Vermonters Must Oppose War in Ukraine By Ashley Smith Ashley Smith of Burlington works for Spectre Journal and is a member of the Champlain Valley Democratic Socialists of America and Community Voices for Immigrant Rights. Vermonters must oppose the drive to war between the US and Russia over Ukraine. We should demand a peaceful settlement…
– 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….
by Rachel Siegel, PJC Executive Director Following the hard work by activists and community members in Georgia, which resulted in the historic election of a young Jewish man, Jon Ossof, and an African American pastor, Ralph Warnock, to the US Senate, we saw an unprecedented siege in DC by domestic white terrorists. I, like many of…
-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…
photo from 7 Days By Kahlia Livingston, PJC Board of Directors Oh, no Brandon Del Pozo, your recent headlines have almost brought me to a loss for words. During this past summer, Chief of Police Brandon Del Pozo created an anonymous Twitter profile to cyber bully Burlington resident and political activist Charles Winkleman. Winkleman is…
By Kristen Vrancken, Organizer, Women’s March Vermont and PJC member Many Vermonters are proud of what they see as the state’s uniquely progressive politics. To be sure, it has earned some of those bona fides: Vermont was the first state in the nation to introduce civil unions, and later, the first to introduce same-sex marriage…
Burlington Advisory Ballot Question for Voting Rights of Non-Citizens Overview At the January 21st Burlington City Council meeting, the Council will consider a resolution that would place an advisory question on the March ballot asking voters if Burlington should change its city charter to allow non U.S. citizens to vote on the local level. The…
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