MANIFESTO

Maybe this would have been an obvious initial starting point, but I just searched 'manifesto' on wikipedia, and look at all of these!

oh shit!

Political

Examples of notable manifestos:

• The United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
• The declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen during the French Revolution
• The Cartagena Manifesto (1812), by Simón Bolívar
• The Tamworth Manifesto issued in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel
• The Communist Manifesto (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• The Anarchist Manifesto (1850), by Anselme Bellegarrigue.
• The Humanist Manifesto I, II and III
• The 1890 Manifesto dealing with plural marriage, issued by Wilford Woodruff as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 'The Second Manifesto dealing with plural marriage, issued by Joseph F. Smith as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• The October Manifesto (1905) issued by Nicholas II, in an effort to cease the 1905 Russian Revolution
• The Manifesto of the Sixteen (1916)
• The Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria, (1917) by Dr. Freydun Atturaya
• The Amasya Circular (1919)
• The Fascist manifesto (1919), by Fasci di Combattimento
• The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (1925), by Benedetto Croce
• Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (1925), by Adolf Hitler
• The Cannibal Manifesto (1928), by Oswald de Andrade
• The Regina Manifesto (1933), by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
• A Christian Manifesto (1934) by Edwin Lewis
• The PKWN manifesto (1944), by Polish Committee of National Liberation
• The Oxford Manifesto (1947) describing the basic principles of Liberal International
• The Objectives Resolution of Pakistan (1949), by Liaquat Ali Khan
• The Southern Manifesto (1956), opposing the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education
• 'The Capitalist Manifesto (1958), proposing the Democratization of Capital, including employee and citizen's ownership by Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (see Binary Economics')
• The Manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War
• The Sharon Statement (1960), by M. Stanton Evans et al. (Young Americans for Freedom)
• The Port Huron Statement (1962), by Tom Hayden et al.
• The SCUM Manifesto (1968), by Valerie Solanas
• For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973), by Murray Rothbard
• New Libertarian Manifesto (1980), by Samuel Edward Konkin III
• A Christian Manifesto (1982), by Francis Schaeffer
• Manifesto against conscription and the military system (1993) by Christian Bartolf (Gandhi Information Center)
• The Contract with America (1994), by the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives
• Industrial Society and Its Future a.k.a. The Unabomber's Manifesto (1995) by Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski
• The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce
• The Libre Manifesto, by the Libre Society
• Life on Earth (2002) by Luke Helder
• The Free Culture Manifesto (2004), by FreeCulture.org
• Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam (2006) by Bloc 8406
• The Euston Manifesto (2006) by Euston Manifesto Group
• The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008), by Ron Paul

[edit] Artistic

• The Futurist Manifesto (1909), by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
• The Surrealist Manifesto (1924), by André Breton
• Cyberfeminist Manifesto (1991) by VNS Matrix
• Dogma 95 (1995) by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
• [Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity] (1996) by Basarab Nicolescu
• 100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism (1997) by Old Boys' Network
• Minnesota declaration: truth and fact in documentary cinema (1999), by Werner Herzog
• BLAST the Vorticist manifesto, by Wyndham Lewis
• The Anti-News Manifesto (2006), by Scott Ryan

[edit] Technology

• A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), by Donna Haraway
• The GNU Manifesto (1985), by Richard Stallman, an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project
• Industrial Society and Its Future, otherwise known as the Unabomber Manifesto (1995), By Ted Kaczynski
• The Hacker's Manifesto (1986), By The Mentor aka Loyd Blankenship
• Pluginmanifesto by Ana Kronschnabl, a Web film statement
• Cyberfeminist Manifesto (1991) by VNS Matrix
• 100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism (1997) by Old Boys' Network
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997), by Eric S. Raymond
• The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
• The Hacktivismo Declaration (2001) by Oxblood Ruffin (Hacktivismo)
• The Agile Manifesto (2001) by 17 software professionals
• The Third Manifesto (1995), by Christopher J. Date and Hugh Darwen, a proposal for relational database management system
• Monad Manifesto - The Origin of Windows Powershell (2002) by Jeffrey P. Snover