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.
James Lyall, Executive Director of the ACLU of Vermont, explains that, "the ACLU stands ready to turn back any efforts by the Trump administration to bypass the constitution or violate civil rights.
Meagan Gallagher, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund, explains that Republicans plans to defund Planned Parenthood threaten access to basic health care for thousands of Vermonters. Republican legislation would prevent Planned Parenthood from accepting payments from low-income and disabled patients who have Medicaid for health insurance (more than 50 percent of Planned Parenthood patients in Vermont have Medicaid for health insurance), and cut funding for being a designated family planning provider.
Brenda Patoine explains why it's so important to organize to save our healthcare as Trump and the Republican Congress are pushing to ram through an agenda which takes healthcare away from 30 million Americans, privatizes Medicare, and defunds Planned Parenthood, while giving tax cuts to their millionaire and billionaire friends. She shares how the Affordable Care Act turned her into a healthcare activist.
Isaac Grimm, lead organizer for Rights & Democracy, and Senator Rev. Debbie Ingram, Vermont Interfaith Action's Executive Director, explain the moral and economic urgency of Vermont moving toward a $15 an hour minimum wage.
Frances Fox Piven - Professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything: When it comes to stopping Trump, petitions aren’t going to do it argues that resistance movements need numbers, but we also need a strategy that maps the impact of their defiance and the ensuing disruptions on the authority of decision-makers. "So how do resistance movements win—if they win—in the face of an unrelentingly hostile regime?