Monday, July 8th, 2013 Winooski Vermont Burlington Free press reporter, Joel Banner Baird reports, “At the end of a two-hour public forum that delivered a decidedly unfavorable verdict on the new, noisier plane, the council voted unanimously to postpone discussion of an official response until 6 p.m. Wednesday. Concerns over possible health risks posed by […]
Monday, July 9th, 2013 South Burlington, VT Burlington Free Press reporter, Sam Hemingway, reports that, “Among those that spoke, opponents outnumbered supporters by a 3 to 2 margin. When the speeches ended, the council did what nearly everyone in the room expected: It voted 3-2 to endorse having the F-35s replace the Vermont Air National […]
Monday, July 8th, 2013 Winooski, VT Seven Days journalist, Taylor Dobbs reports, “The council delayed any action until Wednesday after hearing from more than 50 Winooski residents, only five of whom voiced explicit support for the basing. The vast majority said the warplanes, which would replace F-16s currently based at Vermont Air National Guard base […]
Sunday, July 7th, 2013 Burlington VT Seven Days reporter Paul Heintz reports that “The New York Times on Friday became the latest national news outlet to cover Vermont’s long-simmering fight over whether the state will host a squadron of F-35 fighter jets. Click her to read the entire article. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can […]
Sunday, July 7th, 2013 Burlington VT Seven Days journalist, Paul Heintz, reports that one of this week’s “Winners” is the ongoing spotlight on the negative effects of basing F-35 Warplanes in Vermont read on… “F-35 publicity — First came the Boston Globe. Then Harper’s. Now the New York Times.” Click here for the full article. Please call me (Chris […]
-FORWARD WIDELY- No F-35 ! People before Planes NO to Basing the F-35 Warplane in Burlington! Protect our children’s health! YES to affordable housing and livable neighborhoods, no to a boondoggle warplane Vermont’s Congressional Delegation should represent their constituents-not the military-industrial-commercial real estate complex Rally and March Burlington City Hall 2 pm, Saturday […]
Friday, July 5th, 2013 Burlington VT Film documentarian, Corey Hendrickson, released this short 3 minute 12 second excerpt which details the recent F-35 Sound Demonstration directed at Burlington Vermont Mayor Miro Weinberger and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin respective offices in Vermont’s largest city and the state capitol. Click here to watch the video excerpt. Please […]
Thursday, July 4th, 2013 New York, NY Click here to read the entire article. An excerpt from today’s The New York Times written by journalist, Theo Emery, reports, “A 2010 scoring chart provided to The New York Times showed that before the decision was announced, the base at Burlington received the lowest score of three […]
Thursday, July 4th, 2013 Burlington Vermont The People’s Media Project based in Vermont produced a 9 minute 24 second video for the Vermont Worker’s Center which has just been released for public viewing. Please click here to watch the entire video: The producers say, “For over 40 years, the US Air Force has based the […]