Upcoming events
Apartheid Free Communities Fair
Join us for the Apartheid Free Communities Fair!
September 21st 2-4pm
City Hall Park
Burlington, VT
VCPL will host a family-friendly Apartheid-Free Communities Fair, featuring dozens of Vermont businesses, nonprofits, and groups that have endorsed the AFC pledge to oppose Israeli apartheid.
If you have questions or are interested in getting involved, please email us at afcfair@proton.me
Maya Wind Speaks
Maya Wind Speaks: “Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom”
Tuesday, September 30, 7pm
UVM Recital Hall—Redstone Campus
Israel's occupation of Palestine would not be possible without collaboration from supposedly neutral entities. Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Vermont-New Hampshire
Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont
Screenings 1- 3 pm with an audience discussion.
Tickets and information: www.savoytheater.com.
Oct. 5: “The Palestine Exception” documents U.S. college students, faculty, and staff protesting Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the extreme measures taken by
authorities to curtail their freedom of speech and assembly. Columbia University
student activist Mohsen Mahdawi will speak with the audience after the film.
Oct. 19: “A State of Passion” focuses on the efforts of a Palestinian surgeon and other health care professionals to save lives amidst the Gaza genocide. The film’s directors will join the audience afterwards for a discussion.
November 2: “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire” exposes Israel’s targeted and unlawful
attacks on Palestinian and other journalists to eliminate accurate news coverage.
November 16: “Advocate” narrates the life and work of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli
attorney who has devoted much of her career to the legal defense of Palestinians under military occupation.
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Vermont-New Hampshire
Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont
Screenings 1- 3 pm with an audience discussion.
Tickets and information: www.savoytheater.com.
Oct. 5: “The Palestine Exception” documents U.S. college students, faculty, and staff protesting Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the extreme measures taken by
authorities to curtail their freedom of speech and assembly. Columbia University
student activist Mohsen Mahdawi will speak with the audience after the film.
Oct. 19: “A State of Passion” focuses on the efforts of a Palestinian surgeon and other health care professionals to save lives amidst the Gaza genocide. The film’s directors will join the audience afterwards for a discussion.
November 2: “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire” exposes Israel’s targeted and unlawful
attacks on Palestinian and other journalists to eliminate accurate news coverage.
November 16: “Advocate” narrates the life and work of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli
attorney who has devoted much of her career to the legal defense of Palestinians under military occupation.
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Vermont-New Hampshire
Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont
Screenings 1- 3 pm with an audience discussion.
Tickets and information: www.savoytheater.com.
Oct. 5: “The Palestine Exception” documents U.S. college students, faculty, and staff protesting Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the extreme measures taken by
authorities to curtail their freedom of speech and assembly. Columbia University
student activist Mohsen Mahdawi will speak with the audience after the film.
Oct. 19: “A State of Passion” focuses on the efforts of a Palestinian surgeon and other health care professionals to save lives amidst the Gaza genocide. The film’s directors will join the audience afterwards for a discussion.
November 2: “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire” exposes Israel’s targeted and unlawful
attacks on Palestinian and other journalists to eliminate accurate news coverage.
November 16: “Advocate” narrates the life and work of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli
attorney who has devoted much of her career to the legal defense of Palestinians under military occupation.
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
A Palestine-Israel Film Series
Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Vermont-New Hampshire
Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont
Screenings 1- 3 pm with an audience discussion.
Tickets and information: www.savoytheater.com.
Oct. 5: “The Palestine Exception” documents U.S. college students, faculty, and staff protesting Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the extreme measures taken by
authorities to curtail their freedom of speech and assembly. Columbia University
student activist Mohsen Mahdawi will speak with the audience after the film.
Oct. 19: “A State of Passion” focuses on the efforts of a Palestinian surgeon and other health care professionals to save lives amidst the Gaza genocide. The film’s directors will join the audience afterwards for a discussion.
