From the nonviolent, anti-corporate Second Vermont Republic movement to the Bay Area's Oaksterdam district that flouts federal marijuana laws, there are a plethora of nascent initiatives aimed at reasserting more localized governance in the face of a perceived creeping authoritarianism.
In all, 81 members of the House of Representatives, and 40 members of the Senate have declared their support for an Australian republic, the movement says.
In Belarus, once a Soviet republic, the movement is called Zubr, the word for a bison that is to Belarus what the bear is to Russia and the eagle is to the United States.
Mr Lutsenko is the leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic opposition movement.
Yuriy Lutsenko is the leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic opposition movement and once held the post of interior minister.
The expansion of the republic and movement west was, in part, justified by an overriding philosophical underpinnings since the American Revolution.
A majority in both the lower and upper houses of federal parliament support Australia becoming a republic, the republican movement has claimed.
For years I have been receiving mailings from the Second Vermont Republic, a secessionist movement that seems to operate out of the personal computer of Thomas Naylor, a former Duke University economics professor who now lives in Charlotte, Vermont.
The elder Lumumba, a criminal defense attorney and former leader of the radical Republic of New Afrika movement, had planned to implement many of the same progressive policies his son is now championing. .
The rise of Milosevic alarmed the non-Serb republics and reinforced secessionist movements, particularly in Slovenia and Croatia.
