NORWAY – Thomas Naylor, an organizer and theoretician for a nascent independence movement in Vermont, will discuss his independence movement at the Norway Memorial Library at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.

Naylor notes that his view of the Second Vermont Republic coincides with when Vermont was an independent nation from 1777 to 1791.

Naylor and colleagues view the United States as an “unsustainable nation state.” They would pull Vermont out of a “quagmire of affluenza, technomania, megalomania, and globalization by corporate America.”

Naylor’s movement holds to principles such as these: political independence, direct democracy, sustainability, economic independence, quality education, wellness and nonviolence. The organizers envision an independent Vermont negotiating a confederacy with Maine, New Hampshire and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Naylor of Charlotte, Vt., taught at Duke University for many years. He is the author of more than 30 books, including “Affluenza, Downsizing the U.S.A.,” “The Abandoned Generation: Rethinking Higher Education,” and “The Vermont Manifesto.” He has appeared on many of the nation’s TV and radio public affairs shows, and his articles have been published in leading newspapers and periodicals. During the 1980s he traveled in and wrote extensively about the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and was one of the first to predict the fall of the Soviet system.

For information, call (207) 743-2183 or (207) 824-3151

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