day. Be There. (Ian Baldwin, Publisher Emeritus)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: An Independent Candidate, For Actual Independence

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Entergy Tries Another Wall Street Shell Game

Frank Bryan: Vermont’s Genetic Code - Toward a Decentralist Manifesto (FEATURE)

Robin McDermott: Localvore Living - Fermenting Independence: An Ancient Food-Preservation Technique Makes a Vermont Comeback

Carl Etnier: Transition Times - Indiana Transition Plan Sets Bar For Vermont Efforts

Combating Climate Change Through Commercial Collaboration - An Interview With 1% For The Planet (VERMONT VOX POP)

Gaelan Brown: Energy Optimist - Energy Crisis, Energy Opportunities

The Greenneck: Vermont In Winter

Carolyn Baker: Collapse, The Movie; Staring Down the Barrel of the 21st Century (FREE VERMONT MEDIA)

Ben Falk: Homestead Security -Protecting and Making Soil – Three Strategies for All Scales (Soil to Oil and Back Again, Part 3)

Kirkpatrick Sale: Dispersions - Why No Uprising Yet?

FREE VERMONT DANCE PARTY! "Spirit of '77" - Saturday, January 9, 2010!

Issue 32 - Stick Season/Holidays 2009

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BOOK REVIEW: Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (HOLIDAYS 2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE - Rob Williams)

EDITORIAL: Beyond Barack's Bamboozling - As Obamamania Fizzles, Vermonters Take A Fresh Look At Independence

Ron Miller: Secession, Vermont Style - The Green Mountains and Dixie: Contrasting Voices For Independence (FEATURE)

Adrian Kuzminski: How Vermont Can Abolish Usury And Promote A Sustainable Economy (FEATURE - Part 1 of 2 Parts)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Imagining Vermont? (Kirby, Vermont)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A Moribund Constitution (Charlotte, Vermont)

Ralph Meima: Local, Diverse, And Equitable - Why Vermont’s Future Needs Robust Bioenergy Capacity (FEATURE)

“If You Don’t Go Out And Try To Change Things..." - Interview with Charlotte Dennett by Kayleigh Blanchette (VERMONT VOX POPULI)

The Greenneck: When The Doing Is Its Own Reward

Robin McDermott: Local Bread Breakthrough For This Fall’s “Localvore Challenge” (LOCALVORE LIVING column)

Thomas Greco’s “The End of Money and the Future of Civilization” - A Book Review by Richard C. Cook (FREE VERMONT MEDIA)

Thomas Naylor: The National Healthcare “Debate” - Greed, Fear of Death, and a Vermont Alternative? (FEATURE)

Carl Etnier: Transition Town Tool Kits (TRANSITION TIMES Column)

Jim Hogue: Bursting Our Bubbles II, Or Topsy-Turvy (FEATURE)

Ben Falk: Homestead Security-Harvesting Value from Your Leach Field (Soil To Oil and Back Again, 2) (HOMESTEAD SECURITY Column)

Kirkpatrick Sale: Dispersions: How to Get an Independent Vermont, Starting NOW (DISPERSIONS column)

Visionary Vermont: People Powering 21st Century Solutions (HOLIDAYS 2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE-Johanna Miller)

Climate Change and Copenhagen 2009: A Vermont's Eye View (HOLIDAYS 2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE - Alexis Lathem)

Michael Moore's Failed "Capitalism: A Love Story" (HOLIDAYS 2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE - Rob Williams)

"Twitter Me This!" December 3 WEB 2.0 Workshop/TWEET UP in BURLINGTON! - Come Join Us!

Issue 31 - Autumn 2009

Autumn 2009: Issue Contributors

EDITORIAL: The "Great Reskilling"-Inventing a 21st Century Vermont

Harold Thomas: Beyond Red and Blue-The State Sovereignty Movement Ignites A “Wildfire Across America” (PAGE ONE)

Autumn 2009 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Let's Party!; The Circus as Model Commune, and More...

