Thanks to independent journalist Christopher Ketcham and the Huffington Post for this article about our emerging independence movement here in the once and future republic of Vermont.

 Free Vermont! Long live the UNtied States.

Dennis Steele and young Vermonter at the Warren 4th Parade.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776.

A Declaration

Our new bumper sticker.

Americans celebrate the 4th of July as the official "Declaration of Independence/Secession" from the British Empire - the most corrupt, centralized and bloated of its time.

More and more Vermonters are also celebrating the 7th of July as the official "Vermont Independence Day," when the first Vermont Constitution was accepted in 1777, creating Vermont as an independent republic (1777-1791.)

And perhaps, may be again someday.

Mike Ruppert, the Prophet of Collapse, came to the mountains of Vermont last May.

If Vermont were to secede from the United States of Empire and become an independent nation-state, how could it possibly survive as a separate republic? How would it function? Are there any examples of smaller, sustainable nation-states which might serve as a role model for a state like Vermont, should it decide to leave the Union?

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.

Part 4 in a series focusing on how Vermont can generate much-needed revenue and restore Vermont's Commons in this new century.

I suppose my favorite moment in the oil-spewing fracas that’s dominated our nation’s all-too-readily dominated attention over the past months was the moment I first heard that BP might attempt to stanch the flow with a slurry of shredded tires and discarded golf balls. The so-called “junk shot.”

“We are guinea pigs in a massive, uncontrolled, chemical experiment, the disastrous outcome of which is measured in disease and death."
-- Dr. Rick Smith, Canada