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SUMMARY:Selectboard Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Your chance to discuss the homeless situation in Brattleboro.
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/selectboard-meeting/
LOCATION:230 Main St.\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301
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SUMMARY:Add $105\,000 to the Brattleboro Reproductive Justice Resolution
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBrattleboro Common Sense has proposed an amendment to the resolution\, allocating $105\,000 for Planned Parenthood Brattleboro\, the national activism of Pro-Choice America\, and grants for local activism. We will also propose an amendment for a legal defense fund for victims of abortion vigilante laws. \nIf Brattleboro is going to take action for reproductive justice\, we have to move beyond symbolism and take action that has concrete\, immediate\, and lasting impact. SHOW UP to support the resolution and BCS’s amendments! \nYou can and must speak up wherever you are. \nAugust 2nd\, 2022\, 6:15PM. — 230 Main Street or\nZoom  (Selectboard meetings code 12261753 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86067892659): \n \nVermont Digger Article from July 20th:\nhttps://vtdigger.org/2022/07/20/should-brattleboro-town-government-support-abortion-rights-and-spend-tax-money-to-do-so/ \nWHAT HAPPENED TO THE BACKLASH?\nWe’re concerned and very disappointed that the Roe V Wade debacle seems to have been forgotten lately by everyone. Where are our activists ? \nThe last selectboard meeting had five people who attended and spoke\, all in favor of the abortion resolution. (Crickets.) No excuse. \nGet there: show your opinion or the Selectboard will go with their own. The Fourteenth Amendment is being eroded. We need to speak up about abortion and civil rights\, which are under attack now. For the first time ever our rights have been taken away that have never been abridged before. \nThe Texas Abortion Vigilante law is ugly and clever\, reaching outside the jurisdiction of the state. Now we need forceful action to defend womens’ rights. By funding national abortion rights advocacy and legal defense Brattleboro can take effective action beyond our borders in response. \nThe religious Right has gained influence in the Supreme Court. Pro-life activism is innovative and aggressive. Few people on the Left will deny that the political situation is urgent. But civilians and officials fail to really believe in any emergency\, it seems\, whether the emergency is about climate or housing or womens’ rights. \nIn the July 19 Brattleboro selectboard meeting about the reproductive justice resolution\, board members Elizabeth McLoughlin and Dan Quipp worried about resolutions being ineffective. But both of them had voted for the ineffective energy committee letter in November 2020 which supported the Paris accords. Ms. McLoughlin herself pointed out that the board had already made a resolution for that in 2017\, also ineffectual and outside their jurisdiction. The board complained that the committee’s letter was “unsubstantial”. So\, their hesitation seemed inconsistent. \nThe board wants a substantial commitment on abortion. Here it is: \nBCS has proposed an amendment to the resolution\, allocating $105\,000 for Planned Parenthood and the national activism of Pro-Choice America and local activism. We will also propose an amendment for a legal defense fund for victims of abortion vigilante laws. \nSelectboard member Jessica Gelter\, who proposed the resolution\, supports the funding amendment. Chairman Ian Goodnow at least favors the resolution. \nBut some members of the board worried about excluding RTM from voting on the funds. If an RTM vote is desired\, RTM can assemble on a month’s notice. \nThey said that the Human Services Committee should handle the funding. (The committee funding is capped and completely spent every year. Even if there were more money available through the committee\, it would take effect next June. Is waiting eleven months the way to address a crisis ?) \nGetting the money is no problem if the will is there. Emergency funding did the repairs after Hurricane Irene\, and RTM was not consulted. It was an emergency. Funds can come from the unassigned fund balance. There is no policy about requirements for using the unassigned fund balance. Town government writes the checks and can decide later by legislation to take the funds from the balance or raise taxes to defray the