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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 23, 2026 10:00 am
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| Mike Davis
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| Climate, catastrophe and inequality
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Mike Davis died in 2022, but his work is even more urgent now.
As record temperatures, fires, floods and drought shake the planet, we're returning to a prescient 1995 talk by Mike, “Reconceptualizing the Environment.”
More than thirty years ago, Mike was already challenging the idea of “natural disaster.” He argued that market-driven development had deliberately put Los Angeles in harm's way—building homes in wildfire corridors, floodplains and other hazardous landscapes while shifting the costs of disaster onto the public and, ultimately, onto the poor.
He ranges much further: indigenous fire management, El Niño and megadrought, environmental memory, global warming and the growing danger of extreme climate events.
And the political question beneath them all: when disaster strikes, who is protected—and who pays?
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Sunday, August 9, 2026 10:00 am
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1:00:03
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| Gabriel Winant, Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, Emma Galvin
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| UVM Med Center Unions Bargaining Fight & Common Good Campaig
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What happens when a nonprofit hospital network becomes, in the words of Vermont's own regulator, a "corporate shell game"?
UVM Medical Center was found to be over-earning by the state board that regulates it. Its response was to cut frontline union jobs — while its 19 top executives split $3 million in bonuses in a single year.
Historian Gabriel Winant , author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," explains how deindustrialization made health care the country's largest employer, but the jobs are understaffed, lower-paid, and more precarious.
We hear from AFT Vermont union leaders --Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, and Emma Galvin — fighting for safe staffing as their contract heads toward an August 13th deadline. They describe their work conditions and demands: a chemo scheduler three weeks behind before her day even starts, a still-unimplemented 2011 universal health care law, and a "milk with dignity" campaign that extends to protecting immigrant co
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