 Thank you for coming tonight. I'm Lauren Glendavidian and I'm the executive director of CCTV Center for Media Democracy And we are really touched on behalf of the board of CCTV and the staff. I just like to thank you all for coming I just maybe the staff could my colleagues at CCTV could just wave and say hello and we could give them a round of applause and Then we also they're folks that worked with us in the very past one has come as far as New York City Bill Mies and Salf and Thanks for everyone all of our and Patrick Cody And every single person in this room has been touched by the work that we all together have done to build our community through media So we have a wonderful program tonight I'm not going to spend a lot of time giving you a deep and profound speech on the work that we did I said to someone if you would like that you feel free to call me on the phone and I'll be give it to you Tonight we're really going to be looking into the archives I'd like to thank in addition to our staff and our board the cable subscribers of Comcast and Burlington Telecom who fund our Channels the Channel 17 trustees with whom we work to operate Channel 17 town meeting television And of course our colleagues in the media factory at V Caminarie TN who we work closely with and the Vermont Access Network Which is the network of 25 community media centers across the state that produce? 18,000 hours of program a year and we employ 75 plus people and we operate 75 plus channels and we use cable Subscriber resources to build our community so I Also, want to just say a couple of things about folks who We would like to just recognize One of them is Richard Kemp. There's a party for Richard Kemp down the street tonight at the same time His family has come together and he's being honored at the community The Champlain Housing Trust and Richard is a longtime board member producer ambassador Remarkable community activist and he we want to just have a shout out. We wish she was here tonight And and also a special recognition in honor of our friend Carl Jakes who Started at CCTV when he brought his son to volunteer in the early 1990s and his son kind of got done with it, but Carl kept coming and Carl then would fix everything that he could find that we needed fixing and was Just a remarkable human and he passed over this past year and we miss him very much in Deb His beautiful wife is here. We're so glad you are and we miss Carl a lot We're gonna see a little bit of Roz pain tonight, so we're excited about that We miss we miss Roz Roz was a trailblazer in the world of alternative media and She and so many of you who are here were our early supporters I think when you saw a public access TV starred in 1985 you said to yourself Wow, the torch is being carried forward for this alternative radical media work that we do so Roz is again missed and we Will see her later tonight, and I also just want to say one thing we'll say a little bit more about him But Nat air is in the house And the main reason that we have these archives to show you is not only because Nat is of Germanic heritage Which he would remind me very detail oriented but because he put these archives together and He meticulously cared for the video that we produced so as a result we have more than 35,000 programs in our archives that are in the process of being digitized and All of us contributed to that work But it was not who had the vision to understand that this was a repository of local history and should be cared for So thank you Nat But without further ado, we're going to begin at the beginning 13th of June 1984 public access program number one What is public access television? Public access TV is the opportunity for members of the community to make pictures of themselves by producing Videotapes and showing them to other members of the community through cable Through monitors in the library through television sets in the University Mall We can see them anywhere at any time and Chittenden Community Television wants to bring it to you What are the programs we can expect to see in the next few weeks on Wednesday night at 8 o'clock on your channel 8 television set? We'll be able to see The Battle of the Bands Burlington's youth producing its very own homemade music Then day Henry's Cafe the last remnant of pre-gentrified Winniske Would you give me a little repeat, please? Sunday I like to take you out For an hour or two answers. I mean, I mean just sit right now I'd like to tell you Will take me a week to tell you the stories of my life. I'm serious. I'd love to hear Would you can we don't get any ideas? Oh, no, no, I'm a nobody's girl. I'm a married man role My wife's name is grace. They'll marry for a grace. No one will ever take your place I've heard you in that several different ways Mother's Day and Memorial Day celebrations The work of our artists famous people who visit our community many other examples of locally produced programs Tonight, we're pleased to present the premiere of public access television in chitenden county You'll see elmo's place the new hot talk show pictures of The memorial day celebration some commercials produced by sx junction high school and little bits and pieces of life Tonight we'll also be seeing the vermont premiere of paper tiger television Smashing the myths about the information industry This program produced in new york by didi hallek and her associates is one example of access programs produced throughout the country And we'll be bringing those to you through the weeks Non-commercial community television is a new way to talk about what you do Cctv will help anyone interested in producing a program Distributing it through this cable spot or in the library in the schools call us And watch access everyone so I did have something profound to say and um it has to do with Had something to do with mushrooms and morel mushrooms and the archives being kind of on mycelium That's holding us all together And I think That really what I want to talk about is the first time I met nat And I didn't know I met nat. I was it was 1991 and I was Throwing myself down in front of a bus to get arrested to protest racism And that was there with a video camera And I didn't even know I had no awareness that he was there until a year later I came I'm hobbling in to ask for a job I had seen a little you know field producers needed And then started to understand what this place was And maybe even five years later. I found in the archives Footage of that demonstration and me my shaved head getting carried off And nat having been there in our community and I think that piece Is the fact that nat was there in all of these places recording our stories and political processes And we have them and I think lauren glenn alluded to it 35 000 hours 12 000 digital 12 000 assets that are on vhs and dvd That we need to digitize And michael's been doing this VHS tape by vhs tape Pulling them off the shelves in somewhat of a sequential order But what I would like to do is invite you because all of these programs are available online as In there with all their raw metadata. So I would like to invite you to come to cctv.org virtually and Find programs That are your gems find yourself getting arrested or giving a speech or What is important to you because we can't decide What's important to you we have recorded And I say we because I did get a job and it was part of recording all of these community stories and events too But the fact that nat catalogued all of those material all of that material meticulously and then We have it all available online and you can go and look and Send us the gems that you want to see so that we can give michael