Town Meeting
The following blog entry is by Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist. Thanks, Sarah!
The vaccine industry went home with its tail between its legs after suffering an enormous and...
Vermont Independence Convention 2008: Rob Williams
As we are about to vote in the Burlington mayoral election on Tuesday we are reminded of the Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) fiasco of 2009 and are about to face another possible fiasco due to the previous fiasco. Because of a rare statistical fluke of IRV, most analysis using various voting methods for the 2009 election concluded that Andy Montroll should have won. See: http://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html or other sites.
Backers of mayoral candidate Kurt Wright in particular felt that Bob Kiss should not have won the 2009 election and therefore successfully organized to...
Progress. Got some excellent help from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund after taking their course on Community Rights Organizing: the CELDF helped me with a Town Ordinance against Smart Meters, which acts on a local level to prevent the corporate-controlled Legislature in Montpelier from shoving smart meters down the throats of residents. Here's the plain English version,...
The fire in this picture is not from Japan, but from the aging, leaking Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vermont.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, has suspended plans to extend the life of Germany's nuclear power plants, in response to the situation in Japan. Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont has the same power to act.
Or fail to act.
Vermont's Legislature also has that power. Act now. Tell them !
If a highly developed country like Japan, with high safety standards and...
Editor's Note: Today is Vermont's annual TOWN MEETING Day. In honor of town meeting, we are reprinting UVM professor of political science Frank Bryan's 2008 Vermont Commons article entitled "Town Meeting: A Space For Communal Liberty." To all those Vermonters who give up their day to engage in dialogue and debate - we salute you.
Town Meeting Day in Waitsfield - Today - March 1, 2011.
I am unsure of the exact date but the fall of 1957 will do. Forces
in Montpelier were (and had been for some time) making war on the small
schools of Vermont. I was a sophomore at Newbury High School which, on
a...
Transition Town groups love to jump into projects with easily visible results. Last issue, I profiled Transition Town Putney, which created community gardens and a bustling farmers' market in their first year. Transition Town Montpelier's first-year accomplishments included the first vegetable garden on a U.S. statehouse lawn in modern times.
Where do all of these fit into the strategy of the Transition project, “from oil dependence to community resilience”? Are they enough to Transition the community in a planned, participatory, democratic, and fun way before crises force less-pleasant adjustments? And what does the resilient community look like, anyway?
Transition Town Montpelier is hosting discussions to...
Propaganda. Politics. Are you getting a sense of how it works? We've got a Legislature run by major parties and their corporate lobbyists, who will do anythingfor handouts from major corporations, just to balance their bloated budget. At the moment they're not listening to actual Vermonters with proven alternatives. Vote 'em out! From Juliet Buck on the F-35 in South Burlington blog: Watch this short bit on CCTV: http://www.cctv....
Remarks to the Burlington, Vermont City Council; February 7, 2011.
Good evening. My name is Martin Lockheed Inc., and as a corporate person I’d like to bring a little balance to the discussion tonight concerning Burlington’s Climate Action Plan, and Mayor Kiss’s letter of intent with us, Lockheed Martin.
I’ve actually been living here in town for a couple of years, ever since Senator Bernie Sanders visited my in-laws, the Sandias, in New Mexico a couple of years ago.
Now, Senator Sanders hasn’t always been that friendly toward us. In fact, he has accused us of illegal and fraudulent behavior. But he's a reasonable man....
Some favours come at too high a price.
You have a right to know the price of Lockheed bailing out the Montpelier government budget. A few more years of a balanced budget, with recovery always 'just around the corner'. The price:
- - Participation in the ongoing genocide
- - Vermont responsible for sharp increase in Global Warming
- - Lockheed's money comes from borrowed cash that WE have to pay back through higher taxes and lower living standards. Nothing's for free!
- - Vermont becomes a 'Company Town' for the Lockheed corporation
- - Even our schools have to open to...
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