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Saving Vermont Town Meeting: A Modest Proposal

As a Waitsfield citizen, parent and school board member for more than a decade now, I am writing in support of preserving our annual Vermont town […]

TOWN OF CHARLOTTE: ADVISORY RESOLUTION REGARDING THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP (Town Meeting)

Publisher’s note: Please contact Charlotte, Vermont citizen Susan Ohanian at susanoATgmavt.net if you would like more information or to get involved in this initiative. Town Meeting […]

Celebrating TOWN MEETING Day in Vermont (DIRECT DEMOCRACY)

One year ago, we wrote in defense of Vermont’s annual town meeting day, the most pure form of direct democracy still in existence in the United […]

Vermont Town Meeting: Why It Matters More Than Ever

Alert viewers of WCAX may have noticed a March 4 segment calling attention to my completion of 50 years’ service as Kirby town moderator. Please allow […]

Weaponizing A.I. Through BIG DATA “Behaviorial Microtargeting” – Vermont’s Radical Small “D” Democracy Is The Age-Old Solution (TOWN MEETING V THE MATRIX)

Publisher’s Note: This new Scout investigation has been keeping us up at night here in the Green Mountains of Vermont’s once and future Republic. To wit […]

Vermont’s Town Meeting Tradition: Diminishing or Evolving? (SEVEN DAYS)

Publisher’s Note: Thoughtful new article from Seven Days’ Kevin Kelley on possible futures for the Vermont town meeting, with many of  Vermont’s most astute decentralists – […]

Plan V-TV/8: VERMONT’S RADICAL “TOWN MEETING” TRADITION AND A 2VR – Susan Clark

Join “Vermont Independent” publisher Rob Williams for a conversation with author, facilitator, and Vermont town meeting expert Susan Clark of Middlesex about Vermont’s radical “town meeting” […]

Vermont’s Annual Town Meeting Day: Where Every Citizen Is A Legislator (DIRECT DEMOCRACY)

“All extensive governments have a natural tendency to destroy that equality among the people, which was necessary to keep one part of mankind from oppressing the […]

Vermont Town Meeting Day 2018: A “Space For Communal Liberty” (DIRECT DEMOCRACY)

Publisher’s note: At day’s end, Vermont town meeting is about three things; 1) upholding the principle of direct democracy at the local level; 2) embracing the […]

“Super Tuesday,” The “Joe Biden Miracle,” + Vermont TOWN MEETING Day 2020! (COMMUNAL LIBERTY)

Publisher’s note: At day’s end, Vermont town meeting is about three things; 1) upholding the principle of “direct democracy” at the local level; 2) embracing the […]

Happy VERMONT TOWN MEETING Day 2019!

Publisher’s Note: Join Vermont Independent publisher Rob Williams for an exclusive interview on Vermont’s radical town meeting day tradition with author, town meeting expert, and Middlesex […]

Vermont TOWN MEETING DAY 2019!

Publisher’s note: Enjoy these 2019 Vermont town meeting day videos, produced by our University of Vermont “Sustainable Vermont” undergraduates in collaboration with the Center for Research […]