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Student Representatives from Vermont State Colleges speak from the steps of the State House to representatives and media about the dire need to radically rethink Vermont's higher education system
BURLINGTON: “I’m really cold right now” said one state lawmaker while attempting to speak to approximately 300 students and educators as they descended upon the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday morning to demand that state lawmakers radically rethink their approach to higher education funding. As student...
University of Vermont Alum Bill Oetjen of Burlington expresses his outrage at UVMs Davis Center on Friday
"Right now, UVM is in a race to the bottom. They are out of line with students, they are out of line with students, staff, faculty, and maintenence workers interests" said a student of UVM at during a press conference at the Davis Center on Friday. Drawing a crowd of fellow protestors as well as others who watched from various windows, staircases, and...
Occupiers march en masse on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
BURLINGTON- In the rainy mid-morning of January 17th, a group of Occupiers some 1,000 strong march down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the United States Capitol building. They are here to speak to their elected representatives on their first day of legislative session. Arriving at the capitol, the occupiers are initially met with about a dozen members of the...
Vermont residents protest outside of Senator Patrick Leahy's Burlington office
BURLINGTON: On the heels of Senator Patrick Leahy's vote in support of the National Defense Authorization Act residents of Burlington as well as Ferrisburg, Bristol, and other surrounding towns arrived outside Leahy's Main St. office building to protest his vote that supported, among other things, the codifying into law, the indefinite detention, without charge or...
BURLINGTON: Picking up from my post from yesterday, following a group of Occupiers from Burlington as they confront the GOP candidates and highlight the inequality of the corporate funded election system in America. The intrepid crew of Vermonters began the day by waking up at 5am and traveling to Concord to begin planning for the morning's GOP debate in that city. After scouting several buildings surrounding the debate hall, the Vermonters assisted in unfurling an Occupy banner proclaiming "THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN" that...
An Occupier from New Hampshire is identified and stared down by Rick Santorum's security force
BURLINGTON: This weekend a group of Vermonters and others from around the country journeyed to the series camps and locations that make up Occupy the Primary in an effort to both confront the GOP candidates about their positions, as well as highlight the tragic farse that the corporate funded election system has created and continues to perpetrate upon the...
Photo by Dylan Kelley
In a crowded hall of the Rutland Free Library, a mass of people are huddled together. They are speaking excitedly and directly on this cold Tuesday night in December. This is the health care Listening Session put on by the State...
The occupation of Burlington’s city hall park has entered into a common trend that the nation wide movement of occupations share now, becoming a refuge for the homeless. This issue made it to the attention of Vermont’s mainstream media today Nov. 9th on WCAX after a letter was mailed to Burlington’s Mayor Bob Kiss, stating that the city’s at-capacity Homeless Shelters were referring people to the encampment and the occupiers didn’t have the training nor means to correctly provide assistance to the homeless.
In the WCAX report (VIDEO), The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) is quick to deny the...
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A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street from CollapseNet.com on Vimeo.
Winter in Vermont is all about celebrating our "Snow Commons. "
And these two lads show us how to rip it up, not just on the homestead sledding hill, but in their creative use of digital video production technology.
This project was entirely produced by 2 third graders. Enjoy.
Snow. Go. Mojo!
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