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Rebuilding Place-On The Value And Tradition Of Vermont’s Independent Country Stores

Jared Carter: Vermont and Cuba-An Unlikely And Unique Relationship (FEATURE)

Marc Estrin: SKULK-ing About 9/11 (FREE VERMONT MEDIA)

The Greenneck: On Rain, Pain, and Gaming The System

INTERVIEW: Beyond Facebook-Building An Electronic Front Porch, With Burlington’s Michael Wood-Lewis (VERMONT VOX POPULI)

Ben Falk: Soil To Oil And Back Again-Rapid Topsoil Formation In The Solar Age, Part 1 (HOMESTEAD SECURITY)

Ron Miller: “Race to the Top” – Or “Something Closer to the Heart”? (EDUCATION BY DESIGN)

Carl Etnier: Keeping Current With The Whys And Ways Of Transition (TRANSITION TIMES)

Thomas Naylor: Wanted - Vermont Patriots To Run For the State House (VERMONT LIBRE)

Kirkpatrick Sale: Don’t Tread on Me – The State Sovereignty Movement (DISPERSIONS)

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Autumn '09 Web Exclusive: Tyler Wilkinson-Ray on the Vermont Commons Summer '09 Festival Tour (CLARION CALL)

Autumn '09 Web Exclusive: Carolyn Baker on the Transition Town Movement-As Vermont As Maple Syrup (PERSONAL ESSAY)

Autumn '09 Web Exclusive: Dick Mills Asks Some Hard Questions for Secessionists (CRITICISM)

Autumn '09 Web Exclusive: David White on Loving Frank Lloyd Wright (BOOK REVIEW)

Autumn '09 Web Exclusive: "Inter States"-A Story about Vermont's & America's Future (NOVEL IDEA)

Issue 30 - Summer 2009

GOOD CAUSES: Congress Objects to CIA Lies But Not Torture and Murder?

SUMMER '09 EDITORIAL: Minting New Vermont Patriots (Rick Foley)

SUMMER '09 BOOK REVIEW: Woden Teachout's Capture The Flag - A Political History of American Patriotism (Rob Williams)

Keith Brunner: Leaving The Empire - In Defense Of Vermont Independence (PAGE ONE)

Bill Morancy: Leaving The Big Top - What Circus Smirkus Teaches Us About Secession (FEATURE)

Carl Etnier: Transition Times - White River Junction Makes Change Fun (TRANSITION TOWNS column)

Adrian Kuzminski: Vermont - The First Populist Republic (FEATURE)

Robin McDermott: Good-Bye to Rural Vermont’s Exceptional Leader, Amy Shollenberger (LOCALVORE LIVING column)

VERMONT VOX POPULI: Carolyn Baker "Crosses the Rubicon" With Author Michael Ruppert (INTERVIEW)

Tyler Wilkinson-Ray: What Are Young Vermont Farmers Reading This Summer? (FREE VERMONT MEDIA column)

Ron Miller: A Holistic Perspective on Education (EDUCATION BY DESIGN column)

Ben Falk: Homestead Security: Post-Oil Land Use, And The “Other” 90 Percent of Vermont’s Landscape (HOMESTEAD SECURITY column)

The Greenneck: On Concussions, Motorcycles, and Responsibilities (GN column)

Frank Joseph Smecker: Crafting a New Praxis - The Art of Excoriating Technology For the Sake of the Natural (FEATURE)

CALLING ALL VERMONT MUSICIANS: "Free Vermont Radio" Is Now Launched!

Thomas Naylor: Vermont Patriots - Alternative To Empire (VERMONT LIBRE column)

Kirpatrick Sale: Is Secession Talk a Sign of a Human-Scale Alternative? (DISPERSIONS Column)

SUMMER '09 BOOK REVIEW: Rowan Jacobsen's Fruitless Fall-The Collapse of The Honey Bee... (John Maclean)

Issue 29 - Spring 2009

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EDITORIAL: No Stopping, No Standing

Amy Shollenberger: What Will You Eat If Vermont Secedes? (FEATURE)

Robin McDermott: With Food Safety Regulations, One Size Does Not Fit All (LOCALVORE LIVING Column)

Chellis Glendinning: Secession Is In Our Bones

Ron Miller: Collapse and Transformation (FREE VERMONT MEDIA Column)

Carl Etnier: How Fast Can We Inspire Each Other for the Great Re-skilling? (TRANSITION TIMES Column)

Lisa Nash: Building Inner Resilience for “The Long Emergency”

Reawakening To Our Herbal Environment: An Interview With Annie McCleary (VERMONT VOX POPULI Column)

Ben Falk: Cultivating Sustainability (HOMESTEAD SECURITY Column)

The Greenneck: Gratitude Amidst the Frenzy

Joanna Dillon and Monica Kimball: Spending Time - A New Approach (Time Banking in Vermont)

