Violations Against Palestinian Children Unremitting in 2020,, Israeli Soldiers Uproot 3,400 Olive Trees, Saplings, Near Salfit, and Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land

Violations Against Palestinian Children Unremitting in 2020,, Israeli Soldiers Uproot 3,400 Olive Trees, Saplings, Near Salfit, and Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land

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-Submitted by Mark Hage, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Media Reports from Occupied Palestine VIOLATIONS AGAINST PALESTINIAN CHILDREN UNREMITTING IN 2020 By Defense for Children International (DCI) Palestine Ramallah, December 31, 2020 In 2020, DCIP documented 79 Palestinian child detention cases from the West Bank that detail widespread and institutionalized ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainees….

Statement From a Few Local Organizers

Statement From a Few Local Organizers

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– Leif Taranta, Emma Schoenberg (PJC Board Member), and Julie Macuga We are organizers, strategists, direct action campaigners, who love community, resistance, collaboration, and living in what we call the “movement ecology” of Vermont. We’re the small group that built the beginnings of the statewide community safehouse network during the lead-up to the Nov. election….

The Flynn Pardon, Settlement Expansion & COVID-19 in Palestine

The Flynn Pardon, Settlement Expansion & COVID-19 in Palestine

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-Submitted by Mark Hage, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Media Reports from Occupied Palestine: The Flynn Pardon, Settlement Expansion & COVID-19 in Palestine Reports on Flynn pardon leave out elephant in the room: Israeli interference in US policy BY PHILIP WEISS  NOVEMBER 26, 2020 Donald Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Mike Flynn…and leading media left…

Defund the Police & Abolish ICE!: Building Solidarity in the Fight Against the Carceral State

Defund the Police & Abolish ICE!: Building Solidarity in the Fight Against the Carceral State

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-By Kina Thorpe, Dayna Stimson, and Ashley Smith, Community Voices for Immigrant Rights Video: United in the Fight for Liberation. Message from people inside Mesa Verde Detention Center in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Movement. The Black-led multiracial working-class uprising against police brutality is the most significant social movement in decades and the largest wave…

Ben & Jerry’s: Buying Almonds is Sooo Not Enough

Ben & Jerry’s: Buying Almonds is Sooo Not Enough

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-The BDS Committee, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine In 2013, VTJP launched an international campaign calling on Ben & Jerry’s to end its Israeli franchise’s complicity with Israel’s illegal settlement regime in Occupied Palestine. While a great deal has happened since then, B&J’s “peace & love” ice cream, manufactured in Israel, is still being stocked…

Time to Act: Burlington Must End Collaboration Between Police and ICE

Time to Act: Burlington Must End Collaboration Between Police and ICE

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-By Betsy McGavisk and Ashley Smith (PJC Member) Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ashley Smith, of Burlington, a socialist writer and activist who writes for various publications including Harpers, Truthout, Jacobin, and New Politics, and Betsy McGavisk, of Burlington, a community organizer at Rights and Democracy.  The Trump administration’s all-out assault on immigrant rights…

The Christmas Truce – An Outburst of Peace During War

The Christmas Truce – An Outburst of Peace During War

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-Richard Czaplinski, President of Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace, Chapter 57 Christmas, 1914. The First World War had started only months before on July 28, 1914. The proximate cause of the war was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife by a teenage Serbian Nationalist. But the origins of the war had…

Exposing Leahy’s Legacy of Lies: Speaking Truth to Power

Exposing Leahy’s Legacy of Lies: Speaking Truth to Power

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-Rosanne Greco , PJC Member and member of Save Our Skies/Stop the F-35s There is evidence that the Burlington F-35 basing selection process was corrupt.  This evidence came to light as part of a lawsuit against the Secretary of the Air Force.  Included in the Air Force legal documentation were dozens and dozens of references…