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EIAC reads statements on Poverty Awareness Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day
Summary
The Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee read statements during the Selectboard meeting: Corin "Swift Everdy" Kennedy-Spielman read a Marion Major statement on Poverty in America Awareness Month; Lisa Chase read a personal statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Corin "Swift Everdy" Kennedy-Spielman, EIAC chair, read a statement prepared by Marion Major of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust noting that "January is Poverty in America Awareness Month" and describing local impacts of poverty on housing, food security and health in Southeast Vermont. The statement urged recognition of poverty's effects and called for coordinated, community-based responses.
EIAC member Lisa Chase read a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and shared a personal recollection about a friend born in 1931 who lived through wartime shortages in the Netherlands, including the observation, "Sometimes we had nothing to eat but butter." Both statements were included in the meeting packet and were read aloud during the EIAC portion of the agenda.
