Voices of Independence


	Rob Williams Most Likely to Secede	Rob is a historian, journalist, musician, media consultant, and yak farmer living in Mad River Valley, Vermont. Contact him at editor@vtcommons.org.
	Ian Baldwin Baldwin's Ballast	Ian Baldwin is co-founder of Vermont Commons and Chelsea Green Publishing Company. He is an artist and writer who has lived most of his life in New York City and Vermont.
	Jim Hogue Ethan Allen	Jim Hogue is an actor and radio host who operates a small farm. He is currently working on monetary reform including plans for a state bank and state/public currency.
	gary flomenhoft Third Way Economics	I am a seeker of a new economic paradigm compatible with prosperity, equity, and sustainability.
	Susan Ohanian Back to Basics	Susan is a longtime teacher, author, education activist, and sailor living in Charlotte, Vermont.
	J.Arthur Loose Forging Ahead	J.Arthur Loose is an artist-metalsmith inspired by ancient cultures and technologies. He is an avid Irish traditional musician, beekeeper, brewer and an ardent supporter of human-scale, decentralised political independence for all peoples.
	Ralph Meima Unravelings	Fell in love with Vermont after many journeys, including 14 years in Sweden and a diverse technical/corporate/academic career to date; runs the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability in Brattleboro.
	Carl Etnier Relocalizing Vermont	Carl works with questions related to energy, food, and the local economy through web and print journalism, radio, and community organizing.
	Carolyn Baker Speaking Truth to Power	Carolyn is an author, workshop leader, collapse coach, and manager of her Speaking Truth to Power website at www.carolynbaker.net
	Carol Moore Secede & Survive	Carol Moore, a long-time activist in the libertarian, decentralist, antiwar and feminist movements and webmaster of Secession.Net, currently lives in Washington DC but is looking to "decentralize."
	Gaelan Brown The Energy Optimist	Gaelan is a writer, marketeer and jack-of-all-trades decentralist focused on sustainability and community resilience at CompostPower.org and OnePercentforthePlanet.org.
	Peter Garritano Vermont Uncensored	My name is Peter Garritano. I am constanly pissed off but don't show it. I bite my tongue quite often and vent by writing and screaming at other drivers while alone in my car. The most trustworthy person I know is my dog and even she steals stuff from the neighbors.I don't believe anything the government says, ever. My goal is to offer a solution to the crumbling empire with a little help from my friends.
	Juliet Buck Radical SAHM	I am a bioregional decentralist, a writer/satirist and a delicate flower of Yankee womanhood with a profound lack of respect for authority. I am the web and content editor at Vermont Commons, where I labor to liberate the public from the flagrantly false notion that we live in a functional democracy which serves any purpose other than to siphon off the surplus value of our labors to the wealthy elites and corporations who write our laws and dicate our policies via congressional proxies to serve that end.
	Jonathan Stevens Secession Briefs	Jonathan Stevens has practiced law in Vermont for over 30 years, plays the piano and ukulele and serves on the Burlington Development Review Board.
	Theo Talcott Thinkingaboutsurvival	Theo Talcott is a spiritual being aspiring for truth, cacao-dense nutrition and planetary survival. He has studied enough climate science to be freaking out about the on-going domination of our government by the fossil fool industries.
	John Ford Currency Commons	John lives in Stowe, prefers the company of the lunatic fringe that during more sane periods of history were simply referred to as 'commoners'. Has an interest in complex systems, holism and making a place for human scale economies to take root.
	Robert Wagner Prosper Vermont	Robert Wagner is a Vermont homesteader and decentralist who practises permaculture and Georgist economics, is concerned for Vermont's survival, and is running for the Vermont Senate in 2012 on a Home Rule and Limited Constitutional Government platform, as part of the statewide 'Thirty for the Senate' movement to retake Vermont's Senate for the people of Vermont. Robert is also a qualified Liberty Candidate along with a nationwide slate of candidates including Sheriff Mack and Ron Paul.
	Simha Bode Haven of Vermont	Simha is a oven builder/baker, World traveler and a human rights advocate who lives in Vermont when he is not traveling.
	Taylor Silvestri Why It Matters	I'm a part-time Vermonter, hailing originally from Scranton, PA who studies writing at Champlain College, impulse-buys used books five at a time, wants to see the world from the belly of a whale, cries during books/movies/songs/well written blogs/weddings/news headlines, and spends spare time experimenting in the kitchen.
	Sherry Ackerman Good Life	Sherry is a socially engaged philosopher and author of "The Good Life: How to Create a Sustainable and Fulfilling Lifestyle", a book about her 22 years of living on a back-to-the-earth commune in Central Vermont. For more information, see: http://www.sherryackerman.com
	Skip Cook Southern Man	Skip Cook is a part time writer, a part time political activist helping to bend government to benefit the citizens of Arkansas and a full time general manager of a construction company in Maumelle, Arkansas.
	Stephen Lendman Parsing the Empire	I devote my time to progressive causes, extensive reading and writing on vital world and national topics including; war and peace, American imperialism, corporate dominance, political persecutions, and a range of other social, economic and political issues; and hosting The Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network.
