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Operation City on a Hill: The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium 11/12/2019

The title is taken from a book by Martin Gurri. This episode deals with the phenomenon behind why a certain segment of the public is sticking behind Donald despite the mounting evidence of corruption surrounding his administration. It then focuses on the question of Liberal Democracy's survival.

"All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet." --Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

"We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the publics?" --Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Bard College.

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: The Importance of Public Access TV to Democracy 10/25/2019

Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy

Part of the Education and Enrichment for Everyone series in South Burlington, Vermont. For more information visit EEEVermont.org.

Burlington Democrats: Youth Engagement in our Communities 09/11/2019

Grace Viscito, from the Vermont Democratic Party, speaks with Skyler Nash, student activist, and Hannah King, Deputy Executive Director of College Democrats of Vermont, about youth engagement in our communities and the electoral process.

Wendell Potter Forum - Medicare for All: What's Stopping Us? 06/12/2019

Wendell Potter is a former insurance company executive who found his conscience, quit his job, and is now working for universal health care and bringing awareness to the impact of money on the health care industry and democracy through his investigative reporting on the issues. For this forum he focuses on the impact of money on health care reform.

Presented by Vermont Health Care for All and VBSR.

Episode 2: Our Democracy with Rick Hubbard 03/29/2018

The strategy of pressing Congress to enact broad reform has failed in the past and is continuing to fail, yet hundreds of nonprofit advocacy organizations are currently pressing Congress to pass legislation and to propose a 28th constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United and rid politics of the corrupting influence of money.

Even if Citizens United were overturned, it will not rid politics of the corrupting influence of money. Political contributions from the few, raised the old way, have been corrupting Congressional outcomes for decades, well before Citizens United further opened the floodgates.

Defending Our Democracy: Transparency, Cyber Security, and Voting 03/20/2018

A panel discussion with Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters, Senator Chris Pearson, and Cyber Expert Justin Fimlaid, moderated by Terri Hallenbeck. After Russian interference in our national election, what can we do to protect our democracy and voting process? Vermont experts share what's being done. Hosted by Shelburne Democrats.

The State of Our Democracy 03/17/2018

Independent researcher and The Democracy Amendments author Rick Hubbard hosts a special interactive session with an audience at South Burlington, Vermont's Community Library to explore the changing landscape of democracy in the United States.

Our Democracy with Rick Hubbard 11/22/2017

Independent researcher and "The Democracy Amendments" author Rick Hubbard joins a special Channel 17 Live @ 5:25 program with Channel Coordinator Alex Lavin about the state of the USA's democracy.

A Conversation About the State of Our Democracy 11/14/2017

Independent researcher and "The Democracy Amendments" author Rick Hubbard hosts a special interactive session with an audience at Burlington, Vermont's Fletcher Free Library to explore the changing landscape of democracy in the United States.

Big Data, Politics and the 2020 Election 11/09/2017

Jeff Chester, Director of the Center for Digital Democracy and national advocate for media justice, delivers a provocative and timely talk about how Big Data threatens to change Politics and Democracy forever and what we can do to stop it. Produced by CCTV Center for Media & Democracy in partnership with ACLU of Vermont, VPIRG, AARP Vermont, Channel 17/ Town Meeting Television, RETN, VCAM, and the Vermont Access Network. Media Sponsor: VTDigger.org

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Summer Video Production Internship - Applications Open

Town Meeting TV is hiring two paid interns to join our production team for the summer! The program will run from Monday, June 24th until Friday, August 16th (8 weeks). $17 an hour, approximately 8 hours per week. We are looking for folks who have basic or intermediate experience with video recording and editing on Adobe Premiere. Interns will work with the Town Meeting TV Co-Directors to pick stories or events that they would like to cover in our community, practice outreach skills, then shoot and edit video that will be broadcasted on Town Meeting TV's YouTube and cable channels. Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter (including why they are interested in this position and any relevant experience) to Jordan at jmitchell@cctv.org. Applications close Friday, May 24th at 5:00PM. For more information, please contact outreach@cctv.org or call 802-862-3966.