cost. The real problem is something else: the urgency of the situation is not important enough for some board members to put their personal concerns aside. \nDaniel Quipp said he doesn’t want people thinking he promised legal protections and care here in Brattleboro. Piffle !! No one thinks the resolution would be a personal commitment from him. And Ms. McLoughlin said\, “I feel the Selectboard is a nonpartisan body. don’t think it’s appropriate for us to be influencing that decision or even share what our beliefs and wishes are.” She has said that supporting Democrats is the one and only strategy for all progress\, and she has been consistent in this respect. Anyone can hold those opinions\, but this is representative government. In case of an emergency resolution like this the board’s wisdom would come not in advancing its own opinion\, but in their knowing the opinions of the people. But their main point shows some integrity. This is a mild isolationist attitude. \nBut the board must not misunderstand its place in the process. This is not about THEIR opinions\, and not everything presses on their shoulders. Three examples: in 2018 BCS filed a petition for a resolution to create an energy/sustainability coordinator\, and it was funded by RTM. Then the board followed with the details and the hiring. Second\, in 2017 RTM approved a resolution to ban plastic bags. The board followed up by drafting the plastic bag ordinance. In 2009 selectboard blocked petitions that they personally opposed\, and BCS took them to court. The court decision now protects the petitions of individuals and organizations in Brattleboro from censorship by town government. \nThe people decide for themselves what they think is important. This principle must prevail now. The amendmended abortion resolution will not complete the process. If the selectboard approves the resolution with the funding amendment\, they must then follow through to specify the funding and legalities. If they are in doubt about what the people feel\, then they should arrange a vote of the people. But they should have no doubt about their duty or what the people feel. \nTwo members of the board were reluctant to help Brattleboro express its opinion. If this matter were only about sharing an opinion that everyone expects\, BCS would agree that it is not so important. But it is more than that. BCS believes in the power of ideas and in the voice of Brattleboro. Our mission is to amplify the voice of Brattleboro. In this matter it is urgent to put the financial power of the town behind our voice. \nThe resolution with funding protects women inside and outside Brattleboro by funding Planned Parenthood and the national activism of Pro-Choice America (and local activism). It defends people who are victimized by the Texas abortion bounty law and similar laws. These actions are urgently needed\, and if they start in Brattleboro and reach outside\, then good ! We must grow and try. The other way is like giving up. \nTHE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS\nThe resolution before the Selectboard: Pages 99-100 of Tuesday’s agenda:\nhttps://www.brattleboro.org/vertical/sites/%7BFABA8FB3-EBD9-4E2C-91F9-C74DE6CECDFD%7D/uploads/Agenda_07-05-22_Linked.pdf \nBCS’s Amendments: \nAlready discussed at Selectboard’s July 19 meeting: \nLet it be further resolved that: \n5. The Town of Brattleboro immediately donate: \na) $50\,000 to Planned Parenthood’s Brattleboro office to support reproductive care for all of Brattleboro’s residents and guests\, especially including people of color and LGBTQ+ people. \nb) $50\,000 to Pro-choice America\, to support their advocacy of reproductive rights throughout the U.S. \nc) $5\,000 for a grant for advocacy of reproductive rights by a Brattleboro resident or group. \nNot yet discussed at selectboard: A motion to to create a legal defense fund of $50\,000 and direct the town attorney to assist in the defense of victims (defendants) of the Texas Abortion Vigilante law (SB8 and similar laws) \nVIDEO OF JULY 19 SELECTBOARD HEARING:\nThe resolution is discussed from 7:20 to 1:05:25 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VpoOXa8_8
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/add-105000-to-the-brattleboro-reproductive-justice-resolution/
LOCATION:230 Main St.\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220719T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220719T200000
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SUMMARY:Action on Abortion! Talk the talk.  THEN WALK THE WALK.