the work order to take those tapes and dvds and Make them publicly available because when an archive is just living on the shelf And it's not publicly available for everyone to see it just it doesn't belong to us as much as it needs to So that's my little bit and I think we're gonna see now what Oh, I'm gonna introduce michael Thank you Hello, everyone Uh, thanks for coming out. Um, I am the cctv archivist here Um, I've spent the last Over a quarter of a year, uh putting together these different Accomplations Not by myself. It was with a lot of collaboration with everyone else that works at cctv through creative input through knowledge beyond my own because Well, we're starting in the 80s and I wasn't alive then but um Yeah, there's a lot of interesting people And footage that I just picked out because I heard the name before Or it was just interesting candid moments Um, so I'd also like to thank all of you who were here to be the stars in these videos So, yeah, let's hop into the 80s So you could go up to uh two hours Or actually up to six hours on one film on one film Six hours on one film. Yeah How can you go six hours on one film? I don't know the tape just the tape moves really slowly in it The movie thing is like the ones like this one for half hour The great big reels the great big reels like this one for about 45 minutes a half hour You know the ones that they play in the movies Yeah Okay, that's film though and this is video Here at the Fletcher free library and also at con toys auditorium and also at the church street center And some other places around town the vermont storytelling festival and we're going to show you what kinds of places It's going to be taking place inside come on Hello, my name is peter burns and i'll be your suave and sophisticated host For the storytelling here at 7 30 on friday evening There'll be a variety of different kinds of storytellers and different styles of stories I'll know you enjoy it. So please come join me for this evening of stories. Thank you I saw on tv real things Pardon me, ma'am. May I ask your name? My name is mrs. Dick righteous Mrs. Righteous could you look into the camera and say hello to our viewers? Hi Now when you say nip womanhood in the bud, what do you mean mrs. Mrs. Righteous? Well, I mean that we are here. I have a statement if you mind if I read my statement We are here to prevent the feminist blight of blue jeans flat shoes and female facial nudity We expect to see an american dress code as the law of the land We also support a new congressional group hula the house Committee on unladylike activities What i've done is made beauty You say what is it? It's beauty Now i've had an report to say to me look parenty We can't editorialize the news. You understand? We're neutral And if the president says one thing we put that down and we say the president says and if someone else says the other thing We put that down and we can compare the two and I say to them look I don't want you to inject your editorial opinions into the news I just wrote a whole book about how you already do that. You don't even realize it That's number one. Number two is It's not that I want you to editorialize nor do I want you to pretend to neutrality. I want you not to be objective I want you to be truthful and when the president Of the united states gets up And he sets out a stream of words which at best are very one-sided interpretations And at worst are outright lies And you just report that to the american people without the slightest hint that there might be an alternative perspective Then you're nothing but a mouthpiece for power and wealth And that's not objectivity. What you've done is traded in Your your commitment to accuracy and truth for an appearance of neutrality When the president in october 1984 gets up and he says i'm going to support social security And they put in the headlines president reagan in favor of social security And you read this in the washington post on page one and it's written like a straight story And you read it in the new york times on page one and you hear it announced by dan rathas And you sit there and you say what am I in little johnny lolly pop wonderland? What is this and you don't mention the fact that for 20 years This man has hated social security. He's gone after it with claw and fang and tooth and nail And he equates it with welfare which he detests and hates and you don't even mention that and the day after the election He's already going after cost of living allowances and trying to squeeze it out and trim it down Anyway, despite his pledges, you see And I wrote this script in vermont last year as a matter of fact during christmas vacation at stow And we got involved in a story Of what would happen if superman really got involved In the real problems of the world And one of the main actions of the story is that in response to a letter writing campaign from students all across the country about The breakdown in u.s. Soviet relations Superman yields to their request and Vows in a speech at the united nations that he's going to end the arms race The time has come now to realize that there are no Superman And that nobody can come down and help a single hand of the but we have the next best thing We have people like pat lehi in the senate. Can you tell me if you're pleased with the turnout today? I'm ecstatic with the turnout. There's uh So many more people we ever expected to have it's uh, it's at least three times the number we expected Do that without advertising. That's great. It is my privilege to introduce to you the 38th president of the united state Gerald R. Ford Oh, we will we'll get to that. All right. We get sparring looking at us. That's what they say You can only look at him. I know I know he does that very nicely, but why don't you I mean if you want to film them for a while Okay, I'll stop, you know, but he gets his name in the free press. It's all over the guy. He's just He thinks it's a great award What kinds of That's a half I didn't film that I mean we're trying to make this man into a household word. We have people that know who he is Mr. President I said couldn't we give some consideration to the cessation of bombing of I think it was Cambodia, north vietnam With that He turned on me and he had a way of turning on people and he gave me Five minutes worth and then he stood up and obviously I stood up And he said governor. He said why don't you go back to Vermont take care of your affairs and let us take care of these affairs down here? And I said yes, mr. President All I went I'm practicing what a bunch of people are going for their black belt and I'm doing the same thing in AR So I would hope that at least they give me a brown You haven't got any pictures of you doing that there I They've taken so many pictures and they keep saying we're going to get them. We never do So I I keep bugging and I did have some that they took a few press took one point I don't have them right here Yeah, mr. Brown, obviously your country is suffering a major image problem here in the united states This was evident to you this morning when you arrived And uh, we're greeted by some 40 demonstrators out in front of our studios Well, first of all, um, it's very difficult when you're greeted with the continual type of questions such as How often do you beat your wife and that's exactly what happens in our case? We have people outside. They're demonstrating accusing me of all sorts of things They don't really know what I believe. They just assume that I'm the racist That my government supports racism and so on Translate that for me The communication between you and the audience You just imagine that you