Ron Miller: Separation of School and (Corporate) State (EDUCATION BY DESIGN column)

Kirkpatrick Sale: Obama and Co. Really Messed Up (DISPERSIONS column)

FILMING VERMONT'S FUTURE: "Green Blooded - Vermonters at a Crossroad" (Announcement)

SPRING '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: On the Importance of the "Local" (Suzanne Richman)

SPRING '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Films Showcase "Traditional" Vermont (Bill Doyle)

SPRING '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Lower Taxes In An Independent Vermont - Critique and Response (Letters)

CHALLENGING THE BANKSTERS: Vermont Bank Strike! (Matthew Cropp)

Issue 28 - Mud Season 2009

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MUD SEASON EDITORIAL: No Apologies - Retooling Vermont For Revolutionary Times

Hans Ohanian: Tax Time - Why Vermonters In An Independent Republic Would Pay Lower Taxes

Free Vermont Media: Woody Tasch - Economics vs. History (Or, Planet Finance vs. Planet Earth)

VT Vox Populi: Carolyn Fox Interviews Amy Kirschner-Humanizing and Relocalizing Commerce, with the Vermont Sustainable Exchange

H.D. Thoreau: Defunding Empire - Join S.E.C.E.D.E.

Robin McDermott: Localvore Living - A Solution to Plummeting Milk Prices

Ron Miller: Education By Design - Decentralizing Educational Authority

Carl Etnier: Transition Times - Making It Up As We Go Along

Ben Falk: Homestead Security - Re-Skilling and Re-Tooling For Transition Times Ahead

Jim Hogue: Bursting Our Bubbles - The Theft of Our Common Wealth, the Collapse of the United States

Lauren Glenn-Davitian: Ignite Democracy - Take Charge of Your Communications Future

The Greenneck: A Careful Consideration of the U.S. Economic Crisis

MUD SEASON WEB EXCLUSIVE: State Sovereignty - An Interview With N.H. HCR6 Sponsor Daniel Itse

MUD SEASON WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vermont - The First Populist Republic (History)

MUD SEASON WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vermont In Transition (Interview)

NOVEL IDEA - "Inter States - A Prospective Novel of 2040" - Installment 2

Issue 27 - Winter 2009

THE NEW YORKER: Vermont Independence and the "Dystopians"

Ian Baldwin: For Me, Vermont! Why I Support A Second Vermont Republic

Free Vermont Media: Carolyn Baker Reviews Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine - The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism

Robin McDermott: Peasant Secrets to Eating Like a Pharaoh (Or, A Localvore’s Tale of Eating High on the Hog For a Few Bucks a Me

Meg Klepack: Grow it Here! Gathering the Local Food Movement at NOFA Vermont’s Winter 2009 Conference

Ron Miller: Education By Design - Toward Educational Freedom

Rick Foley: Vermont’s Energy Future, The Choice is Ours - The Global Nuclear Industry Versus The Green New Deal, Vermont Style

Ben Falk: Homestead Security -Wood Heat, Drying It

Movements Within Movements: Seeding Our Vermont Food Movement by Cheryl King Fischer

Vermont Vox Pop: "Secessionist Sensibilities" - Alyssa Jean Findlay Interviews UVM Political Scientist Frank Bryan

Transition Times: Transition Towns Generate Enthusiasm by Carl Etnier

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WINTER '09 EDITORIAL: Vermont Independence - Yes We Can!

WINTER '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals live at Higher Ground (Rob Williams)

NOVEL IDEA: "Inter States" - Scenario novel takes on Vermont's and America's future in 2040

WINTER '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Manchester Convention - Keynote and Declaration (Kirkpatrick Sale)

WINTER '09 WEB EXCLUSIVE: The "Replace Vermont Yankee" 2009 Town Meeting Initiative (Dan DeWalt)

Issue 26 - Stick Season 2008

The "Replace Vermont Yankee" 2009 Town Meeting Initiative (Dan DeWalt)

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EDITORIAL: V for Vermont - Vanishing the U.S. Empire, Visualizing the Vermont Republic

Chris Martenson: The U.S. Government’s Bankster Bailout - The Greatest Looting Observation In History

Christopher Ketcham: America's Secession Streak In Fine Fettle

Gary Beckwith: Electile Dysfunction? Vermont’s Vulnerable Election System

Gaelan Brown Interviews Sun Systems' Marc DiMario: Sun Is Number One, and Wood Is Good (Energy Solutions for a 21st C. Vermont)

