-by Joshua Oyetubo, Operations Manager Hello Vermont and Welcome to 2021! First, I would like to welcome all new members and readers and thank those of you who have renewed your commitment to support us in this new year! In reflecting on this last year, I want to acknowledge some changes at PJC and celebrate…
-Submitted by Mark Hage, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Media Reports from Occupied Palestine VIOLATIONS AGAINST PALESTINIAN CHILDREN UNREMITTING IN 2020 By Defense for Children International (DCI) Palestine Ramallah, December 31, 2020 In 2020, DCIP documented 79 Palestinian child detention cases from the West Bank that detail widespread and institutionalized ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainees….
-Rachel Siegel, PJC Executive Director Like everything else that’s happened during the pandemic, the PJC’s Annual Staff Pause was different than it was in past years. We spent five days together in virtual space focused on content, hard skills, joy, and healing. Thank you to those who have been patient with us in getting back…
– 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…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] -Kina Thorpe, PJC Educational Program Manager This year was full of challenges. The pandemic and the protests against racism and police brutality forced many people to reflect on what is best for them and their communities. The pandemic was quite challenging for the PJC too. We wondered if the organization would continue, braced for…
-Submitted by Mark Hage, Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Media Reports from Occupied Palestine: The Flynn Pardon, Settlement Expansion & COVID-19 in Palestine Reports on Flynn pardon leave out elephant in the room: Israeli interference in US policy BY PHILIP WEISS NOVEMBER 26, 2020 Donald Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Mike Flynn…and leading media left…
The BIPOC members of the PJC staff, board, and racial justice advisory committee spent August 28-31 at beautiful Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont. Knoll Farm was generous enough to donate this weekend to the PJC along with many other BIPOC, those fighting for racial justice, and essential workers as part of the Be A Refuge…
The Peace & Justice Center staff stand in solidarity with the protest encampment outside the Burlington Police Department. We share the demands of the protesters: Terminate officers Cory Campbell, Jason Bellavance, and Joseph Corrow. These officers have demonstrated violent tendencies, especially toward black men.1 There is no room for this in the world and there is certainly no room for it in Burlington. The encampment started following a…
-Moirha Smith, UVM student and former PJC Intern Since July was minority mental health month and disablility Pride month, I decided to write about these intersections and how these identities are intersected with police brutality. Racism isn’t a mental illness and bigotry isn’t a disability. I cannot count how many times I have heard that racists are mentally ill…
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