Ajenai Hampton
For rally speakers, the health-care status quo is unacceptable
As an estimated 475 people listened, several people, including activist Ady Barkan and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, told their personal stories of the impact of the current health-care system in the United States on them and others, and why they are advocating for change.
The nonprofit Rights & Democracy brought “Be A Hero: Organizing for Health Care Justice and a Stronger Democracy,” to the Latchis Theatre on Aug. 10 where speakers in succession made impassioned arguments for universal, government-supported health care.
‘Turning outrage and heartache into action’
Area residents hold vigils to protest Trump policies on immigration and family separation — and the consequences
Residents and regional activists gathered to fill up Pliny Park on June 14 for a vigil organized by Families Belong Together, in support of the more than 11,000 children who have been separated from their families and held in confinement at the Mexican border. The protest organizers described themselves...
Vermont activists participate in national campaign targeting poverty
The Poor People’s Campaign calls — again — for nonviolent unity in focus on improving access to homes, education, and employment
Turn back the clock to 1968. Systemic inequality is seen all over the nation. To raise awareness and to advocate for change, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced a plan to assemble people from all across the nation struck by poverty and inequality to march on Washington for...
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Keeping the cause alive
It's been a few weeks since more than one million students across the nation, including at Brattleboro Union High School, walked out of their schools to show that they would no longer tolerate gun violence. The protests on March 14 demanded changes to the system of laws in place that make it easy for dangerous people to get access to assault weapons. The event that inspired the protests was the Feb. 14 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,