Protest Vermont’s Collaboration with Washington’s Border Regime

Protest Vermont’s Collaboration with Washington’s Border Regime

Join Community Voices for Immigrant Rights for a car protest on Sunday, March 14th at 1pm. Gather at the TD Bank parking lot off of 2A in Williston, Vermont. We will drive past the Department of Homeland Security Office and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Law Enforcement and Support Center to protest their ongoing surveillance,…

Decarceration Statement

Decarceration Statement

The Peace & Justice Center calls for the decarceration & demilitarization of society leading to the eventual abolition of systems of punishment. This statement is put forth by the Board of Directors of the Peace & Justice Center with leader authorship by Jayna Ahsaf and TJ Sangaré. The Peace & Justice Center uses our mission…

Statement From a Few Local Organizers

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 beginnings of the statewide community safehouse network during the lead-up to the Nov. election….

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

-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

-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…

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

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 Air Force.  Included in the Air Force legal documentation were dozens and dozens of references…

The Imperial Roots of the So-Called Immigration Crisis

The Imperial Roots of the So-Called Immigration Crisis

By Ashley Smith, Democratic Socials of America and PJC member What’s the cause of the so-called migrant crisis on the US border with Mexico? The Trump administration of course avoids this question preferring to demonize the human beings trying to find refuge in this country. Trump claims immigrants and asylum seekers are the problem and…

Does the Peace & Justice Center do Climate Justice Work?

Does the Peace & Justice Center do Climate Justice Work?

-Rachel Siegel, PJC Executive Director Because there have been so many powerful, global climate justice actions1 recently, we have been asked at the Peace & Justice Center on more than a few occasions if environmental justice is part of our mission. My answer has usually been that we support the amazing work that other groups…

Palestinian Kids Don’t Belong in Cages: Support HR 2407

Palestinian Kids Don’t Belong in Cages: Support HR 2407

-Mark Hage, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Eight weeks ago, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers, full armed, descended on an elementary school for Palestinian kids in the city of Hebron.  They abducted a nine-year-old named Zein.  (The arrest was captured on video.)   The Israeli military routinely subjects Palestinian children to horrific treatment, including choke holds,…