DESCRIPTION:On Wed\, Jul 13\, 2022 at 7:57 PM Kurt Daims <kurt@brattleborocommonsense.org> wrote: \nPeople 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\, supporting the right to abortion. A resolution is effective when it publishes a new idea\, or when the signers’ name or numbers strengthen an idea. But no one’s mind will change because the Brattleboro selectboard makes a resolution that liberals like to hear. We ask assistance in promoting the amendment below\, because the resolution without it is ineffectual. With this amendment we make a new model for enforceable local action. \n(See page 99 for the full text) \nThis amendment should be added to the end of the resolution. \nLet it be further resolved that: \n5. The Town of Brattleboro immediately donate: \na) $50\,000 to Planned Parenthood’s Brattleboro office to support reproductive care for all of Brattleboro’s residents and guests\, especially including people of color and LGBTQ+ people. \nb) $50\,000 to Pro-choice America\, to support their advocacy of reproductive rights throughout the U.S. \nc) $5\,000 for a grant for advocacy of reproductive rights by a Brattleboro resident or group.  \nCome to speak before the selectboard\, and they will do the right thing – the strong action. \nBrattleboro Common Sense (BCS) is also promoting an office of social justice coordinator\, who would administer the grant for local activism if the amendment succeeds. BCS has promoted this concept before\, petitioning for coordinators for justice in 2007\, for a town grand juror in 2009\, and for an energy (sustainability) coordinator in 2019\, which was successful. Our goal is to bring the official power of the town — its reputation and its treasury — fully behind the progressive majority. \nAttend the meeting by Zoom or at 230 Main Street. The date is not official yet\, but will very likely be:\nTuesday July 19\, 6:15 – 8 PM\nmeeting code 12261753\, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86067892659 \nSHARE — Join — Contact info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org to DO MORE.
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/action-on-abortion-talk-the-talk-then-walk-the-walk/
LOCATION:230 Main St.\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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SUMMARY:Housing Crisis and Remedies
DESCRIPTION:Brattleboro government recognizes the housing crisis\, but recent proposals for construction of a dozen or so units are a pathetic response. \nBrattleboro Common Sense (BCS) proposed rent controls and just-cause eviction controls (JCE) two years ago\, and town government has dragged its feet. BCS is also proposing emergency measures to create new housing in a matter of days without new construction. \nIn the next few months RAD will be embarking on a campaign that will promote and support Just Cause Eviction Charter Change efforts in several municipalities across the state. Just Cause Eviction is one policy that can be implemented to alleviate some of the issues facing renters. It prevents Landlords from arbitrarily evicting tenants for no reason and requires landlords to renew leases to tenants that have adhered to their lease agreements. JCE policy creates protections for tenants and ensures Landlord accountability. \nRAD previously took point on the JCE Charter Change in Burlington\, successfully getting the policy onto the ballot and passing it with a 64% majority. ( See HB 708 . ) While we successfully got it passed both chambers of the Statehouse\, it was ultimately vetoed by Scott and failed the Veto override vote by just 1 vote. It’s not over. \nBCS invites you to discuss emergency measures and RAD Just Cause Eviction. \nJoin Zoom meeting 4:50 PM June 20\, 2022 Passcode 085966\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375624148?pwd=bEpxNDdhN0tEYlVQYWMrZGpaRzNjUT09 \nThere is a selectboard meeting the next day.
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/housing-crisis-and-remedies/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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UID:33114-1653933600-1653940800@brattleborocommonsense.org
SUMMARY:Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) announces small grant review CLIMATE – RACIAL JUSTICE – DEMOCRACY and ELECTION REFORM
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. Individuals will qualify for these grants. Incorporation as 502c3 is not required. Special encouragement is offered to your friends who are looking for a way to become involved in the great cause of their calling. Funds up to $3000 will be issued in advance upon approval of grants. Proposals must align with BCS’ work and mission of social justice\, but we will probably not offer funding for new support groups or discussion groups. Proposals may assist or advance some aspect of specific projects that we have funded or are currently funding\, listed below\, but can certainly address other issues. \nZoom meeting 6PM EST Monday\, May 30\, 2022\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81184651841 \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/brattleboro-common-sense-bcs-announces-small-grant-review-climate-racial-justice-democracy-and-election-reform/
LOCATION:VT
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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SUMMARY:Forum on Police Disarmament In Brattleboro
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nBrattleboro is a safe town for officers. There is no need to endanger people on the street\, residents at gatherings\, and students in schools\, or to make them feel threatened. \nBrattleboro Common Sense’s S.A.F.E. Policing Plan specifies the removal of sidearms from regular patrols\, community meetings and events\, and school visits and events. We believe this will transform police relations and public safety.  \nThe SAFE plan\, which includes pilot projects for unarmed policing\, was recommended by the recent Community Safety Review Committee report. Town staff and the Selectboard negated the recommendation\, along with many others. \nThose actions denied residents any discussion of town staff’s justification for countering the community process. This forum replaces that lost opportunity\, at least for this issue. \nThe forum will begin with a short talk by Officer Graeme Donald of Police Scotland. Graeme has thirty-five years’ experience as an officer\, Inspector and Chief Inspector. He has dealt with many violent situations as an unarmed officer\, and has been an authorized firearms officer and a firearms commander. He is BCS’s chief consultant on the SAFE project. \nJoin us to debate and discuss these issues this Saturday\, February 12\, from 3:30p to 5:30p\, by Zoom video/tele-conference. \nYou can register for the link here: forms.gle/SzMNaJR3VWXE42yD9 \nQuestions and Information: info@brattleborocommonsense.org \n  \nIF IN AN EMAIL: \nIf you prefer\, you can save this email and use this direct link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89788122680 \nDial-In and One tap mobile \n+1 (646) 558-8656 \nMeeting ID: 897 8812 2680
