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Burlington Taxpayer’s Revolt
The Taxypayer’s Revolt was quite successfull. city Hall was packed with people eager to speak. It was one of the longest public forums I’ve seen ranking up there with the smoking ban in private clubs and the water fluoridation speakouts.
Vermont Speaks Up! Rally to Stop the Genocide in Darfur
Heavenly and I attended part of the Rally to Stop the Genocide in Darfur that was held in city Hall Park on Sunday. It started with Afircan Dancing and Drumming and then a survivor of the Holocaust and a survivor of the Bosnian Genocide spoke about their experiences and the need to do something about the current situation in Darfur.
Burlington Taxpayer Protest at Monday’s City Council meeting
Tom Licata, former candidate for City Council in Ward 6, is organizing a Taxpayer protest during the Monday’s City Council meeting, 7PM City Hall’s Contois Auditorium.
McClaughry Commentary of VTLP Platform
John McClaughry had a 90 second radio commentary on the VTLP Platform that played on WDEV yesterday.
VLC Speaker: Martin Harris – Citizens for Property Rights
Martin Harris of Citizens for Property Rights was the second speaker of the 2006 Vermont Libertarian convention.
VLC Speaker: Frank Bryan
The final speaker at the VTLP Convention was Frank Bryan, Writer, humorist, and foremost expert on Town Meeting Democracy.
VLC Speaker: Rob Roper – Vermont FreedomWorks
Next speaker at the VTLP Convention was Rob Roper of Vermont FreedomWorks.
VLC Speaker: Rob Williams – Second Vermont Republic
Following up from my last post, I will include a brief summary and background of some of the speakers from the Vermont Libertarian Convention. The first speaker was Rob Williams of the Second Vermont Republic/ Vermont Commons.
H-1B Visas
I recently received the following email. I’m not too familiar with the H-1B guest worker program, but did read the Wikipedia entry of the program and controversy and was a bit surprised at just how strict the program is… how restrictive it is on the workers who come here and how they pay all the taxes we pay without any of the entitlements.