On May 9, an “Open Letter from Burlington Small Business Owners” was distributed to city
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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
A recent records request reveals a startling level of communication and coordination between Brattleboro Police
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.”
On-campus unions demanded that university administrators uphold policies and procedures to protect marginalized and vulnerable members of the campus community.
Unlike Burlington, Winooski City Council is letting voters decide on the issue.
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.
On Monday night, Burlington City Council voted on whether to allow the Apartheid Free Burlington ballot question to appear on March’s Town Meeting Day ballot for the second time in as many years.
Among the many immediate local concerns for Vermont residents and the Trump administration is the threat of deportation of migrant workers.
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.
Amid School Funding & Flood Relief Crises, the State Wants a $70 Million New Women’s Prison in Essex
The Vermont Department of Corrections has announced that it will move ahead with plans to pursue two sites for a new women’s prison in Essex, estimated to cost the state $70 million to complete and take 10 years to build.
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.
Palestinian liberation groups picketed the Vermont Democratic Party Convention Saturday morning at the Lake Champlain Hilton in Burlington. As President Joe Biden seeks a second term while continuing to support and fund Israel’s occupation and genocide in Gaza, activists in Vermont are demanding that delegates withhold support for the president at the national convention in August.
Around 100 labor union members, organizers, and activists gathered at Burlington’s Battery Park to celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers Day, marking the occasion by highlighting labor victories in the state among its union workers in the past year and committing to continue the labor struggle at home and abroad.
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.