 clowning I'm Tom Crosby from Burlington live here all my life life. Fifty years ago, well of course the cars are gone and there's a lot more people on the street now and of course the different sidewalk stands, the trees there never were trees on Church Street back 50 years ago. There might have been a hundred years ago but not not well I was alive. Introduce you to Mr. Stockholder number one. Mr. Stockholder, do you have some plans for what you would like to do once you buy out Ben and Jerry's here? Why yes I've got some excellent plans. Well first of all I'd like to introduce some new flavors to you all, they're right over here. New flavors, new flavors. Flavors of the month. Flavors of the month. Yes. Did you hear that? Flavors of the month. The first favor. Stockholder, brown nose, crunch. Can't you keep it? Local dough. Too much changeable and transformable social misery among ordinary people, among everyday people. It might have something to do with the fact that their voices are not being heard at the highest level and then Martin Luther King, Jr. came out of a particular species, a specific version of the democratic tradition. I'm Chief Former Saint Francis of the Avanaki Nation. I want to applaud the support and support the students who have stood up and spoken out against racism at the University of Vermont. You can't redo history. No, we can't do it and no we can't go back to Harvick's and Salmon on the Winooski Falls but we can change the future by knowledge the past. And this is something we can ask the trustees of the University to do. It doesn't necessarily mean renaming Hyrule and Chapel after Greylock, although that's not a bad idea. But simply acknowledging that racism goes back a long way. You are watching television and you are growing sleeply. You are about to descend into a hypnotic state. Because too often we're perceived as just being the fair housing organization that's hammering the banks for discrimination issues and frankly empowerment zones, investment, strategies. We just have a whole lot of... we made a list yesterday after John's back. It's been good to work it. Why don't we just walk on down the street and talk to him. I just don't want to miss his play. What I'm here to say might not so good to the authorities. It's time for us to change our national priorities. Let's give the people more of a say about how we invest our taxes in the USA. Now here's one thing I'd really like to know. Where do you want your money to go for nuclear weapons and Star Wars toys or to educate and motivate our girls and boys? Telling you how we just gotta move on. I think you're helping your husband so much will affect the possibility of a female president sometime in the near future. Well I hope that somewhere right now in the United States is a young woman or even a not-so-young woman anymore who will become president sometime in the next 20 years. And I think that it will only happen because the woman who decides to do that will be brave enough to take the risks associated with being in public life and will be willing to really stand up and work as hard as she can to be judged on who she is and not be discouraged by some of the obstacles that still stand in the way of women doing work like that. It's no longer a problem of us just talking about program. We're talking about food and clothing and shelter. We're talking about the richest society and the world letting children go to bed hungry at night. This is not a battle that we're involved. We're involved in a war. And we need to take a look at this very seriously. I don't know what's going to happen right now. I'm very concerned that from the low intensity psychological cover war we may go into an over war down there. Right now the Mexican military has 200,000 troops over 60,000 of their elite are in the state of Chiapas. This is not Angola. This is not some small and distant country. This is our neighbor on the North American continent, a nation whose history, whose people, whose culture is deeply intertwined with our own nation of 100 million people, one river away. I'm Soren Smith. Nice to meet you. What are you doing down here? I've come to talk to you about this little campaign you're running here. That's a great campaign. I hope I win. What are you going to do if you win? Go to Washington. Oh yeah? So if you beat Senator Leahy. Senator Leahy, I can't beat him. I don't believe him. I'm going to try it. What happens if you win the primary? Are you going to run against Senator Leahy? I might be a little afraid, but I don't know. At this moment I'm not really sure what I'm running against Leahy. Okay. So tell me how this all got started. I mean, why did you decide to do this? Oh, I've been home here all my life and never been anywhere in just World War II. I just wanted to go through my get out. Go to Washington maybe, you know. Why Washington? Why would you want to go to Washington? It's all a bunch of politicians down there. No, it's Western politicians. I want to change it a little bit down there. I remember, I don't know what you guys do or not, but it seems to me that they sat in the balcony and then they would jiggle, the kids would jiggle the backboards that were up on the balcony. So you come down, you take a shot, you go for a shot, and the rim of the basket was moving like this. That was a part of the home court advantage. That was part of the home court advantage. Oh, yes. Is that their own pictures? Whoa. On behalf of all our delegation, thank you for your hospitality and the hospitality of the people of Oregon and New York. It's been absolutely wonderful. You could not have done more for us. There were a lot of things that needed to be fixed. We had one of the most liberal criminal justice systems in the country that ignored the rights of crime victims and really trampled on them. And it was as a result of going to the legislature as a citizen advocate, you know, using up all my vacation time to be in the legislature to try to get changes passed and then having so little happen as a result of all of the time and effort that I put in. And I decided that maybe I would be better off being in the Senate with a vote and being outside just with my voice. And that's why I ran. And during that 18 years I followed Andy through four radio stations and TV station. And I'll follow Andy anywhere. He's the best, most sensible, soundest person on state and local politics there is. He's got a quick mind. He's got an instant grasp of the issues, understands numbers and is consummately fair. The truth of the matter is that huge numbers of people do not come out to city council meetings or zoning board meetings or planning commission meetings, not in Burlington, not in Ness extension, not anywhere. But the fact that these programs are now televised gives local people all over the county an opportunity to learn what their local government is doing. And that is a major, major, major step forward over what used to be the case. So in a sense you're opening up government to far more people than used to be the case. Our forefathers did stand on Christian moral values and asked for you to do the same thing. America was founded on these moral values and America thrived back then. But today, just over a matter of a small period of time when they've taken prayer out of schools, they've done just these little minor things, but it's brought disease and famine to America now, such as AIDS. I am a mother of five. It would not be my choice to personally have an abortion. It doesn't belong in the platform of any party. It is in your heart and in your personal feelings that a woman's reproductive freedom comes into play. We don't legislate any type of moral or non-moral or whatever you want to call it values. I do not support people who say women do not choose. It's a hard choice that women have chosen when they have a termination of a pregnancy. Keep them in your minds and keep them in your hearts. But not in legislative involvement. It doesn't belong there. Women have the right to decide when to bear a child. I'm Peter Frane and welcome to Point Counterpoint. Tonight's debate comes to you from Room 11 at the State House in Montpelier. The topic of tonight's debate is something that's been very much in the news this year and very much of a surprise. Industrial hemp. So when women's liberation and gay liberation hit the streets in the 60s, we were all astounded. We welcomed the movement then and now, which is a movement for human rights and for basic freedoms. We welcome it today. We'll welcome it in the future and continue the struggle. I think if it wasn't the Vermont Women's Celebration, we wouldn't be getting the support from the community that we are getting from the women's community. And from not just the women's community either. And Warble is our newest exhibit here at the center. Be sure you don't miss the frogs and snakes. Here you have to take chances and have fun to discover new ways to think about the basin. For example, here you have to smell things. Three and four years old, my father was dragging me with him to the various clubs he was playing at around New York City. The Village Vanguard blew note bitter in places like that and my mother at the same time has taken me to films. I looked at the statistics where we are in this country and the level of fitness and I found out that although the adults have been doing really well, the senior citizens and the youth of this country have been really falling behind. There, in the car, or in the place where you work, it's easy to remember that you are always going to give up. Because from now on, you won't buy another tree that you only buy once a week. Because when you have a lot of flowers, you will give up a lot. Give him my hat, her. I've got so many hats. Yeah, another bottle of vanilla. Oh my God, right on the floor. You don't not endorse me. You don't call me. Well, they're looking for you. Go ahead. You did great.