Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
In less than a week, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon will stop generating power and shut down after over four decades. By the afternoon of Dec. 22, Senior Nuclear Training Instructor Brian Stewart had completed the last training in the control room simulator - an exact replica of the actual control room at the nuclear station - at the Entergy headquarters, a few miles north of the plant on Old Ferry Road. He stood in the 1960s-era...
Sky Hopinka's new film, maɬni - towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020), will begin screening in Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema on Friday, April 9. A viewing link can be found at epsilonspires.org. The film (whose title is pronounced “moth-nee”) centers on Chinookan cosmology and the unfolding life transitions of its subjects, Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier. As described in a news release: “Sweetwater is pregnant and Jordan is awaiting the imminent birth of his second child. From these critical...
Lately I've been envisioning a federal government I could support. This is what some of it would look like: President, Elizabeth Warren; secretary of state, Michelle Obama; attorney general, Sally Yates; secretary of education, Rachel Maddow; secretary of energy (name changed to secretary of the environment), Kamala Harris; secretary of the interior, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard; Supreme Court associate justice, Toni Morrison; press secretary, Amy Goodman. Newly created cabinet positions: Secretary of human rights, Angela Davis; secretary of literature, Margaret...
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