Most Popular Videos in the Last Two Weeks (Hits are over the last 2 weeks only)

Steve Norman, Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region, (aflcr.org) hosts Michele Powers, Plattsburgh North Country Chamber of Commerce, Megan Smith, VT Commissioner of Tourism and Marketing, and Melinda Moulton, Main Street Landing Company, discussing the need for more local employees with French language skills. Burlington City Councilor Norm Blais (chief sponsor of 2011 City Council resolution) calls in with his personal story and the cultural-historical reasons to promote French in our region.                                

Sen. Bernie Sanders discussed a range of issues in this 30 minute segment recorded in the U.S. Senate studios in Washington D.C.

The Burlington Planning & Zoning Department  facilitates the community preparation of a master land use and development plan for Burlington’s Downtown and Waterfront area through 'Design Charette's'. This is the closing presentation of a week-long intense and participatory process. The overall objective of this project is to provide a comprehensive guide for Downtown and Waterfront development that will sustain and enhance economic vitality, guide future development, create more housing and jobs, preserve historic character, protect the environment over the next 10-20 years. The success of this process and its future implementation includes community participation, input and engagement. There are many ways for you to get into the action and you can learn about all of them by going to our website: http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/PlanBTV/

The Vermont Chinese School New Year's Celebration on January 21st 2012.  This celebration includes dancing, singing and other performances from students and others from the Chinese Community in Vermont.  Video taped by John He.  For more information you may contact George Tang at 796-9627.  Find out more information at the Vermont Chinese School's website at: http://vermontchineseschool.org.

The greater Burlington area has been fortuitous to gain an increase in its racial and ethnic diversity, making it a more international community; but these changes also require intentional efforts to make Burlington welcoming for all. So what changes are being implemented to ensure that we are an inclusive and equitable community? A demographic shift requires a careful assessment and adaption in how business (private and public) is conducted in order to equitably serve all of its residents. Not making changes to a mono-cultural system inadvertently excludes groups from accessing goods, services and opportunities. Lack of knowledge and inertia is not an option for creating equity.

Burlington mayoral candidates speak to how they would address these disparities, creating systems of accountability so that all of Burlington's residents can thrive and truly feel a part of the larger community. Forum co-sponsored by: Association for Africans Living in VT, Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, Diversity Now, VT AntiRacism Action Team, and VT Multicultural Alliance for Democracy. 2012 Burlington Mayoral Candidates Wanda Hines (I), Kurt Wright (R) and Miro Weinberger (D) 

The Burlington International Airport's Public Information Meeting outlining the Airport’s Master Plan for the next 20 years. Vision 2030 will provide the general public and area government officials the opportunity to understand anticipated challenges and possible accommodations the Airport will need to implement by the year 2030.  For more information visit  www.btv.aero/about_us/airdevelopment.html

The Steering Committee of the ECOS Project review revised analysis reports. In addition, the draft indicators are presented, kicking off the public review period scheduled for February and March, 2012.   The ECOS Project – a 2 year regional sustainability initiative funded with a $1 million grant from the HUD Sustainable Communities Project.

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission is the primary agency providing the staff support for this endeavor. The project represents a once in a generation opportunity for the Chittenden County region to address long-term sustainability by developing a vision, goals and strategies that promote appropriate governance and development while ensuring social equity for the region’s population.

The results of the effort will be used in updating the Burlington Legacy Plan, the County’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), the Chittenden County Metropolitan Transportation Plan and the Chittenden County Regional Plan. This initial meeting will introduce the project Steering Committee, review the partnership agreement and project work plan including proposed public engagement activities. 

Host Dennis McMahon talks with Executive Director Linda Johnson of Prevent Child Abuse Vermont organization, and  Dr. Stephen Payne, a surgeon by trade with a lifetime of writing many stories - both fiction and non, about efforts at ending spousal and child abuse.  
 

Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) Campaign

Panelists:

J.J. Goldberg--senior columnist for the Forward and former editor-in-chief; author of "Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment;" writes articles, does radio and TV shows, and lectures across the country; lived in Israel during the 1970's-will speak in opposition to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaign.

Hannah Mermelstein--active member, Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel; co-founder, Birthright Unplugged; co-founder, Students Boycott Apartheid--will speak in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaign.

Kathleen Peratis--member of J Street board; former vice president New Israel Fund; former president NYCLU; columnist The Forward; partner New York law firm Outten & Golden LLP--will speak in opposition to this campaign.

Yonatan Shapira--former captain in the Israeli Air Force and initiator of the pilots' refusal letter; member of "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within"; co-founder, Combatants for Peace--will speak in support of this campaign.

Moderator and respondent:

Esther Kaplan--radio and print journalist; editor of The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, a nonprofit journalism project; co-host of Beyond the Pale, which covers Jewish culture and politics on WBAI/New York; a former editor at The Nation.

