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.
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 Apartheid-free Communities Pledge on their local ballots for Town Meeting
Below is a selection of upcoming events in Vermont relevant to the left.
A recent records request reveals a startling level of communication and coordination between Brattleboro Police and Hank Poitras, a right-wing video blogger. The documents from
On Saturday, author Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke to a packed audience at the Flynn Center, part of Burlington’s annual Black Experience festival. Burlington was the last
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.
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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.
Unlike Burlington, Winooski City Council is letting voters decide on the issue.
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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.
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.
Among the many immediate local concerns for Vermont residents and the Trump administration is the threat of deportation of migrant workers.
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
Below is a selection of upcoming events in Vermont relevant to the left.
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.
Thousands of Vermonters marched through downtown Burlington to the waterfront to participate in the Burlington Pride Festival and Parade last weekend. Dozens of local vendors,