Last year, Wal-Mart Corporation built a new store and parking lot on acres of farmland a few miles from Brattleboro, in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. When the new store opened, an existing Wal-Mart a... Read more »
September 30, 2012
Phone Workers Win; Nurses Will Strike
Hundreds of telephone and internet workers in the Valley won raises this month after they went on strike. They work for Verizon. Meanwhile, 209 nurses in Greenfield are planning to go on strike on... Read more »
September 23, 2012
21 Arrested at Valley Nuke; Chamber of Commerce Occupied
In recent weeks, 21 people were arrested at the gates of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power reactor for non-violent civil disobedience. Yankee is three miles from Massachusetts and a stone’s throw... Read more »
September 15, 2012
Photos: Kayak, Canoe Protest at Valley Nuke
These photos show protesters on the Connecticut river near the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor on September 15. The sign in the first photo says, "Shut VY down." The sign in the third photo says,... Read more »
September 10, 2012
Brattleboro Grocery Workers Are Forming a Union
Workers at the Brattleboro Food Co-op are organizing a union. There are more than 160 workers at the store. The workers were set to ask the co-op’s board of directors to recognize the union at... Read more »