Most Likely to Secede

"As our complex society unravels and fragments, the voices and ideas of the Vermont secessionists, who seek to carve out small sustainable pockets amid the chaos, will be increasingly important as we seek new paradigms for survival."

—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

From the annals of Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence news journal

The 21st century United States is no longer a functioning republic, but an unreformable Empire unresponsive to the needs and concerns of its own citizens. Most Likely To Secede features a collection of provocative and forward-thinking essays from 29 contributors to Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence news journal. Written by cutting-edge citizens and entrepreneurs, the essays call for economic relocalization and political independence for Vermont, and, in some cases, nonviolent secession of the state (once its own 18th century republic) from the U.S. of Empire and the peaceful dissolution of the United States as a whole. Exploring well beyond the media-manufactured boundaries of Left and Right, Most Likely To Secede advocates for a 21st century world in which collective decisions about finance, fuel, food, and culture are removed from a centralized corporate imperial United States, and returned to regional and local control. As the only state to once exist as its own republic, Vermont is uniquely poised to lead a national conversation on 2st century decentralization, and Most Likely To Secede shows us the way.