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The Current | Nov 16, 2012 | 27:28

A secession petition for Alabama to leave the US

150 years after the U.S. Civil War, a new secessionist movement is growing south of the border. We speak with a man who wants his state -- Alabama -- to say goodbye to the government of Barack Obama.

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