Episode 37

Seeing slavery in the Vermont Constitution

October 7, 2022: We continue our conversation on Proposition 2.

Former State Senator Debbie Ingram was one of the early lawmakers to bring the Constitutional revision to the State House. She did this after conversations with last week's guest, Rev. Mark Hughes of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance.

Today, Debbie, is also the executive director of the Vermont Interfaith Alliance which is one of the lead organizations supporting Proposition 2.

To listen to our conversation with Rev. Hughes: https://themontpelierhappyhour.captivate.fm/episode/abolishing-slavery-in-vermont

To read Proposition 2: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2022/PR.2

To learn more about the VIA: https://viavt.org

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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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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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.