Elodie Reed

1 week ago | vermontpublic.org | Elodie Reed

A new set of health guides, designed by and for Vermonters with developmental and intellectual disabilities, is now available. They cover topics ranging from vaccines and long COVID, to breast and pelvic exams, to advanced directives and patient rights. The guides are intended to create better communication between people with disabilities and their health care providers. That’s because communication challenges can be a barrier to health care for Vermonters with disabilities.

2 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Elodie Reed

Federal immigration authorities arrested at least four people on their way home from their landscaping jobs in Vermont, according to Migrant Justice. The advocacy group said it couldn’t share more details yet, but received the report of the arrests on Monday. “We know that this is a deeply unjust system that continues to criminalize, detain and deport immigrants on a mass scale,” said Will Lambek, a spokesperson for Migrant Justice.

2 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Elodie Reed

By 10 a.m. on the first Saturday in May, a fire was crackling behind the community hall on the Odanak First Nation reserve in Quebec. The flames were hot and ready to cook the Canada goose lying across the lap of Yves Landry. "I'm gonna pluck it and cook it over the fire, like, traditional way," he said. Yves is a 72-year-old Abenaki citizen of Wôlinak First Nation.

3 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Elodie Reed

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the release of one Vermont farmworker who was arrested and detained by immigration authorities last month. In a virtual hearing from a federal immigration courtroom in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Judge Yul-mi Cho set a $1,500 bond for Diblaim Maximo Sargento-Morales, who was being held in Texas.

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Elodie Reed

Three of the eight farmworkers arrested at a Vermont dairy farm last month have been deported, according to advocates. The local immigrant farmworker organization Migrant Justice said the federal government sent 28-year-old Luis Enrique Gomez-Aguilar to Mexico on Monday, and then sent 32-year-old Urillas Sargento and 22-year-old Dani Alvarez-Perez there today. “ICE and Border Patrol are persecuting our community,” said Enrique Balcazar, a spokesperson with Migrant Justice.