imagine this conversation is being heard by the whole world And that would that would give you some kind of ground To speak Of basic things better be much I would feel differently about communicating to the whole world and if I was just here with you alone What's true and that's true. I mean, but okay, so you can imagine that you're here with me alone But also in the whole world. I look what we got over there But if we pretend it's not there then no need to pretend it's not there It'll be um, no need to pretend it's not there because what's over there is part of the larger Consciousness of the world itself press mr. Valvin. You are not, um, are you a recognized member of the press? This is a communist trick to break up a meeting I guess the the best thing I can say about channel 17 tv Is that the folks in berlington and surrounding communities ought to realize What a special opportunity they have if they have people As dedicated as the folks that came to visit c-span Who are concerned with you hearing? What's going on in your local community and again making up your own mind as to what is Correct and right and wrong And that's a unique opportunity that's not available to an awful lot of towns throughout the united states So when you watch channel 17, it may not always be as exciting as you'd like television to be But it's important and started my illustrious performance art career shortly thereafter And uh when you began something like uh cctv or performance art or many of the things that have since flowered There was there was this sense of We don't know what we're doing and we're gonna try we're gonna experiment but Who knows what's uh gonna happen? And uh That in particular was wonderful and he followed me around. He saw me My younger self at the storytelling festival, but he he did my performance art pieces And I remember uh And showed them on tv, which was a big thing for me. Uh, this was it was important Um, but I did get to To do a residency with the city of burlington in which nat and I went around and we interviewed people who worked for the city And we asked them about you know, what kind of work they did and how it supported the community as a whole and nat and I went to uh The airport and we talked to the guys who plowed uh the airport the runways And one of the things they had in that airport was um, they had a basketball hoop And just casually I dribbled the ball and I took a shot And nat knew me as a performance artist, but he was stunned. He said I didn't know you had a jump shot And I felt that was really the greatest affirmation of all to uh astound him with uh with my jump shot abilities uh the uh Longer I am in burlington the more I appreciate communities and this is one of the communities But i'm part of many other communities as well And uh, it's the thing that keeps me going the thing that keeps me strong and um This is one of the communities that I appreciate most of all. Thank you so much Okay, i'm tom crossley from burlington live here all my life 50 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 uh 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 the right over here new flavors New flavors of the month flavors of the month. Yes. Did you hear that flavors of the month the first favor Stockholder brown nose crunch Hold that please. Thank you now 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 height And then montelufa king jr came out of a particular species a specific version of the democratic tradition I'm chief former saint france 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 And no, we can't go back to harvests and salmon on the wanowski 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 higher island chapel after graylock. 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 Yeah, 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 bank has been good and we're good 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 lord of us 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? How do you think you're helping your husband so much will affect the possibility of a female president sometime in the near future? I hope that um 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 gonna happen right now. I don't I'm very concerned that from the low intensity psychological Culver 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 whose history whose people whose culture is deeply intertwined with our own It's a nation of 100 million people one river away I'm fed tunnel. I'm so in 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. Yeah, I hope I win What are you gonna do if you win? Go to Washington. Oh, yeah, so if you beat senator lehi I'm gonna send a lady. I can't beat him. I don't believe I'm gonna try it What what happens if you win the primary? What are you gonna run against senator lehi? I might be a little afraid, but I don't know really. I'm not at this moment. I don't really I'm not really sure what I'm running against like, you know Okay So tell me how this all got started. I mean, why why did you decide to do this? Oh, I've been home here all my life and never been anywhere in just world war two I just wanted to go through my get out Go to Washington. Maybe you know What's why washington? Why would you want to go to washington? It's all a bunch of politicians down there No, it's worse than politicians I'd 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 on the balcony And then they would 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 that. That was the part of the home court advantage That was part of the home court advantage All our delegation, thank you for your hospitality and the hospitality of the people of orgica basis for you It's been absolutely wonderful. You cannot 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 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 to be in the legislature to try to get changes past and then having so little happen As a result of all of the time and effort that I put in and I I decided that maybe I would be better off being In the senate with a vote and being Being outside just with my voice And that's why I that's why I ran And during that 18 years I followed andy through through four radio stations and a tv station And I'll follow andy partner anywhere. He's the you know, the best more sensible soundest person on 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 it consummately fair? The truth of the matter is that the huge numbers of people do not come out to city council Meetings or zoning board meetings or planning commission meetings not in burlington not nest 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 Then 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 choice 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 Um, and from not just the women's community either Buzz crook 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 Yeah, 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 blue note bitter in places like that and my mother was at the same time has taken me To films I looked at the statistics Where we are in this country and a level of fitness and I found out that all of 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 For easy to remember Always mention that you are about to give up Because from now on, you guys don't buy another tree But just buy a frog every time Because when there are too many, you guys will give up a lot Or before Across the road You got it Way to go way to get up Give him a hat her I got so many hats Yeah another bottle of banalic But now There you go. Oh my god, right on the floor You did great Put that down better Lou I want to do a little timer just to make sure I don't