Weekly Email Update 6.28.21

Weekly Email Update 6.28.21

"Transgender people frequently face bias in court and are assigned unsupportive public defenders, factors which lead to more extreme sentences and longer incarcerations...Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us...I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect."
Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride (b.1990)
First person to publicly identify as transgender to be elected a State Senator;
American transgender rights activist, currently the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign

     New additions to this week's Weekly Email Update include Full Plates VT coming to Brattleboro, BI&POC Voices at this month's Gallerywalk, the return of Edible Brattleboro's Share the Harvest Stand, and so much more. Take a few moments to scroll though to the end of the email, grab your calendar, and make some plans! We can't wait to see you at an event or meeting soon. Have a great week! 
   
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HAPPENING TODAY, SUNDAY, JUNE 27th, 2021

Can You Hear Us Now: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
hosted by Lean Left Vermont
Virtual Film Showing:
Sunday, June 27th 2021-Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Panel Discussion:
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021, Online. 6pm.
Please register here: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/llv
Through the stories of four determined Wisconsin women, the documentary Can You Hear Us Now, unravels the way years of one-party control has eroded democracy. As extreme partisanship has become the norm, Wisconsin voters find their lives are increasingly irrelevant to state lawmakers.
Lean Left Vermont is proud to host this special screening of a powerful new film that shows the personal and political impact in Wisconsin of anti-democratic policies and one of the most gerrymandered state legislative maps in the country.
The film is particularly relevant for us in 2021 when redistricting, at federal and state levels, looms large in states around the country. Our post-screening panel will feature activists from the film, along with Doug Poland, a lawyer fighting for fair maps in Wisconsin.
At the post film panel, you will hear how activists are fighting back in Wisconsin through elections, redistricting, and the courts. Join Lean Left Vermont's post-screening panel to hear about how activists are fighting back against gerrymandering and other anti-democratic measures in Wisconsin. Lean Left Vermont's Ann Smith will lead a conversation with Law Forward's Doug Poland, film subjects Rebecca Clarke and Sheila Plotkin, and filmmakers Jim Cricchi & Susan Peters.
This event is free to join but we strongly encourage you to make a donation that will raise funds for two organizations that are leading the fight in Wisconsin. You can donate here to Law Forward and Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

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HAPPENING THIS WEEK, MONDAY, JUNE 28th, 2021-SUNDAY, JULY 4th, 2021

America on Fire: The Untold Story of Police Violence and Black Rebellion by Elizabeth Hinton
hosted by the Social Justice Committee of St. Michael's and the Windham County NAACP, and Everyone’s Books
Monday, June 28th, 2021, Online. 6pm.

Access the discussion HERE.
Elizabeth Hinton, discusses her new book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s on Monday, June 28 at 6pm. 
Please do join us for what promises to be an informative and possibly provocative conversation.

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Full Plates VT in Brattleboro
As of this writing, there are over 275 spots available for Brattleboro on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021. Please click this link to confirm availability and to register up to 3 households: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/full-plates-vt-tickets-151480705869
The USDA has announced that May will be the final month of the Farmers to Families program. However, the Vermont Foodbank is excited to announce the launch of Full Plates VT. Full Plates VT will distribute food boxes at drive-thru style distributions throughout all fourteen counties in Vermont. The program is currently scheduled to run from June – September, 2021.
To keep wait times to a minimum, reservations will be required for the distributions. Registration will go live on May 24th and new dates will be added to the registration website every two weeks. To register and see the dates and locations, please visit vtfoodbank.org/gethelp or call 833-670-2254 for assistance. 
Each reservation will receive fresh produce along with other fresh and self-stable products.
Each household must register for their own food box and self-certify that they meet the income guidelines. You will not be asked for proof of income.
If you are unable to attend the event in person, you may register for a food box and designate another person to pick it up from the distribution. https://www.vtfoodbank.org/coronavirus-services-for...