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/forum-on-police-disarmament-in-brattleboro/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220205T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220205T173000
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UID:33043-1644075000-1644082200@brattleborocommonsense.org
SUMMARY:CRITICAL RACE THEORY - a lecture by Professor Etan Nasreddin Longo
DESCRIPTION: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. \nEveryone has an opinion\, and no one knows the first thing about it. Critical Race Theory is a subject that deserves a serious learning environment and a qualified teacher. BCS is very happy to present Professor Etan Nasreddin-Longo\, so that people can have an introductory lesson about it. Professor Longo lectures on race and CRT. He is currently director of the Vermont Legislative Panel on Racial Disparities in Montpelier and counsel to the Vermont State Police on officer training. Locally he has been a visiting professor at Marlboro College. No need to bring pencil and paper\, just your thinking cap. \nAttend by teleconference — (Zoom) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89138508355\n3:30 PM Saturday\, February 5\, 2022\nAttendance is free; donation is only requested. \nSponsored by Brattleboro Common Sense
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/critical-race-theory-a-lecture-by-professor-etan-nasreddin-longo/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220107T143000
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UID:33033-1641565800-1641573000@brattleborocommonsense.org
SUMMARY:Police Reform is Derailed.  Let’s talk.  1/7/22
DESCRIPTION:RESTARTING POLICE REFORM \nSmall forum by Zoom 2:30 Friday\, January 7\, 2022 \nThe 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 public hearing. If you’re interested\, please attend\, and we will discuss: \n– Brattleboro Common Sense SAFE Policing plan (since 2017)\,\n– police with guns in public schools (SRO) and at public meetings\,\n– recommendations of the committee\n– civilian control and supervision of police\, and\n– your ideas for police reform. \nBCS consultant Officer Graeme Donald of Police Scotland and Professor Etan Nasreddin-Longo will be on hand. \nPlease register in advance: info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org \n\n 
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/police-reform-is-derailed-lets-talk-1-7-22/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211227T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211227T163000
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UID:32932-1640615400-1640622600@brattleborocommonsense.org
SUMMARY:POSTPONED -- Critical Race Theory - a lecture with Professor Etan Nasreddin Longo
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nPOSTPONED!! CRT LECTURE CRITICAL RACE THEORY\nThe 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 their test results. Although we would be glad to see everyone\, we have plenty of help from the community. Please do not drop in unannounced. If there is another COVID lock-down\, our discussions of SAFE Policing\, Transgenderism vs Feminism\, and rent reform will be re-arranged as teleconferences or delayed by two weeks. While we wait for our results\, think negative\, everyone!\ninfo@BrattleboroCommonSense.org \nCritical Race Theory – a lecture with Professor Etan Nasreddin Longo\, sponsored by Brattleboro Common Sense \nDon’t study on Snapchat. A serious classroom-style lecture on Critical Race Theory (CRT) by Professor Etan Nasreddin-Longo. \nEveryone has an opinion\, and no one knows the first thing about it. Critical Race Theory is a subject that deserves a serious learning environment and a qualified teacher. BCS is very happy to present Professor Etan Nasreddin-Longo\, so that the people around Brattleboro can have an introductory lesson about it. Professor Longo lectures on race and CRT and has been a visiting professor at Marlboro College. He is currently director of the Vermont Legislative Panel on Racial Disparities and counsel to the Vermont State Police on officer training. Bring your pencil and paper\, and of course\, your mask. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/critical-race-theory-a-lecture-with-professor-etan-nasreddin-longo/
LOCATION:193 Main St.\, Brattleboro\, VT 05302
ORGANIZER;CN="Brattleboro Common Sense":MAILTO:info@brattleborocommonsense.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200817T160000
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SUMMARY:Climate Radical Schools
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 17\, 2020 — Zoom Meeting — Climate Radical Schools \nLast 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 and thousands of young students. It is a large political entity. The committee invited me (Kurt Daims of BCS) to propose “radical” climate policy recommendations for discussion. Honestly\, I didn’t hold back\, and I was dumbfounded that the committee was — no kidding — receptive. Written proposals were requested for submission to the main board. (I missed the deadline\, and I apologize to everyone.) But we have allies — people who want to hear you\, and serious climate thinking happening on this school board\, and I am officially charged with inviting you. There is a chance for something new on climate issues IF people bring passion and radical ideas to the board meeting next Wednesday. Climate policy will be on the agenda. To prepare for that meeting and expand the radical climate agenda attend the Zoom meeting Monday\, Aug 17\, 2020 at 4. To register contact us at: info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org\n— Kurt
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/climate-radical-schools/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200702T180000
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SUMMARY:Dinner/discussion -- Where do we go from here?