Amy Kirschner: Sense Beyond The Dollar - A Primer On Local Currencies

Robin McDermott: What The Tomatoes Tell Us About Growing Locally

Thomas Naylor: If At First You Don’t Secede: Or – Why Secession Is Still a Tough Sell in Vermont And Beyond (Part 2)

Bill McKibben: Secession (Book Review)

The Greenneck: Musings on the Meltdown

Kirkpatrick Sale: Push-Pull - The Third North American Secession Convention

Issue 25 - Fall 2008

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Editorial by publisher Ian Baldwin: On Becoming Sovereign – Not ‘More’ Sovereign

Exponential Money in a Finite World (Part 1) by Chris Martenson

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Secession, Nuclear Power, History): Fall 2008 Issue

The Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative by Ron Miller

The Case for Local Wheat and Bread in Vermont by Eric Andrus

Localvore Living by Robin McDermott: How to Isolate Vermont from Skyrocketing Food Costs

Free Vermont Media by George Lisi: Transition Towns - Using our Heads, Hearts, and Hands in a Post-Peak Oil Vermont

The Greenneck: Splitting Firewood - Musings on Survival in a 21st Century Vermont

"Dispersions" by Kirkpatrick Sale: Sixty-Eight Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong

Middlebury Institute/Zogby Poll: One in Five Americans Believe States Have the Right to Secede

FALL '08 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Why I Will Not Vote For a President in 2008 (Carolyn Baker)

FALL '08 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vermont Gubernatorial Debate 2008

Issue 24 - Summer 2008

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EDITORIAL: Beyond Our Independence Daze: Secession, Common Sense, and “the Spirit of 1777” (Rob Williams, Editor)

Donald Livingston: Scale And Violence, And An UNtied States - Secession and the Third American Revolution

Letter to the Editor: Lorna Salzman - Rare Pre-Conditions for Secession

Ron Miller: An Interview With Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Gaye Symington

The Middlebury Institute: Secession - Not Just A Thing of the Past (Interview conducted by Kelly Janis)

Vermont Vox Pop: Shout It Out! An Interview with Filmmaker Bess O'Brien

John McClaughry: Free Vermont Media - Beyond Left and Right, An Introduction to Decentralism

The Greenneck: What Independence Day?

Jeff Bickart: LocalWear - Clothing the Human Experience

Robin McDermott: Localvore Living - Waste Not, Want Not

Kirkpatrick Sale: Distributism - Beyond Capitalism and Socialism

SUMMER '08 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hiking Vermont's Long Trail...Barefoot.

SUMMER '08 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Scotland Secession Reflections by Theo Talcott

SUMMER '08 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Compass School Senior Projects-Finding One's Place in the World

Issue 23 - Spring 2008

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KEEP IT IN VERMONT: HOW A $150 MILLION FEDERAL WINDFALL MIGHT STIMULATE THE VERMONT ECONOMY by Robin McDermott and Rob Williams

AN INTERVIEW WITH GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ANTHONY POLLINA (P) conducted by Ron Miller

THE MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE: If Kosovo, Why Not Vermont? by Kirkpatrick Sale

FREE VERMONT MEDIA: "The Shell Game" and Other Of Empire's Errata by Jim Hogue

LOCALVORE LIVING: In the Face of "Agflation," Grow Your Own Food! by Robin McDermott

LOCALWEAR: "CLOTHING" THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE by Jeff Bickart (Part 1)

EDITORIAL: Time To Cast Off And Dream Anew by Publisher Ian Baldwin

VOX POP INTERVIEW: Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design, Inc.

STIMULATING SHOPPING IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS by The Greenneck

THE OBAMA EFFECT by Thomas Naylor

DISPERSIONS: "You Know Your Empire Is Collapsing When" by Kirkpatrick Sale

JUNE WEB EXCLUSIVE: On Racism, Tolerance, and Secession-Editor Rob Williams talks with the Southern Poverty Law Center

JUNE WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tom Young on Nurturing School-Community Agriculture

Issue 22 - Mud Season 2008

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KEEP IT IN VERMONT! (Vermonters, Join Us Today!)