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Parenting for Liberation Virtual Chat Series
hosted by Parenting 4 Racial Justice
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021, Online. 7pm-8:30pm.
You can reserve your spot in the series by signing up for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com/.../parenting-for-liberation-a...
Join Amber and Angela and a group of parents to share joys and challenges of parenting for social and healing justice. We'll hold space for grief, laughter, ideas and resource sharing, begin to practice somatic embodied skills, and heal together. We are all carrying so much, let's support each other in making the load lighter and building the resilience and resources necessary to parent in a way that aligns our actions with our embodied values.
We recommend coming to all three sessions, but welcome people to sign up if they can come to at least two sessions. 
Our cost is $0-$100 per week, sliding scale. To choose what you will pay please see our sliding scale guide (https://docs.google.com/.../1apg7.../edit...). We value EVERYTHING each person brings to the workshop, not just financial support. AND: we gotta get paid to keep putting on workshops. We do a lot of unpaid racial justice and healing work, and facilitating these workshops is our paid work. We charge using a sliding scale. It isn’t a perfect way to correct for the unfair, harmful economic system we live in, but it’s a start.
This chat series is limited to 20 participants. Register today at https://www.eventbrite.com/.../parenting-for-liberation-a...
We hope to see you at this chat series. If you are interested, and can't make it to these dates, let us know so we can get another series scheduled soon.
For justice! For healing! For liberation!

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Public Discussion: Is Trans Alliance Good for the Progressive Movement?
presented by Brattleboro Common Sense
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021, Online. 5:30pm.
Click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86379563926 to attend the conference.
Join a safe and robust discussion of this important subject with your community. (Maybe that's all we need. Maybe it should continue.) No speakers will be featured. Low-intervention facilitator will attend. 

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People’s Hearing on the Right to Healthcare
hosted by the VT Workers’ Center
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021, Online. 6pm-8pm.
Free. Click here to register and receive the Zoom link: https://www.workerscenter.org/calendar/2021/06/30/peoples-hearing-on-the-right-to-healthcare
Do you have a healthcare story? You are not alone!
Come to this People’s Hearing to share your experience or to listen to others’ stories, as we share the effects of the healthcare crisis on our families and communities and talk about what we need from our healthcare system. Right now, thousands of people in Vermont are unable to get the healthcare we need -- and yet drug and health insurance companies are reporting massive profits, enabled by policy decisions that elevate profit over human life. 

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Report Back from Treaty People Gathering to Stop Line 3
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021 at Rich Earth Institute (355 Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, VT, 05301) and Online. 6:30pm-8pm.
This event will be hybrid in person and remote. Register in advance to join via Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0lc... Questions? Contact [email protected]
Join Nancy Braus and Bert Picard for a report back from their time in Anishinaabe territory of northern Minnesota for the Treaty People Gathering to stop Line 3, a proposed expansion of a disastrous Enbridge tar sands pipeline. They'll share reflections, photos, songs, and ways to take solidarity action, either from afar or by joining the frontlines!
Read more about their journey at https://350vermont.org/vermont-residents-in-minnesota-in.../ and at https://www.reformer.com/.../article_f94c103a-cacb-11eb...
Learn more at stopline3.org

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A Silent Vigil of Loving Kindness 
Thursday, July 1st, 2021 at Wells Fountain (298-250 VT-30, Brattleboro, VT 05301). 4:30pm-5:30pm.  For further information and to be on the mailing list for future vigils, please contact Tim Stevenson, [email protected]
Under a banner that reads, “Holding a Space of Loving Kindness for All Living Beings,” we conduct a silent vigil on alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays, every other week, 4:30pm-5:30pm at Wells Fountain across from Brooks Library and the Municipal Building, in downtown Brattleboro.
Our purpose is to serve as a living reminder of the inherent goodness of each of us, as well as our inextricable connection with one another.
For a few minutes or the entire hour, all are welcome to join us in extending sentiments of loving kindness to all living beings: to family and friends, neighbors and strangers, kindred spirits and adversaries, human and non-human beings, alike. And to ourselves, as well. People may choose to stand, kneel, or sit in a chair they bring (there are stone benches circling the Fountain).

