Brattleboro Common Sense
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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…
Offer your grant proposal for preliminary review by BCS and maybe a few others in the Brattleboro activist community. A professionally prepared grant proposal is not required, just your idea and proposal in some written form as a starting point.…
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…
The carrying of firearms by police officers puts the public, and officers, in an unacceptable degree of danger. Sidearms pose an imminent risk of fatal escalation in all situations. Brattleboro is a safe town for officers. There is no need…
Don't study on Snapchat. This will be a serious classroom-style lecture on Critical Race Theory (CRT), 1/2 hour Q&A to follow. Everyone has an opinion, and no one knows the first thing about it. Critical Race Theory is a subject…
RESTARTING POLICE REFORM Small forum by Zoom 2:30 Friday, January 7, 2022 The Brattleboro community safety committee was supposed to start a civilian-led process, but the police took charge of the safety committee report, and many recommendations were rejected without…
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…
POSTPONED!! CRT LECTURE CRITICAL RACE THEORY The CRT lecture by Etan Nasreddin-Longo must be postponed (date TBA). Professor Nasreddin is well. Unfortunately, one BCS staff member is sick with COVID, and other residents at BCS headquarters are sick and awaiting…