Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - a preview of an event Friday in Montpelier about lessons from Scandinavia, where taxes pay for university education, health care for all, a strong safety net for the unemployed, and more. Plus some of the latest thinking from the Soil Not Oil Coalition, including Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, who spoke at their gathering in September.
9:00 - 10:00 am
Anu Partanen is the guest of honor at an event sponsored by Rights and Democracy in Montpelier, Friday at 6 p.m. in the Unitarian Church.
Finnish journalist Anu Partanen had just relocated to be with her fiancé in New York when Newseek declared Finland to be the best country in the world to be a young person. She, too, was puzzled—but gradually came to see that Finland’s social safety net and greater social mobility made the country, in many ways, freer than the land of the free and the home of the brave. You can read her New York Times op-ed, “The Fake Freedom of American Health Care.” Her book is The Nordic Theory of Everything.
http://www.radvt.org/10-27raiseupforum
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/opinion/the-fake-freedom-of-american-health-care.html
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062316554
We’ll hear from Partanen as well as Rights and Democracy organizer Isaac Grimm.
Also, the Soil Not Oil Coalition has been working in the heart of Chevron’s biggest port city (Richmond, California) to move from fossil fuel dependence to a stronger, healthier, more local food economy. Vermont Lt. Gov. David will report from his visit to the coalition’s gathering in September, where he gave a keynote speech, and we’ll hear from other gathering participants.
SoilNotOilCoalition.org
10:00 - 10:30 am
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