Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University, Deepa Kumar is the recipient of the Dallas Smythe award for her engaged scholarship and the Georgina Smith award for her work on gender and race equity. She is recognized as a leading scholar on islamophobia and empire both nationally and internationally, and her book Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire has been translated into several languages.

As an activist and then president of Rutgers’ faculty union, Deepa Kumar played a leading role in a contract campaign that led to a ground-breaking settlement, winning not only on bread and butter issues and job security for vulnerable faculty, but also around gender and race equity. She will discuss this experience of ‘bargaining for the common good’ in the context of recent strike victories in education and other sectors of the US workforce.

In such times the Lecture Series remains committed to providing a space for critical discussion and political organizing.

Many thanks from the board of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series. We could not do this work without your support. Please support our mission to bring diverse and powerful social justice thinkers and activists to Vermont.

VICII continues their fall series of talks and discussions on Burlington, VT. All events are from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, are free and open to the public and will be held at the Old North End Community Center at 20 Allen Street, Burlington, Vermont, 05401 on the third floor.

The Coalition for a Liveable City (CLC): Burlington United, Political Solutions

Leaders of the Discussion: Tony Reddington, Andy Simon, and Barbara McGrew, founding members of the Coalition of Livable Cities.
 

Sharon Toborg, Policy Analyst for the Vermont Right to Life Committee, discusses Planned Parenthood of New England’s celebration of Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s support for unrestricted abortion, his promotion of Proposal 5, an amendment to enshrine abortion in the Vermont constitution, and his support of state funding to promote abortion as a method of family planning.

The Burlington Airport Commission meets on the first and third Monday of every month in the M. Robert Blanchard Conference Room in the Burlington International Airport.

The public is encouraged to attend and provide input during the Public Forum portion of each meeting.

For more information on the Burlington Airport Commission, visit the website www.btv.aero/airport-guide/airport-commission or telephone (802) 863-2874, extension #201.

The Colchester Planning Commission meets at 7:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Colchester Police Station, Kirker Community Room. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Department of Planning and Zoning.

Information on the Burlington Development Review Board is under the City's Planning and Zoning Office.

Town Manager's Report for the Williston Selectboard. The Selectboard meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 P.M. at the Williston Town Hall.  For more information visit www.Town.Williston.vt.us.

Focused on the future, JUMP operates a drop-in center in downtown Burlington to ensure all economically disadvantaged families and individuals have improved access to help meet basic needs and increase transportation assistance to better support the working poor, low wage earner and underserved people with transportation needs.

Host: Wanda Hines; JUMP Director

Guest: Polly Garcia and Tara Zeleny, Co-Founders of COW (Color Our World), and Katharine Stockman, Board of Directors

For more information: 862-4501 | www.jumpvt.org

Sandy Baird talks about our often misrepresented history with other world powers.