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Peace Talks: Lawyer as Peacemaker - Driving Sustainable Innovation through Community Service, Environmental Integrity, and Transformational Leadership 06/02/2023

From Peace Talks:

 

Guest Will Dodge, Chair of the Essex Energy Committee and and acting Deputy Partner of DRM Law Firm.

 

In this episode, we will be speaking with Will Dodge about his service on the Essex Energy Committee for the past seven years. Along the way, we will be exploring how choosing to serve your community in the face of adversity can help to build a vision for the future that is cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable. We will be covering peacebuilding topics, such as transformational leadership, environmental integrity, and the practice of law as a peacemaking tool as we transition into a more sustainable future.
 

Fund Services, Not Police and Prisons! 01/24/2023

From the organizer:

We are in the midst of multiple crises in our city, state, and country. The answer from both corporate parties seems to be more policing and more prisons instead of funding social services, education, jobs, and programs to overcome racial injustice.

Here in Burlington, Mayor Weinberger clamors to hire more police. And the state government is in the process of building 4 new prisons at the cost of $230 million. Such measures only enforce racial and class inequalities not redress them.

Come hear local activists speak out against this expansion of the carceral state, and lay out concrete alternatives for funding services - not police and prisons!

Speakers:
Jayna Asaf, Free Her Vermont
Jessica Laporte, People for Police Accountability
Paul Fleckenstein, Tempest Collective
Katie Harris, AFSCME 1674

Sponsored by: Tempest Collective, Free Her Vermont, & People for Police Accountability, AFSCME 1674.
 

Judge Ben: Effects of the Pandemic on the Justice System 07/23/2021

Judge Ben Joseph talks to Vermont attorney Paul Jarvis about the effects of the pandemic on Vermont's Legal System.

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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!

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