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Marlboro Community Food Share
hosted by the Marlboro Community Center
Thursday, July 1st, 2021, and every Thursday, at the Marlboro Community Center (524 South Road, Marlboro, VT, 05344). 4:30pm-5:30pm.
Every Thursday from 4:30pm-5:30pm the Marlboro Community Center invites you to fill a grocery bag with non-perishables and fresh local produce. No registration or eligibility required. This weekly opportunity is available for anyone who could use an extra bag of groceries or knows someone who does.
Food will be set up in the entry-way to the Marlboro Community Center. For proper social distancing, please enter one person at a time. Bring a grocery bag or use ours. Masks are required. Deliveries will be made through Marlboro Cares for those needing assistance. Please call Marlboro Cares at 802-258-3030 in advance to arrange a delivery.
To donate food:
Leave non-perishable food in the donation box at the Marlboro Post Office. It will be collected on a weekly-basis. (Please note that this box previously supplied the Deerfield Valley Food Pantry, which is now distributing food exclusively from VT Food Pantry) 
Gardeners and farmers are welcome to donate produce. Wear masks and wash hands when harvesting and handling food. Fresh produce can be dropped off at the Community Center on Thursday between 1pm and 4pm. (Any leftover produce will be taken to FoodWorks the following morning)

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Guilford Cares Food Pantry
Thursday, July 1st, 2021 (and every Thursday) at the Guilford Fairgrounds (163 Fairground Rd, Guilford, VT 05301). 5pm-6pm.
If you have questions, concerns or would like to donate groceries or monetary gifts please contact Pat Haine 802-257-0626. For additional questions or more information call 802 579 1350 or email [email protected].
Guilford Cares Food Pantry has moved! The Pantry has moved to the First Aid building at the Guilford Fairgrounds. We will be fully stocked with all our usual grocery items.
The Fairgrounds are on Fairground Road, just off Weatherhead Hollow Road. From Guilford Center Road turn onto Weatherhead Hollow Road. Travel 1.7 miles down the road. The Fairgrounds are on the left and there will be a sign directing you up the hill for about .2 miles. The red building is on the left with a sign out in front. Please remain in your car; we’ll greet you,  and give you a shopping list as we have been doing for the past year.
If the Pantry will be closed for any unexpected reason, the closure will be announced on WKVT, WTSA, and Front Porch Forum.
If you cannot come to the Pantry due to illness or high risk, you can call also call Pat to arrange for food delivery by a volunteer.
We know that supplemental food can make such a big difference in one's budget. That is why we are stocking our shelves for our neighbors. All are welcome to come and take home fresh produce, staples, meat, dairy.
Guilford Cares welcomes anyone in need of supplemental food for themselves or their families.

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BI&POC Voices at Gallerywalk
presented by Mount Island Press
Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at Harmony Park (in the Harmony Parking Lot, between Malisun and Wheelhouse Clayworks). 5pm-8pm.
Desmond Peeples and Shanta Lee Gander host this mic dedicated to the voices and creativity of our local BIPOC community. Come listen, learn and celebrate. If you are BIPOC and want to "Step Up to the Mic" with prose, poetry, dance, song or performance, sign up day of for any open spots. BIPOC youth voices encouraged!

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Solidarity Fridays
Friday, July 2nd, 2021, Pliny Park (corner of High Street and Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 5pm-6pm. Please observe Covid 19 safety protocols and social distancing. Brattleboro Coalition contact: [email protected]
You may have seen the Solidarity Friday demonstrations on the Pliny Park corner that began last Summer and continued into the Fall. In-person actions were paused due to COVID restrictions, but we continued meeting via Zoom, learning about our shared concerns and building our coalition. In the ongoing work to gain more participation in and deepen the understanding of our actions, the involved organizations wanted to explain our purpose for Solidarity Fridays in preparation for starting again. 
Four Brattleboro-based organizations - Brattleboro Solidarity, The Root Social Justice Center, Lost River Racial Justice, and The Tenants Union of Brattleboro came together last summer during the Black Lives Matter uprisings. Later, we were joined by 350 Brattleboro, the VT Debt Collective, Youth 4 Change, and Out in the Open (supporting remotely). Together, we recognized that, while we were witnessing the streets come alive across the country against police brutality, the streets must stay alive in order to enact the level of broad changes across struggles that are urgently needed - for humans, animals, and the planet. 
The coalition acts with these shared principles:  

