Peace & Justice Center

Sunday Clean Up Crew
2025-10-26 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Top of Church St, 2 Church St, Burlington, VT, 05401, United States
Come help us clean up Burlington, this time on Sunday! We’ll clean up needles, trash, and ensure our community remains as beautiful and welcoming as we all know it to be. Meet at the top of Church St outside Kru Coffee at 11:30am!

BTV Clean Up Crew
2025-10-30 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-06 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-13 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-20 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-27 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-12-04 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-12-11 07:30 - 10:00, 2025-12-18 07:30 - 10:00 and 5 more dates | Top of Church St, 2 Church St, Burlington, VT, 05401, United States
Come help us clean up Burlington! We’ll clean up needles, trash, and ensure our community remains as beautiful and welcoming as we all know it to be. Meet at the top of Church St outside Kru Coffee every Thursday morning at 7:30am! Bring gloves if you can!

Prison Letter Writing
2025-11-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
Come write letters to our neighbors in prison! We will provide pens, paper, stamps, and envelopes. The only thing you need to bring is yourself!

Cooperative Storytelling Game Night
2025-11-06 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-20 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-18 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
Come play a cooperative storytelling game with us, every other Thursday at the Peace & Justice Center! The game we will be playing is called Solarpunk Futures. In the game, we live in a utopian solarpunk future, and we are having a festival of remembrance to remember what our ancestors did to get us to utopia. Come tell some stories and play some games with us!

Ed Everts Awards & Annual Meeting
2025-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Schmanska Park, 63 Grove St, Burlington VT
Come celebrate all that we accomplished over the previous year with us, and learn about all our plans for the next fiscal year! We will also be giving out the Ed Everts Award & Volunteer Superstar award to some amazing community members. We look forward to seeing you there!

Rad History: Abolitionists in Burlington
2025-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 | VT
Come learn about the history of the abolitionist movement in Burlington! Did you know that the person who gave the eulogy at John Brown’s funeral was the minister at what is now the Unitarian Church in Burlington? Did you know that Burlington had multiple people involved in the Underground Railroad? Come learn about all of this and more!

Weekend Clean Up Crew
2025-11-30 11:30 - 13:30, 2025-12-21 11:30 - 13:30 | Top of Church St, 2 Church St, Burlington, VT, 05401, United States
Come help us clean up Burlington, this time on the weekend! We’ll clean up needles, trash, and ensure our community remains as beautiful and welcoming as we all know it to be. Meet at the top of Church St outside Kru Coffee at 11:30am!

Holiday Cards to Prison
2025-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
Come write a bunch of holiday cards and send them to our neighbors in prison with us! This is a great event for folks who don’t have the time to commit to being a regular pen pal, but would still like to let our neighbors in prison know that we are thinking of them! We will provide the cards, stamps, envelopes, and pens. We look forward to seeing you!

Rad History: Kropotkin in America
2025-12-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
Peter Kropotkin was an icon of the late 19th century and early 20th century anarchist and labor movements in Europe, and did you know that he visited the United States? Come learn about his travels in Boston, New York, and Chicago, and hear about his run-ins with famous American figures like Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Emma Goldman, and more!

Solarpunk Book Club & Game Night
2026-01-15 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-01-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3, Burlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
Come read a solarpunk book with us, and play a round of the game Solarpunk Futures! If we want to live in a socially conscious, ecological society, we have to build it together! Come help us imagine how we can do that together.

Zine + Button Making
2026-01-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Peace & Justice Center, 239 S. Union Street Suite 3 Suite 3, Burlington, VT, 05401, United States
Come learn how to make zines and buttons with us! All the material will be provided, you only need to bring yourself! We look forward to seeing you there!

Alexis Lathem Author Talk
2026-01-22 17:00 - 19:00 | VT
Finding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earth
After half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her husband on a small farm near Vermont’s largest city. The lyric essays of Lambs in Winter take readers through the seasonal cycles of raising sheep and hens and growing fruits and vegetables while confronting the challenges of winter storms, summer floods, invasive weeds, and pests and diseases.
Ever conscious of her place in a historically colonized and ecologically degraded landscape, Lathem wrestles with ethical questions that come to many rural dwellers who—following Thoreau—set out to “live deliberately,” in a time of climate crisis, persistent racial inequity, and growing economic inequality. Likewise, she grapples with the moral complexities of small-scale animal husbandry. Through her efforts at self-provisioning, without holding illusions of the self-reliant individual, Lathem finds herself deeply embedded in the community and reliant on others, especially as her region deals with repeated catastrophic flooding brought on by climate change.
Through elegant prose and insightful investigations into pressing contemporary issues, Lathem evokes the world of her farm and the surrounding countryside with a spiritual awareness of the human journey on this earth. Living in place, attuned to the unfolding changes in the world around her, gives her much to grieve, but the pages of Lambs in Winter are luminous with moments of joy and beauty.