TRUTH TO POWER: WORLD MADE BY HAND, NOT JUST ANOTHER BOOK REVIEW

EDITORIAL: Our Mission - Imagining an Independent Vermont

Carl Etnier and Annie Dunn Watson: Powering Vermont’s Future By Embracing the Peak Oil Challenge

Peter Barnes and Gary Flomenhoft: Reclaiming Vermont's Commons - State Senate Could Create a Common Assets Trust

Johanna Miller: Who Owns Vermont’s Water? Exploring a Vital Part of Vermont's Commons

Jane Dwinell: A Health Care System for the New Vermont

VERMONT VOX POP: Why We Fight - An Interview with Vermont Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki on the 5th Anniversary of the U.S./Iraq War

"Secession and Sanity": Bruce Levine Interviews Kirkpatrick Sale

FREE VERMONT MEDIA: Carolyn Baker - Free Vermont, Free Your Mind

The Greenneck: Stop Buying Crap (Musings on the “Green Awakening”)

Kirkpatrick Sale - You Know Your Empire Is Collapsing When...

"MUD SEASON '08" WEB ACTION: "S.E.C.E.D.E. - Defunding Empire" by Gary Flomenhoft

"MUD SEASON 'O8" WEB EDITORIAL: "Chicken Little and School Test Scores" by William Mathis

"MUD SEASON '08" BOOK REVIEW: "Brewing Trouble" by Benjamin Dangl

Issue 21 - Winter 2008

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Ian Baldwin: Editorial - Our "Journal of Ideas" Goes Statewide

Frank Bryan: Town Meeting - A Space for Communal Liberty

Greg Strong: Vermont’s Energy Future - Ten Reasons For Hope

Thomas Moore: Middlebury Institute Guest Columnist - Why the Move to Sustainability

Carolyn Baker: Vermont Vox Populi Interview with Earthwise Farm and Forest's Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell

Robin McDermott: Localvore Living - In Winter, The Key Is Preparation

The Greenneck: Reflections on Vermont While on a Florida Bicycle Ride

Kirkpatrick Sale: Dispersions - Dispatches from the Front

Winter 2008 issue for download

Ethan Allen's Speech at Faneuil Hall

Tim Matson on "Dying To Pollute"

Issue 20 - Fall 2007

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E-JOURNAL: Download Our FALL 2007 "U.S. Out of Vermont" Issue.

PARTY! Saturday, Dec. 8 - Come Celebrate at our VC/VT Independence Party!

Robin McDermott: Eat Locally - Growing A Statewide Localvore Movement

Eric Esckilsen: Moving Images on a Moving Train - An Interview with Filmmaker Deb Ellis

Jeff Bickart: Letter - The Greenneck Revisited

Enid Wonnacott: The Food Less Traveled

Kirkpatrick Sale: Secession's Spontaneous Arrival in the Blogosphere

The Greenneck

Chris Morrow: On The Virtues of Local Bookstores and Businesses

Rick Foley: The Great HydroPower Heist - How Corporations Colonized Our Watershed Commons (Part 2)

Vermont Libre: The Endgame Trilogy - Peak Oil, Global Warming and Terrorism

DISPERSIONS (Kirkpatrick Sale): Breaking News - U.S. Not The Greatest

EDITORIAL: U.S. Out of Vermont - Long Live the "Untied States."

Fall'07: John Dowlin on State of Emergency-Federal Conscription of the National Guard

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Secede From The United States? Carolyn Baker Interviews Rob Williams

Fall'07: Carl Etnier on Vermont's Virtual Peak Oil Planning Forum

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Fall'07 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Schooling Secession: A TEACHER'S GUIDE to Debating Vermont Independence in the Classroom

Issue 19 - Summer 2007

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Donald Livingston: The New England Secession Tradition, Part II

EDITORIAL: The Tragedy of America - Why Our Hope Is "Disunion"

Letters: Published in the Summer 2007 Issue

Vermont Vox Populi: An Interview with Marion Leonard

Glenn Cahilly: America's Descent Into Fascism

Craig Byrne: A Declaration of Cultural Independence

Carl Watner: "Of A Quiet and Peaceable Behavior' - The Freeman's Oath and the Nonviolent Defense of a Vermont Republic

DISPERSIONS (Middlebury Institute): From Little Acorns - The American Secession Movement Today

The Wickedoutdoorsy.com Folks: Meet The Greenneck

Steve Moyer: Vermont Freedom Currency - Towards A New Localized Economy

Thomas Naylor: Vermonters' Support for Secession Increases Dramatically

Kirkpatrick Sale: Separatism - It's Happening All Over the World

SUMMER WEB EXCLUSIVE: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals-Interview and CD review

SUMMER WEB EXCLUSIVE: UVM Secession Debate-Transcript by Joshua Lambert

SUMMER WEB EXCLUSIVE: Ben and Jerry's helps support "Imagining Our Common Future" Conference

Issue 18 - Spring 2007

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FOOD: Could Vermont Feed Itself?

