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Upcoming: Secession Week Blogging!

June 25, 2009

The Fourth of July is commonly known as Independence Day, but a better term for it is Secession Day.  Secession almost always involves multiple groups of people, some small and local, others large and distant, who want to rule the same territory.  And history tells us that large, distant rulers are often reluctant to grant independence.  The word “independence” takes all the historical messiness involved in winning freedom from a hostile enemy and sweeps it under the rug, while the term “secession” puts this inherent tension right out into the open.

So Saturday, July 4th is Secession Day.  And to commemorate this day, Let A Thousand Nations Bloom is going to host a Secession Week Blogging Event.  Starting on Monday (6/29), we will post a roundup of secession-related links every day.  Some will be original pieces here, some original pieces from other blogs, and some older articles.  This is a brand new event, so I don’t know how popular it will be, but secession is a hot topic lately so we should be able to get a decent following that we can build on in future years.

If you’d like to make an original contribution to the event, write a post next week and email it to us at athousandnationsbloom@gmail.com, or just trackback one of our posts.  If you have a blog or website and find our Secession Week posts interesting, please post links to us.
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Secession Week Blogging Posts:

22 Comments leave one →
  1. June 26, 2009 1:48 am

    I questioned the wisdom of our own war of secession (among other places) here.

  2. June 29, 2009 3:50 am

    Interesting, I don’t have time to write a blog but readers might find our web site interesting.

  3. June 29, 2009 3:51 am

    Interesting, I don’t have time to write a blog but readers might find our web site interesting.

  4. Dyck Dewid permalink
    July 10, 2009 2:25 am

    It is so interesting, the perceived need to ‘begin again’ to secede, to make things ‘right’. My inquiry into our human nature cannot ignore the self-centered attributes that apparantly continue to cause us grief century after ceentury with little or no fundamental change. And with each new horizon, eventually wasted, it’s nothing the young would see differently than a scab on one’s knee.

    So, where is the way out of adolescence? Is fundamental social change possible? Is this a pathless journey, without preconceived direction, to be realized as it happens? Or, does someone or many have an answer?

  5. December 3, 2009 9:30 am

    Познавательная статья, обязательно добавлю в избранное для того, что бы следить за обновлениями

  6. October 31, 2010 7:59 pm

    protracted listing you’ve possess

  7. September 12, 2011 1:01 pm

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Trackbacks

  1. Secession Week Blogging, Monday, Intro To Secession « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  2. Secession Week: Wednesday – Secession vs. Revolution « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  3. Secession Week Blogging: Thursday – Federalism (Secession Lite) « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  4. Bloodless Instability « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  5. Secession Week: Thursday – Non-territorial Secession « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  6. Twitted by libertyideals
  7. Secession Week: Saturday – Declaration of Independence & The American Revolution « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  8. Secession, Virtual or Otherwise | The Unbroken Window
  9. Celebrate Secession! By John Payne « DumpDC
  10. FreeWestRadio.com » Blog Archive » Celebrate Secession!
  11. Stop Voting! Secession vs. Revolution « Locust blog
  12. Upcoming: Secession Week Blogging 2010! « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom
  13. Join The Seasteading Institute for Upcoming: Secession Week Blogging 2010! | Austrian Economics Blog
  14. Celebrate Secession! « DumpDC
  15. Was the Declaration of Independence Illegal? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

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