go over. I know we're A little behind. Lauren Glenn said I could even be a little shorter, which is great. Well, it's great to be here I first wandered into cctv in North Manuski Shortly after moving to Burlington and nearly two decades ago, which is really really hard to believe at this point But I see a lot of familiar faces So it's great to see people are still around and still connected to cctv. I wandered in Looking to get a connected to the community But be to hone my production skills. I had been doing a little bit of tv and video production Never paid for it And I was hoping someday to actually be paid for it and make a career out of it And I also wanted to do something involving I knew public and community media very vague Didn't quite have the right direction or this employable skills. So I thought so I volunteered For a little while as a camera operator on the live at 525 Show in the cctv studio and soon thereafter. I don't I don't know how long it was but Lo and behold lauren glenn saw something in me I'm not sure why but offered me a job and I was Doing some production work, which was great and at that point things really started to take shape. So Yeah, there was you know, I got I learned about the whole world of You know community television here in in vermont and community media started getting connected to the community meeting all sorts of people that i'm still connected to to this day And That was really great. And I also got a lot of great professional development, which I really needed at that time I'm not sure if nad or lauren glenn are even aware of this, but They offered me some very honest Needed feedback that I really had wasn't Ready to hear from anybody else, but I was really comfortable and and and respected them to you know the point where I actually took it to heart and And and it changed me. So that was really integral There you go, billy. I was looking to work that word in there and In my professional development. So bill my's install is here and he was working actually at cctv at the same time And he has become a close friend since those days I also learned a lot working with him as he was running the northern image, which was the production service for higher arm of cctv and I got to work with him a bit and Learn the craft of professional television and video production. So lo and behold where I am today not to brag, but I run a Local access station down a small one down in the southern part of the state o' camo valley tv Um, and I have my foot really in two worlds. So I'm still in that community media public tv World which is my true passion and then another foot in the world of commercial Video production, which I do as a freelance camera operator and and producer So there's that and you know, I mean this was really the first step towards Oh and the other big goal was I wanted to make sure I could do all those things and live in vermont Which I thought at the time was really hard to do and it's been challenging at times, but Uh, I've done all those and and here I am so it's great to see That's where I am and it's great to see all the familiar faces Which tells me that people that are still around that I remember from back when I was working at cctv Are still involved and value it You know it shows that the value that cctv has is an institution here in the community But also that um that folks here and in vermont statewide Really value um what we're doing collectively in the world of community media So thanks for the opportunity and um congratulations I happen to have a video camera and so I never thought that I would Put it on tv But it's sort of um, how was it seeing your first? Thing on public on television. I mean at home then then or now Now it's embarrassing Why is it embarrassing? Well, because the quality was pretty poor. I have cable and a little black and white tv at my house and I like watching channel 15 And even 17 and every time I turn on 17 and this is not just because I work here But every time I turn on 17 for 10 minutes I learned something about what's happening In my community that you would not and I would not have gotten otherwise I like to watch the city council meetings and see yeah, I guess just the city council meetings I like a lot of the late night shows and a lot of the public people in the area gets a voice their opinions on things I think that's very valuable and most of the other stations won't do that. I do and I love it I really do the meetings. I don't get to I can go and watch them on channel 17 180,000 people in florida whose votes were not counted That's about 60 percent of the people of the state of vermont in fact cast votes And I think that process and that result is outrageous and it is unacceptable and it is insult to the democratic process In 1777 I teamed with sir hillary clinton No, that was henry clinton. I'm sorry of new york city And we formed with the british and had treason against the revolution We don't live in a parliamentary system But it is only natural to expect that people like myself Who have been honored with positions of leadership will largely support the president's agenda And yet More and more I find I cannot In order to best represent my state of vermont My own conscience and principles I have stood for my whole life I will leave the republican party and become an independent I have respected and admired senator jeffords for a long time and he's been a good friend to me And I believe he's doing what is true to his conscience And I understand it understand what has happened. I probably don't understand completely what happens in in congress but He is being left behind in a sense By the republican party and that's too bad if we need to have room for the moderates and the liberals in our party And that's why i'm sorry to see him leaving tragedy struck us in united states today and the enormous Impact of it is i'm sure yet to be felt just to put things in perspective there are As I understand it about five 50 000 people work in the world trade center towers In burlington there's about 40 000 residents and so there are more people that work there than there are that live here in burlington And I think for people who live here in burlington My guess is a lot of people here are going to know people who were affected by this They're we're going to see it. I think a lot of people Are burlington residents who have family and friends who? Most like to be victims of what happened today lots of people Were like more surprised that like we were attacked and like The people that people actually were able to get into the plane and like attack us But what we should be more surprised about was that it actually took this long and there are blood drives going on We'll have a number for people who want to donate blood. We do envision sending some nurses and doctors either to new york or washington We do have flight capacity to help in the new york and washington area with the national guard Which will be doing that under the auspices of the federal government not under my auspices Botanists tell us that it's nectar that makes the honey so sweet Nectar was the delicious beverage of gods roman and greek Ambrosia was the food of the gods when greek fires saved the navy Here in the queen city our ambrosia is Nectar's french fries and gravy You have about a minute. Oh boy My name is lower main street some people call me nick shield drop of 57 main street, but you can call me lower main street I spend a lot of time cleaning up the green belts down there on lower main street I'm mary filmar also from burlington And I would like us to consider the possibility that as grave as this situation is It is being