Social Justice

Housing - Fair, Safe, Affordable: Ted Wimpey Discusses the BTV Town Center with City Councilor Adam Roof 09/15/2016

Ted Wimpey, Director, Fair Housing Project at Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, speaks with Adam Roof, Ward 8, Burlington City Councilor, Independent, on topics from the Burlington Town Center development to general issues of fair, safe and affordable housing in Burlington.

Focusing on housing programs of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity

Fair Housing Project (FHP): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, referrals, education and outreach, enforcement, and information regarding Housing Discrimination issues.

Mobile Home Project (MHP): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, tenant organizing, referrals, counseling, and information for Manufactured Home Owners who are renting lots - especially those in Mobile Home Parks.

Vermont Tenants (VTI): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, organizing, advice, tenant counseling, training, and information regarding Residential Tenancy.

Paper Tiger Television Presents: Resisting the Empire 09/14/2016

Resisting the Empire critiques the media's coverage of the War in Iraq (Gulf War II). Produced by the Paper Tiger TV collective in the spring of 2003 soon after the US invasion of Iraq in response to the lack of alternative perspectives on the war available through the mainstream media. This production provides a brief history of US foreign policy and military involvement abroad, looks at the corporate media's inadequate coverage of the peace movement and resistance to the war, deconstructs flashy techniques used to illustrate military intervention on the major networks and gives some information on how to get involved in activism for peace in your own community.

TRT: 28 minutes

Released: 2003

Tape # 316

Dan Archer at the Woodstock Digital Media Festival 09/13/2016

Dan Archer talks about using comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues in situations where video or photographic equipment is inappropriate or, at worst, traumatic for those involved.

#NoDAPL Solidarity Action! 09/13/2016

The Camp of the Sacred Stones and the Red Warrior Camp, both leading the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, have put out a call for solidarity actions that target the corporations and financial institutions that are building and financing this pipeline through native lands.

Michels Corporation - the contractor building the Dakota Access Pipeline through the land of the Standing Rock Sioux - is also building the fracked gas pipeline in western Vermont.

In solidarity with the #NoDAPL resistance, join Vermont's pipefighters and march onto an active Vermont Gas/Michels pipeline construction site to shut them down for the day. Activists hold up the indigenous-led struggle 1500 miles away and raise money to send to this resistance out west.

Feminist Media Review: Peggy Luhrs Discusses Phyllis Schlafly, Fracking, and the Standing Rock Reservation 09/12/2016

Host Peggy Luhrs discusses topics including Phyllis Schlafly, fracking, and the Standing Rock Reservation standoff.

Racism and the Culture of Policing 09/07/2016

Nekima Levy-Pounds, Keynoter, Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo, respondent. Dr. Nekima Levy-Pounds is a civil rights attorney, freedom fighter, legal scholar, blogger, and nationally recognized expert on issues at the intersections of race, public policy, economic justice, public education, juvenile justice, and the criminal justice system. In 2016, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Governor's Commission on Martin Luther King Day. In 2015, she was named one of “40 Under 40” by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. In 2014, she was named a “Minnesota Attorney of the Year” by Minnesota Lawyer and recognized as one of “50 Under 50 Most Influential Law Professors of Color in the Country” by Lawyers of Color magazine. She currently serves as the President of the Minneapolis NAACP and as an advisor to Black Lives Matter Minneapolis.

Lake Champlain Chamber: Hunger Free Vermont 09/07/2016

Tom Torti, President and CEO, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, discusses Hunger Free Vermont, Hunger Councils, and School Meals Programs with Marissa Parisi, Executive Director, Hunger Free Vermont.

More information about Hunger Free Vermont at: http://www.hungerfreevt.org

More information about the LCRCC at: http://www.vermont.org/chamber

On the Waterfront: Laura Kate Winterbottom Memorial Fund March 09/07/2016

Host Melinda Moulton speaks with the parents of Laura Winterbottom, JoAnn and Ned Winterbottom.

Laura’s March on Saturday, September 10, at Oakledge Park will be the 10th and last one.

More info: www.lkwfund.org

Labor Day Senator Sanders 2016 09/05/2016

Labor Day on the Green in Middlebury with Sen Sanders

Happy Collaborator 08/26/2016

A poignant documentary by Mike Hazard that portrays George Stoney as a filmmaker, teacher of film, and media activist. George is widely known as "the father of public access."

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!