	Sherwood Ross Good Causes	Sherwood Ross is an independent journalist who blogs on U.S. politics and imperial foreign policy.
	Thomas Gram The Pagan Protectionist	I am a spiritually-motivated student of ecology, a pragmatically motivated student of economics, I aspire to be a permaculture herder and butcher and I'm painfully addicted to the tragicomic train-wreck called 'international diplomacy.' I'm always game for speculative analysis and always open to hearing a new opinion.
	James Starkey Grumpy Old Man	I am a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rhode Island. I like to explore the domain where the social, economic and ecological intersect. As I age and witness evermore of the "human follies" I grow more evermore pessimistic and grumpy.
	Ellen Brown BANKING ON FREEDOM	I developed my research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles and in my writing I show how the federal reserve and the healthcare industry has usurped the power from the people.
	F William Engdahl Geopolitics	F. William Engdahl is an author and analyst of geopolitical and economic issues. His books include: A Century of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (2011), Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century (2010), Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order (2009) and Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation (2007).
	Mike Krauss View From Another Front	Mike Krauss is Chariman of The Pennsylvania Project (ww.papublicbankproject.org), a director of the Public Banking Institute and a consultant to the international distribution and logistics industry. He is a former officer of Pennsylvania county and state government and a regular columnist in suburban Philadlephia newspapers.
	Ted Glick Future Hope	Ted Glick has devoted more than 40 years to the progressive social change movement, is the chair of the Essex County (NJ) Green Party, author of "Future Hope: A Winning Strategy for a Just Society" (2000) and has a syndicated newspaper column "Future Hope".
	James Howard Ku... Clusterfuck Nation	James Howard Kunstler is the author or numerous books including: The Geography of Nowhere ( 1994) The Long Emergency (2006 ), World Made By Hand (2009) and Witch of Hebron (2010). He is the author of the weekly podcast The Kunstlercast, about “the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl.” He is also an accomplished painter .
	Dylan Kelley Eyes on the Ground	Dylan Kelley is a documentary photographer, writer, occasional teacher, and wayfarer who is currently based in Vermont but may yet be encountered in that place just off the edge of the map that you get to when you go looking for something that may or may not exist.
	Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics	Charles Eisenstein is the author of The Yoga of Eating (2003), The Ascent of Humanity (2007) and most recently, Sacred Economics(2011) which traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
	Richard Moore Escaping The Matrix	My career was in the Silicon Valley software industry. In 1994 I retired from that and moved to Ireland to begin my ‘real work’. Ever since then I’ve been trying to understand how the world works, and how we can make it better.
	Matt Cropp Champlain Co-operator	Matt is fascinated by all things co-op, and is particularly enamored with the history of the credit union movement, which he studied in grad school. His interest in human scale organization and the anti-war movement led him to become a supporter of Vermont's political independence, and he's of the general opinion that any polity with more than a million citizens is bad news bears. When not scraping by as a freelance writer, Matt enjoys snowshoeing, good beer, and taking on more volunteer responsibilities than he can possibly handle. He lives in Burlington with his partner and an oft-neglected houseplant.
	Winslow Wheeler Pentagon Labyrinth	Winslow Wheeler is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC. He has authored two books: “The Wastrels of Defense” (US Naval Institute Press) about Congress and national security, and “Military Reform” (Greenwood Publishers) on the serious, fundamental problems that currently face America’s defenses. From 1971 to 2002, Wheeler worked on national security issues for members of the U.S. Senate and for the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In the Senate, Wheeler advised Jacob K. Javits (R. NY), Nancy L. Kassebaum (R, KS), David Pryor (D, AR), and Pete V. Domenici (R, NM). He was the first, and according to Senate records the last, Senate staffer to work simultaneously on the personal staffs of a Republican and a Democrat (Pryor and Kassebaum).
	Greg Guma Maverick Media	Greg Guma has lived in Vermont since 1968, working as a writer, editor, organizer and small business manager. He edited the Vermont Vanguard Press, Vermont Guardian and Toward Freedom, and is former CEO of Pacifica Radio. Greg is the author of "The People's Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution," the Vermont-based historical novel "Spirits of Desire" and "Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities)," a play about the Haymarket affair and other crackdowns on dissent. He currently reporters for VTDigger.org.
	Michael Hudson Super-Imperialism	Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971). ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate, and the economic history of the ancient Near East.
	Asher Platts Punk Patriot	Dedicated to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of a less F**cked up government.
	Derrick Jensen Deep Green Resistance	Derrick Jensen is the author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older than Words. He writes for Orion, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine, among many others.
	Jennifer Stella Classical Homeopathy	Jennifer is a classically trained Homeopath. In addition to her practice, she is the VT Director of Advocacy for the National Vaccine Information Center and Co-Leader of the VT Coalition for Vaccine Choice. Jennifer holds a B.S. in Microbiology and worked for over a decade in infectious disease diagnostics.

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