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JOB: Let's talk about just occasional part time work or a volunteer / internship position. Our new economist will update data and collaborate with our web designer on data visualization for our Wall Street Tax, perform a study political donations correlated to political alignment, and generally provide expert advice for our varied projects. Limited part time work is available now. But since we have a new 501c-3 tax status, good funding may be coming (we are also looking for a grant-writer/fundraiser). Local applicants are preferred, but some research can be done from home. The economist is also welcome to assist with our agenda as it relates to general public education.
Relocation and housing assistance are possible.
We are Brattleboro Common Sense: one main guy, a small part time paid staff, a few consultants, rare volunteers, advancing common sense and fairness in town government, making global issues local. We are fighting local voter suppression and promoting a fair economy. We are also promoting a local Wall Street Tax, radical anti-nuclear and environmental legislation, and basic social research. Ignore our web site, please. Call or e-mail us and talk about the work.
== our short bio
BRATTLEBORO COMMON SENSE
advancing common sense and fairness in town government, making global issues local
On April 29, 2018 we presented Alex White Plume of the Pine Ridge Ogala Sioux and Norman Finkelstein, the Palestinian rights advocate at the First Baptist Church in Brattleboro
= AGENDA =
YOUTH VOTE (resuming campaign from 2015): : Voting age 16 for local issues; youth on school board and representative town meeting, expanding to stat-wide campaign.
SOCIAL RESEARCH: establishing baseline data on the state of activism in the U.S. and on peoples' attitudes toward their own volunteering or apathy.
SAFE POLICING (since 2017): Verbal deescalation training and routine patrolling without side-arms.
LOCAL WALL STREET TAX (continuing research since 2010)
deriving revenue from capital gains and the Stock Market, which is a tax shelter and shifts the tax burden to the people and other businesses
EQUAL REPRESENTATION in town legislature and voter suppression (since 2014)
Reversing centralization of power in the selectboard (town council)
AMERICAN HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS (just starting 2018) to native Americans and descendants of slaves. A local council to propose legislation that may include donations to organizations, or payments to individual residents, high-school classes on the American Holocaust
RENEWABLE SOURCE ELECTRICITY, (since 2010, now advancing through town government) resolution that electric power purchased by the town be generated from renewable sources.
COURT ACTION: BCS will request the court declare the charter revisions of 2012, which reduced the peoples' rights of petition, unconstitutional under Articles 7 and 20.
= UNDER CONSIDERATION =
WOOLENS RESOLUTION
Brattleboro has enough studies about fuel costs and our carbon footprint in town buildings. A little common sense says to wear long underwear and turn down the thermostat.
Drug Law Amnesty (The Law is the Crime) local moratorium on prosecution of drug laws
WHAT WE HAVE LED or boosted
> court action securing the peoples' right to petition without town government censorship (2010)
> Bush Indictment Resolution (2008) The only legislation in the US advancing municipal prosecution of war crimes under universal jurisdiction
> True Pardon Resolution for plea-bargaining re Bush war crimes (2009)
> EMDOVY Resolution (2009) to force closure and cleanup of Vermont Yankee reactor because of economic threat)
> Clean Air Resolution (2014), joining Center for Biodiversity Clean Air Cities to demand application of the Clean Air Act to atmospheric carbon.
> Resolution to reverse the Supreme Court "Citizens United" decision (2012)
> Budget Referendum (2015), saving $2M on the Police-Fire project
> ending Voter Suppression: Election Reform amendments to overturn restrictions on free speech (2014, contested election confirmed by Vt Supreme Court decision 2015)
We have advanced democracy for everyone in the state. As Brattleboro has gained a small voice on the national stage, it becomes important for us living here to express ourselves on national issues. And as many people addressed global issues locally, others with a more traditional approach to government began in 2011 to actively suppress the peoples' free speech and petition rights. Brattleboro Common Sense has gone to the streets and to the courts, to end voter suppression, to end the abuse of government power, and to restore those rights whose use gives Brattleboro so much of its character and reputation, rights that are essential to innovation in government and to democracy.
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