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Join a Wave of Nonviolent Direct Actions to rise up against those responsible for climate breakdown. September 12 - 19, 2023 | New York City https://www.acttoendfossilfuels.org/ MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE The morning after the historic March to End Fossil Fuels, thousands…
Note: The meeting time is changed from the usual 6:15 to 5PM only for tomorrow (Tues. 06/20/23). The selectboard knew the motel funding would end, but they planned nothing. BCS has promoted emergency homeless shelters in RVs and campers since…
Make Your Voice Heard Congress is in recess until Sept. 6 — until then, members are in their home states and districts. This is a critical moment for constituents to tell their elected officials: Abortion and birth control must be…
Elizabeth McLoughlin and Dan Quipp worry about resolutions being ineffective. But both of them voted for the ineffective energy committee letter in November 2020, even as the board said it was “unsubstantial” and “frightening”. In 2017 the board supported the…
From Brattleboro Reformer July 5, 2022 https://www.reformer.com/opinion/columnists/parenteau-supreme-court-has-curtailed-epas-power-to-regulate-carbon-pollution-and-sent-a-warning/article_3607f3f8-fbc3-11ec-ac66-ab7525a43447.html In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the…
Now NPR – National Public Radio – has changed its name to just “National Public”. It's like the packaging for shampoo and other products, you may have noticed. They say "lemon freshened" and non-this and low-that and extra-satinizing, and it…
March 13, 2022 BCS started the Youth Vote campaign in 2014. The first "event" we organized was an essay contest at the high school. After that it took a year of asking and reminding school officials before we presented to…
March 1, 2022 Dear Editors, There was a report last week (Feb 28) which contained errors of fact about the Youth Vote amendment The legislation does not allow young people on the selectboard. It allows them on Brattleboro's Representative Town…
Youth Vote Amendment for allowing youth to serve in town government and vote in local elections at age 16. Scott talked for half an hour with me and Teena Hayden in February 2020, and he assured us quite clearly of…
Facing an angry public and the threat of a budget referendum after the murder of George Floyd, the selectboard formed the community safety committee. This was to be a civilian committee composed entirely of residents, especially people at risk, and…