economic justice

Nuclear Free Future: Should Vermont Yankee Nuclear Waste Be Dumped in the Southwest? 01/04/2018

Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, talks with Margaret Harrington, Host of Nuclear Free Future, about the federal plan to transfer 40 years of Vermont Yankee nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the Trump Administration's lead, Representative Peter Welch supports H.R. 3053, which would reauthorize Yucca Mountain and begin the process of making it operational. Kevin Kamps cites legal, scientific, and logistic reasons not to transfer Vermont nuclear waste to the Southwest.

For more information: vtdigger.org/2018/01/03/margaret-harrington-vermonts-plans-dump-nevada

Women Helping Battered Women - Emergency Services Program 05/04/2015

Emergency Services Coordinator at Women Helping Battered Women Kim Thevenet, is joined by host Shelagh Cooley, discussing the organization's Emergency Services Program. More information at: www.whbw.org Hotliine 1.800-ABUSE95

Capitalism Hits the Fan 2 - Rick Wolff 03/17/2015

Economist Rick Wolff examines how and why capitalism's crisis following the sub-prime lending debacle is actually deepening - not nearing an end as reported by most media. Additionally, Wolff explains how the social impact of that crisis in the US, Greece, Spain, and beyond are building to a historic change in our world.

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.

The event is co-sponsored by the University of Vermont's Economics Department.

Free Trade, Fair Trade? - Mark Ritchie Talk 05/01/1992

Free Trade, Fair Trade? - Mark Ritchie Talk

Jobs, Justice and the Environments in Vermont's Economic Future.

Economic, Social and Environmental Issues Facing Family Farms and Small Towns

Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders: Sanders' Press Conference Regarding Boycott Against General Electric 07/10/1986

Sanders' Press Conference Regarding Boycott Against General Electric. "Two things I've prioritized in public life- nuclear peace and safety, and economic justice..."

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