used to distract us from a lot of other very serious matters that are being pushed At the same time particularly in terms of the violations of civil liberties Now we have already had round-ups, and i'm sure that you could comment on this We've already had round-ups of citizens simply because they're from the middle east Most of us in this room don't happen to be among the people who are directly being attacked In that way doesn't mean that it isn't of equal concern to us Seven trillion dollars of our country's wealth has disappeared Nearly one in ten retired people have had to retire return to the workforce Because they've lost their pensions Young people returning home to live with their parents after graduation because they can't find a job Companies leaving the country to avoid paying taxes or avoid paying people livable wage Incorporations doing this with the support of our own government The process in washington that they rent if not own Basically this is a major event all of our lives And i'm sure that some of the older soldiers Now this could be a community event in three years But chances finally put things to You know use some of these sacred practice for years and years For some of you younger soldiers you might not believe it But it's going to be defining strengths in your lives And it's going to be a great great experience Bob what can I do for you? This is john and my friends said well well senator i'm having this little problem Well, bob don't you worry about it. We're going to take care of that We support john mccain on tuesday. I need it. I want it I want to win in vermont and I would very be very honored by your support I think all of us feel cynical about politics sometimes Now it seems like it's a business instead of a mission And yet when you look at the two men standing beside me It's an indication in fact that things can change That we can't overcome that cynicism. That's what this election is going to be about And that's why I want to make sure that everybody is as enthusiastic as I am About making sure that these guys end up in washington where they can keep on stirring up some trouble So steve tell us about your bicycle Well, it's a project that I actually thought up about 30 years ago started working on about four years ago after Thinking some more and building a model that I said yes, this could work So then I built a working model using a conventional bicycle frame and just welding a few parts on it Yeah, the students from the department of Community development and applied economics. They are brought here by their professors And then I lecture them I Love being in the community and I know it's not only selling food, but also it getting to know the people around Oh, my name is lucy kimunya. I just came to come and buy the calling cards to call my mom in kina I come from narrow bikina Hi, I'm here with I'm henry and I'm here with flea pay and paul and I'm going to start by asking them some questions So flea pay. Can you tell us about what your favorite food is? cereal Serial what type of cereal do you like? I don't know How many believers do we have? How many maybe? And I remember you It's disgusting Cigarette butts are trash, too Through example The people of ecstasy junction have voted twice To be a city one solid vote against Consolidation and that's because they like what they have They want to keep it that way We want to go into this century And control our own destiny. So I ask you To follow the the statute and let us be that city and go forward. I think in a couple of years The whole community will be better off for this endeavor. Thank you very much You know my friend the You have touched millions of people's lives You have made their lives better and you've given them hope They'll never know who you are. All they'll know is that they have a chance in life Their lives are better because of you And because you care and because you are really the nameless person That's one of the reasons why I love you my friend You know the the the truth that is is that That is true. They got laid, not me And when I go home and get back playing rock and roll with my band in my day job He stays the course And he's the one that fights for the legislation that really changes lives The OSHA was passed 38 years ago and it was in that spirit on April 28th that the canadian government actually officially declared Workers morning day in canada and that's the only government that has officially declared the National government that has declared a day but across this country 26 states have memorials and many communities and states recognize this day as a day As a workers memorial day to recognize the death on the job Injury on the job illness on the job and a commitment to having a safe workplace And I went down and interviewed and I'll never forget Sid Baker said to me. Well, you know, there's some parking Our traffic control people, you know crossing guards that jobs available I just looked at him and I said that's not what i'm interviewing and I left Well, apparently that was the right answer because that afternoon I got a phone call And mrs. Westcott apparently had said to him, you know, I like that woman I like the fact that she came in here and She was resolute with what she wanted to do. Hello. This is gay simington. I'm speaker of the house In the vermont legislature and this is a weekly show that we have put together on using cable access channels to help Vermonters understand some of the discussions we're having in the state house And this week I thought we would talk about money I have been happily married for 10 years I have two wonderful children I love and value the institution of marriage And I look forward to welcoming Everyone into that institution because we should all be able to share it. It should not only be And there's no cars or vehicle you have to walk most of them die because of food, thirsty and others wild animals and also bandits And kill on the way in this camp all our kids who are in valentine school district Up to high school kids were born in this refugee camp in cana So this is where we spend Almost 12 years and there's still some others Clickable agendas Clickable agendas Clickable agendas Clickable agendas Clickable agendas clickable agendas Clickable agendas Clickable agendas That's right. Clickable meeting agendas only at channel 17.org Bring up your local municipal meeting Look at the agenda and pick the agenda item that is interesting to you You don't have to watch the whole meeting just the item that interests you Get involved with local government save time go to channel 17.org Nat air and lauren glenn devideon from channel 17 and Channel 317 and we are live tonight And so we're no titles yet. So We're using the old style titles from the 1980s So, um Lauren glenn is going to talk more about the the tv part, but I wanted to give a very short fence viewing report So you don't see a lot of municipal meetings in this footage and of course municipal meetings is about 85 of what we air on channel 17. So we thought we would just take a little very short look at Short-looking along subjective municipal meetings. Margaret couldn't be with us tonight. She sends her regrets and she She's a producer of focus One of our very Wonderful community producers. So she's sorry. She couldn't be here tonight, but let's have a look at those real quick bit on municipal meetings I'll call the meeting to order. Would you please join me and standing and residing the Pledge of Allegiance? Our Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the united states of america Well, ladies and gentlemen and commission Back in the fall of 2013 We volunteered to