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Kirkpatrick Sale (Ithaca, New York 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically on environmentalism, technology and political decentralism. An independent scholar is anyone who works outside traditional Academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created He has been described as "a leader of the Neo-Luddites"[1] and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement. The term Luddite is a political/historical term relating to a political movement during the Industrial Revolution; it is primarily used The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of Knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion. Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio is the act of withdrawing from an organization union or especially a political entity "[2]

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Life and Work

Sale graduated from Cornell University, majoring in history, in 1958. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [3][4] He served as editor of the student-owned and managed newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent daily Newspaper published in Ithaca New York by students at Cornell University. Sale was one of the leaders of the May 23, 1958 protest against university policies forbidding male and female students fraternizing and its "in loco parentis" policy. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Sale and his friend and roommate Richard Farina, and three others, were charged by Cornell. Richard George Fariña ( March 8, 1937 &ndash April 30, 1966) was an American Writer and Folksinger. The protest was described in Farina's 1966 novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a Novel by Richard Fariña. [2]

Upon graduation, Sale married Faith Apfelbaum (Cornell, 1958) who later worked as an editor with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Amy Tan. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr (born May 8 1937 is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of Fiction. Kurt Vonnegut Jr (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007 (ˈvɒnəgət was a prolific and genre-bending American Novelist known for works blending Satire, Black Joseph Heller (May 1 1923 – December 12 1999 was an American Satirical novelist Short story writer and playwright Amy Tan (Chinese 譚恩美 pinyin Tán Enmei (born February 19, 1952) is an American Writer of Chinese descent whose works She died in 1999. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) [5]

Sale worked initially in journalism for the leftist journal, New Leader and the New York Times Magazine, before becoming a freelance journalist. The New Leader is a political and cultural Magazine begun in 1924 by a group of figures associated with the Socialist Party of America, including The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer He spent time in, and wrote his first book about, Ghana. The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast to the west Burkina Faso to the north Togo to the His second book, SDS, was about the radical 1960s group Students for a Democratic Society. Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was historically a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations Subsequent books explored radical decentralism, bioregionalism, environmentalism, the Luddites and similar themes. __FORCETOC__ Decentralization or Decentralisation (see Spelling differences) is the process of dispersing Decision-making governance closer to the people Bioregionalism is a term used to describe a political cultural and environmental system based on naturally-defined areas called bioregions or Ecoregions Bioregions are defined Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. The Luddites were a Social movement of British Textile artisans in the early Nineteenth century who protested&mdashoften by destroying mechanized [4] He has continued to write for publications like The Nation, Counterpunch. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. Org, The New York Review of Books, Utne Reader and Mother Jones. The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semimonthly Magazine on Literature, Culture, and current Utne Reader is an American bimonthly Magazine. The cover logo was changed to simply Utne in 2003-06 Mary Harris Jones ( May 1, 1830 or August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930) better known as Mother Jones, born in

Secessionist Activism

In 2004 Sale, working with members of the Second Vermont Republic, formed the Middlebury Institute which is dedicated to the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Second Vermont Republic (SVR is a Secessionist group within the U Separatism refers to the advocacy of a state of cultural ethnic tribal religious racial or gender separation from the larger group often with demands for greater political autonomy Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio is the act of withdrawing from an organization union or especially a political entity Self-determination is defined as free choice of one’s own acts without external compulsion and especially as the freedom of the people of a given Territory to determine their Sale is director of the institute. In 2006 Middlebury sponsored the First North American Secessionist Convention, which attracted 40 participants from 16 secessionist organizations, and was described as the first gathering of secessionists since the Civil War. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Delegates issued a statement of principles of secession which they presented as The Burlington Declaration. Sale was interviewed by the New York Times in October 2007 regarding the Second North American Secessionist Convention, co-hosted by the Middlebury Institute. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Sale told the interviewer: “The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well. . . If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don’t want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be. ”[6] The convention received worldwide media attention. [7][8][9]