The Selectboard is a five member elected board. There are three positions elected for a three year term and two positions elected for a two year term on a staggered basis. The board is responsible for setting the general policy direction, passing ordinances, setting the tax rate, reviewing the budget, supervising the Town Manager and a host of other related tasks. Find the full minutes for this meeting at Williston website. Watch part two here.

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to empower citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies facilitate communication between the citizens of Burlington and city government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Wards 4 & 7 meet the third Tuesday of the month. Meeting place: Robert E. Miller Community Center 130 Gosse Court.

The South Burlington City Council is made up of 5 citizens who live in the City of South Burlington, elected at-large by the voters of the City. These five councilors sit with 2-3 year terms expiring in an annual rotation. The City Council meets regularly on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month to conduct business of the City and carry out the provisions of the City Charter. Special or emergency meetings can be called in the event that an urgent need arises for City Council authorization. City Council meetings are held at City Hall in the conference room and begin at 7pm.

John Varricchione hosts the Vermont Italian Club.

Excerpts from live class.  For more information about this program and how to be involved email Steve Norman at: stevenorman@fastmail.fm or go to www.aflcr.org. 

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates, whose main focus is to educate on the truth of nuclear power.

Volunteers In Medicine recruits retired medical professionals to provide free health care in clinics around the country - serving the working uninsured. www.volunteersinmedicine.org

Host Robin Lloyd speaks with World Service Authority, World Coordinator Garry Davis on the evolution and possibilities of World Citizenship.

Uncontested Burlington School Commissioner Candidates for Wards 1 (Katharine Chasan), 2 (Erin Kranichfeld), 3 (Rebecca Grimm).

Burlington College’s Institute for Civic Engagement's discussion about Domestic Violence, Crime, and Policing
with the three mayoral candidates:  Wanda Hines (I), Kurt Wright (R) and Miro Weinberger (D) 

Burlington opens a new Boathouse on the lake.  Mayor Peter Clavelle kicks off the ceremony.  Rob Reiber and Nat Ayer talk to attendees about their impressions.

The following videos exist only on VHS, except 549 which is on DVD:

543 Couple boathouse video shots.
549 Boathouse opening ceremony and various shots  
550 Various boathouse activity
554 Various boathouse video shots and jazz jam.
555 Nick Warner (boathouse manager) interview and boathouse video

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to encourage citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies help improve communication between the citizens of Burlington and City government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Ward 6 meets the first Thursday of the month. Meeting place: Greek Orthodox Church 600 South Willard Street.

2012 Burlington Mayoral Candidates Wanda Hines (I), Kurt Wright (R) and Miro Weinberger (D) participate in this Forum, organized and put on by the school’s fourth and fifth graders. Candidates answer questions put together by students that come directly from their units of study this year.

The Selectboard is a five member elected board. There are three positions elected for a three year term and two positions elected for a two year term on a staggered basis. The board is responsible for setting the general policy direction, passing ordinances, setting the tax rate, reviewing the budget, supervising the Town Manager and a host of other related tasks. Find the full minutes for this meeting at Williston website. Watch part one here.

The Burlington Planning & Zoning Department  facilitates the community preparation of a master land use and development plan for Burlington’s Downtown and Waterfront area through 'Design Charette's'. This is the opening presentation of a week-long intense and participatory process. The overall objective of this project is to provide a comprehensive guide for Downtown and Waterfront development that will sustain and enhance economic vitality, guide future development, create more housing and jobs, preserve historic character, protect the environment over the next 10-20 years. The success of this process and its future implementation includes community participation, input and engagement. There are many ways for you to get into the action and you can learn about all of them by going to our website: http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/PlanBTV/

The Selectboard is a five member elected board. There are three positions elected for a three year term and two positions elected for a two year term on a staggered basis. The board is responsible for setting the general policy direction, passing ordinances, setting the tax rate, reviewing the budget, supervising the Town Manager and a host of other related tasks. Find the full minutes for this meeting at Williston website.

A video commissioned by the Howard Center for Human Services on Somali Bantu living in Vermont. Produced by Alison Segar, independent film maker.

Judge Ben Joseph hosts a conversation with media maker Sam Mayfield who is working on a film, Wisconsin Rising, about the consequences of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget cutting actions and the citizens of Wisconsin reaction.

The Burlington City Council meets on Mondays, three times each month at 7pm. Their meetings air live on Channel 317 (Burlington Telecom) and on Channel 17 at the air times listed below. Meeting schedules, agendas and minutes can be found here.  Special Meeting dealing with the March Ballot Item Relating to a TIF District.

Dr. Charles Snead Houston, an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator.

Interview with local legislators on their initiatives and perspectives. Representatives  Linda Myers (R) Chitt 6-1 and Suzi Wizowaty (D) Chitt 3-5, talk with Nick Carter of Channel 17 legislative priorities. 

2012 Burlington Mayoral Candidates Wanda Hines (I), Kurt Wright (R) and Miro Weinberger (D) participate in this AARP, Local Motion sponsored event.  The debate is focused on issues of transportation and livable community.

