Already a wave of struggle is mounting with actions called here in Vermont and throughout the country almost every week in April. To top off this month of struggle, unions and immigrant rights organizations have called for mass demonstrations on May Day.
Category: Opinion
As a supporter of the anti-apartheid resolution on the Brattleboro ballot last month, I volunteered to hold a sign at our polling place urging others
The group has used intimidation and pressure campaigns in an attempt to thwart and silence pro-Palestinian voices, taking an approach similar to national efforts to punish activists and quell a people-led movement that has drawn support from most Vermonters.
Voters across Vermont will decide on the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) Pledge on March 4th, Town Meeting Day. Organizers collected thousands of signatures to place the advisory question against Israeli apartheid and genocide on ballots or official town meeting warnings in six towns: Winooski, Vergennes, Montpelier, Thetford, Newfane, and Brattleboro.
Dear Councilors, I encourage all of you to approve the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) Pledge to be on this spring’s Town Meeting ballot. Here are the reasons you should do so.
Published this summer by PM Press, Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO, 2017–2023 offers an inside account of what author David Van Deusen evidently saw as
If we wish to be a town that fully embodies community care, we must treat our most vulnerable community members with respect and dignity. To do so, we must first recognize these people as neighbors, as members of our community — not as disposable or inherently criminal.
For Queer, Palestinian, & Collective Liberation: Statement in Support of The Pride Center of Vermont
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Every individual and organization around the world is now faced with a decision: resist this crime against humanity, or
On Monday, June 24th, the Burlington City Council unanimously voted to increase the Burlington Police Department’s budget by $2.47 million. They funded 10 additional armed
Unlike most industrialized nations, the US does not have universal healthcare. This causes untold agony, suffering and extreme expense for consumers. Since 2008, the Vermont
As JVP members committed to collective liberation, we see these false claims of antisemitism for what they are: insidious efforts to discredit the struggle of the Palestinian people for their national liberation and distractions from the genocide itself – a genocide which would not be possible without the direct financial and political support of the US government.
Burlington’s Mayor Miro Weinberger and his pro-war faction on the City Council have trashed democracy to support Israel’s apartheid state and its genocidal war on Palestine.
Rather than take a stand for peace and justice, Burlington’s Mayor Weinberger and his pro-war allies on the City Council blocked a resolution calling for a ceasefire. That put them at odds with the country’s majority who want an immediate end to the war.
Political life in the city of Burlington leaves a lot to be desired. The forces of big money are laying siege to our homes, schools, hospitals, public spaces, and social expression. Like vampires, the insular cliques of entrepreneur groups intrude into our communities and suck out the social surplus. They monopolize every aspect of our lives and raise the rent. They attack us with their ideology to sanctify their exploitation.
Watching local Vermont Jewish organizations react to the crisis in Gaza and pro-Palestinian protests in Burlington with victimization, dehumanizing language, and even the outright rejection of anti-Zionist Jews as members of the broader Vermont Jewish community, has affirmed to me, an anti-Zionist trans woman and Jewish Vermonter, that Zionism has completely hollowed out generations of Jewish values, even in Vermont.
“Hold up, folks, the employees saw us and are calling the cops.” The message came in only 15 minutes after my roommate and I left, flush with almost a dozen bags stuffed with yogurt, cheese, and frozen meals.
I just found out that my hairdresser is a hardcore MAGA enthusiast who loves wearing shirts that say “I don’t kneel” and posts lots of pictures with American flags and guns. She does my hair perfectly, but I can’t keep giving her my money, right?!?!
I celebrate Christmas and I love it. Can I just say… “Merry Christmas”?
Sincerely,
Happy Holidays
For the terminally online, this discourse has been done to death, but if you’re the token Vermonter at the dinner table this topic will likely come up. We want to prepare you for this possibly drunken, certainly awkward conversation.
As a growing transphobic reactionary movement throughout the country uses both state and informal power to intimidate trans people out of public life, Vermont media shows mixed ability to cover these issues with sensitivity.