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	The True Levellers' Standard Advanced, The Diggers' Manifesto - Gerrard Winstanley, 1649.
		Declaration from the Diggers of Wellingborough - from the poor inhabitants of the town
		The Levellers and the Diggers were inextricably connected, not just in time or in their social and political vision.
		A Declaration by the Diggers of Wellingborough - 1650
	www.bilderberg.org /land/diggers.htm (7051 words)

	Dawn of a democracy - National - www.theage.com.au
		The diggers' leaders looked back to a long tradition from which they drew their belief that the royal prerogative must be exercised only for the common good of those from whom such sovereignty was derived - the people.
		Thus the diggers were urged to take such steps as they deemed necessary to put a stop to the use of the royal prerogative unless the radical changes they demanded took place.
		After some of the diggers burnt their licences, Timothy Hayes asked everyone to stand ready to act and even to die, were they called upon to liberate any man taken to the lock-up for not being in possession of a licence.
	www.theage.com.au /news/National/Dawn-of-a-democracy/2004/11/25/1101219664837.html (2556 words)

	DPI: The Virtual Exhibition - Gold Diggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Diggers' life at the goldfields was continual hard labour: dust, mud and backbreaking toil.
		A diggers' toolkit included a wide tin pan, pick axes, spades, shovels, a wheelbarrow, felling axes, trowels, iron wedges, crowbars, metal buckets and a cradle.
		Diggers lived in tents pitched on their claim or on nearby spare land.
	www.nre.vic.gov.au /virtualexhibition/gold (416 words)

	AlternativeApproaches.com: The Diggers Are Back
		By late summer in 1968, the Diggers were gone and the hippie street culture that had flourished through “the summer of love” a year earlier was already in a sharp decline.
		According to accounts from the era, such Digger events as free food in the park and their numerous free stores were successful because they were offered in the spirit of simple sharing, without any “I’m giving you charity” vibes attached.
		For all practical purposes, the Diggers ceased to exist in June of 1968 and the Haight, as well as hippiedom in general, was never the same after that.
	www.alternativeapproaches.com /altapr/aadiggers.html (832 words)

	Digger's Story
		Digger is a hyper driven sock monkey who has not yet discovered his true identity.
		Digger is currently in the hospital, recovering: updates on his condition will be posted on the web sight as soon as possible.
		Digger pulls a phone prank on Twila and sends her on a two week cruise to no-man's-land destination unknown.
	www.diggersstory.com /Podcast (992 words)

	1642-1652: The Diggers and the Levellers \| libcom.org
		As the name implies, the diggers aimed to use the earth to reclaim the freedom that they felt had been lost partly through the Norman Conquest; by seizing the land and owning it ‘in common’ they would challenge what they considered to be the slavery of property.
		Both the Levellers and Diggers are of crucial importance to the development of working class history since they stand in the proud tradition of English radicalism and challenge to the ruling orthodoxy.
		Some 450 years after the Diggers established their commune at Cobham, we still need to establish the common ownership of property and the development of society based on need, rather than profit.
	libcom.org /history/articles/diggers-levellers-1642-52 (1831 words)

	Gum Diggers of NZ. The first diggers?
		The diggers dug sometimes quite deep trenches or holes, nearly always in swampy areas, so it was a rather unpleasant job.
		Not all gum was collected from trees and the diggers foraged with spears and hurdy gurdy (a cross between a small washing machine and a sifter).
		The fully kitted out gum digger had a spear, a spade and axe on his shoulder, a bucket for sluicing, a billy for the mid-day brew and a haversack or 'pikau' for carrying the diggings.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-reference/gumdiggers.htm (1033 words)

	Diggers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Diggers, radical puritans who were members of a communistic movement that flourished during the English Commonwealth (1649-1660) and favoured the...
		Conflict was ignited by the arrest of three diggers at Ballarat for the burning of a hotel owned by J. Bentley, burned because the miners believed...
		miner, excavator, gravedigger, gold digger, prospector, archaeologist, excavator, bulldozer, earthmover, crawler, backhoe, shovel
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Diggers.html (198 words)

	HISTORY OF THE DIGGERS CLUB
		Diggers began when Clive Blazey realised that there must be other passionate gardeners out there who were hopelessly frustrated by the lack of interesting plants on offer at the local nurseries.
		The Digger's title also introduced a subversive element that seemed to undermine the more conventional methods of garden distribution.
		Ducks and a pond had already been introduced to the Diggers' menagerie, so 'Quacker' and her feathered friends had to be moved along with the children, cats, household goods and all the Diggers' infrastructure.
	www.diggers.com.au /HistoryOfDiggers.htm (2449 words)

	Untitled Document
		The “Diggers’ Forum” will attempt to examine the current situation and feels that adequate, but balanced and appropriate, Health and Safety should be a priority for employers and not merely treated as an after-thought or a box to tick.
		It was agreed that “Diggers’ Forum” should help tackle this issue and seek to cooperate with other bodies to ensure that initiatives, such as the one recently announced by the IFA, are targeted appropriately.
		This is an area in which real improvements could be made and the “Diggers’ Forum” believes that the failure of the archaeological community to support this fully would represent a missed opportunity to establish a national standard for pay scales and grades.
	www.geocities.com /pauleverill2002/Research/DiggersForum.html (668 words)