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 02\, 2020 — Dinner/discussion — Where do we go from here? \nAfter talking with selectpersons Ian Goodnow\, Brandie Starr and others in town government I am convinced we will be able to cooperate fruitfully. We will not submit any petitions. More on this later. See: Safe Policing Project \nThis will be a sit-down dinner and face-to-face discussion. BYOM (mask) \n– advocacy methods beyond protests and free speech\n– civics under social distancing\n– specific policy proposals \nRegister by email info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org and choose your dinner: omnivore\, vegetarian or vegan.\nNo charge to attend. \n6 PM Thursday\, July 2\, 2020\nlocation: Brattleboro TBA
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/dinner-discussion-where-do-we-go-from-here/
LOCATION:VT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200125T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200125T170000
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CREATED:20201229T191531Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Crisis and Community
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 25\, 2020 — Climate Crisis and Community\nCellphone-monitored ride-sharing for community and reducing automotive carbon emissions. \nInitial meeting and brainstorming session. \n3:00 PM Saturday\, January 25\, 2020\nBrattleboro Common Sense\n16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/climate-crisis-and-community/
LOCATION:Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Breaking Trump's Chain of Command
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 25\, 2020 — Breaking Trump’s Chain of Command \n– not a protest demonstration\n– establishing a town office of Justice Coordinator\n– legal defense fund for military heroes and whistle-blowers who resist orders for illegal war \n(Ordinance named for U.S. Army Major Hugh Thompson\, who stopped the My Lai Massacre) \nIf soldiers refuse illegal orders\, as many heroes and whistle-blowers have done\, then Trump’s illegal war will be stopped. Create a Justice Coordinator to administer a legal defense fund to encourage soldiers of conscience to RESIST illegal orders (especially from Trump). This ordinance is not a resolution or a protest demonstration; it engages directly the soldiers who control the weapons of war. \n1:00 PM Saturday\, January 25\, 2020\nBrattleboro Common Sense\n16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/breaking-trumps-chain-of-command/
LOCATION:Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200107T080000
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SUMMARY:breaking the chain of command for war
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 7\, 2020 — EMERGENCY breaking the chain of command for war \nA proposal was announced this past Thursday for a way to interrupt the chain of command for illegal orders to start a war against Iran. It was widely predicted that Trump would start a new war in order to distract people from his impeachment trial. Now two days later he has started the war by assassinating a general in Iran. This is a flagrant act of war and a violation of international law and U.S. law. Though not in peril of our lives like so many Iranians and dark-skinned people around the world\, the American people are hostage to a maniac. But we cannot simply wait for his impeachment trial to remove him. Instead we must address this new emergency with forceful action to interrupt the chain of command through which Trump acts. \nTrump doesn’t perpetrate all his — his crimes himself. Whether he’s putting immigrant children in cages or blasting innocent confused people to bits\, he does it by giving orders. If people refuse his orders\, as many heroes and whistle-blowers have done\, then Trump himself will not put those children in cages. He will not himself bomb those innocent crowds. So\, we need to remind U.S. military officers that their oath is to the Constitution of the United States\, and not to the president. We must remind them that their duty under the Nuremberg Principles is to refuse illegal orders. And we need to honor them and start a legal defense fund for them\, and we need to do this NOW. \nWars are more than ugly enough\, with civilians who know nothing about the conflicts that envelop them\, and have no idea why fiery death falls on them from the sky\, why they suffer for the conflicts between leaders of governments they don’t support\, just as we don’t support this one. For such horrors conscience drives soldiers to insanity. Let’s help our