Ad Hoc Climate Justice: Burning Books' Pickering Resists Years of FBI Surveillance
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From Jerome Lipani:
Animal Rights and Ecological Activist-Educator Leslie James Pickering, Goddard graduate founder /owner of Burning Books anarchist bookstore in Buffalo, New York, tells of 20 years-long FBI investigative intimidation tactics meant to name him & his community and information--organising as terrorist activities. Filmed at the Plainfield Community Center, Plainfield VT on November 5, 2016, PIckering speaks amid the surrealist /visionary paintings of Jason Mallery.
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CCTV Center for Media & Democracy Participates in Democracy Day
CCTV Center for Media and Democracy on September 13 at 1 p.m. hosts a panel of local community thought leaders on the state of local democracy and their experiences navigating the policital system and working for social and political change. Participating panelists include: Sandy Baird, activist and lawyer; CD Mattison, DNC delegate and political campaigner; Ali Dieng, Former Burlington City Councilor and New American Leader; Pelin Kohn, VT League of Women Voters. This program and the articles below are part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it faces. To learn more, visit usdemocracyday.org.