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THE VERMONT CYNIC: "An Independent Vermont Worth A Serious Thought"

Well, at least one. 

 Read this uncharacteristically un-cynical editorial from the Vermont Cynic.

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MIDDLEBURYCAMPUS.COM: Independence Interview

Read the Middlebury Campus Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale and Rob Williams.

Good to see some of Vermont's finest young minds getting serious about secession exploration.

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TIME: Secession Mention - 13% of Vermonters On Board!

We must be making some headway on the secession question when Henry Luce's heirs start paying attention.

Read TIME's "secession mention" here.

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TIMES ARGUS: March 2008 "Free Vermont" Town Meetings Status...

Thanks to AP Vermont Bureau chief John Curran for this Valentine's
Day story on our 2008 "Free Vermont" town meeting resolution efforts.

We're taking the long view.

And we are patient.

The non-violent dissolution of the U.S. Empire
is an idea whose time has come.

We're already organizing for our March 2009 town meetings.

Read the Times-Argus story here.

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VOLUNTEER for the "Free Vermont" TOWN MEETING Campaign (Civics)

The Vermont Independence effort has launched FreeVermont.Net,
aself-organizing network of Vermont citizens interested in
usingVermont's annual town meeting day as a vehicle for advocating
forVermont's peaceable secession from the United States.To find out
more, download FreeVermont.Net's town meeting guide andpetition, order
FreeVermont.Net bumper stickers, or get involved, visit www.FreeVermont.Net.

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MODERN AGE: Secession and American Federalism (Analysis)

Secession and American Federalism
by Arthur Versluis
Published in Modern Age, Summer 2007
Arthur Versluis is Professor of American Studies at Michigan State
University, and author of numerous books, including Island Farm and The
Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance.
The beginning of the twenty-first century saw a mostly unremarked
development of considerable significance: for the first time since the
founding of the Confederate States of America, the United States once
again had an extensive secessionist movement. In 2003, author Thomas

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NEW ENGLAND CABLE NEWS: Vermont Independence Effort Gains Traction (Video)

Governor Jim Douglas Speaks on Secession.

View the NECN news excerpt here.

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FOX: Douglas Kennedy's "Big Story" Reports on Vermont Independence Effort (Video)

View the entire three minute story here.

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ORION magazine covers Vermont independence.

Thanks to New York writer Bill Kaufmann and our colleagues at ORION magazine for this in-depth essay on our ongoing efforts.

Read the whole article here.

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CBS: The Breakaway Republic of Vermont (Web)

To read CBS News' ongoing coverage of the Vermont independence effort, click
here."

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