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What's Going On?: Nuclear bombs - Lessons Learned? 08/07/2020

Host Sandy Baird is joined by Peter Garritano, Marc Estrin and Ian Stokes to discuss the 75 years since two atomic bombs were exploded over Japanese cities, and other fallout from the news.

March & Rally Against Actions of the Department of Homeland Security in Portland, Oregon 07/24/2020

Protest Trump’s police state in Portland and everywhere! Stop the deployment of federal agents in our cities!

Community members assembled Friday, July 24 at 6pm at the Federal Building in Burlington, Vermont and marched on Church Street to Senator Leahy’s Office.

Trump has deployed Customs and Border Protection’s paramilitary unit, Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), to Portland, Oregon to suppress protests of the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with other federal agents, they are driving through the city in unmarked vans, patroling in camouflaged uniforms without identification, and nabbing activists and detaining them without charges in undisclosed locations.

Hometown Media Awards 'Stay At Home' Celebration 2020 07/09/2020

The Alliance For Community Media Conference was cancelled for in person meeting and learning, but the Hometown Media Awards celebration proceeded. Here are some excerpts of the winners from this year competition.

What's Going On?: Power to the People? 06/05/2020

Host Sandy Baird is joined by Peter Garritano, Kurt Mehta, Marc Estrin and Ian Stokes as they discuss implications of large popular demonstrations in Hong Kong, here in the US, and around the world.

What's Going On?: Recent Events Still Under Cover of COVID 05/22/2020

Host Sandy Baird is joined by Peter Garritano, Kurt Mehta, Marc Estrin and Ian Stokes as they continue the discussion of COVID-19 here in the US, in Latin America, and around the world.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - The Necessity of the Necessity Defence: from the Winooski 44 to Plowshares 7 05/17/2020

A conversation between anti-nuclear protester Martha Hennessy - facing sentencing for 'beating swords into plowshares' at the Trident Submarine Base in Georgia, with lawyers Bill Quigley and Bill Nelson, and Nukewatch activist John LaForge, discussing the important of the Necessity Defense in anti-nuclear trials, with reference to the case of the Winooski 44 of 1984.

What's Going On?: Under Cover of COVID 05/08/2020

Host Sandy Baird is joined by Peter Garritano, Kurt Mehta, Marc Estrin and Ian Stokes as they discuss the situation here, in Latin America and elsewhere 'under the cover of the COVID pandemic.'

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Revolutionary Westminster, Vermont 04/14/2020

The Westminster Massacre was a tragic occurrence that resulted from mistrust, partisan differences, and economic challenges. Learn more as Jessie Haas of the Westminster Historical Society shares her research into this event, which occurred only a month before Lexington and Concord.

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Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Boston Massacre - Propaganda and the Politics of Anti-British America 03/27/2020

Professor Susan Ouellette from St. Michael's College.

FOCUS: Photojournalism 02/28/2020

Photojournalist Victor Saavedra talks with FOCUS host Margaret Harrington about why he decided to become a journalist in Brazil. They discuss the ever-changing world of journalism and the impact of the internet.

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