Social Justice

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger: FY 2013 Budget 06/25/2012

Mayor Miro Weinberger City Council President and Boad of Finance Member Joan Shannon, along with Chief Administrative Officer Paul Sisson, discuss the FY13 budget in advance of the 6/25/13 City Council vote on the budget.

Vermont Workers' Center: Educating As We Organize 06/22/2012

Host Traven Leyshon speaks with Crystal Hall, Fellow, and Willie Baptiste, Scholar-in-Residence of the Poverty Initiative.

Common Good Vermont: Benchmarks for a Better Vermont Intro 06/21/2012

Benchmarks for a Better Vermont (BBVT) is a federally funded grant project to strengthen the capacity of Vermont nonprofits. This video was produced by CCTV Productions for the BBTV launch at the Vermont Nonprofit Conference on March 20, 2012. For more information visit bbvt.marlboro.edu

Hunger Free Vermont: Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: Feeding Kids in Vermont During Summer Break 06/19/2012

Amanda Caron, Child Nutrition Advocate for Hunger Free Vermont, speaks with Burlington and Winooski summer feeding program coordinators, Maggie Leugers and Ethan Hausman. More information available at Hunger Free Vermont .

Burlington CEDO Show: We All Belong Initiative 06/13/2012

Beth Truzansky, Coordinator of Community and Neighborhood Services, is joined by Dan Balon, Direcot of Burlington School District's Diversity and Equity Office, and Phelan Fretz, Executive Director of ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center to discuss and share the benefits of Burlington CEDO's We All Belong Initiative. For more information on the program, contact Beth Truzansky at btruzansky@ci.burlington.vt.us, 802.865-7178, or visit CEDO's website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/cedo/

Lights Camera Activism - South Burlington High School Documentary Makers 06/12/2012

South Burlington High School students from the Lights, Camera, Activism class of Nissa Kauppila and Maryellen Schaefer talk about their finished documentary video projects. Listen to Robert Wetmore, Sam Bellavance, Graham Schwab and Damian Burbo describe the process of making documentaries and what they learned along the way.

Nuclear Free Future: True View of Nuclear Power After the Fukushima-Daiichi Disaster: A Rise of Infant Mortality Rates in US 06/12/2012

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with author Cecile Pineda, author of 'Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step'.

Understanding Burlington Demographics and First Steps to Work Across Cultures 06/07/2012

This Workshop by the Community and Economic Development Office, is part of the "We all Belong" Initiative. It is sponsored by CEDO and organized by Americorps team leader, Jheetan Khadka and Community Organizer Peter Garang.

Burlington School Commissioners' Corner: Diversity: Our Gift, Our Future 06/07/2012

Hosted by Ward 1 Commissioner Kathy Chasan. Joining Kathy is Dan Balon, Director of the District's Diversity and Equity Office, Amy Mellencamp, Burlington High School Principal, and Superintendent Jeanne Collins. For more information visit the District web site: www.bsdvt.org

Building a Staff Union at UVM 06/01/2012

Darren Allen, Communications Director with NEA hosts 3 USU-NEA Leadership Team Members. Paul Chapman, and Michele Patenaude. University Staff Union-NEA is working hard to ensure all staff have a voice about our pay, benefits and working conditions. www.usustaff.org info@ustaffu.org 802-734-6265

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!