Vermont Commons
Recently I was taking off from Rutland Airport. As you know, Vermont's taxes against the middle class force many middle class Vermonters to seek work elsewhere, or just plain leave. It had been foggy before dawn, but the day dawned clear and bright. About to take off, clearance from Air Traffic Control was abruptly revoked... they said that Rutland Airport was fogged in! So, for an hour, I just sat there with engines wasting fuel, polluting, polluting... because of some incompetent weather broadcast.
In the old days we had Flight...
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,...
Student Representatives from Vermont State Colleges speak from the steps of the State House to representatives and media about the dire need to radically rethink Vermont's higher education system
BURLINGTON: “I’m really cold right now” said one state lawmaker while attempting to speak to approximately 300 students and educators as they descended upon the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday morning to demand that state lawmakers radically rethink their approach to higher education funding. As student...
University of Vermont Alum Bill Oetjen of Burlington expresses his outrage at UVMs Davis Center on Friday
"Right now, UVM is in a race to the bottom. They are out of line with students, they are out of line with students, staff, faculty, and maintenence workers interests" said a student of UVM at during a press conference at the Davis Center on Friday. Drawing a crowd of fellow protestors as well as others who watched from various windows, staircases, and...
After months of wrestling with the County Building Department about permits and codes, excruciating financial gymnastics and down and dirty back-breaking spadework, we finally got our solar installation up. It’s a massive 3 kw (stc) photovoltaic pole mount.
We feel like we created the best of two worlds, too, since we live way back in the woods while, at the same time, are generating a lot of electricity. We inscribed a Sun Mantra, OM Suryaya Namaha, around the base of the installation, honoring the Sun as the principal of light, life and love. In Vedic Philosophy, the Sun represents the soul—the causal...
Occupiers march en masse on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
BURLINGTON- In the rainy mid-morning of January 17th, a group of Occupiers some 1,000 strong march down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the United States Capitol building. They are here to speak to their elected representatives on their first day of legislative session. Arriving at the capitol, the occupiers are initially met with about a dozen members of the...
I started hitchhiking in junior high, on those mornings when I missed the last city bus to school and my baritone horn made bicycling a difficult option. Since then, I've hitched short and long distances in the US and Europe, met all types, and arrived at all sorts of destinations.
I was glad to see Leath Tonino's description of a five-day hitchhiking trip around Vermont in Seven Days. I've never hitched without a destination in mind, as he did, but some of my most magical experiences have come from unexpected intermediate destinations...
Vermont residents protest outside of Senator Patrick Leahy's Burlington office
BURLINGTON: On the heels of Senator Patrick Leahy's vote in support of the National Defense Authorization Act residents of Burlington as well as Ferrisburg, Bristol, and other surrounding towns arrived outside Leahy's Main St. office building to protest his vote that supported, among other things, the codifying into law, the indefinite detention, without charge or...
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
BURLINGTON: Picking up from my post from yesterday, following a group of Occupiers from Burlington as they confront the GOP candidates and highlight the inequality of the corporate funded election system in America. The intrepid crew of Vermonters began the day by waking up at 5am and traveling to Concord to begin planning for the morning's GOP debate in that city. After scouting several buildings surrounding the debate hall, the Vermonters assisted in unfurling an Occupy banner proclaiming "THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN" that...
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