  1. Everyone should have what they need. 
  2. People’s lives over profit. 
  3. All of our struggles are tied together. 

We believe that the basic necessities for a healthy life are non-negotiable. There is no excuse for hunger, homelessness, or death from curable diseases anywhere in the world. All of our struggles are tied together. We believe that the struggle for Black liberation and against police brutality and racism is also a struggle against the exploitation of poor working people. We see how those with power benefit from the divisions that they sow amongst us. We acknowledge and address our diverse struggles while we assert that we have more commonalities than differences. We are stronger together.
We are on the street on Fridays because we believe that being united in our struggles is important in paving a new path forward. We choose not to fight against or react to those who disagree with us, but rather invite them to talk with us so that we may find our common interests and beliefs. Being on the streets together raises our spirits, breaks isolation, and helps build a network of people who want to do this work together. We invite you to join us weekly on Fridays to make connections - both with other people and between struggles! - and to take a stand for a more just world.

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Putney Foodshelf Weekly Open Hours
Saturday, July 3rd, 2021, at 10 Christian Square, Putney, VT, 05346. 9am-10:30am.
Message us on our FB page HERE, call 802.387.8551, or email [email protected] with questions. www.putneyfoodshelf.org.
Curbside Open Hours. All are welcome - we just ask you to provide your town of residence and number in household for our data tracking purposes.
Stay in your car, please. Volunteers will take your order and bring out boxes of food, including nonperishable items, fresh produce, paper goods, meat, and dairy products.

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2nd Annual Southern VT Sister District Blue States USA Croquet
Saturday, July 3rd, 2021 and Sunday, July 4th, 2021, in Putney Village. 9am-4pm.

Sign up for a tee time here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904044fa4aa29a4f58-blue
Southern VT Sister District will host our 2nd annual, 4th-of-July-weekend, croquet fundraiser for our Virginia candidates. Held in Putney village, this family-friendly, COVID-conscious event is a BLAST! 
Bring your friends and family and enjoy how the local artists and activists capture this year's theme, Hopes for our Future, with their whimsical wickets.
Last year we raised over $2000. This year we aim for over $3000. Donations collected at the event.

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Share the Harvest Stand
a project of Edible Brattleboro
Starting Sunday, July 4th, 2021 in the garden at Turning Point Recovery Center (corner of Frost Street and Elm Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 11am-1pm.
This program runs until October 31st, 2021.
Fresh produce available at no cost thanks to local farmers, VT Foodbank and local gardeners. Donations accepted with gratitude. If you have surplus from your garden, please drop them off on Saturdays between 3 and 3:45pm, or Sundays between 10:30 and 11:15am, or by appointment (call or text 516-298-9118).

