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Labor, Social Justice, and the Return of the Strike 10/17/2019

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.

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Sandy Baird Commentary: TBD 10/14/2019

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Feminist Media Review: TBD 10/14/2019

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Woodchuck Report: Impeachment and the Current Effects 10/11/2019

Host Varpilah Chase discusses the ongoing impeachment inquiry for President Trump.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 10/11/2019

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom hosts Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook talking about Eleanor Roosevelt and the Importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on its 70th Aniversary.

GMALL Lectures – The 2020 Presidential Election: Assessing the Democratic Field 10/10/2019

Matthew J. Dickinson, professor of political science at Middlebury College, examines the largest candidate field in modern history.

GMALL Lectures – Understanding the Venezuelan Crisis 10/10/2019

Mark Szuchman, Professor Emeritus at Florida International University, contextualizes the deterioration of Venezuela’s political and economic conditions over the last few years.

UVM Community Medical School: TBD 10/10/2019

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Senator Patrick Leahy: Press Conference - UVM and USDA Agricultural Research Partnership 10/08/2019

Senator Leahy, USDA Under Secretary Bill Northey, Chief of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Matthew Lohr, Congressman Peter Welch, UVM President Garimella, and Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts announce two major long-term projects centered on Vermont agriculture and water quality.

Leahy unveils the establishment of a USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food Systems Center at the University of Vermont. The center, funded at $3 million per year, over five years, is a result of work by Leahy, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. UVM and ARS scientists will perform integrated research on small-scale farming and value-added food production and nutrition, to benefit farmers and rural communities in Vermont and across the United States.

Leahy, Northey, and Lohr also announce nearly $2 million in grants to study the impact of voluntary conservation and stewardship practices on Vermont’s water quality. The multi-year study aims to assist farmers as they work to improve water quality and conservation practices.

Operation City on a Hill: A Tale of Two Futures 10/08/2019

This week's show is "A Tale of Two Futures" as a takeoff of the Dickens classic "A Tale of Two Cities." The episode contrasts the optimistic view of our present course offered by Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker in his book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined," with a more pessimistic view expressed by former CIA Analyst Martin Gurri in a book titled "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium."

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PEG TV Public Hearing

Share your thoughts on the value of PEG access channels and services to Vermont communities, the costs of such programming and services, and funding options to support programming and services at a PEG TV Public Hearing on October 21st.