Politician. 2022 Democratic Nominee For Governor in VT. Teacher. Writer. Drug Policy, Housing & Anti-Poverty Advocate. Proud Single Mom. She/Her/Hers
Joined May 2018
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Brenda Siegel retweeted
Watch this 1-min clip from recent interview about my campaign for Brattleboro Selectboard. I was born and raised here. Love this town. Concerned about growing gap between rich & poor, housing shortage, opioid crisis. Full interview here: youtu.be/n5wTT9dYBNI?si=6pqz… #VTpoli
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Read the full @washingtonpost story here: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Listen to my conversation with @BrendaForVT about recent deaths of unhoused Vermonters. It doesn’t have to be this way. #VTpoli @vtdigger @BrattReformer linktr.ee/isaacvt
Brenda Siegel retweeted
On @WDEVRadio this week I interviewed @BrendaForVT about deaths resulting from @GovPhilScott decision to restrict access to the motel program. Also spoke with @MigrantJustice and labor union organizers. You can listen to podcast here. 🎧 tr.ee/mUs3b0z1Jk #VTpoli
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Turns out the Scott admin’s insultingly small temporary family shelters are also a colossal waste of money. Yay? thevpo.org/2024/11/13/those-…
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After deliberately choosing to unshelter nearly 1,500 vulnerable Vermonters, the state opens two small shelters that will accommodate a tiny fraction of them. Hooray? thevpo.org/2024/11/02/the-po…
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1/ Help us help people with complex needs. I know there are folks giving $25, $500, $1000, $4000 to those running for office. Match your donation by helping people in our state survive.
endhomelessnessvt.org
#vtpoli #crisisinvt #housed802 #massunsheltering #endhomelessness
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Another call fir state leaders to solve their self-inflicted humanitarian crisis. Will they listen this time? thevpo.org/2024/10/16/the-gr…
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Tomorrow it will be rainy & cold. Tuesday snow.
If you are fortunate enough to be able to give large political donations, match those donations to End Homelessness Vermont to keep extremely vulnerable people alive.
endhomelessnessvt.org/donate…
#vtpoli #crisisinvt #endhomelessness
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Simple message from housing advocates: Vermont’s mass unsheltering is a crisis, available resources are tapped out, and only the governor can initiate the needed action. thevpo.org/2024/09/26/the-da…
Brenda Siegel retweeted
What we are doing to human beings in this state is not ok.
No virtue signaling, no categorizing, not a single person exited to the street deserves to not have shelter.
This is not a sign of a humane society.
#vtpoli #crisisinvt #housed802 #massunsheltering
Brenda Siegel retweeted
We have split the atom, we have put men on the moon.
Technology is not the barrier here - by a damn long shot.
We must learn to truly value human connection, or our entire society will continue to crumble like this.
Crying by 8am. We are so far from the VT we believe we are. Today we are exiting hundreds of children, people with disabilities, people who lost their housing in floods to the streets. Nowhere close to any any type of humanity.
#vtpoli #crisisinvt #massunsheltering #housed802
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Shame on @GavinNewsom. Clearing encampments is bad policy. The second you follow the right wing extremist Supreme Court, you become no better.
Sleeping is a functional need.
#vtpoli @PplsAction @aclu_nationwide @ACLUVermont @ACLU_CalAction @ACLU_SoCal @ACLU_NorCal
Brenda Siegel retweeted
I have to be completely honest. Getting up day after day to do the best I can to support people through a system that is intentionally making it harder for them to succeed in a democracy that is failing is less than inspiring. #vtpoli
Brenda Siegel retweeted
a large percentage of homeless people are disabled. a large percentage of homeless people became homeless because they became disabled. what do you think this means for us all living through a mass disabling event where millions are becoming too sick to work. what do i know tho
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Kate O’Neill: Prevent suffering and death, override the overdose prevention center veto vtdigger.org/2024/06/11/kate…
Brenda Siegel retweeted
Until 1920, it was illegal for women to vote.
Until 1964, it was legal to reject a job applicant because she was a woman.
Until 1974, banks could legally refuse to issue credit cards to women.
Women should not have to fight against patriarchy for their basic human rights.
Brenda Siegel retweeted
The impact of encampment removals is "the equivalent of having your house burned down multiple times a year — just over and over again, you’re losing everything and starting from scratch each time."
- Alexandra Paisano, New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness
ProPublica distributed notecards to homeless people in Albuquerque and asked them about objects they had lost when their encampments were hauled away. Here's what they said. propublica.org/article/albuq… @nicolesantacruz
Brenda Siegel retweeted
I am grateful to the Legislature for answering my office’s plea to explicitly codify the crime of nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography. This use of artificial intelligence to harm women and girls is illegal, and it will not be tolerated by my office.