VISION: Towards a Relocalized Economy and Community

Rob Williams: Rclaiming Our Commons (Editorial)

Rick Foley: The Great HydroPower Heist - How Corporations Colonized Our Watershed Commons (Part 1)

Don Mayer: Beyond the Bottom Line - Vermont Businesses Set The Pace for Social Responsibility

Susan Ohanian: A Call For Slow Schools - Rethinking Education in the Green Mountains

Donald Livingston: The New England Secession Tradition, Part 1

Eliot Coleman: Educational Agriculture

Vermont Vox Populi: A Conversation with "Carbon Farmers of America's" Abe Collins

Tim Matson: Free Vermont Media - Spring 2007

Thomas Naylor: Bush's Reign of Terror

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Decentralist Movement - A Third Way

LAND, FOOD, AND ENERGY: Download May 12 "Common Future" Conference notes here...

Publisher Ian Baldwin's Welcome: A Word To Our New Readers

Spring '07 Web Exclusive: Jim Hogue's "Corporate HQ, Of Thee I Sing"

Spring '07 Web Exclusive: Ron Krupp on "A Woodchuck's Guide to Sustainability"

Spring '07 Web Exclusive: Bob Costanza reviews Peter Barnes' CAPITALISM 3.0: A GUIDE TO RECLAIMING THE COMMONS

Spring '07 Web Exclusive: Rob Williams reviews Bill McKibben's DEEP ECONOMY: THE WEALTH OF COMMUNITIES AND THE DURABLE

Issue 17 - Winter 2007

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Thomas Naylor: The 2006 Elections - Much Ado About Nothing

Frank Bryan: Secessionism and Vermont - Where I Stand (winter '07 VC print issue)

Bruce Hennessey: Grass-Fed Is Best - Growing Vermont's Farm Future (winter '07 VC print issue)

Ian Baldwin: EDITORIAL - Electing Independence

Vermont Vox Populi: An Interview with "Farmer's Diner" Owner Tod Murphy

Rob Williams: Free Vermont Media

Nicholas Clifford: Take Back Vermont - In 1929: Vrest Orton and Green Mountain Independence

Franklin Sanders: Monetary Secession Now

Kirkpatrick Sale: Divided We Stand, United We Fall - The First North American Secession Convention

Winter '07 Web Exclusive: "Crisis and Hope on Vermont's Farms" by David Van Deusen

Winter '07 Web Exclusive: "Beyond Peak Oil?" by Will Lindner

December '06 Web Exclusive: Will Lindner - United We Stand

December '06 Web Exclusive: Eugene Jarecki - The 28th Amendment

Winter '07 Web Exclusive: "Fifty Million Farmers" by Richard Heinberg

Issue 16 - Autumn 2006

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Thomas Naylor: Secession Fever

Editorial: Empire's Fall - Walking Towards A New Vermont

Exclusive Interview: Peak Oil "Powerdown" - A Conversation With Richard Heinberg

Linda Faillace: Mad Sheep - A Vermont Farm Family Challenges National Animal Identification

Jane Dwinell: Secede To Succeed-A Statewide Secession Convention Address

Sydney Copp: Most Likely To Secede? - Debating Independence in Vermont Classrooms

Amy Kirschner: Local Currency - A Revolution That Sounds Like a Whisper

Adrian Kuzminski: "Money and Liberty"

Joel Bleifuss and Steven F Freeman: U.S. Electoral Fraud - “Critical Condition” for U.S. Democracy

Jacqueline Brook: My I.R.S. Story

Jim Hogue: Five Years Later - A 9/11 Review

Kirkpatrick Sale: The First North American Secessionist Convention

FALL'06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! CCTV's Lauren-Glenn Davitian on NET NEUTRALITY.

