ReSource is reducing poverty in Vermont by training low income people how to fix recycled household goods and computers, and training high school dropouts to weatherize homes and install solar systems. We talk about this unique poverty reduction program with Curtis Ostler, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Domestic spying in Vermont; Landmark GMO labeling law, 4-23-2014
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Vermont attorney David Kelley discusses domestic surveillance vs. the bill of rights. In the second half of the show, Vermont Senator David Zuckerman discusses the passage of Vt’s historic GMO labeling bill today and what it means for the state and the nation.
The New Face of Hunger in Vermont, 4-16-14
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John Sayles, CEO of the Vermont Foodbank, Rob Meehan, director of the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, and Charles Knoll, a client of the food shelf, discuss the perfect storm of rising hunger and declining donations nationally and locally, and the need for a … Continue reading
Is our democracy for sale? Vt. Sec. of State Jim Condos, 4-9-14
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos and Public Citizen’s Aquene Freechild talk about money in politics after the US Supreme Court McCutcheon decision.
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 4-1-2014
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Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Vermont native, on how she became an activist, why she can’t quit, the key role of women in making peace, and her advice to others who want to make change.
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