Tom Morgan
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Neighbor Matters: Healing begins with one neighbor, one connection
A series from Green Mountain Justice and the Addison Independent
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Freedom & Unity: Stick with the America we fought for
“If you want to honor veterans, here’s my ask: Don’t just thank us for our service. Serve. Reach out to a neighbor who’s struggling. Learn their name. Show…
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Freedom and Unity: Breaking the myth of scarcity
“Isn’t that the American dream?” a newly unhoused neighbor asked me as we sat on a bench while she ate her free sandwich from a community lunch program.…
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Freedom & Unity: Peace & happiness, for everyone
Like too many disenfranchised Americans, Jerome Hazelwood is an unhoused neighbor of our community. BIPOC neighbors are five times more likely to experience homelessness in Vermont than their…
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Freedom & Unity: ‘Do you think we want to live like this?’
His wife scurried to collect their things as her half-asleep, disheveled partner hollered at the authorities who had come to “move them along” from their encampment under a…
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Living Together: Solving the homelessness crisis
While the comfortably housed segment of our communities might consider homelessness to be a blight on society, to the unhoused and housing insecure members of our community, homelessness…
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Letter to the editor: Some words depicting the unhoused are ‘unwanted’
“Unwanted person.” That is the term twice used in the Addison Independent’s Middlebury Police Log to juxtapose the interest of a business and the presence of a human…