EQUAL TIME is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.
Howie Hawkins, a leading Green Party candidate for president, explains that Implementing the Green New Deal will require ecosocialism—social ownership in key sectors in order to democratically plan the coordinated reconstruction of all economic sectors for ecological sustainability. The Green New Deal encompasses an Economic Bill of Rights and a Green Economy Reconstruction, and Howie explains how we would pay for it.
David Van Deusen, candidate for president of the Vermont AFL-CIO heading the Vermont AFL-CIO United! Slate, shares his vision and platform for building a powerful labor movement in Vermont.
Matt Huber advocates for tacking the ecological crisis by organizing around working-class interests, why Bernie Is the Best Chance We Have on Climate, and discusses the Democratic Socialists of America prioritizing organizing for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal.
Matt Huber argues for a strategy that tackles the ecological crisis by organizing around working-class interests, and why Bernie Is the Best Chance We Have on Climate.
Micah Uetricht talks about why Sanders opening the door to Democratic Socialism is bigger than Bernie.