do a lighting committee study and the two thoughts were thought number one was To establish in writing what our current policy is And thought number two was to look at the future and for an adopted policy I'm going for the jet ski Article two shall the voters authorize the current that current taxes be paid to the town treasurer in three equal Installments with due dates of august 15th November 15th and february 15th as authorized by 32 vsa section 4871. Do I have a motion? Please make sure you speak right into the microphone so everyone can hear you And the council was criticized recently in the free press and editorial by someone Didn't appear we were listening so let's all just let me remind everyone on the council to just make sure that we are listening to the public and and We appreciate hearing any any comments you have for us tonight and just ask that it's done respectfully So we'll start out with Eileen andriel We're looking at pushing them back because of the decrease in Housing for what the decrease in housing So the amount of money that we currently have in the impact fee coffers right now stands at about 71 thousand dollars So it's a huge gap between What we currently have and what we need to to build these facilities. So I'm a wunewski resident a mother of two small children and a self-employed therapist in burlington I've lived directly under the flight path For 10 years with my small children and i'm deeply troubled at the thought of f 35s Which are said to be four times louder than the current sound of freedom flying over our house on a regular basis I find it ironic that the person who made the motion and the person who seconded it Are actually putting the city back in the place where we were just a month ago When we were faced with residents who had home offers purchase offers And we had our land development regulations. We had our our You know all of our planning documents sitting here going there's a conflict And you've been put in the middle of two municipal entities and your motion Seconded puts those homeowners directly in the middle of two municipal entities I don't know why we don't learn from our past errors whether it's burlington's or ours Let us move forward clear-eyed with our goals in mind Any further discussion all in favor Opposed I'm sorry Ali. Were you opposed or in favor favor? It's unanimous. Congratulations Thank you president Shannon I noticed that no other council members joined me in expressing reservations about having a retreat So to the extent that we can have substantive issues to discuss at the retreat Rather than talking about our childhoods or our feelings I think that'd be great. So I would join I think I can commit to that councillor play I don't have any further And I don't hear any further corrections or changes to that that that full paragraph of definition So we'll move on to the next piece. We're gonna put a big check mark on that and move on I'm Emily Anderson and for many years I've worked to make Our world more inclusive and cctv has been the place to do this work In the picture that's not up here are some very unique individuals Some may say they have intellectual disabilities others may say they're just extremely eccentric In a very wonderful way And they're called the awareness theater company and for many years I created shows that shared the stories of the members of the community In the late 90s mark astran a colleague of mine from the bread and puppet theater where I'd worked for many years And my neighbor in the old north end Said emily, why don't you take awareness theater over to cctv? And you can film one of your shows And they'll put it on the air and then they'll give you a vhs video tape and you can send it to oprah And then oprah can spread the word that you're trying to get people with disabilities on stage to tell their stories So people realize that we're not really that different Um, I thought this was a great idea So I went on over and they happily welcomed me in and they set up all the lights and we did the show And then they gave me the vhs And um, and then I just really this is a really great way to continue to put people on the air It just opened my eyes up to what cctv is what public access is that it's available for us to put our own stories on the air So um, so I did this for years any new show that I had I would um take there first In the next picture I'm sitting I'm sitting at a on set with a group of young people I have become the coordinator for the bridging program and it's comprised of high school students who are in specialized learning programs and they come from five area schools and um And in small groups and with wonderful partners from the community they work on community connections independent living and career exploration And as soon as I took this job and realized that I got to develop the curriculum I realized I wanted cctv to be part of the community connections section and so um For three years I would come with little groups three times a year to cctv and with mega no roark We would make tv shows about what they were learning in our bridging program This past year. I took it up a notch and gave our 2018 19 a Group a challenge The good citizen challenge are people familiar with this? No Okay, you are you aren't Okay Okay, well, this is this great thing that kathy resmer created last year and it was she's she works at seven days and it was in the um kids vermont Section all through the summer and all through the fall and what it is Is let me read my writing here. It's a good citizen challenge um it's connected the to Basically she created it because she was at a party and she couldn't answer what the five freedoms were And she realized okay, how many other people are not really Couldn't really take a citizenship test because they can't answer the questions So this is a challenge that was introduced to high school students and young kids And you you you rack up points and if you get 200 in how many how many states are in how many towns are in vermont 251 251 points you get to then send it in and um, but anyways the focus is history Government media creativity advocacy and community which are all the things that I want to be teaching and all the things I think are really being done by cctv so I had the kids come in on our first little tour Of the of the station for the new year and they developed they learned about the citizen challenge They developed questions and then kathy resmer came in sat down at the set and we asked we did this really great media Editing thing where they just popped in asked their question and they were gone Next person popped in asked their question kathy answered it and they were gone. It was really fun And then when each group came in through community connections They Took two challenges and they worked on them. They came in with megan. They rehearsed it Well, no, they didn't rehearse it. They just sat down and and did the show So we are constantly creating shows on the spot with students who are just getting introduced to cctv right away So then here in this room. Thanks to melinda molten On april 10th. We showed all four videos that we had created this year and and if you were looking at not my name you would see the picture of one of the great scenes that was right here taken a picture of of Of the set with all the kids around kathy and me sitting on the thing and it was very amazing And A question we were asked to answer in our write-up was what do we see ahead? Well, another challenge is coming and I hope I think another challenge is coming And I hope more people sort of take a look at it because it's really amazing and I think life changing