Fall'06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Book Review - David Ray Griffin's "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11"

Fall'06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Catherine Austin Fitts on Gore's "Truth" and the Tapeworm Economy

Fall'06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Five Years Later - 9/11 Truth and the Green Mountain Boys

Issue 15 - Summer 2006

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Thomas Naylor: New UVM Poll Indicates 37,000 Vermonters Favor Independence

Peter Forbes: Start With The Land

SUMMER '06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Megan Quinn-The Renewed Activist

Editorial: Rob Williams on Free Vermont-Going Back To The Future

George Schenk: Beyond Organic-Investing In Vermont's Local Food Economies

Catherine Austin Fitts: The Tapeworm's Triumph? Confronting the Parasitic Corporate Underpinnings of U.S. Empire

Donald Livingston: Republicanism and Size (Part 3)

Robin McDermott: Growing a New Food Paradigm-Vermonters Plant Localvore Chapters

Dennis Derryberry: Living Post-Carbon-Vermonters Begin Grappling With Global Peak Oil

Pete Sutherland: An Interview with the Fiddler Who Wrote "200 Years Is Long Enough"

Jane Dwinell: Financial Independence-For Us Common Folk

Kirkpatrick Sale: Seeing Red, and Seeing Blue

SUMMER '06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Film Review - "America: Freedom To Fascism"

SUMMER '06 WEB EXCLUSIVE! Film Review: Al Gore's "An Inconvenient (HALF) Truth"

Issue 14 - June 2006

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EDITORIAL: Writes, Rights, Rites of Passage by Robert Riversong

Steve Bhaerman: Wake Up America!

Ran Prieur: How To Survive the Crash and Save the Earth

Amy Seidl: True-To-Life

Richard Czaplinski: Living Simply and Strengthening Community

Barry Simpson: Milling Around (An Essay In Two Parts)

Charles Sullivan: Government Without Representation - A Call To Action

JUNE WEB EXCLUSIVE! "SEVEN DAYS Letter To The Empire" by Rob Williams, Editor

JUNE WEB EXCLUSIVE!: "OK, But Why Secession?" by Erik Wilkins-McKee

JUNE WEB EXCLUSIVE! "Convention Invocation" by Ben Matchstick

Issue 13 - May 2006

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Thomas Naylor: Surging Gold Prices and the American Endgame

Jeff Danziger: The Hypocrisy of Our Energy Policy

Anita Kelman: Is The Solution To Home Heating In Our Own Backyard?

Ian Baldwin: EDITORIAL - Independence Means Energy Independence

Kirkpatrick Sale: In Energy, Too, Size Matters

Nekata White: Biofuels - Local Energy Solutions

Dave Dunn, Hervey Scudder, and Rick Foley: Best Buy The Dams Now

Ray Shadis: Shut Down Vermont Yankee! (Hostage to a Nuclear Plant)

Gary Flomenhoft: "Drill and Kill"

Issue 12 - April 2006

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Dave Timmons: Local Food In Vermont - Mixed Messages

Thomas Naylor: Liberals and Conservatives-Relics of the Past

Kirkpatrick Sale: Agriculture-Civilization's "Great Mistake"

Donald Livingston: Republicanism and Size (Part 2)

Anita Kelman: V Is For Vermont Victory Gardens

Editorial: Celebrating Vermont Commons' First Year

Jeff Bickart: Letter - Challenging the National Animal ID (NAIS) Program

Vern Grubinger: A Bright Future for Farming - Vermont Can Lead The Way

Issue 11 - March 2006

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Editorial: The Center Cannot Hold (Jim Hogue)

John McClaughry: Memoirs of a Moderator

Don Livingston: Republicanism and Size (Part 1)

Kirkpatrick Sale: Looking For Real Democracy? Look Around.

Frank Bryan and John McClaughry: The Vermont Papers - Viewing The Pasture Spring

Susan Clark Interview: Reviving Town Meeting

Frank Bryan: The True Congress

Peter Clavelle: Independence Begins At Home

Issue 10 - February 2006

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Judy Wicks: Local Living Economies - The New Movement for Responsible Business

Gus Newport: The CLT Model - A Tool for Permanently Affordable Housing and Wealth Generation

Kirkpatrick Sale: Economics of Scale vs. the Scale of Economics - Towards Basic Principles of a Bioregional Economy

Hazel Henderson: The Politics of Money

Bob Costanza: The Real Economy

GUEST EDITORIAL: E.F. Schumacher's Susan Witt

From Common Wealth to Common Property: Peter Barnes

The Politics of Money: Hazel Henderson

Issue 9 - January 2006

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Jim Hogue: Vermont's "Republic" - What's In A Name?

