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The Juxtaposition: Trouble On All Sides - Where Is Palestine? 11/08/2023

From Mark Hughes:

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, is joined by Wafic Faour, from Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, to discuss the current situation in Gaza and beyond and the broader implications.

For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org | vtjp.org

All Brains Belong VT - Brain Club: Vision for Inclusion 11/07/2023

Recorded on November 7, 2023.

Vermont Language Justice Project - VLJP: How to Use an Emergency Treatment That Can Save Someone's Life - Swahili 11/07/2023

Vermont Language Justice Project presents information about Naloxone, an emergency treatment that can save someone's life.

For more info on the VLJP: vtlanguagejustice.org

To view all VLJP videos: youtube.com/channel/UC3zjPpeFnXqvESr1y3d4DvQ

Vermont Language Justice Project - VLJP: How to Use an Emergency Treatment That Can Save Someone's Life - Spanish 11/07/2023

Vermont Language Justice Project presents information about Naloxone, an emergency treatment that can save someone's life.

For more info on the VLJP: vtlanguagejustice.org

To view all VLJP videos: youtube.com/channel/UC3zjPpeFnXqvESr1y3d4DvQ

Vermont Language Justice Project - VLJP: How to Use an Emergency Treatment That Can Save Someone's Life - English 11/07/2023

Vermont Language Justice Project presents information about Naloxone, an emergency treatment that can save someone's life.

For more info on the VLJP: vtlanguagejustice.org

To view all VLJP videos: youtube.com/channel/UC3zjPpeFnXqvESr1y3d4DvQ

Vermont Language Justice Project - VLJP: How to Use an Emergency Treatment That Can Save Someone's Life - French 11/07/2023

Vermont Language Justice Project presents information about Naloxone, an emergency treatment that can save someone's life.

For more info on the VLJP: vtlanguagejustice.org

To view all VLJP videos: youtube.com/channel/UC3zjPpeFnXqvESr1y3d4DvQ

Age Strong Vermont Action Plan Information 11/07/2023

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV, is joined by Angela Smith-Dieng, Adult Services Division Director at the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living Vermont; and Rhonda Williams, Chronic Disease Prevention Chief at the Vermont Department of Health. They discuss a new plan called Age Strong Vermont.

To help ensure Vermont heads into the second half of the 21st Century as a healthy place to live, work, play, and grow older, state officials are asking the public to comment on a new 10-year action plan called Age Strong Vermont.

For more infromation visit: http://www.healthvermont.gov/agestrongvt

FreeHer VT "From Incarceration to Education" Event 11/05/2023

From the organizers, FreeHer and the Education Justice Coalition:

Join FreeHer VT and the Education Justice Coalition for a march and panel event! Vermont Corrections general fund spending increased 335% between 1985 and 2017. By comparison, total general funding spending on education increased by just 57% over the same time period (Blueprint for Smart Justice VT). At this event we be march from the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility to a school to demonstrate our commitment to moving resources. Upon gathering we hear from FreeHer on their important campaign to stop the building of a new Women's Prison in Vermont.

For more information visit: www.freehercampaign.org/vermont

People's March from Battery Park in Burlington 11/04/2023

From the community producer, Stephen Kastner:

Where was the Vermont mainstream media? Shame on WCAX-TV 3, VTDigger, Seven Days, Burlington Free Press, Vermont Public; all crickets when approximately a thousand people gathered in Battery Park in Burlington, Vermont on November 4th to march through the city in support of the Palestinian people caught in the crossfire of a brutal war.

Burlington Mayor's Press Conference: Oakledge Park Universally Accessible Playground Grand Opening 11/04/2023

From the Mayor's Office:

Mayor Miro Weinberger joins city staff and community partners to celebrate the opening of Burlington's - and Vermont’s - first universally accessible playground at Oakledge Park. Joined by Julia Wayne, Oakledge For All Founder; Nate Besio, Peer Advocate Coordinator, Vermont Center for Independent Living; Chelsea Vaillancourt, Occupational Therapist; Jon Adams-Kollitz, City of Burlington Parks Project Manager; and Brooke Gillman, Chairperson for Parks Foundation of Burlington.

For more information visit: https://www.enjoyburlington.com/event/grand-opening-oakledge-universally-accessible-playground/

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