and so you'll hopefully come back and see Maybe get invited to our media fest. Thanks to cctv. Thank you cctv for existing. It's really changing lives. Thank you Tomorrow my service as your governor will end I'll return to private life Handing the reins to a new administration That will take up the responsibility of protecting and advancing the goals we shared On behalf of all Vermonters governor lex shumlin I wish you and your team all the very best That began in brattleboro on january 2nd more than 175 people participated Ranging from toddlers to people in their 80s. We do not have the backing Of a multinational corporation with our request to you our elected representatives To act on this historic and unprecedented opportunity To not allow continued operation of vermont yankee with clothing with shoes with lunch programs Every single thing that you could imagine happened to try to Destroy the panthers and that's why I put up again on this wall over here Some of the counterintelligence. I put the drawings up mostly because they're visual But I spent a sandy nose in her office. I read about 300,000 documents About here have some basic information about referendum and how we got here Just to educate educate an upright brumanta about What it is that we are celebrating today Uh We all know that sudan was a british colony. It was ruled by Great britain and egypt under what was then called condominium rule And when sudan became independent in 1956 The british government just left southern sudanese Today Decided to determine their own destiny Here is the result of the recount Total number of votes cast one thousand eighty five Needed to win five hundred and forty three um Tim ash five hundred and forty morrow Weinberger five hundred and forty spoiled five So as a result of that Vote no candidate having received a majority On in the recount we will suspend the caucus and Reconvene per our agreement with the campaigns within a month And we will at that point have a can a nominee for mayor So let me just say first of all, thank you to each and every one of you For your understanding And in your patience. We'll see you within a month I want to thank the volunteers who are here still some of them. Thank you. I want to thank our candidates senator ash morrow Weinberger At the time they were brought they were forecasting Anywhere from four to seven inches of rain That's a big that's a big rainstorm for vermont. They'll get me wrong, but it's uh, not what we ended up with obviously Thousands of people uprooted from their homes Children have been kidnapped Even forced to kill and mutilate members of their own family It is some of the most horrible things imaginable I am not running and I never have run. I'm a candidate. This is a job opportunity application When you vote for a capitalist party or the candidates in a capitalist party you get what you've got and they're all the same and You keep blaming them the democrats the republicans the progressives whatever For taking you where you don't want to go or where you don't want to be But you keep voting for the same people over and over again There is something profoundly wrong When in recent years We have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires At the same time as millions of americans are working longer hours for lower wages And we have shamefully the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country So, you know, I announced I was going to run. I couldn't stand watching it anymore We used to have victories. We don't have victories We're going to have so many victories that you're going to be bored of winning. You're going to get so tired Have you voted yet? Have you voted yet? Have you voted yet? Local town clerk request the ballot complete your ballot and mail your ballot that way when someone asked you Have you voted yet? You can say yes. I voted The committee concluded that there simply would be no benefit to selling bt outright because both the community asset and the city funds Already invested would be lost While the committee did not believe that an outright sale of Burlington telecom would in any way be beneficial to the city They did feel that a partial sale or partnership Can provide realistic opportunity to moving bt forward and protecting our community asset That's a little odd to comment in this form I personally fundamentally believe it should not be sold that it should maintain be maintained as a public utility If we look at the history right here in the city of Burlington electric department In its very early decades was off to a very rocky start financially And yet The people of Burlington persevered recognizing the value of owning our own utility It's going on to save us a lot of money to be a leader on efficiency and other measures Hello and welcome. This is what the hell happened on monday night with me your host city counselor max tracy from ward 2 coming to you live From the old north end here at channel 17 studios It was a crazy meeting probably the most crazy meeting that i've been through in six years on the city council A meeting that lasted eight and a half hours starting at 5 30 and not concluding until 1 45 a.m And dealing really only with one topic and that topic was the pending sale of Burlington telecom More than any other reason. I believe I was elected In 2012 to resolve the Burlington telecom crisis, which is Perhaps the largest financial crisis in the city's more than 150 year history today. I share with our entire community the welcome news That the city has made good on our promise to resolve the Burlington telecom crisis with the internet We obviously have to make a commitment like we did In the depression to get broadband out To rural america so that there's a chance to compete um And one of the most important things that has to be part of it too is public access television Which has as its mission informing people in the local community Now what they say history is always written by the winners Well, the corporate crowd a century ago kind of won over the populists and managed to crush And eliminate and bury that whole history of what the relationship was between people and corporations and how what's happening today Is not inevitable. It's not irreversible and ever since i've been coming to the npa's I've just been so captivated by this awesome place for community members to connect and have open discussions Especially the fact that the very first item on the agenda is speak out. I think that's so cool Oms could march in the streets overturn verdicts Bring corrupt police to justice if they could bring a boy back his life and a mother back her son A father back his boy return bullets to a gun Unloose the lynch rope and unravel the knots from choke floats. We would not be choking on tears Window allies become valuable In the eyes of the law Windows hate cease to be exonerated behind a badge and lighter skin And god forbid you wear a hoodie in the rain while having black skin with skittles in your pocket You can taste the rainbow, but you can't taste freedom You could taste your own blood, but you can't taste the rainbow From my vantage point, I'm sort of working on what I hope will be the sort of the interpretive space here in the office This will remain the main entrance with gold This entryway will be more associated with the mural and the exhibition space I mean, you know, people can obviously choose to come in there Realistically the goal is to make sure that anyone I'm Dan Higgins and I am Today introducing a show of photographs an exhibit of photographs at the flindog gallery You have the mosquito region Bill we portico basis. This is burlington sister city right here