Join us on Wednesday, March 20th at 7:00pm at Ira Allen Chapel for a special presentation by Chris Hedges, as part of the Cost of War Speaker and Film Series. Award winning foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, Chris Hedges has reported from more than…
Written by PJC Intern, Jack Mulderrig Asa Philip Randolph was a leading civil rights activist in the fight for racial justice in the United States. A man who was ahead of his time, Randolph enlightened many by claiming that socio-economic advancement was the African American’s ticket to equality and human rights. Randolph’s belief of a…
Like all Americans committed to the creation of a more just and peaceful world, we at the Peace & Justice Center are saddened and appalled by the tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary school. We will work to make the legacy of the children killed there a transition from a gun culture to a culture of…
The Peace & Justice Center works toward social justice and has focused on economic justice issues as a core factor in addressing social injustice. The Center’s Vermont Livable Wage Campaign successfully reframed the debate on how to address the income gap in Vermont from incremental increases to the minimum wage to a livable wage –…
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…
Anna has been with the PJC since October of 2010, when she moved to Vermont for this position. She managed the program of the Center through a rough year of transition for the organization. In the short time she was on the staff, she significantly broadened our social media outreach, focusing on pressing local, national…
Nathan Suter is the Executive Director of Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT and a practicing artist living in Burlington. Compelled by the mission to create a just and peaceful world, Suter will contribute his experience as an Executive Director, educator and organizer to the efforts of the Center. Nathan co-founded Root Division, and arts…
Each year, April 22nd marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin in the 60’s and 70’s, took inspiration from the student anti-war movement and announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media….
http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/americas/2245-lockheed-martin-and-burlington Greenwashing War: Burlington, Vermont Mayor Signs Deal With Lockheed Martin by Jonathan Leavitt When it leaked in Seven Days, a local alternative weekly, that Mayor Bob Kiss of liberal mecca Burlington, Vermont had inked a deal with the world’s largest war profiteer all hell broke loose inside the Burlington left. Charges of “corporate greenwashing”…
Healthcare Is A Human Right Rally 12:30 pm, Cedar Creek Room, Statehouse, Montpelier Join the Vermont Workers’ Center to deliver thousands of petition signatures collected by the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign calling on Vermont to move forward with the design for a new healthcare system with single-payer financing and based on human rights…
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