Apartheid Free Community Campaign
Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) affirms support for freedom and equality for all peoples and commits a community to working to end Israeli settler colonialism, occupation, and apartheid. These are the historical factors leading to the genocide in Gaza, and they are what we must challenge to win justice and democracy for everyone in Palestine.
The pledge says:
WE AFFIRM our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all people;
WE OPPOSE all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and oppression; and
WE DECLARE ourselves an Apartheid-free community and to that end,
WE PLEDGE to join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.
This pledge is based on the language of the International Apartheid-Free Community campaign which we are part of.
Support for AFC
Hundreds of communities have adopted the pledge around the world.
Check out the growing global movement!
40+ communities have adopted the pledge in Vermont.
TOWNS & CITIES: Winooski | Brattleboro | Newfane | Thetford | Plainfield
LABOR UNIONS: AFSCME 1674 Howard Center Union | AFSCME Local 1343 Soteria House Workers Union | UE 255 Local (Hunger Mountain Co-op union | Vermont Workers' Center
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: Board of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series | Burlington WILPF | Green Mountain Democratic Socialists of America | Education Justice Coalition of Vermont | FreeHer VT | Green Mountain Solidarity with Palestine | Jewish Voice for Peace, Vermont/New Hampshire chapter | Migrant Justice | Mental Health Safe Place | Party for Socialism and Liberation | Plex Arts Festival |Jaquith Public Library and Community Center | Rural Vermont | Rutland Area NAACP | Southern Vermont for Palestine | Spiral House Art Collective | Sunrise Movement Champlain Valley | Tempest Collective | The Peace and Justice Center | The Rainbow Bridge Community Center | Vermonters for Justice in Palestine | Vermont Peace/Anti-war Coalition | Young Democratic Socialists of America (UVM) | Outright Vermont | Episcopal Peace Fellowship Palestine Israel Network (EPF/PIN)
BUSINESSES: Cloud Fossil Design | Dancing Bee Gardens | Haymaker Bun Company | Marshfield Village Store | 48 Grove Ct. LLC | Onion River Campground | Otter Creek Yoga | Stone Leaf Teahouse | Wonder Web Creative
What can I do?
Your community can adopt this pledge
Your community can be a workplace, recreational club, political group, theater group, union, committee, sports team, student association, school, mosque, synagogue, or church, to list a few examples.
Your town or city can vote to adopt this pledge
Bring this pledge to the ballot on your town meeting day and let voters have their voice heard.
Hold each other accountable to the pledge
Hold each other accountable to comprehensively assessing and divesting from any links to Israeli and international companies and institutions targeted by the BDS movement.