A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted with John Vincent

Join LML and the Bristol Historical Society for A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted: From Resistance to Revolution, to Alter or Abolish – What Comes After Protest? by John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press at Howden Hall, courtesy of the Vermont Humanities Speakers Bureau.

What role did printing play in the lead up to the Revolution of 250 years ago?  How were the “Minds and Hearts of the People” affected by the key participants in the Resistance movement  articulating their case against the actions of an ever increasing abusive authority ?

When the hand written Declaration of Independence was delivered to the local print shop the evening of July 4, 1776, it was “massed produced” on the printing press over night. But only after it was entirely set by hand, one l-e-t-t-e-r at a time and locked up in a press bed to be pulled by hand, one copy at a time.

Similar to the deliberate and intentional methodologies which the earlier revolutionaries employed to foment and print their Revolution of 1776, are those utilized contemporarily at A Revolutionary Press, the print shop in New Haven, Vermont.

At this presentation you will learn that the mission statement of A Revolutionary Press, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, directs us in our efforts to bring about an entirely distinct Revolution for the present and the future, as we  listen to, and print some of today’s lesser known radical and revolutionary visionaries. Everyone at this event will have the opportunity to print one of these pieces to help imagine that next Revolution.