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Brattleboro Democracy Forum: “Is There Democracy In America?"
organized by: wecelebratedemocracycivilrightsforall.org
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021, Online. 6:30pm. For more information please contact [email protected] or 802 464 3154.
Nick Biddle, Tim Kipp and friends will explore the question, "Is there Democracy in America?” Please join the discussion. The program will be recorded and will be aired on BCTV and FM WVEW 107.7.
Nick says: If we assume a basic definition of democracy as “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” how does today’s status quo stack up? Tim and Nick will review several of the major barriers obstructing people from democratic participation. Examples are voter suppression, campaign finance, and the Republican Party’s racist politics of grievance. They will look to connect the dots in order to shed light on the material results, (i.e. dysfunctional government exacerbating extreme wealth inequality). Today’s multiple challenges compel an honest appraisal of the political landscape.
Tim Kipp, taught US history, political science and law for 39 years. He has been a political activist since the 1960s
Nick Biddle, PhD,  retired professor of Latin American history, and  Brattleboro resident since 2013
To Join the Zoom Meeting copy this URL into your search bar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87329289880?pwd=ejA2WHlGRUNhcmxacEx4SXh6TFNKUT09
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Brattleboro Premiere of Sisters Rising
presented by Windham World Affairs Council
Thursday, July 8th, 2021 at 118 Elliot Gallery (118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 7pm.
Pre-register for the film at https://www.eventbrite.com/.../wwac-presents-sisters...
The event will be held Thursday, July 8, 2021, 7:00 pm at 118 Elliot. Like all WWAC events, the screening of Sisters Rising is free and open to the public. A suggested $10 donation will be accepted at the door. Capacity is limited. Folks who have not received the Corona Virus vaccine are required to wear a mask during this event.
As a part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Windham World Affairs council, Sisters Rising tackles the global issue of violence against indigenous women as a powerful feature documentary about six Native American women reclaiming personal & tribal sovereignty. Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women. 1 in 3 Native women report having been raped during her lifetime and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. These perpetrators exploit gaps in tribal jurisdictional authority and target Native women as ‘safe victims’. Sisters Rising follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of violence continue in the shadows: a tribal cop in the midst of the North Dakota oil boom, an attorney fighting to overturn restrictions on tribal sovereignty, an Indigenous women’s self-defense instructor, grassroots advocates working to influence legislative change, and the author of the first anti-sex trafficking code to be introduced to a reservation’s tribal court. Their stories shine an unflinching light on righting injustice on both an individual and systemic level.
Sisters Rising was directed and produced by Brattleboro filmmakers, and Marlboro College alumni Willow O’Feral and Brad Heck who respectively directed and co-produced the award-winning documentary Break the Silence: Reproductive & Sexual Health Stories. Sisters Rising was coproduced by Jaida Grey Eager (Oglala Lakota), with executive producer Tantoo Cardinal (Cree/Metis).
"The abhorrent violence that is a constant in the lives of Indigenous peoples impacts Indigenous women first,” says Co-producer Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota), “We are on the frontlines of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization, and it is vitally important that the world see and hear us.”
Sisters Rising is the recipient of the Best Film Award - Women’s Voices Now Film Festival - 2021; Best Documentary Feature Award - American Indian Film Festival - 2020; Thaddeus Stevens Award - Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - 2020; Honorable Mention Big Sky Award - Big Sky Film Festival – 2020.
"In a portrait of six brave participants who refuse to let a pattern of violence against Native women continue on in the shadows, this film shines an unflinching and ultimately uplifting light onto righting injustice on both an individual and systemic level." - Big Sky Jury Statement about Sisters Rising.
Windham World Affairs Council is celebrating its 60th year bringing topics and issues of global importance to the people of Windham County with free, high-quality programming. WWAC is the smallest member of the national organization World Affairs Councils of America, and the only one run entirely by volunteers. Annual memberships support the operating costs of the WWAC. If you are interested in learning more about 
WWAC find further information on the website: https://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org.
Join the Sisters Rising afterparty with Willow and Brad by becoming a member or renewing your WWAC membership at https://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org/join-wwac.../
WWAC presents Sisters Rising is sponsored in part by Mocha Joe’s and Creative Catalyst Communications.
PANELISTS
Willow O’Feral, Director/Producer
Brad Heck, Director/Producer

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Poetry + Film Weekend!
Friday, July 16th, 2021 at Epsilon Spires (190 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 7pm-10pm.
Tickets: $20. You can purchase tickets here: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/poetry-film-weekend.
Epsilon Spires presents a special Backlot Cinema event featuring artist Shanta Lee Gander in addition to cinematic treats, Hey Little Black Girl and The Fits.
A Celebration of Black Girlhood with Poetry, Film, Food & Chocolate in our Outdoor Cinema! Featuring the films Hey Little Black Girl and The Fits, and poetry read by Shanta Lee Gander from her new debut book, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues. 
Shanta Lee will be doing a short reading prior to each of these features throughout the weekend from her debut poetry book, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions June 2021). The range of art forms paired together share an exploration of self, time, and what it means to take space within Black girlhood and womanhood in America.
As a part of this celebratory event for Shanta Lee’s book launch, special dishes and treats inspired by the poems within GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA will be a part of this special experience.

