Novacadia Alliance

Secession is survival; survival is secession.

Map of Novacadia, 1702

The Novacadia Alliance has morphed into existence via the meeting of two separate and seemingly autonomous initiatives: the abandoned independent candidacy of Sebastian Ronin in the Canadian federal riding of Central Nova in Nova Scotia and the secessionist political foundation for the New England region laid out by The Second Vermont Republic. The Situation, Opportunity and Action Pages, May 2007 - March 2008, for the former initiative can be found under Archives in the Resources Page.

The founding of this political organization is dedicated to Michael C. Ruppert. Thank you for your courage and for the map, but the map is not the territory and now it is time to step into and onto the territory. We all have our own personal Rubicons to cross, assess the information and evidence at hand, and assume responsibility accordingly. Once having crossed the point of no return, it is then necessary to smash the boats and cooking utensils, leaving us only to fight where we stand. For this organization, the stance is taken in Novacadia.

May God's speed be with us all.

How to Get In Touch

Feel free to visit the dedicated blog for this initiative. The blog posts are listed in chronological order dating back to May 2007 and dealing mostly with Sebastian Ronin's now-abandoned independent candidacy. If nothing else, the posts offer the reader a partial snapshot of the Novacadia Alliance's birth pangs. There is also a Facebook group called Novacadia Network. To find out how to get involved, please jump over to the Action Page. Anyone wishing to contact us by email may do so here.

Radio Interview with Sebastian Ronin

One-hour radio interview with Sebastian Ronin conducted by former New Hampshire Senator, Burt Cohen, on Peak Oil and Bioregional Secession. It was broadcast on March 27, 2008 on Portsmouth Community Radio and re-broadcast on April 3, 2008 on the Progressive Radio Alliance. Note that the interview took place prior to the politically necessary identity transition for this organization from the Atlantica Alliance to the Novacadia Alliance. Click to listen: Track 1 Track 2 (Requires Windows Media Player)

Mark your calendars!!! The Third North American Secessionist Convention hosted by The Middlebury Institute,  Manchester, New Hampshire (home of the State motto "Live Free or Die"), November 14-16, 2008. Sebastian Ronin will be the Guest Speaker at the convention, speaking on: "Peak Oil and Regional Secession: Historical Crisis Opens a Twenty Year Window of Opportunity."

Mission Statement (Map of Novacadia, 2008-2030)

Peak oil, global warming, climate chaos and global overpopulation are givens. These are our times. In spite of what is claimed by befuddled flat-earthers, the Maritime and Canadian publics are of one opinion that the environment is the number one concern. In short time, the public will also come to the realization that concern over the economy is not secondary to concern over the environment, but primary. The pending political slogan, “It’s the ecology, stupid,” is tantamount.

The mainstream political parties have followed suit to the public’s concerns. Over the last several years, these parties have fallen over themselves to develop Green policies, ranging from the banal to the ludicrous. Wisdom, courage and leadership have been betrayed by electoral spin for political favour and self-preservation. The Kyoto Protocol was too late by at least 25 years.

What all parties, the Green Party inclusive, hold in common re their differing environmental policies is a common premise. It is the premise that an ecological catastrophe and related social hardships can be averted by endorsing their particular environmental platform. This is a blatant misperception and falsehood.

All political parties, except one, can be relatively forgiven for not being more forthright with the public and charting a courageous and realistic course to tackle the challenges and dimensions of true eco-politics for the coming century. The governing Conservatives can be forgiven for a philosophical and moral blindness bordering on the insane. The Liberals can be forgiven for attaching themselves onto anything that might possibly translate into power and privilege. The NDP can be forgiven for being historically irrelevant. The party that cannot be forgiven for its timid and narrow political stance is the Green Party.

Global warming is now firmly rooted in the public consciousness, but it is merely one of three factors constituting the socio-political triad of industrial civilization’s collapse. The other two points of this triad are peak oil and global overpopulation. To deny this interrelated triad of global transition relegates mainstream politicians as pre-Copernican monks mumbling into their beards the empty platitudes of an earth-centered and false heliocentricity. It is a simple fact that peak oil and global overpopulation have never been brought into public discourse by our political parties. The one party that may have been in a position to do so, the Green Party, has betrayed and abandoned its historical core principles and responsibility by pandering to short-sighted and opportunistic drool. By virtue of gutting the core principles of political decentralization and recognition of continental bioregions for purposes of secession, Green policies beg to be thwarted by parliamentary inertia and bureaucratic entropy. In a severe and paradoxical twist, this leaves the Green Party as the most irresponsible, least trustworthy and most deceptive of all for addressing the eco-political challenges at hand.

Being historically situated at the global turning point of Peak Oil, The Novacadia Alliance recognizes that industrial civilization is not merely in decline, but that it has entered the end-game. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a civilization has outstripped its energy foundations, outlived its institutional purposes, and collapsed.

As such, The Novacadia Alliance acknowledges the following:

• Burdened with non-sustainable energy carrying capacities and gargantuan institutional complexities, the United States and Canada will implode upon themselves and dissolve as nation states during the current century;

• Regional jurisdictional survival and re-invention trump vacant political posturing, and that the political vacuum spawned by the latter states-of-affair begs to be filled;

• In the American New England and Canadian Maritime regions, the optimum size for undertaking the latter post-industrial political, economic and cultural re-invention encompasses the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and the American states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Recognizing the historical primacy and necessity of decentralization and secession, The Novacadia Alliance proposes the creation of a new Maritime political party to embark on such mandate called The Novacadia Independence Party, with optional party membership for American citizens written into the party's bylaws. A Draft Constitution and Bylaws are put forward in good faith for consideration, discussion, modification and eventual ratification.

For comments and feedback, the Mission Statement has been published in two parts at the complimentary blog for this site.

To see how to become involved in the ratification of the Draft Constitution and Bylaws of the Novacadia Independence Party, please go to the Action Page.

Novacadia Alliance Support Organizations

Second Vermont Republic

The Middlebury Institute