Thank you, Brattleboro! Thank you for supporting the “We Celebrate Democracy/Civil Rights For All” street banner now flying over Main Street in Brattleboro. Thank you for supporting the very sweet Candlelight Vigil For Democracy at Pliny Park in Brattleboro, which 50 some people attended last Sunday.
Thanks to 80 donors, including 25 Brattleboro businesses, who contributed $1,710. Overfunding of $93 will be donated to Brattleboro Area Hospice. Thanks to Ann Brush of Starksboro for making our beautiful banner. Thanks to the people who came to the banner unveiling at the post office on April 14, and to the candlelight vigil. Being there, speaking out, and speaking up publicly in opposition to the fascist takeover of our country and the world is so important.
We do not accept hate and bullying as the way to run the world. We do not accept fascism as an appropriate form of government. We are totally opposed to control of the people, the government, the environment, the marketplace, the media, by the ultra-rich and their handmaidens.
“Democracy” means “people power.” not “corporate money power.” We say profit does not measure our success as a society. Happiness is the true measure of our success.
Brattleboro needs a modern fire department, not an old-fashioned one. The fire department is better at planning than our town government. Modernization of the fire department is protecting the public with preventive education and fire codes. Some documents - not available on the town website -discovered in the town...