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GREEN MOUNTAIN POLITICS
Restless Spirits, Popular Movements
From Ethan Allen to Bernie Sanders, Vermont has forged a separate path as a small, independent state with a strong sense of how to preserve its basic traditions while changing with the times. Green Mountain Politics revisits its unique story through movements and memorable people who have created the delicate balance of sovereignty and solidarity, political independence and mutual aid known as the Vermont Way. The journey features a memorable cast of characters.
Many episodes have also been released on other websites, as well as in live presentations. The project also includes rare photos, dramatic stories and an episode from The Vermont Movie. Latest — Culture War in Bennington; Birth of the NPAs 2017 additions -- Cleaning up the World: Vermont's First Earth Day, Earth Day 1990: Making Peace with the Planet and Dark Shadows in Vermont's Past. Also check out Class Struggle: From Socialism to the American Plan and How Traditions and Values Have Defined the Vermont Way (Green Mountain Noise, 2VR, Spring 2014) Publishing partners include VTDigger, Center for Global Research, Second Vermont Republic, ZNet, and Toward Freedom.
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS Monograph available as PDF |
"Serenade in Green"
Green Mountain Politics describes the state’s delicate dance of sovereignty and solidarity, independence and mutual aid. The subtitle refers to the focus on political, economic and social events, trends and personalities. Covering centuries, this transmedia project features unique stories, sketches of key figures, and original analysis that explains how the Vermont Way evolved. The following installments are available:
The Path to Marriage Equality VTDigger version
How Vermont Was Born. ZNet version
Blaming Outiders: Matthew Lyon and the Election of 1800 CGR version
How Vermont Was Born. ZNet version
Blaming Outiders: Matthew Lyon and the Election of 1800 CGR version
The Parkway That Never Was VTD (see Vermont Movie segment below)
The Road Not Taken (UVM talk) on Video
The Trouble with Sprawl
Progressive Republicans:The Aiken-Gibson Wing
Defeating a Demagogue: How Flanders Took on McCarthy CGR
The Road Not Taken (UVM talk) on Video
The Trouble with Sprawl
Progressive Republicans:The Aiken-Gibson Wing
Defeating a Demagogue: How Flanders Took on McCarthy CGR
Voting Equality and the Hoff Effect VTD
Waving the Flag in a Culture War
The First Earth Day
Making Peace with the Planet
Vermont's Decentralists: Questioning Authority...
Almost President: The Impossible Dream of Howard Dean
Burlington and Bernie: The Beginning
Birth of the NPAs
Another Realignment: How Progressives Lost City Hall
The Winding Road to Fusion
Waving the Flag in a Culture War
The First Earth Day
Making Peace with the Planet
Vermont's Decentralists: Questioning Authority...
Almost President: The Impossible Dream of Howard Dean
Burlington and Bernie: The Beginning
Birth of the NPAs
Another Realignment: How Progressives Lost City Hall
The Winding Road to Fusion
Dark Shadows in Vermont's Past
The Parkway That Never Was
From The Vermont Movie, directed by Nora Jacobson
This 5:53 film segment streams on this site and allows scrolling with audioThe Parkway That Never Was
From The Vermont Movie, directed by Nora Jacobson
An illustrated print edition is being developed, with new insights about influential Vermonters like revolutionary leaders Matthew Lyon and Ethan Allen, Anti-Mason Governor William Palmer and feminist Clarina Nichols; railroad and marble tycoons, anti-slavery activists, major strikes and labor protests; Vermont-born Presidents Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge and progressive politicians James Burke and Ernest Gibson; intimate portraits of Governors Phil Hoff, Tom Salmon, Richard Snelling, and Madeleine Kunin, as well as Bernie Sanders, James Jeffords, and Howard Dean. Plus, the Vermonter who rescued America from McCarthy. Excerpts from Greg Guma's Dangerous Words and Maverick Chronicles are also available:
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Video: Vermont Pastoral
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Video: Vermont Pastoral
Photo Montage & Music by Greg Guma