Episode 12

Building a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Vermont

"The voices that matter aren't legislators's."

  • Rep. Tiff Bluemle

April 8, 2022 (prerecorded 4/6): H.96, legislation to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has passed the House and has moved to the Senate.

Rep. Tiff Bluemle joins the show this week to talk about what such a commission would do and why it could play an important role in the lives of many Vermonters. 

Follow H.96 at https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2022/H.96

To learn more about The Center for Transitional Justice: https://www.ictj.org

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.