Photo: Hanging in a meeting room at the Hartford Town Offices, this image represents the “typical”, white Vermonter. -McKenzie Imhoff, PJC Racial Justice Intern Vermont’s whiteness is not an unknown fact: in light of the recent Saturday Night Live skit where character Jim and his neo-confederate counterparts present the need for finding an all…
“Whatever a soldier believes when they begin their military service, there is no way to behave ethically in the occupied territories. It’s a system in which Palestinians are always treated as inferior, always viewed as the enemy, whoever they are. “Every day the job is to inflict collective punishment. We were told explicitly that we…
WALK OUT ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4TH AT 12PM. DAVIS CENTER GREEN OUTSIDE 1ST FLOOR, UVM This week, Brett Kavanaugh could be confirmed as the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice. We can’t let that happen. Brett Kavanaugh is a sexual predator. He stands against abortion rights, rights of queer people and people of color, unions, immigrants,…
Race has been used to justify exploitation since the beginning of colonization. From the Transatlantic Triangular Trade to Spanish conquistadors to the British East India Company, Europeans have repeatedly conquered and taken advantage of people and resources in the Global South. Whiteness, that is, has historically been used as a means for validating the prosperity…
by Liz Mariani In the chapbook titled before the stone shatters and leather bindings break by tawahum justin bige writes about another perspective on the life of a water protector poet. Here’s an excerpt from the poem “Warrior-Poet”: “We work and toil on Burnaby Mountain for community, blockade roads, plant trees, delay the jobs. Their obsession…
Calls to ICE Tip Line (Williston ICE office) 1-866-DHS-2ICE “Hello, I’m calling to report the kidnapping of immigrant children and the detention of immigrant families. The primary suspects’ names are Donald J Trump, Jeff Session, and Kirstjen Nielson. We demand that you apprehend these criminals, release the people they’ve interned, reunite the families they’ve…
By Richard Czaplinski “I’m for peace, but not your kind of peace.” So said a man as he came up close to me while I led the Vermont Veterans For Peace (VFP) “Budget Banner” down State Street during the July 3, 2018, Montpelier Parade. My mind went somewhat blank, not even thinking of responding. As…
Mindfulness and similar contemplative practices have become increasingly common in activist circles in recent years. In fact, we do workshops on this topic here at the Peace & Justice Center! Mindfulness practices have a lot to contribute to activists, however, misunderstandings about mindfulness and systemic oppression have led to missed opportunities for collaboration as well…
I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon 12 years after my parents were forced to flee the Upper Galilee in historical Palestine. They lost their home, land, livelihood, and my mother lost her father to a bullet fired by a Jewish terrorist organization called the Haganah. I write “terrorist” organization because that…
Protests and actions have sprung up in response to the Trump administration’s decision to separate children from their parents when attempting to seek asylum in the U.S.. Below is a list of protests and actions that you can be a part of to speak up against the treatment of these children. This page will be…
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