officers act on conscience now. \nLet us see our selectboard ASAP — Tuesday the seventh\, 6:15 at Municipal Center — about emergency measures to boost our military officers\, set up a defense fund\, and establish an office of Justice Coordinator to supervise this effort. Actually BCS prepared petitions for this during the late Bush administration; how sad that such things don’t go out of date. Meanwhile contact the soldiers you know\, so that they are not dishonored by unlawful orders from Trump. Tell them that they must resist such illegal orders\, and that we have their back\, for such a hero will deserve the thanks of the nation and the world. \nLawful_Orders_Ordinance_Petition_IP \nMilitary_Oath.  \nUpdate: Lawful Orders Ordinance / Thompson Ordinance\nBCS volunteer Bruce Clauson proposed the ordinance to the Brattleboro selectboard yesterday evening (January 8\, 2020). After outlining the proposal Clauson suggested it be named for U.S. Major Hugh Thompson\, who placed himself in the line of fire to end the massacre in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968. Selectboard Chair Brandie Starr suggested Clauson submit a proposal to the town manager’s office for inclusion in the agenda. BCS is seeking colleagues to promote similar proposals across the U.S. before issuing a general press release or investing heavily in the ordinance. We believe the orientation of the new name is excellent and the project\, with it’s moral support of military officers\, simple enforceable mechanism and direct connection to the primary actor\, is BCS most potent initiative to date. \n6:15 PM Tuesday\, January 7\, 2020\nMeet selectboard for public participation\nrequest emergency action\n230 Main Street\, Brattleboro\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/breaking-the-chain-of-command-for-war/
LOCATION:Selectboard\, 230 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200103T183000
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SUMMARY:CLIMATE RESCUE planning session
DESCRIPTION: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 climate rescue measure. Now it can be safe in the U.S. with simple use of cellphones to record identities and locations. \nDrivers and Riders can photo each other for security and send photos to police or friends. \nPeople have another way to share resources and get to know each other. Share a ride; make a friend. \nStrategy and Planning session\n6:30 Friday\, January 3\, 2020\n16 Washington Street or by teleconference (ask for details)\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/climate-rescue-planning-session/
LOCATION:Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Strategy and Planning session
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 2\, 2020 — Strategy and Planning session — Trump is a cornered snake now\, and more likely than ever to start a new war. Let’s start a way to prevent it. First line of defense that we can use is the military itself. We must: \n• remind U.S. military officers that their oath is to the Constitution\, not the president\,\n• establish an emergency legal defense fund\, to encourage honorable officers to invoke the Nuremberg Principles and refuse unlawful orders\,\n• create a local Justice Coordinator to administer this effort\, promote the indictment of Donald Trump\, and serve other social justice causes\, \nStrategy and Planning session\n6:30 Thursday\, January 2\, 2020\n16 Washington Street or by teleconference (ask for details)\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/strategy-and-planning-session/
LOCATION:Meeting\, 16 Washington Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05302\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180922
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SUMMARY:Older Events -- 2018-2019
DESCRIPTION:Events (before calendar)\n\nWednesday\, 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 earth with glorified plastic pollution. It’s a horrible thing to do\, and it destroys the soil ecosystem. LET the EARTH BREATHE ! Come to the school board meeting: \n• vote to withdraw the RFP for the gross and unnecessary expense — ON PRINCIPLE — not just because of cost.\n• Remind the directors that they are AUTHORIZED\, not obligated to expend the school budget allotment\, and vote to remove the astroturf pollution from the budget.\n• Other cheaper SAFER sports do as much for education as football does.\n• Act 46 is the painful cost of this kind of wasteful spending.\n• Ask athletic supporters\, “Of course you love your sporty kids\, but please stop this selfish spending.”