At a town meeting in Glastonbury, Connecticut, in November 1873, two elderly sisters named Julia and Abby Smith announced their refusal to pay their property taxes.
An American style town meeting is scheduled to take place in Latvia next week, but the two hundred seventy Americans due to take part say they won't go if Daniloff remains in jail.
We need political leaders to be speaking out on that, but we need a grassroots movement to say when somebody is at a town meeting, you're running for the Senate, you're running for the house.
In August, 1774, when the people of Boston held a town meeting, General Gage reminded the selectmen of the act of Parliament which made the holding of a town meeting dependent upon the governor's permission.