	Diggers - 150,000 eBooks - eBookMall - World's Largest Selection!
		As they uncover the large number of men left dead in their last defensive fortifications, the Diggers often think that their work is perhaps the only semblance of victory to have occurred in that place.
		The Diggers are reverent with regard to the materiel.
		Their abiding interest is in discovering and preserving what happened in the Latvian forest during the two major wars of this century.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/diggers-duks-ebooks.htm (898 words)

	Diggers Hotline News
		Diggers Hotline was established in 1976 to increase worker and public safety, prevent damage to underground and overhead facilities, protect the environment and to help ensure continuity of utility and communication services.
		In conjunction with the expansion, Diggers Hotline incorporated as a non-profit corporation to isolate itself from the members and to be able to collect funds to purchase computer equipment.
		Diggers Hotline - (800) 242-8511 - (414) 259-1181 - TTY: (800) 542-2289 - http://www.DiggersHotline.com/
	www.diggershotline.com /history.htm (667 words)

	The World Turned Upside Down
		The Diggers believed that since the English Civil War had been fought against the King and the landowners, and with Charles I executed, land should then be made available to the poor to cultivate.
		Sanders reported they, the Diggers, had invited "all to come in and help them, and promise them meat, drink, and clothes." and that the Diggers claimed that their number would be several thousand within ten days.
		The Diggers were harassed by legal actions and mob violence, and by the end of March 1650 their members were driven off the St. George's Hill.
	www.web.net /~smorton/Billy_Bragg/The_World_Turned_Upside_Down.html (665 words)

	Diggers Hotline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Diggers Hotline also takes calls where excavation is not intended, but where aerial equipment will be used in the vicinity of overhead lines.
		Diggers Hotline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
		Diggers Hotline can process a locate request only if a road intersecting the work site, or if the township, range and section for the work site is provided.
	www.jackelec.com /power_line_questions/diggers_hotline.html (541 words)

	Communalism (4) (Rexroth)
		This is all there was to the Digger movement, a trivial episode which was a ninety-day wonder in the news sheets when it first started, and which was almost without influence at the time, and easily could have been lost to history — except for the writings of Gerrard Winstanley.
		When the Digger tracts began with the adventure at St. George’s Hill, Winstanley’s basic appeal was not to the practice of the apostles or to an eschatological ethic in preparation for apocalypse.
		Winstanley was a devout pacifist all during the Digger experiment; and one reason for the violent abuse of the Diggers, the destruction of their shanties, and the injury and killing of their livestock, was due to the fact that they put up no resistance.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/communalism4.htm (9705 words)

	The Diggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Diggers have been able to encourage the second group of people with learning disabilities to engage with and use the garden space more fully.
		The Diggers were funded by Morecambe Bay Health Trust up to the end of January 2003 as a pilot project.
		At present we are seeking funding to enable The Diggers to become a permanent project.
	www.thumbprint-online.org.uk /Diggers.htm (141 words)

	All for one: Diggers' Mirth Collective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Diggers' Mirth Collective takes its name from a radical agrarian movement that flourished briefly in England in the late 1640s and early 1650s, when a laborer named Gerrard Winstanley published a series of tracts challenging private property rights and arguing that "the earth.
		Diggers' Mirth manages a total of just under 10 acres of Intervale land, putting half in cover crops each year to build organic matter and restore fertility and dedicating the balance to production.
		Like the Intervale as a whole, Diggers' Mirth attracts visitors from across the country who are interested in learning about the collective ownership and management model for small-scale farming.
	www.newfarm.org /features/1204/intervale/diggers/index.shtml (676 words)

	The Diggers (True Levellers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Winstanley attempted to put into practice his ideals for a utopian communistic society, but the Surrey Diggers were persecuted by local landowners and clergymen.
		The Council of State sent soldiers to break up the community and the Diggers were taken to court accused of trespassing.
		At least ten other Digger communities appeared in southern and central England around 1650, but all met with a similar fate to the Surrey group.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /glossary/diggers.htm (359 words)

	Diggers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers.
		Gerrard Winstanley was the leader of the Diggers and the exponent of their egalitarian and communistic philosophy in his New Law of Righteousness (1649).
		The little band planted the common land at St. George’s Hill, Surrey, and at nearby Cobham, but their project was met with suspicion by their neighbors and resistance from the landowners on whose property they encroached.
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/Diggers.html (199 words)

	The world's biggest bank raid: The gold diggers - Independent Online Edition > Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the downside, the man suspected of underwriting the tunnel crime, a drug dealer called Luiz Fernando Ribeiro had been kidnapped and murdered (possibly by corrupt policemen) and the identity of Paulo Sergio remained a mystery.
		He joked about several of his friends, "good diggers", who had been connected to the Central Bank robbery but said he knew nothing of Paulo Sergio, the supposed mastermind of the crime.
		I suspected he knew more, but in his low rasping voice, his final word on the subject was: "I hope the police don't catch Paulo Sergio, he doesn't deserve to be in jail, he deserves to enjoy his life out there with all that money.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/americas/article1209744.ece (1891 words)

