Dennis Steele on the Mark Johnson Show WDEV
Mark Johnson Show Dennis Steele, Pt 1 by Radio Free Vermont
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"It is time for all people of conscience to call upon America to return to her true home of brotherhood and peaceful pursuits. We cannot remain silent as our nation engages in one of history's most cruel and senseless wars. During these days of human travail, we must encourage creative dissenters. We need them because the thunder of their fearless voices will be the only sound stronger than the blasts of bombs and the clamor of war hysteria. Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace. "Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) |
Mark Johnson Show Dennis Steele, Pt 1 by Radio Free Vermont
The most radical anti-war candidates in America! James Merriam is profiled in this video. James is from Washington County Vermont and is running for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives.
When I imagine Free Vermont I think of a small European like country, the majestic beauty of its Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, as well as its classic red barns, covered bridges, and picturesque patchwork pattern of small farms, black-and-white Holsteins, tiny villages, little rivers, ridges, hollows, and dirt roads.
I also think of small, sustainable, socially responsible, environmentally friendly farms, towns, businesses, schools, and health centers free of government interference. The Free Vermont which I envision will have its own custom designed, decentralized, compassionate, human scale health care, social security, social welfare, and law enforcement systems. It will support a voluntary citizens’ brigade to reduce tension and restore order in the event of civil unrest and to provide assistance when natural disasters occur.
Free Vermont will have an efficient network of railroad passenger trains connecting Bennington, Rutland, Burlington, and St. Albans with Montpelier, White River Junction, and Brattleboro with links to Boston, New York and Montreal.
I envisage a politics of human scale epitomized by the Vermont village green where people meet to chat, have a coffee, a glass of wine, or a bite to eat; read a newspaper; listen to music; smell the flowers; and pass the time away. As always, the village green will remain neat, clean, democratic, nonviolent, noncommercial, egalitarian, and humane. A mirror image of the way America once was, but no longer knows how to be.
And then there is my beloved Northeast Kingdom, the real Vermont. The Kingdom provides a communitarian alternative to the dehumanized, mass-production, mass-consumption, overregulated, narcissistic lifestyle which pervades most of America – an alternative to the politics of money, power, speed, greed, and fear of terrorism. The Kingdom is rural, radical, and green, just like I hope Free Vermont will be.
Dennis Steele
The Dennis Steele for Governor campaign is pleased to announce that Tim Lebron of Groton, Vermont will be joining our team as Communications Director. With Tim’s help, we hope to be able to keep the local, national, and international media well-appraised of the events of Dennis’ gubernatorial bid, and to bring the message of Vermont Independence to an entirely new level of visibility in our state. Imagine… Free Vermont!