Program #103. Record date: October 20, 1992. // Patsy Wiggins interviews Lucy Poulin, founder of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment) in Orland and native of Fairfield, Maine in studio. Poulin discusses her background as a Carmelite nun, living in a monastery in Orland, her family's farm, and the history and goals of H.O.M.E. Controversial issue involving potential homeless shelter in Ellsworth that was opposed by town council is also mentioned.
Program #103. Record date: October 20, 1992. // Patsy Wiggins interviews Lucy Poulin, founder of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment) in Orland and native of Fairfield, Maine in studio. Poulin discusses her background as a Carmelite nun, living in a monastery in Orland, her family's farm, and the history and goals of H.O.M.E. Controversial issue involving potential homeless shelter in Ellsworth that was opposed by town council is also mentioned.
The Levasseur papers are an important record of a committed revolutionary and political prisoner. Beginning with his work in the early 1970s with the Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform (SCAR), a prisoners' rights organization, the collection includes communiques and other materials from revolutionary groups including the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit, the United Freedom Front (UFF), the Armed Resistance Unit, and the Black Liberation Army; Levasseur's political and autobiographical writings; numerous interviews; selected correspondence; and a range of material on political prisoners and mass incarceration.
Consisting in part of material seized by the FBI following Levasseur's arrest or recovered through the Freedom of Information Act, and supplemented by newsclippings and video from media coverage, the collection has particularly rich content for the criminal trials of UFF members and the Ohio 7 seditious conspiracy case, as well as Levasseur's years in prison and his work on behalf of political prisoners.
Although the collection is organized roughly into three series -- Writing and radicalism, Trials, and Prisons, and political prisoners -- there is considerable overlap.
The Levasseur Collection consists of the complete transcripts of the 1989 sedition trial of the “Ohio Seven” (US v. Levasseur) as well as miscellaneous motions and legal documents leading up to the trial.
This collection contains official records, including meeting agendas, minutes, correspondence and reports, of the Vermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights between 1983 and 1991. Also documented are some activities of the Eastern Regional Division and news releases on the death of Clarence Pendleton. Included here is a report on the civil rights of Franco-Americans in Vermont.