	Frequently asked questions - FAQ 1 - 50
		"Digger" was adopted by the rest of the New Zealand Division in 1916.
		The origin of the term "Digger" as applied to the Australian soldier is still disputed, even after 11 years of peace.
		This is written by a NZ Digger for fellow Diggers and really is a moving testament to the sacrifices made by so many in the Great War.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-help/faq.htm (6423 words)

	English Dissenters: Diggers
		Winstanley was concerned by the plight of the people at the lower rungs of English Society, the overlooked or forgotten man. The poor, the sick, the hungry, and the destitute who often did not scrape by or were left to die.
		Surrey Diggers were usually arrest and fined by the local authorities for trespassing and would than have them removed from the property in question.
		The Diggers were grudgingly tolerated at the local level until the wealthy land owners became involved.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/diggers.html (3067 words)

	Deep beneath Moscow a crew of urban spelunkers frolics, hunting Stalin's secret hideaway, Ivan the Terrible's tortur... ...
		A native Muscovite with a bodybuilder's physique, a permanent cloak-and-dagger air, and the gothic vaingloriousness of a comic-book villain, the 32-year-old Mikhailov is chieftain of a celebrated band of urban spelunkers known as the Diggers of the Underground Planet.
		Last year, Mikhailov and the Diggers stumbled upon 250 kilograms of radioactive material under Moscow State University, a discovery that seemed to shed light on the long anecdotal history of illness, hair loss, and infertility among the university's students and faculty.
		There are Digger scrapbooks, videos of various Digger media appearances, cassette tapes filled with Digger songs sung at Digger initiation ceremonies (in which Mikhailov touches the kneeling inductees on each shoulder with a sword, King Arthur style, and then asks them to recite an elaborate pledge to protect the underground environment).
	outside.away.com /magazine/0997/9709under.html (3818 words)

	Gold Diggers of 1933
		A silent version was made in 1923 and the first talking "Gold Diggers" movie was made in the crash year of 1929.
		Gold Diggers of 1933 was filmed during the lowest economic point in American history, and was a film that reflected Depression reality.
		These gold diggers care less about jewelry than where their next meal was coming from.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDGoldDiggers1933.htm (2329 words)

	Acid Dreams: The Diggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thousands of hippies are making the scene when a roving band of mysterious characters suddenly appears among the day-trippers, passing out handbills that bear two enigmatic phrases: Street Menu and Carte de Venue ("Your ticket to somewhere").
		It's the beginning of a street theater spectacle put on by a gangster performing troupe who call themselves the Diggers.
		The theme on this occasion is "The Death of Money and the Birth of Free." A bizarre funeral cortege is making its way up LSD Avenue.
	www.levity.com /aciddreams/samples/diggers.html (473 words)

	The Diggers \| libcom.org
		But as to how far this account of the views of the Diggers is correct, we shall leave to the judgement of those who read the pages that are to follow.
		Before following the further adventures of the Diggers, as revealed in the numerous pamphlets they left us, from which alone they can now be gathered, we deem it best to lay before our readers what we have been able to ascertain of Gerrard Winstanley's previous life's history and writings.
		We are not here called upon to pronounce judgement on these principles; but in passing we shall endeavour to point out how far the demands and doctrines of the Land Reformers of the Seventeenth Century, as revealed in Winstanley's writings, coincide with those of their successors in the Twentieth Century.
	libcom.org /library/the_diggers (1423 words)

	Gerrard Winstanley & The Diggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thus at a momentous time in history the tiny Digger Movement occupied the attention of the Council of State and of the Lord General of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth.
		During the two years which followed, the Diggers of St George's Hill were persecuted by the Lords, the soldiery and the freeholders.
		They were beaten up, their spades were taken away, their houses pulled down, their corn was destroyeons and had appealed to the Army, to Parliament, and to the City of London, that the persecutions should cease.
	tash.gn.apc.org /winst1.htm (4359 words)

	The Diggers
		Oliver Cromwell is reported to have said: "What is the purport of the levelling principle but to make the tenant as liberal a fortune as the landlord.
		You must cut these people in pieces or they will cut you in pieces." Instructions were given for the Diggers to be beaten up and for their houses, crops and tools to be destroyed.
		These tactics were successful and within a year all the Digger communities in England had been wiped out.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUdiggers.htm (974 words)

	English Diggers
		These Diggers held that the English Civil Wars had been fought against the king and the great landowners; now that Charles I had been executed, land should be made available for the very poor to cultivate.
		The Diggers were harassed by legal actions and mob violence, and by the end of March 1650 their colony was dispersed.
		The Diggers also called themselves True Levelers, but their communism was denounced by the leaders of the Levelers.
	www.diggers.org /english_diggers.htm (953 words)

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