. \nBCS tried to clarify that the directors should have climate crisis on their own agenda\, because it should be on the minds of officials at the highest levels of government\, and that it does not conform to the approved resolution if they only have a committee. \n6:00 PM\nSchool Directors Meeting\nDummerston Elementary School\n52 Schoolhouse Road\, East Dummerston\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org \nTuesday\, September 17\, 2019 — CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARATION MEETING EVERYONE — this is a global issue and not just about Brattleboro telling the selectboard to get real and declare a climate emergency. \n6:15 PM\n230 Main Street\nBrattleboro\, Vermont\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org\n \nMonday\, September 16\, 2019 — DINNER PARTY AND PHONE BANK \n5:00 PM\n16 Washington Street\, 5:00 Monday 9/16\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org \nWednesday\, September 11\, 2019 — WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Sustainability and the Climate Emergency Declaration\nBrattleboro has given sustainability many forms and names. It was advanced in the town plan by Tim Stevenson and by his group Post Oil in 2009\, restarted as the Peak Oil Task Force in 2011\, as Spoon Agave’s “Futures Committee”\, and as an energy committee. BCS petitioned for the position at March rep town meeting\, and Spoon Agave\, who is a director of BCS\, amended the budget for it. The position is not yet defined and may be hard to fill. Brattleboro’s stand on the broader issue is clearer as shown in resolutions by Brattleboro Common Sense on nuclear power\, climate change and clean energy and in one by the selectboard and one by 350. Now the coordinator is integrated in the aspirational BCS Declaration of Climate Emergency\, which is not yet enacted. Where do we go from here? Learn and speak about the sustainability coordinator and the Declaration of Climate Emergency. \n6:00 PM\n118 Elliot Street\, Brattleboro\nContact Brattleboro Common Sense\n802 490 9363 — info@BrattleboroCommonSense.org \nWednesday August 28\, 2019 — Discussion of the new version of the declaration of climate emergency without the declaration of war \n118 Elliot Street probably around 6:00 PM\nCall for update: 802 490 9363\n(The selectboard will vote on this at their meeting — September 3\, 2019 6:15 PM at 230 Main Street Brattleboro) \nClick to view large size\nWednesday\, June 19\, 2019 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Brattleboro Common Sense and 118 Elliot are showing a new documentary\, Ice on Fire\, by Leonardo DiCaprio. An eye-opening documentary\, this film focuses on many never-before-seen solutions designed to slow down our escalating environmental crisis. The film goes beyond the current climate change narrative and offers hope that we can actually stave off the worst effects of global warming. \nDifferent from the typical movie-discussion model\, the evening will begin with a short Silent Reflection for people to silently connect with climate change as an emotional experience personally as well as in relation to the effects to generations of humans\, animals\, nature\, and the planet. Then the film\, Ice on Fire\, will untangle and present some common sense and innovative ways that humans are dealing with climate change. After the film\, in a Silent Storm\, the group will silently write down individual and community solutions\, and bring them together in theme-based groups. The themes to be explored are: declaring climate emergency; conservation and sacrifice; inventions and innovations; stewardship and indigenous wisdom\, local political action. The evening is the first in a series of events by Brattleboro Common Sense to explore emotional and philosophical approaches to the climate crisis. \nBCS at the 2019 parade\nSaturday\, June 8\, 2019 — Come see us at the Slow Living Expo and Strolling of the Heifers Weekend\nVolunteers welcome for the Parade and the Expo area. \n10:00 AM\, up Main Street.\nThe Strolling of the Heifers Parade Brattleboro\, VT\nThe theme will be farmers as heroes\, and the BCS contingent will be doing theater to emphasize the climate crisis’ destruction of farmers’ crops and lives. Look for the wheelbarrows. \n9:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nSlow Living Expo\nBrattleboro Common and Linden Street.