Thanksgiving morning on Goddard College Community Radio: the importance of an Amazon-free Christmas for Democracy, and how the Federal Reserve (and others) are investing in Vermont communities, with a focus on Lamoille County. Plus a reading from a Calais-based poet.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Food for thought ahead of the main Christmas shopping season: Stacy Mitchell and the rest of the crew at the Institute for Local Self Reliance have been charting for years the way Amazon has hollowed out Main Street businesses and thereby undermined democracy. Plus, she suggests that the left—and labor in particular—could ally with local businesses on a common agenda of breaking down corporate monopolies.
https://ilsr.org/

Last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a host of private and public partners announced over a million dollars in grants spread out over four Vermont communities for innovative economic development. One of the winners was a team from Lamoille County. Ellen Mitchell, Greg Stefanaski, and Saudia Lamont will tell us how they hope to bring the county's unemployment rate down to Vermont's average or lower by 2024.
https://www.bostonfed.org/workingplaces/communities-challenge/vermont/lamoille-county.aspx

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, Calais poet Jane Shore reading and discussing a poem recently published in The New Yorker, and more.

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