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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…
Brattleboro Selectboard member Jessica Gelter has introduced a “A Resolution to Protect Pregnant People’s Access to Abortion”, to be considered at Tuesday’s Selectboard Meeting. Brattleboro Common Sense has proposed an amendment to the resolution, allocating $105,000 for Planned Parenthood Brattleboro,…
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…
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 7:57 PM Kurt Daims <kurt@brattleborocommonsense.org> wrote: People want to do something about Roe. Protest demonstrations and resolutions are not enough. The Brattleboro selectboard will soon consider a resolution with many whereas's and no force,…
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…
Brattleboro government recognizes the housing crisis, but recent proposals for construction of a dozen or so units are a pathetic response. Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) proposed rent controls and just-cause eviction controls (JCE) two years ago, and town government has…