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Vermont Food Bank’s Veggie Van Go Upcoming Schedule
The First and Third Mondays of Every Month in the parking lot across the street from the main entrance to Brattleboro Union High School (131 Fairground Road, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 10am-11:30am. 
Veggie Van Go is a program through the Vermont Foodbank that gives out free produce and local food for people to take home.
Monday, July 19th, 2021
Important information:

  • Drive through model- please stay in your vehicles
  • If you are walking there: see a Vermont Foodbank associate but please make sure to stay 6 feet back.
  • There are no income requirements, registration or paperwork to participate
  • You do not need to be present to get food: you may ask someone to pick up on your family's behalf.

For questions, please contact the WSESU VVG Program Coordinator:
Kira Sawyer-Hartigan, WSESU
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 
[email protected]
(802)254-3730

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Red Cross Blood Drive at the Winston Prouty Campus
Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Saturday, August 28th, 2021
Saturday, September 25th, 2021
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Saturday, November 27th, 2021
Saturday, December 18th, 2021 at the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development (Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT, 05301). 9am-3pm.
To help make these events possible by volunteering, please contact Lisa Whitney at [email protected]
Winston Prouty and the American Red Cross are hosting monthly blood drives throughout 2021.The Red Cross has over 135 years of experience providing humanitarian aid including more than 75 years of supplying blood to those in need. Each pint of blood we collect can help save up to three lives and will touch the lives of so many more. What a great way to pay it forward and make an impact on people in our community and across the country.
You can participate by donating blood or by volunteering to help support the event (set-up/clean-up, registration, parking, etc).
Sign up to DONATE blood here:
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=

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Raised on Rock: Raising Funds for Westminster Church and VT Meals on Wheels
hosted by Strange Brew Tattoo and Body Piercing
Sunday, August 1st, 2021 at 18 Metcalf Drive (off VT Rt 5), Wesminster, VT 05158. 2pm-8pm.
10$ donation requested.
Strange Brew Tattoo welcomes you to enjoy live music & home cooked BBQ at our annual outdoor and socially distanced event. As last year’s event was a success in raising funds that delivered PPE for our local healthcare workers as well as helped our local community, we will again be following state Covid protocols to make this year’s event even more successful! We encourage everyone to be safe and we look forward to seeing you all again! Tattoos will be done first come first served out of our Get What You Get machine. Bands are to be announced, and updates will be given as we get closer to August 1st. We hope to see you there!

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES

Full Plates VT Announcement
As of this writing, there are over 275 spots available for Brattleboro on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021. Please check this link to confirm availability and to register up to 3 households: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/full-plates-vt-tickets-151480705869
The USDA has announced that May will be the final month of the Farmers to Families program. However, the Vermont Foodbank is excited to announce the launch of Full Plates VT. Full Plates VT will distribute food boxes at drive-thru style distributions throughout all fourteen counties in Vermont. The program is currently scheduled to run from June – September, 2021.
To keep wait times to a minimum, reservations will be required for the distributions. Registration will go live on May 24th and new dates will be added to the registration website every two weeks. To register and see the dates and locations, please visit vtfoodbank.org/gethelp or call 833-670-2254 for assistance. 
Each reservation will receive fresh produce along with other fresh and self-stable products.
Each household must register for their own food box and self-certify that they meet the income guidelines. You will not be asked for proof of income.
If you are unable to attend the event in person, you may register for a food box and designate another person to pick it up from the distribution. https://www.vtfoodbank.org/coronavirus-services-for...

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Health Equity and BI&POC Vaccine Clinics in Vermont: Now Registering 12 years and up!