Controversies

In 1995, Sale made a public bet with Kevin Kelly that by the year 2020, there would be a convergence of three disasters: Global currency collapse, significant warfare between rich and poor, and environmental disasters of some significant size. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 This article refers to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine 2020 ( MMXX) will be a Leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. An environmental disaster is a Disaster that is due to human activity and should not be confused with Natural disasters In this case the impact of humans' alteration The bet was turned into a claim on the FX prediction market, where the probability has hovered around 25%. [10][1]

In his 1990 book The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, Sale argued that Christopher Columbus was an imperialist bent on conquest from his first voyage. Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer Imperialism has two meanings one describing an action and the other describing an attitude In a New York Times book review historian and Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Committee memberWilliam H. McNeill wrote about Sale: "he has set out to destroy the heroic image that earlier writers have transmitted to us. William Hardy McNeill (born October 31, 1917) is a noted world historian. Mr. Sale makes Columbus out to be cruel, greedy and incompetent (even as a sailor), and a man who was perversely intent on abusing the natural paradise on which he intruded. "[11] The book Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History presents a debate between Sale and Robert Royal, vice president for research at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who insisted that Columbus was a courageous risk-taker who advanced knowledge about other parts of the world. The Ethics and Public Policy Center ( EPPC) is a Washington D [12]

Sale has described personal computers as "the devil's work"[2] and in the past opened personal appearances by smashing one. During promotion of his 1995 book Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Sale debated Newsweek Magazine senior editor and technology columnist Steven Levy "about the relative merits of the communications age. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. Steven Levy (born 1951 is an American Journalist who has written several books on computers technology Cryptography, the Internet cybersecurity "[13] However, Sale currently uses a computer in his secessionist organizing. [2]

News stories about the Second North American Secessionist Convention, co-sponsored by Sale's Middlebury Institute, mentioned the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center's allegations that the other co-sponsor, The League of the South, was a "racist hate group. The Middlebury Institute for the the study of Separatism, Secession, and Self-determination is a political think tank and activist organization founded The Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC) is an American Non-profit legal organization internationally known for its tolerance education programs its legal The League of the South is a Southern nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is "a free and independent Southern republic " Sale responded: "They call everybody racists. There are, no doubt, racists in the League of the South, and there are, no doubt, racists everywhere. "[7][8] The Southern Poverty Law Center later criticized the New York Times' October 2007 Peter Applebombe interview of Sale for not covering its allegations. [14]

Books

Writings on-line

Interviews

References

  1. ^ a b Kevin Kelly, Interview with the Luddite, Wired Magazine, 1995. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993
  2. ^ a b c d Peter Applebombe, A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S., New York Times, October 18, 2007.
  3. ^ Richard and Mimi Farina "fan site".
  4. ^ a b Thinkquest Bioraphy Kirkpatrick Sale.
  5. ^ Bruce Weber, Obituary: Faith Sale, 63, a Fiction Editor Known as a Writers' Advocate, New York Times, December 13, 1999.
  6. ^ The New York Times, October 18, 2007.
  7. ^ a b Bill Poovey, Secessionists Meeting in Tennessee, Associated Press, October 3, 2007. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's
  8. ^ a b Leonard Doyle, Anger over Iraq and Bush prompts calls for secession from the US, Independent, UK, October 4, 2007. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas
  9. ^ WDEF News 12 Video report on Secessionist Convention, October 3, 2007.
  10. ^ FX Claim NLud
  11. ^ William H. McNeill, Review of Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise, New York Times, October 7, 1990.
  12. ^ Larry Madaras, James M. SoRelle, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2002.
  13. ^ Kirkpatrick Sale-Steven Levy Debate At New Jersey Institute of Technology Will Address Merits of Technology, February 1998.
  14. ^ Mark Potok, New York Times Feature on Sale Left Out a Fact or Two, October 23, 2007.

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