VICII
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Vermont Institute of Civic and International Involvement (VICII) hosts a series of discussions on contemporary issues.Programs in this Series
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"Roe v. Wade decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1973 was a victory based on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Roe guaranteed that "persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States and that...
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"Aimee Stephenson describes what Bitcoin is and how it differs from other traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies, and most importantly, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). She discusses what Bitcoin means for the vast...
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Join Vermont professor of communications and publisher Dr. Rob Willams, author of THE POST TRUTH WORLD, for an exploration of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s “Propaganda Model of News.” We’ll explore the origins...
Sandy Baird and Nathan Virag lead a discussion about the history of mandated vaccines in America.
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Our leader Nathan Virag, a graduate of the Univ. of Illinois Chicago Law School, immigrant rights specialist and a legal scholar will help...
Sandy Baird and Kurt Mehta lead a discussion about Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
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Julian Assange, a journalist, editor, publisher and activist was born in Australia in 1971. In 2006, he founded Wikileaks, an international journal which...
Sandy Baird and Kurt Mehta lead a discussion on Cuba's past, present and potential futures.
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Kurt Mehta, a lawyer who has visited Cuba and studied the island extensively, and Sandy Baird, from the Cuban American Friendship Society and...
The proof of a totalitarian regime is its commitment to the death penalty. If the police power of the State is unwavering in its loyalty to the right to execute human beings that state has assumed absolute control over the most important decision...
Habeas Corpus, "you have the body," is a directive to the state to produce the body of a person who may have been falsely imprisoned in order for that person to challenge the legality of that arrest and detention. Based on the presumption...
America's Favorite Pastime from its beginnings in the 1840's has reflected the contradictions of our country. The all-American sport was deeply racist and segregated with Black players kept out of all white teams until 1946 when Jackie...
Chesa Boudin is an American lawyer who is currently the District Attorney of San Francisco where he was elected in 2020. Mr. Boudin's parents are David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin and Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.
In October, 1981, Mr. Gilbert...
Cuba is on the front burner. As Cuban protesters against the Cuban government crowd the streets of Havana, Cuban American protesters crowd the streets in Miami calling for USA intervention in the island. Reminding the world of the Cold War hostility...
Rob Williams is an environmental historian, researcher, and publisher of the Vermont Independent online news journal.
Tim Rieser, Senior Foreign Policy Aid to Senator Patrick Leahy, and Robin Lloyd, Peace Activist & Filmmaker of “Black Dawn,” an animated film of the Haitian
A talk and discussion with Jon Murad, Acting Burlington Police Chief.
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!