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Joelen Mulvaney
Member since Nov 7, 2016
Recent Comments
Re: “Amid Backlash, Group Cancels Burlington Talk on Transgender 'Agenda'”
All bets are off my dears..... from having any semblance of democracy to ideas about gender. we stand in the dooryard of a very different world, from our environment to our human relationships. get ready, it's going to be a tricky transition.
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 01/28/2020 at 10:21 AM
Re: “The College Named After Samuel de Champlain Debates Whether to Keep His Statue”
Better to remove the statues of Ira and Ethan, known Indian killers. from the state house. But Samuel's relationship with Abenaki is not well explained here. Relationships of first europeans are very specific and individual. Portuguese fishing villages had been established along the coast of turtle island's right foot before Champlain. I think the story of him "saving" the paddlers in his canoe is specious. Worse, it instantly increased the violence and bloodshed in the region and actually started a bigger rift between neighbors and paved the way for colonialism. The early relationship with French intelligence gatherers (him and the Jesuits and Sulpecians) is also complicated, the invaders met with Anishenabek clans who were at that time pacifists and welcoming to refugees. Champlain violated that philosophy by using his gun to kill, which altered the relationship between pacifist Anishenanek and Mohawk forever.
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 11/08/2019 at 9:45 AM
Re: “Man Who Harassed Kiah Morris Charged With Buying High-Capacity Gun Magazines”
He HAS to know he will be scrutinized and thank goodness!
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 02/07/2019 at 11:52 AM
Re: “Burlington Activist Takes Aim at 'White Supremacist' Mural”
this is what you get when a foreigner makes public art.... a Vermonter would have known about efforts of the Queen City for inclusion
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 10/12/2017 at 10:46 AM
Re: “'Mob' Attacks Middlebury Prof and Controversial Speaker Charles Murray”
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 03/04/2017 at 10:10 PM
Re: “The Mulvaney-Stanaks: A Family Divided Over a Vermont Election”
too little too late....I'm not disillusioned, not having been illusion about politics for some time. Vermont ridge lines are our Standing Rock as are Lake Champlain, the National Forest and the Conn. River watershed where dam license renewals threaten to increase capacity.
As in Dan Kerrigan's comments, "when hope is lost persevere..."
Posted by
Joelen Mulvaney
on 01/22/2017 at 2:47 PM
Re: “Legislature Takes Up Resolution to Apologize for Role in Eugenics Movement”
These gestures do nothing towards reparations...it's so white folks can feel better about colonialism and racism. Besides... if Ethan was telling the truth at the Continental Congress... that no Indians lived in Vermont, then why is an apology necessary?
If they pass this, then they are acknowledging Abenaki presence in the state and then should start giving them their territory back... the entire state is unceded territory, had never been conquered not did they ever make treaty for land grabs by those crafty Allen boys.
After that, we should send the two statues of Indian killers far from the state house, perhaps at the EA homestead.
Next, how about job creation, employment training, free tuition to any state college for Abenaki
?