Fred Wiseman: Independent Vermont/Independent Wobanakik

Garret Keizer: A Not-So-Different Drummer

Bill Brueckner: What is "Independence"?

Book Review: (Un)Covering The Empire - Project Censored 2006

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Middlebury Institute-The Logic of American Secession

Editorial: Reinventing Vermont - A New Year, An Open Invitation...

Frank Bryan: Towards Our New Republic

James Howard Kunstler: Convention Keynote Address

Issue 8 - December 2005

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Editorial: The Perfect Storm, Choices and Actions

Richard Heinberg: Tools With A Life Of Their Own

Jane Dwinell: First Vermont Independence Convention A Huge Success!

Kirkpatrick Sale: At What Size Secession?

Gary Flomenhoft and Rick Foley: Vermont Transportation, Energy, and Sovereignty

Interview: Burlington Electric Department's Patty Richards

Gary Flomenhoft: Vermont Yankee and Vermont Sovereignty

J Arthur Loose: A Perspective On Wind Power

Anita Kelman: Off-Grid Living

Issue 7 - November 2005

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Kirkpatrick Sale: What's Going On Out There?

Thomas Naylor: The Scourge of Bigness - A Secessionist Primer

Ben Scotch: War, Katrina, and the Second Vermont Republic

Dave Ratcliffe: What To Do In Our Crazy Life? Attend Democracy School

Editorial: Ian Baldwin - What's Changed, What's the Same?

Donald Livingston: What is "Secession"?

Letters: Robert Riversong - 911 - The Deeper Conspiracy

Ellen Hayes and Rick Foley: Vermont's 2005 Legislative Session-Choose Your Metaphor

Issue 6 - October 2005

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Bill McKibben: Can Vermont Feed Itself?

Vern Grubinger: A Bright Future for Farming-Vermont Can Lead The Way

Kate Williams: Eating In Place

Pete Johnson: Eating Locally Year-Round

Lee Ann Cox and Kevin Foley: Fresh Voices From The Vermont Fresh Network

Elizabeth Wood: Community-Supported Agriculture

Erik Wilkins-McKee: Freedom, Self-Reliance and Dependence On Our Neighbors

Linda Setchell: "Food Sovereignty" - A New Vision For Vermont Agriculture

Rob Williams: Why Homestead Security? (Editorial)

Craig Chevrier: Good Food Starts Here

Issue 5 - September 2005

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Editorial: Ian Baldwin - Where Do We Go From There? A 9/11 Meditation

Rick Foley: Conspiracies - How Do You Think We Got Here?

Jacqueline Brook: Beam It In

Rick Foley: Betrayed Once, Shame On Them; Betrayed Twice, Shame On Us

Book Review/Interview: Rob Williams Talks About "Crossing the Rubicon" With Michael Ruppert

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Lessons Of 911

Eric Hufschmid: Five Painful Questions About 911

Questioning the 9/11 Commission: James Hogue Interviews David Ray Griffin

Issue 4 - August 2005

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Donald Livingston: Diseconomies of Scale - Dismembering Leviathan

Robert Riversong: Tax Resistance - An American Tradition

Book Review: Rob Williams on Sherman et. al's Freedom and Unity

Kirkpatrick Sale: Breakdown Of Nations

Ian Baldwin: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Editorial)

Rick Foley: Vermont 2020 - A Clear Look Into Our Future

Issue 3 - June/July 2005

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Jeff Bickart: Crafting Nativeness

Book Review: Rob Williams on Thomas J. DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln"

Jim Hogue: Subverting Power With Complementary Currency

John Remington Graham: A Constitutional History Of Secession

Kirkpatrick Sale: Small Is Powerful

Wendell Berry: Word and Flesh

Rowan Jacobsen: The Cultivation Of Our Own Tradition

Issue 2 - May 2005

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Daniel Gade: How Did Vermont Get To Be? The Growth Of A Regional Identity

Thomas Naylor: Nonviolent Vermont Independence

James Howard Kunstler: A Brief Welcome To The Long Emergency

Kirkpatrick Sale: The Middlebury Declaration

Editorial: Rob Williams on The Proud American Tradition Of Secession

Issue 1 - April 2005

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Book Review: Rob Williams on John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Thmas Naylor: George F. Kennan - Godfather of the Vermont Independence Movement

Frank Bryan: The Case for Vermont's Secession

Editorial: Ian Baldwin on Voices for Independence

Kirkpatrick Sale: Collapse of the American Empire

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