Here is a thing you Southerners, onsite probably know a thing or two about.

This is going on all day at the Vermont Capitol, in the government building itself. Next is to vote on it.







THE VERMONT INDEPENDENCE CONVENTION



VERMONT INDEPENDENCE

An Impossible Dream or a Vision of the Future?



State House

Montpelier, Vermont



October 28, 2005


The Program





8:30 a.m. Registration



9:00 a.m. Invocation: “In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress, “(Rev.) Ben T. Matchstick, former Bread & Puppet puppeteer



9:10 a.m. The Challenge: “I am resolutely determined to defend the independence of Vermont,� Ethan Allen (aka Jim Hogue)



9:20 a.m. Welcome: Thomas H. Naylor, a founder of the Second Vermont Republic



9:30 a.m. Our History: “The Quotable Ethan Allen,� J. Kevin Graffagnino, executive director, Vermont Historical Society



10:15 a.m. Vermont Independence: “The View from Big Hollow Road,� Frank Bryan, professor of political science, UVM, author, Real Democracy



11:00 a.m. Keynote Address: “The Cheap Oil Endgame,� James Howard Kunstler, author, The Long Emergency



Noon Lunch Break



1:00 p.m. Media Independence: Shay Totten, editor, Vermont Guardian



1:30 p.m. Second Vermont Republic: Thomas H. Naylor, author, The Vermont Manifesto



2:00 p.m. Secession Panel: “Impossible Dream or a Vision of the Future?�

Dr. Rob Williams (chair), teacher, historian, writer, and webmaster, Vermont Commons

Prof. Eric Davis, professor of political science, Middlebury College

Rowan Jacobsen, editor, Vermont Commons

Jane Dwinell, executive director, Second Vermont Republic

Dennis Morrisseau, Congressional candidate



3:15 p.m. Canadian Perspective:

Antoine Robitaille, philosopher, journalist, Le Devoir (Quebec City)

G. Roderick Lawrence, CEO, Stevenson Kellogg (Toronto, Ottawa)



4:00 p.m. Dissolution of the Empire: “The Middlebury Institute,� Kirkpatrick Sale, author Human Scale



4:30 p.m. Discussion and Vermont Independence Resolution



5:00 p.m. Benediction: (Rev.) Ben T. Matchstick



For information contact: Thomas H. Naylor 802-425-4133 or Jane Dwinell 802-229-4008, info@vermontrepublic.org

I would expect more of this Nationwide as crisis forces many States hands.