Social Justice

Town Meeting TV interviews Laura Hale, Old North End neighborhood activist and Executive Director of the ONE Good Deed Fund. The Fund provides $100 grants for individuals and neighborhood projects. Between March 20 and 25 the Fund gave $10,000 away to recently unemployed people and other neighbors living on the edge, in need of help with food, rent, and utility bills. Laura talks about the stark failure of current economic support systems and how the ONE Good Deed Fund is making a contribution.

Town Meeting TV talks with Mark Redmond, Executive Director of Spectrum Youth & Family Services, about how his organization is meeting the needs of our region's vulnerable youth, working with agencies across the region, and going ahead with the annual Sleep Out on March 26th (in backyards!).

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The Attorney General announces the filing of a lawsuit and a motion for preliminary injunction against a data broker start-up for violations of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act and the Data Broker Law. Vermont’s Data Broker Law went into effect last year and was the first law of its kind in the country. The State’s claims supported by the Data Broker Law will be one of first impression for the Court.

The defendant’s violations relate to the collection and sale of biometric data of Vermonters, including children. The complaint includes claims involving civil liberties and a right to privacy.

Featuring the New Alpha Gospel Choir and the Burlington Ecumenical Gospel Choir and with special guest gospel recording artists Adrian B. King, Floyd Wilkerson, Pastor Greg Hunter, Jeffery Williams, and Richard Gibbs (former organist for Aretha Franklin).