Unions representing workers across Burlington have co-signed an open letter opposing the controversial “Burlington Forward” resolution, which is due to come up for a vote at tonight’s Burlington City Council meeting.
Author: Patrick St. John
Patrick is a writer and organizer based in northern Vermont. He is on the editorial collective for The Rake Vermont.
On Monday, a jury found Jason Eaton guilty of the attempted murder of Kinnan Abdalhamid, Tahseen Ali Ahmad, and Hisham Awartani, Palestinian students who Eaton shot in November 2023 as they walked past his home in Burlington. The students, who were 20 years old at the time, were visiting Awartani’s uncle and grandmother in town for Thanksgiving weekend.
Instead of suffering just at the hands of ICE officers, Vermonters suffered at the hands of ICE, South Burlington Police, Burlington Police, and Vermont State Police.
This afternoon, a dozen people protested in the atrium outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices at the White Cap Business Park in Williston.
Dozens of Vermonters rallied and raised a ruckus this morning to protest the planned expansion of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Williston. “Today we are sounding the alarm on ICE,” said April Fisher, one of the speakers at the protest.
Hundreds of Vermonters are expected at this weekend’s People’s Summit in Winooski.
Burlington City Council Votes to Force Relocation of Food Not Cops: Will the Mayor Go Along with it?
On May 9, an “Open Letter from Burlington Small Business Owners” was distributed to city
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia graduate student who was captured by the Department of Homeland Security on April 14 in an attempt to deport him despite his green card status and not having been charged with any crime, was released from federal custody this morning after a hearing at the federal courthouse in Burlington.
Hundreds of people packed the streets around the federal courthouse building in Burlington Monday morning in support of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student residing in the U.S. on an F-1 student visa.
Yesterday, Vermonters rallied outside the Federal courthouse in Burlington, demanding the release of Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
For much of last year, community members across Vermont have been working to put the
On Saturday, author Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke to a packed audience at the Flynn Center, part
Organized by FreeHer Vermont, attendees braved the chilly Saturday afternoon holding signs and chanting “No more fear, no more hate, no more prisons in our state.”
Officers, from the beat cops to the top brass, have managed to undermine their own institution in ways that no protest at the height of the George Floyd uprisings could have done.
Thousands of Vermonters marched through downtown Burlington to the waterfront to participate in the Burlington
On a warm July day, Greisy Mejia and her two young children entered the Department of Homeland Security’s St. Albans field office. She was told to expect a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a routine check-in to confirm custody of her children and possibly get her ankle monitor removed. Instead, she and her children were immediately detained and, the next day, deported to Honduras.
More than one hundred people gathered around Burlington City Hall Sunday to highlight the humanitarian crisis unfolding as Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza nears its eighth month.
Today, five unions representing many of the workers at the University of Vermont and the UVM Medical Center met to rally and support each other’s common struggles.
Almost one hundred students from Montpelier High School walked out of their classes and marched to the capitol building at 11:00 am today, waving Palestinian flags and holding signs protesting genocide and calling for a ceasefire. Students in Bennington, Bristol, White River Junction, Winooski, and other Vermont towns took similar actions.
Tonight, roughly fifty people gathered outside Higher Ground’s venue in South Burlington to protest the performance of Matisyahu there.