Vermont

Interview with local legislators on their initiatives and perspectives. Representatives Kristy Spengler (D), Chitt. 7-2 and Patrick Brennan (R), Chitt 7-2,  talk with Nick Carter of Channel 17 on legislative priorities. 

My Web Grocer Grand Opening with Governor Shumlin, Rich Tarrant Jr., Mayor Michael O'Brien, Katherine R. Decarreau  and more.

Kevin Stapleton and Dani Fuoco of CVOEO's Fair Housing Project, discuss (1) Fair Housing and (2) the results of the state’s 2012 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

Focussing on housing programs of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity.   Fair Housing Project (FHP): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, referrals, education and outreach, enforcement, and information regarding Housing Discrimination issues.  Mobile Home Project (MHP): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, tenant organizing, referrals, counseling, and information for Manufactured Home Owners who are renting lots - especially those in Mobile Home Parks.  Vermont Tenants (VTI): Advocacy/Public Advocacy, organizing, advice, tenant counseling, training, and information regarding Residential Tenancy.

Vermont Student Towards Environmental Protection presents a UVM Teach-in on Vermont Yankee

Speakers include: Maggie Gunderson, founder and president of the Burlington, VT-based Faire Winds Associates, a paralegal and expert witness firm specializing in issues of nuclear reliability issues, Jared Margolis, Attorney for the New England Coalition and Environmental Law professor at UVM
and Chris Williams, organizer with the Vermont Citizens Awareness Network

UVM, Billings North Lounge, on Tuesday, March 13^th, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.Brooke Shaffer, member of the Vermont Student Environmental Program (VSTEP), the campus club that is sponsoring the teach in said, “It is so important, as the state of Vermont works to retire this accident prone reactor on schedule this year, that students, and the general public become better informed about the environmental and safety issues surrounding the operations of a 40-year-old reactor, and the long term storage of high level waste on the banks of New England’s longest river.”

Gunderson speaks on the similarities between Vermont Yankee, a GE Mark I boiling water reactor, and the reactors that suffered catastrophic containment failures at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan a year ago.

Margolis speaks on the State of Vermont’s legal and regulatory efforts to close the Vermont Yankee reactor on schedule, and to address the storage of high level waste in Vernon.

Chris Williams, of the Vermont Citizens Awareness Network, speaks about the grassroots citizens campaign to support the State of Vermont in retiring the reactor.