Women's marches are set for January 18, 2025 in DC and everywhere. In Northampton, thousands of people attended women's marches during Trump's first term. Photos are at:

https://valleypost.org/node/1472

and

https://www.valleypost.org/2018/01/20/photos-thousands-march

Details about the 2025 marches are at:

www.facebook.com/WomensMarchOnWash

According to

https://RachelMaiore.com/about

Rachel Maiore is a member of the Northampton city council and the director of the Pioneer Valley Women’s March. On November 6, she told the Valley Post there will be a Women's March in Northampton but she does not yet have any details.

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In Amherst on November 1 about 200 people marched to demand that Umass provide more childcare. One of the organizers has a web page at:

www.umass.edu/social-sciences/about/directory/eve-weinbaum

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Keene is about 15 minutes by car from Brattleboro, town line to town line. Greyhound goes between the two places, as does a rail trail. In Keene on November 2, about 200 people attended a rally, organizer Beth Caldwell told the Valley Post. The goals included getting politicians to guarantee access to reproductive health care, and do more about climate change.

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Norma Manning is a member of the Conservation Commission in Vernon, Vermont, which borders Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Brattleboro. On November 2, she gave the Valley Post permission to publish the following essay, which she wrote.

I am a recently retired Para-educator who believes that Governor Scott went from a fair and bipartisan governor with our state’s best interest in mind to a partisan politician scapegoating on a false narrative. Does he understand that more than 90 percent of school funding comes from state and local sources and U.S. spending is inadequate?

The federal government never met the promised funding for IDEA, for example. The closest the federal government has come to reaching the 40 percent commitment was 18 percent in 2004-2006, and current funding is at less than 13 percent. Even though teacher compensation is sad, educators use their own money to make sure that students have what
they need.

Students attending environmentally toxic schools is unconscionable. Educating hungry and housing insecure children is extremely challenging if not impossible, and the governor blames teacher health care, pensions and too many local schools.

Vermont – indeed the country -- needs an educated workforce to create a robust economy and learners need fully funded, safe, healthy schools with highly qualified educators. So to answer your question on my feelings about my property tax bill, I willingly pay higher local
taxes to support education until the real problems are solved. If second, third and fourth homeowners choose to leave Vermont because of taxes on their luxuries — good. That means more homes for Vermonters.