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Action On Abortion! Talk The Talk. Walk The Walk

by Kurt Daims | Activism

People want to do something about Roe. Protest demonstrations and resolutions are not enough. The Brattleboro selectboard will soon consider a resolution with many whereas’s and no force, supporting the right to abortion. A resolution is effective when it publishes a new idea, or when the signers’ name or numbers strengthen an idea. But no one’s mind will change because the Brattleboro selectboard makes a resolution that liberals like to hear. We ask assistance in promoting the amendment below, because the resolution without it is ineffectual. With this amendment we make a new model for enforceable local action.

This amendment should be added to the end of the resolution.

Next Stage’s Bandwagon Summer Series presents Underground System on Friday, July 22 at 6 p.m. at the Putney Inn

by hahrenholz | Music

You don’t forget an Underground System show, as anyone who’s ever witnessed their larger-than-life live presence will attest.

One of New York City’s most dynamic recent acts, Underground System continues to reinvent their brand of global dance music. From an initial purist interpretive approach to Fela Kuti style afrobeat, to drawing on a legacy of NYC indie dance inspirations, the band has crafted a peerless and incendiary sound.

Springboarding off the production and release of their internationally acclaimed 2018 debut LP ‘What Are You’ (Soul Clap Records), the band brought their special brand of re-contextualized afrobeat, dance punk, disco and electronic music to audiences worldwide.

BCTV Schedules – Week of July 11, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 7/11/22

Monday, July 11, 2022

5:00 am GMALL Lectures – Artists of the South of France – Part 1 – Paul Cezanne
6:30 am League of Women Voters – Candidates Forum 6/22/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Literary Cocktail Hour – Grant Faulkner with Brian Mooney
10:05 am Demystifying Seeds and Seed Saving 101 – Demystifying Seeds and Seed Saving 101

The Supreme Court A Moral and Ethical Disgrace

by RDavis | Activism

The current U.S. Supreme Court majority has created an institution that has little regard for the world we live in. Recent decisions by the court make it clear that they want to reconstruct a world that existed in 1788 rather than provide guidance for a world in the year 2022.

When supreme court justices hide behind the original wording and intent of the constitution they deny all of us the possibility of living in a world that has evolved since the founding of this country.

In a recent article in The Nation Louis Michael Seideman provides a perspective on the supreme court that makes it clear just how flawed the court is as well as pointing out that the U.S. Constitution has become irrelevant to the way we live today.

Selectboard Meeting Notes – Much Nothing About Ado

by cgrotke | Town News
selectboard july 5, 2022

It was a really long Brattleboro Selectboard meeting with not much getting done! They heard about downtown safety issues, but took no action. They approved a mural design they couldn’t see. There will be more places to buy liquor. The preferred bridge design was selected. And then it was 10:30 pm with discussions of a woman right to choose and EMT issues, among other things, still awaiting ample discussion. They ended up postponing much of the agenda to a future meeting.

BCTV Schedules – Week of July 4, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 7/4/22

Monday, July 4, 2022

8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 6/14/22
10:00 am Brattleboro Goes Fourth – 2022 July 4th Parade
12:00 pm WTSA News – 6/27/22
12:05 pm Around Town with Maria – Gallery Walk – Artful Streets 6/3/22
1:30 pm Around Town with Maria – Bill McKibben in Brattleboro 5/27/22

Brattleboro and VT COVID-19 Regional Dashboard Summary – July 2022

by cgrotke | Health

It is time for the July 2022 dashboard summary. We continue, despite almost no one paying attention or wearing masks despite new variants that vaccines don’t protect against,  regular COVID-19 dashboard numbers from the Vermont Department of Health, and MA and NH counties that surround Brattleboro, as long as they continue providing them.  Scroll down the new comments for the latest.

Update: The Civil Rights For All Banner in the 4th of July Parade 2022

by Woody Bernhard | Activism

The Civil Rights For All banner in the 4th of July parade 2022
We will all wear black.
My daughter Margaret suggests that people who march with the banner wear black. It’s a great way to make a statement.

We’ll meet at the brook side of the Preston lot on Flat Street, opposite the transportation center, 9 am to 10 am. Look for the bamboo pole with the surveyors tape tied to it. That’s us.The parade committee recommends parking at the Coop.
March begins at 10: up Main Street to the Brattleboro Common.

Brattleboro Selectboard – Agenda and Notes July 5, 2022

by cgrotke | Town News

A packed agenda of important items awaits the Brattleboro Selectboard for their first regular meeting of July. It’s going to be a long meeting.

There will be new liquor licenses, Commonwealtth Dairy wants to nearly double its water and sewer use, rental housing fines will be set, and the board will choose a bridge design for Melrose. There will be a discussion of downtown safety and a new mural for High Street. The board will discuss a woman’s right to choose. There are emergency repairs to authorize.

The firefighters get a “recently concluded additional collective bargaining agreement,” and the Fire Chief would like the board to approve additional funds to meet requirements of becoming a paramedic-level service.

But wait, there’s more!  There will be a first reading of a new ordinance regarding wastewater allocation approvals, there will be a new contract for the Interim Town manager, a new street name will be approved, and the FY23 tax rate will be set.

Echo Mars on “Here We Are”

by Wendy O'Connell | Media

Watch this show with local musician and illustrator ECHO MARS and then catch them and their band

“THUS LOVE” at Gallery Walk this Friday night, July 1st. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!

Bernie: Before Biden Goes to Saudi Arabia, Introduce Your Yemen War Powers Resolution

by MD | Opinion

Despite Pres. Biden’s pledge to “end U.S. support for the disastrous Saudi-led war in Yemen” and treat the Saudi regime as a “pariah,” he plans to go to Saudi Arabia in July amid soaring U.S. gas prices. Through more than 7 years and 3 American presidents, the U.S. continues to enable this humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions, backing the Saudi and UAE regimes’ war on Yemeni civilians. Our Senator Bernie Sanders has been a key leader in multiple attempts by Congress to end our involvement in this catastrophe.

Bernie’s focus is needed in the current drive to get a new Yemen War Powers Resolution (WPR) introduced in the Senate and passed in Congress. If this foreign-imposed hell were happening here, 3.7 million Americans would have perished. Three-fourths of our residents would need food aid; two-thirds would have no access to health care or clean water. Due to Ukraine’s war, “acute hunger in Yemen is expected to increase five-fold,” said the United Nations. On relief and violence-ending efforts for Yemenis: “If we have one message for the world today, it is this: do not stop now.”