Employment Opportunities

Employment Opportunities

We are hiring two positions: Program Assistant and Seasonal Store Clerk. The Program Assistant supports the the Program Managers on events and campaigns. This includes Racial Justice, Fair Trade, Peace, and miscellaneous programming. 15-25 hours a week. The Store Clerk is responsible for helping customers with shopping needs and check out, stocking inventory, creating displays,…

Reflections Two Weeks Later

Friends, things are changing for the worse and things are also changing for the better. The brutality of life is more visible for some of us than it was two weeks ago and surely harm is being done. However, it is not new. The harm has been happening, for some of us less blatantly and…

PJC Ed Everts Peace & Social Justice Award:  Presented to Rising Tide Vermont by Bill McKib ben

PJC Ed Everts Peace & Social Justice Award: Presented to Rising Tide Vermont by Bill McKib ben

By Jen Berger On January 19, 2017, The Peace & justice Center gathers new friends and old, to remember the life of Ed Everts, and to recognize the important work of Rising Tide Vermont. Ed Everts was a World War II veteran, an active member of Vermont Veterans for Peace, the Vermont American Friends Service…

Dr. King and the Children’s March of 1963

Dr. King and the Children’s March of 1963

Explore the planning and implementation of the Children’s March of 1963 in Birmingham, AL. On Monday, January 16 from 10:30-11:30am, at ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, 1 College St. in Burlington. In between watching age appropriate excerpts from Mighty Times: The Children’s March, participants of all ages will explore Kingian Nonviolence (and more) through discussion…

"The Lovings" by Twin Soul Poets

Watch Hamilton Graziano and Ingrid Alli (Twin Soul Poets) performing their group piece, ‘The Lovings’. A true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950’s whose love changed history. Want to know more about Mildred and Richard Loving? Join Loving Day Vermont 2016 on June 18th at 2pm…

Guest Post: Peace, Love & Occupation: Why VTJP has Called for a Boycott of Ben & Jerry’s

Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel began an urgent dialogue with Ben & Jerry’s in 2011 over its franchise in Israel, which shares its name and social mission, and manufactures ice cream inside Israel. But that ice cream, we discovered, is sold not only in Israel, but in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the occupied Palestinian…