Social Justice

From Mark Hughes:

In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution, the second reconstruction amendment, was created to provide citizenship, equal protection, due process, and certain privileges and immunities for the formerly enslaved. Over the past 155 years the Equal Protection Clause has faced backlash and resistance and has scarcely fulfilled its promise of equal protection to us Black folks. Now the Equal Protection Clause is being turned against us, challenging corrective and reparative economic policies designed to correct what government policies have caused. Is this Backwards Day?

It is the state's responsibility to protect us where the federal government won't. We must amend the constitution to make it so. Let's run a sanity check on this with a legal perspective. Peter, where you at?

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, chats with Peter Teachout, a Professor of Law, Constitutional Law, at Vermont Law School.

For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org

From the organizer:

An invitation to hear and engage in a discussion, not a debate, on the proposed new women's prison. The beautiful and powerful artwork created by incarcerated women at C.R.C.F. displayed on the walls of the Fletcher Room inform and bear witness to this heartfelt conversation. Participants on the panel: Tiffany Harrington of Free Her and formerly incarcerated at C.R.C.F; Heather Newcomb, manager of Justice Impacted Services with Vermont Works for Women; Toni Foote, Shelter Coordinator, CVOEO; and a representative with the Vermont Department of Corrections.

Meghan O'Rourke, CCTV, hosts a conversation with Christine Hallquist, the Executive Director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board. They discuss the plans for Broadband buildout, what it will take and why it is important, and what the office is trying to do on the legislative front.

From the Mayor's Office:

Mayor Miro Weinberger and CityPlace Partners announce recent progress and next steps at the construction site of the CityPlace mixed-use housing development in downtown Burlington. With CityPlace Partners Dave Farrington, Al Senecal, and Scott Ireland.