Relocalizing VT: Importance of Local Politics

Past event
Nov 28, 2019, 9 to 10:30 AM

Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio: a police chief who wants officers to keep their guns holstered more and yell less, and a journalist who accidentally stumbled into the importance of state and local politics—and how one side of the political spectrum has out-invested the other over decades.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Journalist Meaghan Winter, in covering abortion rights stories in various states, found how much activity in state legislatures and local governments is affecting politics in this country. Her book, All Politics is Local, looks at the issues in general and takes a deep dive into three states that are not clearly red or blue: Florida, Missouri, and Colorado. While she writes for progressive activists, she says things about the importance of local issues that are relevant to people regardless of political identities.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781568588384

Burlington police chief Brandon del Pozo will be speaking at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier on December 4 at 7 pm on "Policing and Community." He previews his topic with comments on why he thinks cops are too quick to pull out their guns, why it's better to think of police work as public health than law enforcement, and what he has to say about the advice not to talk to police.
https://www.vermonthumanities.org/event/policing-and-community-in-vermont/

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand

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