Brattleboro Common Sense
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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…
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…
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 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…
http://www.reformer.com/stories/native-american-talks-hemp-regulation-and-genocide,539236 This is also the first publicity for BCS' Reparations project. Volunteers and nominations to the council will be held in confidence.
Democracy: A Work In Progress By Nat Roy Voting is the most, and perhaps the only, essential part of a democracy, or a constitutional republic, and as such, is one of the main rights guaranteed to a citizen within itself.…
Youth Suffrage By Everest Whitman Youth should have the right to vote. I’m not saying that we should allow young children to vote. I would set the line somewhat arbitrarily at 14. Teenagers are citizens and members of society just…
Suffrage for an Unheard Minority By Benjamin Knapp My name is Benjamin Knapp. I am an 18 year old citizen of Brattleboro, Vermont, where I have lived my entire life. And 2 years ago, I would have liked to vote.…