Dr. Lowell Monke outlines the impact of digital technologies on young children and teenagers. He offers guidance for parents who want to set reasonable boundaries and educate children so they can be masters of media (rather than be mastered by it). See also: "I'm So Full I'm Empty: Becoming Competent within our Consumer Culture". Dr. Monke's talk is part of the Lake Champlain Waldorf School's Life of the Child Conference held on March 11 & 12, 2011.

On the two year anniversary of the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, The Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, Vermont hosts a panel discussion on the local and national implications of the ruling. Panelists include: Vermont State Senator Ginny Lyons, who has introduced a resolution proposing "an amendment to the United States Constitution ... which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States."; Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream who has stated that “Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is not a person.”; Aquene Freechild, senior organizer of Public Citizen’s Democracy is for People Campaign; and Dan Barrett, Staff Attorney for the Vermont American Civil Liberties Union.

Chittenden Community Action - Urban Renewal: The Italian Neighborhood

Interview with local legislators on their initiatives and perspectives. Representatives  Joey Donovan (D) Chitt 3-5, Kesha Ram (D) Chitt 3-4, and Helen Head (D) Chitt 3-10, talk with Nick Carter of Channel 17 on legislative priorities. 

Murray Bookchin speaks about the status of the political left in this 1986 interview with   Dan Higgins in Burlington, Vermont.

Presented by  KSE Partners and Common Good Vermont.  Lobbying & Communications Bootcamp took place at the  State House in Montpelier on Tuesday, November 15. This brass tacks training will help you become better acquainted with advocacy best practices, the legal do's and don'ts of nonprofit lobbying, how to motivate your followers to take action and what really gets lawmaker's and media attention.

This program is geared towards organizations that want to pass legislation and for orgs and activists that want to raise their profile and relevance amongst lawmakers and media.

The Urban Agriculture Task Force was created in March, 2011, by Burlington City Council to study issues of urban agriculture and provide policy recommendations for issues around keeping livestock, composting, urban gardening, and more. The Task Force is a citizen-led group charged with “recommending to the City Council a cohesive urban agriculture policy, improved rules and regulations addressing urban agriculture and steps to better promote urban agriculture in Burlington.” These recommendations will be provided to City Council by March, 2012, in the form of a written report.

1987 Donna Haraway Reads "The National Geographic" on PrimatesTRT:29:30
How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing what gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people. A feminist journey through the anthropological junglescape. Haraway is a leading thinker about people's love and hate relationship with machines. Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology. She is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™ (1997).

1989 From Woodstock to Tiananmen Square: Ted Koppel¹s Long MarchTRT:29:30
Chock full o' glamorous, very special low-tek effects, this video examines the post-massacre "spin" that Koppel & Co. put on the 1989 uprising of students and workers in mainland China. Trickster/anchor Dan Rabbit dismantles Ted's tract, exposing the embedded pro-state bias and how Ted and his cohorts manipulated the representation of the events to suit the needs of their agenda. Riveting tomfoolery!

The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program presents, 'The Art of Arrival'. The Burlington International Airport is the Ellis Island of Vermont The Art of Arrival includes paintings of refugees in Burlington by Janet McKenzie and refugees speaking about their memorable experiences arriving in Vermont. 

Franz Jägerstätter (May 20, 1907 — August 9, 1943; born as Franz Huber) was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II and has been declared Blessed by the Roman Catholic Church. As in most countries at the time, refusal to serve mandatory military service in war time was a criminal offense in Germany, and Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed. For more information, please click here.

If you have questions or comments about this program, please contact Richard Kemp at rtkemp@aol.com.

The Burlington City Council meets on Mondays, three times each month at 7pm. Their meetings air live on Channel 317 (Burlington Telecom) and on Channel 17 at the air times listed below. Meeting schedules, agendas and minutes can be found here. 

Author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben speaks on "Report from the Front Lines of the Climate Fight: Some Jailhouse Notes on the Moral Fight of Our Time" in the wake of President Obama's delay of the pipeline.  The Middelebury College scholar in residence made headlines in 2011 for his arrest at the White House, where he led a protest against Keystone XL, the proposed pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The event is sponsored by Cooperative Christian Ministry at UVM, the Honors College, the Provost’s Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources, and the Environmental Studies Program.

Host Richard Kemp talks with Rachel Siegel, Ward 3 City Council Candidate.

Host Richard Kemp talks with Gabriela Ochoa and Colleen Deignan from Peace & Justice Center.

Uncontested Burlington School Commissioner Candidates for Wards 5 (Patrick Halladay), 6 (Jill Evans), 7 (Haik Bedrosian).

Grant Peterson, Senior Stakeholder Relationship Tax Consultant at the IRS, joins Angela Smith-Deng discussing the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Programs in Vermont. More information available at Hunger Free Vermont . 

Debating Championships held at University of Vermont.