Social Justice

Vermont Affordable Housing Show: How Much Progress Have We Made Since the Federal Fair Housing Act 04/04/2018

April is Fair Housing Month! Ted Wimpey, Chair of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition Steering Committee and Director of the CVOEO Fair Housing Project, interviews Amy Demetrowitz, Director of Real Estate Development for the Champlain Housing Trust.

On the 50th anniversary of the passage Federal Fair Housing Act in 1968 (one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), these long-time leaders in affordable housing discusses systemic issues which affect its development, especially in Chittenden County. They explore some possible systemic changes — mostly at a municipal level — that could create conditions for more affordable housing to be built; less zoning that tends to be exclusionary in impact and more ways to create housing opportunities for lower- and moderate-income people. In other words, not the funding issues that are so important of course, but rather zoning and permitting factors that can enhance or obstruct more affordable housing creation.

For more information: Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition: www.vtaffordablehousing.org

More information on Housing Discrimination Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid: http://www.vtlegalaid.org | http://www.vtlawhelp.org/discriminationfair-housing

More information on Fair Housing: CVOEO Fair Housing Project | https://www.cvoeo.org | 802-864-3334 Ext. 202

Vermont State House - S.281 Mitigation of Systemic Racism 04/03/2018

House Committee on Government Operations - April 3, 2018

UVM Community Medical School: Transgender Health and Healthcare: Transitioning to Affirmative Care 04/03/2018

This is a special panel presentation featuring A. Evan Eyler, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine; Kate Jerman, M.P.H., Director, LGBTQA Center at UVM; Eli Goldberg, Medical Student, Class of 2020; and Lola Houston, UVM Standardized Patient, Relationship Coach.

On the Waterfront: Burlington Police Chief Del Pozo 03/29/2018

Melinda Moulton interviews Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo and his journey from an officer in New York to the chief of the Burlington Police Department. Melinda also asks his opinions on current issues such as gun control. This is a special, non-live edition of her show.

Nuclear Free Future: Nuclear Update with Fairewinds Energy Education 03/26/2018

Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, talks with host Margaret Harrington about his 5-year monitoring project of radioactively-hot particles detected in dust and soils in Northern Japan after the Fukushima-dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown on March 11, 2011. The research identifies a meaningful number of samples whose radioactivity increase the risk of suffering future health problems.

March For Our Lives - Perspectives from the Crowd 03/24/2018

Sylvan Zeitlyn interviews participants in the crowd at the youth-led March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. protesting gun violence in communities across the United States and school shootings.

Greater Burlington Women's Forum: Beyond #MeToo - Workplace Sexual Harassment 03/23/2018

Sexual harassment and abuse charges against powerful personalities have created a kind of public reckoning. Our shared voices in the media and the #MeToo movement are driving change, yet pushing back against the behavior patterns of sexual harassment, so common in workplaces across the country, is not easy. When is it safe to speak up? What happens if we do say something? Who do we turn to if we decide to speak up? How might the passage of new laws in Vermont change the climate?

Panelists:

Alexandra H. Clauss, Esq. is an attorney and Shareholder at Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC.

Lola Houston of Live A True Life loves helping others untangle the complexities of love and life.

Lisa Senecal is a co-founder of The Maren Group. She specializes in strategic planning, communications, investigations, and best practices for risk mitigation to guide individual and private sector clients who are grappling with sexual harassment and assault.

RAD-TV Presents: A RAD Burlington City Council 03/23/2018

Host Noah Detzer interviews newly re-elected and RAD endorsed City Councilors Ali Dieng and Brian Pine as they discuss how they plan on working together to implement RAD’s new Burlington People’s Platform, and how to begin to show RAD’s strength and influence in Burlington. We will be looking to push the rest of the council and the mayor in a new direction, guided by the people.

For more information visit radvt.org.

Addiction Recovery Channel: Law Enforcement and Public Safety During The Opioid Epidemic 03/23/2018

Ed Baker’s guest for this show is Brandon del Pozo, Chief of Burlington’s Police Department since 2015. Chief del Pozo reflects upon his tenure as Police Chief, the challenges he and his department face as a result of the influx of heroin and fentanyl into our communities, and some of the innovative measures his team has initiated. They examine the ways in which law enforcement policy has adapted to the present crisis.

Vermont Interfaith Action: Still Moving Toward a Moral Economy 03/20/2018

Rachel Kauppila, of Vermont Works for Women, and Gene Bergman, of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, discuss how to improve life for Vermonters in the workforce.

More information at: (802) 651-8889 | office@viavt.org | www.viavt.org

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!