I like pictures of people in their workplace This is a woman very well known woman that that produces a coconut bread. That's very popular These are the young people who produce public access television In bill we and these guys are are milking the cow Uh, they're trying to get some cream cream up for beans in the morning. This can be a pakwa also It's a blunt arrow Which is made to stun you want to shoot a squirrel or something like that or rabbit And you want you do you want to punch a hole in the hide because you just have to sew it up again If you're going to use the hide for anything. So is it like Sometimes like loud or just quiet? It depends, you know, like Depends on the time, you know, especially when there's elections around. It's more busy I don't know. You've missed the last election. It was a general election where The town meetings It gets crazy around the town meetings because everyone's coming in to vote the early voting and stuff This is the cswd materials recovery facility And it's where all of the recyclable materials from within chitin and county and about half of vermont come to be processed Sorted bailed and ready to ship to market Here comes the big cookie right now. Look at this cookie. This one's mine This is the one I get to eat three two one Jump those cookies Into the glass of milk it goes into your class He assessed her and found that she was most likely choking Officer share of ellie then performed the hymen maneuver on the female and dislodged a piece of food She began breathing again and was then assessed by sx rescue share of ellie's quick response and actions saved this person's life So on behalf of the sx police department of community. I want to congratulate you Present you with a life-saving award My name is adan haji and today we have a local artist group by the name of a2 vt Who will be sharing their stories with us the subject of our program today is human trafficking Context and its effect in vermont There's the good Samaritan law will protect them. They don't have to worry about oh, you know, I'm going to get in trouble now So I'm not going to call Exactly I mean I'll take $5,000 So that's just being going away just to pay off debt that you may or may not be able to pay off Anyways, that's part of a leaf bag Part of a leaf bag So you can use the bag too just got to break, you know the more you break up all of your materials the faster it will Break down and the quicker you'll get compost. Hey, we got a caller With a probably a challenge for the chunks here Caller, what's your first name? We will be having every month a show where I will bring people in this community doing great work in bringing us together But the best of all of them is this organization channel 17 We cannot thank them for what they do bringing us closer and closer together every single day Thank you. Uh, and let me thank channel 17 for sponsoring this event everybody for being here And all of these fellow vermoners who are up here Making their points public really appreciate channel 17 being here. It's important to all of us public access tv is about being informed It's about getting information at the local and state level in a wide variety of views And I think that that's what we need to make informed decisions Channel 17 provides a voice for myself and anybody else who has something that they want to say About the community or about the world and the fact that we have broadcast of Government meetings and stuff for people that can't get to all of those government meetings These are important things that I think in a democracy that we need to have and we need to keep having Thank you. Thank you lamp front for sharing your story earlier. And thanks to representative rippard for being the last elected official standing on the panel Thanks channel 17 Turn for cake we have our final comments from Choll door. Are you here with us? Yes, you are. Thank you. How is everyone doing tonight? First of all, my name is Choll door I'm the executive director of the Sudanese foundation of Amant 12 years ago I came to this state After leaving in many years in a refugee camp Many of you in this room are aware About the story of the Sudanese conflict Sudan has been at war for many years From 1955 to 2005 That's a long time and for the last Couple of years I am standing in front of you as a person who went through that part of war I came in 2007 to this state from a refugee camp And I remembered I was doing an interview because coming to the United States is not a joke You have to answer questions You have to do a lot of appointments a lot of Screenings and so many things two two two years to come to the United States And I remember the gentleman who interviewed me. I think he's from New Jersey Not too far from here and he said You are going to a really nice place And I said I don't know what you're talking about I don't know if I can believe you And here I am Standing in front of you and Sudan has gone through many steps Out of one Sudan we have two Sudan's We have South Sudan where I came from And we have the Sudan which is going through another history of conflict right now as we speak But the good news is The person Who created that war that displays me from my From my family From the kid that I knew Is now in jail And that's a good thing It's good for me To get to see that Now South Sudan is an independent country And I'm standing here in front of you as one person Who have witnessed two things In my lifetime I was part of I get to witness My country being founded in my lifetime Okay And that's a good thing Now coming to the United States here in this state When you come through a refugee program You're basically starting over from zero And as we speak As I'm speaking to you now We came as a group of young men called the Los Boys They are no longer Los Boys. They have kids. They have families And they have built their life. They have moved on from that chapter of conflict and refugees And now they are they have kids and they have families What we are celebrating tonight Is 35 years and counting Of public access television And free speech That's something foreign to me because where I came from You cannot speak publicly about how you feel and about how you can be governed Without being in somewhere bad So tonight we're celebrating 35 years Of good work It was more relaxing for me to travel from The 80s To 2019 It helped me to understand How far This place has become how far the amazing work the talent and the vision That is here to stay For us to enjoy this public utility and this public good The reason why i'm standing here is because I leave thousands of miles away And for us to tell our stories Here in this community for our kids and for you to understand us We use CCTV to record our stories And those stories can also be shared Back home And that is really empowering So I work very hard to come here tonight And to stand in front of you And to thank in person The amazing people that i've known And many people that came before them Who have been here To make This station Stay for our stories To record To share And to share with everybody So lauren i'm so thankful It was amazing to see You go through all of this Thank you Megan i've known you through many years And so many of you who are here tonight I think we got this far from the 80s Because of you Because you support it because you value it And that is a beautiful thing So thank you tonight for coming and it's 35 years and is we gonna keep going. Thank you Could just stand up sorry i'm gonna make you just stand up if not in lauren glenn could you just come together and stand up And we're gonna give you some Let's have some cake