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"The Middlebury Declaration"

Issued Novenber 7, 2004

Middlebury, Vermont

We gathered here this weekend to explore the possibilities of a new politics that might provide a realistic and enactable alternative to the familiar sorry political scene around us that has just ratified its decadent and corrupt nature with the re-election of George W. Bush.

We are convinced that the American empire, now imposing its military might on 153 countries around the world, is as fragile as empires historically tend to be and that it might well implode upon itself in the near future. Before that happens, no matter what shape the United States may take, we believe there is at this moment an opportunity to push through new political ideas and projects that will offer true popular participation and genuine democracy. The time to prepare for that is now.

A Secessionist Bibliography

1. Bryan, Frank and Bill Mares. Out! The Vermont Secession Book. Shelburne, VT: New England Press, 1987.


2. Bryan, Frank and John McClaughry. The Vermont Papers. White River Jct., VT: Chelsea Green, 1989.


3. Buchanan, Allen. Secession. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.


4. Camus, Albert. The Rebel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.


5. DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln. Roseville, CA: Prima
Publishing, 2002.


6. Gordon, David (editor). Secession, State & Liberty. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.


7. Graham, John Remington. A Constitutional History of Secession.
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2002.


8. Jacobs, Jane. The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the
Struggle over Sovereignty.
New York: Random House, 1980.


9. Kennan, George. Around the Cragged Hill. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1993, pp. 142-156.


10. Kohr, Leopold. The Breakdown of Nations. London: Routledge
& Kegan Paul, 1957.


11. Livingston, Donald W. Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.


12. Naylor, Thomas H. Rebel. Unpublished manuscript, 2004.


13. Naylor, Thomas H. The Vermont Manifesto. Philadelphia, PA:
Xlibris, 2003.


14. Naylor, Thomas H. and William H. Willimon. Downsizing the
U.S.A.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 1997.


15. Sale, Kirkpatrick. Human Scale. New York: Coward, McCann, &
Geoghegan, 1980.


16. Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful. New York: Harper & Row,
1973.

CadmusOnez writes A Holiday Appeal From Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping...



I know for sure that GOD IS THE ABSENCE OF GENTRIFICATION. Yes I'm looking for the spark of light called the winter solstice to actualize our community center. I'm talking about that spark of light that is usually pawned off on the wrong God, and made safely apolitical. The most famous representation of the sunlight that starts growing again during the winter of discontent is Jesus -- but we steal him back, because JESUS WAS NEVER A CHRISTIAN! Amen?


Onto writes:

"For a Global Disruption of Empire"

A Call for Decentralized, Local Actions Around the World on J20

In Solidarity with the DAWN (DC Anti-War Network,
http://www.dawndc.net/) call for groups to converge from around the
country and around the world to converge on DC, we call on those who
cannot make the trip to DC to organize local actions in their own
communities.

An internationalist collective based in Berlin writes:

One-Day Protest Strike on J20

The "election" that has sentenced the world to four more years of the most right-wing government in US history is merely the most glaring recent expression of a global crisis of democracy. We simply miss the point if we focus our outrage on the narrow question of whether the election was stolen, lost through incompetence or conceded too early. A process so dominated by money and corporate interests is by definition non-democratic. The fact that the choice in this election was effectively limited to Kerry or Bush, excluding any real alternative from the start, is only one symptom.

Interactive Telecommunications Project Winter Show

New York City, Dec. 19-29, 2004

ITP Winter Show 2004

Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm

Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm

A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from
the student artists and innovators at ITP.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs,
rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP — the
Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first
graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into
a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers,
designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries
of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach
to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun
house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an
extended network of the technology industry's most daring and
prolific practitioners.

"Giorgio Agamben" Issue of Contretemps Now Online

Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy

Contretemps 5, December 2004, on Giorgio Agamben, is now online here.

The contents of Contretemps, 5 include:

"Friendship"

Giorgio Agamben

“The Stanza of the Self: On Agamben’s Potentiality”

Paolo Bartoloni

"Four Theses on the Powers of Life and Death"

Mitchell Dean

"Passive Politics"

Stefano Franchi

"Agamben's Messianic Politics"

Catherine Mills

"Potenza Nuda? Sovereignty, Biopolitics, Capitalism"

Brett Neilson

Esther Anatolitis

Mran-Maree Campbell

John Dalton

Justin Tauber

Tim Rayner

Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy

Web: Contretemps

Email: contretemps@mail.usyd.edu.au

New York City SantaCon 2004

Saturday Dec. 11, 2004

What is Santacon?

It's a not-for-profit, non-political, non-religious & non-logical Santa Claus convention. We do it for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

SantaCon happens in major cities all over the world. NYC SantaCon 1998 was a blissful three-day affair with more than 100 Santa's flying in from all over the country as NYC hosted the national event. SantaCon 1999 was extremely successful with one longer day and approximately 80 dirty Clauses. SantaCon 2001 was a single day condensed non-stop blowout with over 150 red suits of naughtiness! 2002 was chock-full of bars, parties, subway rides, shock appeal, dirty xxx-mas carols, jingle balls, elf insubordination, Harry Hanukkah, and non-stop ho-ho-hos, with plenty of visitors from around the globe, many friends from L.A. and SF to boot.

And last year, with close to 400 Santa's, we wowed them in Grand Central & roamed across Harlem & caroled outside the Apollo Theater. There were stripping Santas in the East Village and bowling reindeer games in Central Park all accompanied by the usual decadence and debauchery only residents of the North Pole could appreciate.

grumbles writes
"United Kingdom G8 Protest Protest"



A Call out.



The final plenary of the European Peoples' Global Action Conference, which took place in Belgrade, Post-Yugoslavia from 21st-29th July 2004, is calling for a Global Day of Action on July 5-8th 2005 - the opening day of the 2005 G8 Summit to take place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, United Kingdom (Scotland, around 40 miles/70 km from Edinburgh).



They have called for people to join the convergences in Scotland being called for by the Dissent! Network in the UK (www.dissent.org.uk) to disrupt the Summit, and for people to organise and take part in simultaneous actions in villages, towns and cities around the world.


pei.czech writes:

Moving NYC "More Gardens!"

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am


We need folks from all communities and from all boroughs to come by over the next 4 days and lend a hand. If you can join us please call Aresh @ 917 518-9987 ASAP let us know when you are available to help. Read story below for details.

Press Conference: Environmental Injustice in the Bronx
Community gardeners stood their ground. Half of the original green space is now to be made permanent. Housing and Green Spaces must stay in balance!

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am
In front of Family Group Garden, E. 158th Street between Courtlandt and Park Aves.

In the South Bronx, over 28,000 square feet of open green space, home to 3 community gardens, are being lost, in a highly inequitable exchange of community space in the most toxic, least green, highest population density, most asthma-riddled neighborhood in the city, and one of the two poorest Congressional districts in the USA.

Gardeners and residents will help move out plants and speak out about their challenges to preserve the remaining 14 community green spaces, and to create more community gardens and truly affordable housing. We will explain the “Homes and Gardens Plan,” a proposal by the community and housing experts, showing how both gardens and more units of housing can be
implemented in the Melrose area.

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