The Vermont Professionals of Color Network created this amazing website to promote Health Equity and BI&POC vaccine clinics in Vermont. Their new site offers upcoming events, latest press, demonstrates their collaborative work, and even has a playlist of clinic jams to celebrate life preserving vaccine! Check it out at https://www.vermonthealthequity.org/
Vermont Health Equity Initiative -VHEI

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Covid 19 Pop-Up Testing

Testing is available for all. 
If you need testing, there are a variety of options available to you: your primary care provider, pop-up test sites and pharmacies. The Test Site Finder below can help you find other testing near you.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT POP-UP TESTING LOCATIONS
Here are the steps to set up a testing appointment at a pop-up testing site:

  • Register to get an account
  • Receive an email with your patient ID and use that to confirm your account (check your spam folder if you don't see the email)
  • Log in with your patient ID
  • Set up an appointment

Register for Pop-Up Testing Here

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Free In-Home Covid19 Testing
sponsored by United Way of Windham County
People who are in need of a covid test and do not have transportation should call VT Public Transit at 802-442-0629 or toll free at 1-833-387-7200. VT Transit will contact your provider to confirm and get necessary info. They are using an ambulance service thru VT Department of Health which will do FREE IN-HOME testing and then transport your specimen to a local lab. VT Transit takes initial info and contacts the local EMS and VDH.

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FREE HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD IN WINDHAM COUNTY

Brigid’s Kitchen, St. Michael’s Church, 47 Walnut Street, Brattleboro 802-254-6800 or 802-558-6072 
Grab-and-go lunches and fruit/nuts on Mon, Weds, Thus, and Sat, 11:30am-12:20pm.

Loaves and Fishes, Centre Congregational Church 193 Main Street, Brattleboro (802) 254-4730
Grab-and-go lunches on Tuesdays and Fridays at 12pm.

VT Foodbank and Veggie Van Go
will be at Brattleboro Union High School (Fairground Ave, Brattleboro, VT, 05301), in the parking lot, on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, from 10am-11:30am. Drive up, touchless pickup. Walkers welcome, too. Call VT 211 for more information. 

Foodworks, the food shelf program of the Groundworks Collaborative https://groundworksvt.org (802) 490-2412, [email protected] 
Households in need of food are asked to call or email to coordinate delivery. There is an urgent need for volunteers, and Foodworks has set up protocols to keep staff, volunteers, and clients as safe as possible. Please email us at [email protected] if you are able to help.

Guilford Food Pantry 
Every Thursday at the Guilford Fairgrounds. 5pm-6pm.
We know that supplemental food can make such a big difference in one's budget. That is why we are stocking our shelves for our neighbors. All are welcome to come and take home fresh produce, staples, meat, dairy. Guilford Cares welcomes anyone in need of supplemental food for themselves or their families.

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ADDITIONAL COVID 19 RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THEIR PERMANENT HOME ON OUR WEBSITE, HERE: https://www.wecantogether.net/covid19_resources

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RESOURCE FOR WeCAN

Rapid Response Text Alert System

When WeCAN began, Song & Solidarity set up a Rapid Response Text Alert System for WeCAN Groups. Directions for signing up are on WeCAN's website, here: https://www.wecantogether.net/rapid_response. We are grateful to Song and Solidarity for providing this service.

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ONGOING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING 

Indigo Radio
Sundays at 12pm on Brattleboro Community Radio 107.7FM. To stream live, visit: www.wvew.org 
Indigo Radio, deepening understanding and making connections! IndigoRadio is a group of area educators seeking to learn through engaging with others in our community and throughout the world. We will be talking about educational and social issues both globally and locally and connecting them to our lives and Brattleboro community. Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indigoradiowvew/. For archive recordings of past shows: https://soundcloud.com/user-654648353

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   Please remember to check with your event prior to in-person arrival to clarify their masking and distancing policies. Thank you! 

Your Friendly WeCAN Admins,

Joanna and Sam

 

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