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Statement From a Few Local Organizers

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

-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…

The Loss of Heritage in Pursuit of Whiteness

–Kristen Connors, former PJC staff member Recently, I participated in the Peace & Justice Center’s Toxic Whiteness discussion group for the first time in the two years since I moved from Vermont to Cleveland, Ohio.  Members of my extended family…

Rename the Brook: Susanna Toby of Townshend, Vermont

-Elise Guyette; author, historian, and PJC member We propose to change the name of “Negro Brook” in Townshend to Susanna Toby Brook. Susanna (1750– 1855) lived in Townshend, sometimes Acton, beginning as early as 1810 for at least 40 years. She…

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

-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…

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

-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,…

The Christmas Truce – An Outburst of Peace During War

-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…

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

-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…