Brattleboro Common Sense
- Providing Local Solutions to global problems
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…
Django Grace: Community Voice and Activist “I met Kurt Daims of BCS in the summer of 2019. I had just participated in a die-in climate action at a local parade, and was feeling good about myself. Many people were congratulating…
Monday, August 17, 2020 -- Zoom Meeting -- Climate Radical Schools Last June Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) promoted a climate crisis resolution which formed the Climate Crisis committee. The school district has a budget three times as large as Brattleboro’s…
Safe Policing Commentary BCS AND THE LONG VIEW ON POLICE REFORM Brattleboro Common Sense is proposing a very simple, cost-free solution for police reform. But it is not a sudden new idea. Last month Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) petitioned for…
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?…
Friday, January 3, 2020 -- Legalize safe hitch-hiking / CLIMATE RESCUE planning session -- Safe licensed hitchhiking has been done in Europe, and we can do it here to SERIOUSLY reduce carbon emissions from automobiles, and provide a real community-based…
Events (before calendar) Wednesday, October 16, 2019 -- Stop pollution on school athletic field -- The school directors will consider covering the football field with plastic astroturf synthetic grass. This is no time to spend a million dollars covering the…