I shot this video footage as part of a statewide film project called The Vermont Movie: Freedom and Unity. The plan was to collect material that shows the character of the Vermont Town Meeting. I’m hoping the film project will be able to use a small portion of the material I shot. More info about this film may be found here.
Vermont enjoys perhaps one of the purest forms of participatory Democracy in the U.S. today when the citizens of most of the small towns gather to vote on such important issues as whether to appropriate ninety thousand dollars for “dirt work” or whether to give the Vermont Home Health Agency seventeen hundred dollars as a token payment for the service it provides.
Watch as the Moderator skillfully guides the participants through the process. This year the meeting was quieter than usual. Please enter below any comments you may have.
Filed under: Local media, Politcal Rants, video
