Green Mountain Global Forum

William Arkin

The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in even greater danger. Come join Vermont resident and award winning journalist William Arkin  on February 2, 2012 at the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield at 7pm to learn more...

Filmmaker Michael Sheridan will present and discuss excerpts from the collection of ten remarkable short films presented under the title The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film, a series of short documentaries. The films focus on issues of social and economic development, as documented and told by Afghans themselves, and present intimate glimpses into routine struggles of employment, education and health and of accomplishments and failings at the level of community and infrastructure. More...

Corporate America is at it again claiming the Constitution as its own and demeaning our Bill of Rights all in the name of "Corporate Personhood." 

David Cobb will speak on how we can re-establish a balance between corporate power and the interests of the people.  He will outline the key issues of the Move to Amend campaign, an organized nationwide effort to create a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. More...