NEWS 2008 NEWSJuly 23: Middlebury Institute sponsored Zogby poll shows One in Five Americans Believe States Have the Right to Secede June 25: Middlebury issues Paper IX: In Defense of Vermont’s Secession from the Union by Keith Brunner April 18, 2008 Middlebury Institute announces its own Youtube site. YouTube.com/middleburyinst March 31: Middlebury Institute issues call for Third North American Secessionist Convention 2007 NEWS November 15: Middlebury Institute issues Paper VII: The Logic of Secession: Three Tines to a Trident November 14: Middlebury Institute issues Secession Movement Update October 22: Middlebury Institute issues Report on Second Secessionist Convention October 18: New York Times prints feature story interview with Middlebury Institute Director Kirkpatrick Sale October 5th: National media attention for Second Secessionist Convention October 4th: Second North American Secessionist Convention issues Chattanooga Declaration October 3-4: Second North American Secessionist Convention meets in Chattanooga, Tennessee May 16: Middlebury Institute and League of the South issue call for Second North American Secessionist Convention May: Middlebury Institute issues review of secessionist movement, Paper VI: "From Little Acorns: The American Secession Movement Today" February-March: Middlebury Institute, Second Vermont Republic and Southern National Congress Committee issue statement on "Minimal Rights and Freedoms of Individuals in a Sovereign State" (also known as Middlebury Institute Paper V) February: Middlebury Institute issues Paper IV: Statement on Collegiality regarding secessionist issues January 24: Middlebury Institute announces Registry of North American Separatist Organizations 2006 NEWS November 5th: National Media attention for First Secessionist Convention November 4: First North American Secessionist Convention issues Burlington Declaration November 3-4: First North American Secessionist Convention meets in Burlington, Vermont February 8: Middlebury Institute issues call for First North American Secessionist Convention 2005 NEWS November: Chronicles Magazine publishes Middlebury Institute Director Kirkpatrick Sale's "The Case for American Secession: Still a Good Idea” (also known as Middlebury Institute Paper II) October 28: Middlebury Institute Director Kirkpatrick Sale presents speech “The Middlebury Institute: The Logic of American Secession” at the Vermont Convention, Montpelier, Vermont (also known as Middlebury Institute Paper III) February 22: Middlebury Institute Director Kirkpatrick Sale publishes article "Imperial Entropy: Collapse of the American Empire” at Counterpunch.Org (also known as Middlebury Institute Paper I) 2004 NEWS Vermont 5-7: Middlebury Institute established after the Radical Consultation II held in Middlebury, Vermont. See Middlebury Declaration. | UPDATES July 4, 2008: Middlebury Institute extends "Happy Secession Day" wishes. July 4
marks the day when the American colonies declared their secession from
the British empire and their right to “institute new Government, laying
its Foundation on such Principles…as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness.” And thus began the War of
Secession—not a revolutionary war, for there was no intent to overthrow
the British government—that led to the free Confederation of American
colonies and ultimately the United States. It is in that great
tradition that the modern secessionist movement in America takes its
inspiration, hoping to dissolve the imperial government of the present
United States and institute new governments, at state or regional
levels, that will positively effect their safety and happiness.
That movement, strong now and gaining strength every year, will
hold its Third North American Secessionist Convention in Manchester, NH, this November 14-16.May 2008 Thomas Naylor releases new book SECESSION: How Vermont and all the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire. Details here. Kirkpatrick Sale writes in the foreword: "There have been a number of books about secession in recent years, but none as powerful and useful as this one, because it not only lays out a convincing case for secession from the American Empire but provides a working model of how an American state might actually go about achieving that." March 5, 2008 News Release: Secessionist Scores in Texas Primary Larry Kilgore, a candidate for Texas Independence [in the Republican Senate primary race] scored a
big count of 225,258 votes in the March 4 Texas GOP Primary. That
represents 18.5 per cent of the total vote, significantly better than Ron Paul,
who tallied only 1 per cent.
Eighteen per cent of the total Texas population represents
1,305,000 people, a solid hard core from which to work for a Texas secessionist
movement.
Kilgore was a delegate to the Second North American
Secessionist Convention in Chattanooga, TN, last October. More details on
his campaign can be seen at Larrykilgore.com. See article.
November 14, 2007 News Release: Secession Movement Update Some new developments in the vibrant secession movement: * A new California secession organization--at http://www.astateofmine.com--has just produced a short film, to open early next year, a preview of which is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=DrOi_BOFNRY. * A two-hour interview with Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the institute, on secession, by Michael Bennett and aired on WRFN in Nashville, TN, is available at http://Futurequake.com/FQ_PastShows.htm. * The Dixie Broadcasting network, begun in 2005, has now reached an audience of 1.5 million people. http://Dixiebroadcasting.com. * A New England Confederation Alliance has been established to link secessionists in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. It can be reached at http://www.newenglandconfederationalliance.org, and email to gray@newenglandconfederationalliance.org; it has a lively forum. One of the members of the alliance with an interesting website is Patriots for Liberty, http://www.patriotsforliberty.com, and email to craig@patriotsforliberty.com that address. * A Free Maine organization has recently been formed--http://www.freemaine.org--and reachable by FreeMaine@sacredlands.org. The movement is growing: the logic of secession, compared to all the other ways of dissenting from the empire and creating a free and democratic society, is overwhelming. A Middlebury Institute paper on the subject will be posted soon. (See The Logic of Secession.) |