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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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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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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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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
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