This is how we feel about the Brattleboro Energy Goals being set forth by its committee this Tuesday. This committee sets goals without any actionable plans to meet them, and it spends a lot of time acting like reaching these…
The Following is a reprint of an article at: https://vtdigger.org/2020/09/11/jeff-dardozzi-carbon-dioxide-the-effluent-of-wealth/ One hundred and fifty-five years ago this nation laid to rest, with great sacrifice and bloodshed, the greatest question of its day: chattel slavery. This “peculiar institution” of the South…
Arundhati Roy reads from her new essay “The Pandemic is a Portal,” from her forthcoming book Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. releasing in September from Haymarket Books. "What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In…
The Following is a reprint of an article at: https://peacealliance.org/history-of-mothers-day-as-a-day-of-peace-julia-ward-howe/ “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!… We women of one country will be too…
Comments of Charlie Angus of Canada’s New Democratic Party February 15, 2020 The railway blockades across the country have shaken up the political and business establishment in Canada. There are millions of opinions floating around Facebook/Twitter about the meaning of…
[Letter To the] Editor of the [Brattleboro] Reformer, Rep. Pattie McCoy, the Vermont House Minority Leader, claims that she shares Vermonters' "concerns" about climate change and "its impacts on the integrity of Vermont's natural beauty" (Reformer, Jan. 9, 2020). Really?…
The following was posted as a response/comment to a commentary, "Anna Marie Gewirtz: Art as protest", on vtdigger.org -- https://vtdigger.org/2019/10/29/anna-marie-gewirtz-art-as-protest/ "Science – the darling ally of the Left now – would tell us that Love does not change everything. Love…
Are we adults politicizing/exploiting our youth? This article (at VTDigger.org) raises a point worth thinking about... Jeffrey Reel: Children, social justice action and suicide The author writes in response to this article which provides another view... Rob Roper: Exploiting kids…
Truly a sobering story. The man was a civil rights lawyer, but he felt a call for climate rescue and made the desperate sacrifice. We need more people like him -- to stay alive and fight! *F I G H…