\n\nStop by the BCS area to sit comfortably and discuss re-sourcing\, conservation sacrifices\, our campaigns for local democracy and economic justice\, or your feelings and thoughts about being trapped in the climate crisis. Look for the big parchment with a Climate Emergency Declaration on it. \nSaturday\, March 23\, 2019 — IMPORTANT TOWN MEETING DEBATE on CLIMATE CRISIS at Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting. — The town meeting members will consider the budgetary articles and a Climate Crisis Resolution preliminary to an ordinance. Debate on the resolution is likely to start in the late afternoon\, but is not specifically scheduled. Local youth may propose their own climate crisis resolution to be moved by proxy member of the meeting. The public is invited to participate as at selectboard meetings. \n3:00 PM (approximate time)\nBUHS gymnasium\n \nFriday. March 15\, 2019 — Youth Climate Protest — Across the world\, youth are gathering to focus the attention of local\, state and national legislators on protecting our resources and environment. Join young people of southern Vermont to demand that lawmakers do what they can to steer us from climate disaster\, and protect our frontline communities who are already suffering the consequences of it. \n7:40 AM- 8:45 AM\nBrattleboro Union High School\n \nNoon – 1:00 PM\nPliny Park\n \n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM\nPliny Park\n \nTuesday\, March 12 AND Thursday March 14\, 2019 — Organize for serious climate rescue legislation at Representative Town Meeting — meet to organize around presenting authentic stories and concerns about climate crisis and offer your plans to begin climate rescue at the RTM. We will strategize about advocating enforceable new measures (other than recycling) and preventing obstructionist and denial from diverting real climate rescue discussion. The resolution on the agenda is designed for us to rewrite. The particular measures\, if any are approved\, don’t matter. What matters is that we admit our fear and harness its power\, and that we try together to raise the issue to the next level. \n6:30 PM\nAt Hyde Park Soapbox\n16 Washington Street\nBrattleboro\n \nWednesday\, March 13\, 2019 — Brattleboro Town Informational Meeting — no voting — learn about the Common Sense Conservation initiative and budgetary and other matters on the RTM agenda that will be considered on March 23. \n7:00 PM\nAt Academy School \n860 Western Ave  \nTuesday\, March 5\, 2019 — Town-wide voting — Youth Vote town charter amendment WON BY 69%! \nThursday\, February 14\, 2019 — Local Government & Energy Conservation Revolution: Come hear about how BCS is addressing the global climate crisis by trying to enact local change in Brattleboro. Learn about our grassroots initiative and why we urgently need to reduce our emissions and energy consumption. \n12:00 PM\nAt the River Garden\n157 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT  \nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 — deadline for submission of Energy Conservation Petition to Selectboard \nFriday\, January 4\, 2019 — Get the Word Out Non-Profit Showcase \n5:30 PM – 8:30 PM\nAt the River Garden\n157 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT  \nTuesday\, October 2nd & Tuesday\, October 9th\, 2018 — Public Hearings on the Youth Vote Ballot Initiative \n6:15 PM\nSelectboard Room in the Brattleboro Municipal Center\n230 Main St.\, Second Floor\, Suite 212\nThe Brattleboro Youth Vote ballot initiative has gotten the needed amount of public support\, and Selectboard approval\, to be put on the March 2019 town ballot!!! These hearings are the required fora for public information and debate on ballot initiatives that alter the Town Charter. Please come with your questions\, and definitely with your support! To speak to the Youth Vote Coordinator\, click here to email Rio. \nSunday\, September 9\, 2018 — Huddle up w/ Lt. Gov. Zuckerman and Youth Vote \n1:30 PM – 3:30 PM\nPutney Public Library\n55 Main St.\, Putney\, VT 05346\nThe Putney Huddle is pleased that the Lt. Governor Zuckerman and Youth Vote are able to join us for September’s meeting.\nAll our welcome\, but must subscribe to our norms.\n———————————————————————-\n1:15 – “Early Bird” Local Love Brigade Post Card Action\n1:30- Meeting called to order – Mission and norms\n1:35- Introductions\n1:40- Huddle Announcements –\n1:45- Flipping Windham 1 – Team Sara\n1:55- Lt. Gov David Zuckerman\n2:40- Youth Vote with Rio Daims and James Shanti-Strother\n3:10- Group Announcements\n3:20- Closing Statements\n———————————————————————- \nWednesday. September 22\, 2018 — Democracy Forum on the Youth Vote \nNoon -1:00 PM\nat the River Garden in Brattleboro\nCost: free
URL:https://brattleborocommonsense.org/event/older-events-pre-2020/
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