November 2: “Gaza: Journalists Under Fire” exposes Israel’s targeted and unlawful
attacks on Palestinian and other journalists to eliminate accurate news coverage.
November 16: “Advocate” narrates the life and work of Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli
attorney who has devoted much of her career to the legal defense of Palestinians under military occupation.
Sign the Open Letter to the Burlington City Council
Let Voters Decide on Apartheid-Free Community
OPEN LETTER TO BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Please sign our open letter demanding that the Burlington City Council place the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) advisory question on the ballot. You can read the letter and AFC pledge, and sign here: https://bit.ly/AFC_BurlOpenLetter
Yet another report, this time from the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, documents the starvation and genocide in Gaza–exactly what Palestinians have been telling us for nearly 2 years. And it explains how the same thing can happen next in the occupied West Bank.
Yet, the pro-Israel Democratic Party majority on the Burlington City Council continues to defend the genocidal apartheid state funded by the U.S. government that is aiming to eradicate Palestinians.
They have rejected a cease-fire resolution. The Democratic Council majority, after being presented with the required number of petition signatures, have now twice blocked the AFC pledge from the ballot, denying our democratic right to express our views on the apartheid state that is supported by our taxes and elected representatives. In contrast, earlier this year, elected officials in 9 Vermont towns respected the voters’ right to petition and put the AFC advisory question on the ballot, including Winooski, Montpelier, and Brattleboro.
The crimes in Palestine boomerang back and are used to deny our free speech, and to justify massive spending on weapons and mass killing instead of pressing social needs. The rulers and powerful think apartheid and genocide in Palestine can be a general practice for our future, and we must say no!
This is what we can do for Palestine, and what we can do for our communities. An injury to one is an injury to all!
Please sign the open letter here: https://bit.ly/AFC_BurlOpenLetter
Burlington Apartheid-Free Community Committee
https://www.vermontcpl.org/apartheid-free-community
Read AFC info brochure: https://bit.ly/AFC_brochure
Burlington Apartheid-Free Community Committee Meeting
Burlington Apartheid-Free Community Committee Meeting
Saturday, September 13 at 4pm
Burlington Friend’s Meeting House
173 N Prospect St B, Burlington, VT 05401
Get to know each other, eat snacks, and hear about ways you might want to get involved as we move into a very active time period of this campaign! Come help organize to break the Burlington Democratic Party’s suppression of democracy in Burlington. Burlington needs to join with the 9 VT towns who have voted on the Apartheid-Free Community Pledge—and with the many additional towns who will be able to vote on breaking ties with Israeli Apartheid and U.S. supported genocide on Town Meeting Day. Let’s make Vermont Apartheid-Free!
VCPL General Assembly Meeting
Saturday, September 13, 1-3pm
On Zoom
We have already kicked off September with breakthroughs at Labor Day, Art Hop, and Pride. Join us to discuss state-wide plans to put Apartheid Free Communities on ballots and launch BDS campaigns in towns and institutions throughout the state. We’ll also talk about plans for our AFC Fair and Maya Wind’s Will Miller Social Justice Lecture, “Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.”
After our general body discussion, we’ll break up into our working groups—Action; Apartheid Free Communities; Media; Collective Care; Labor for Palestine. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
Life Aid for Palestine
Life Aid for Palestine
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, 1-4 p.m.
Latchis Theater,
Brattleboro, Vermont, and live-streamed.
Tickets $15-25
Come to the benefit concert for Middle East Children's Alliance, the Good Shepherd Collective, and the Palestinian writer and journalist Yusuf el-Mobayed and his family in Gaza. It will feature performers including Patty Carpenter, Scott Ainslie, Samirah Evans, Dan DeWalt, Kwartetto Mambo, John Sheldon, Michel Moushabeck, Joel Veena, Firas Zriek (by video), and Seyir. The full performer list and other details are at LifeAidForPalestine.com. The event will be held at the historic Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro, and by livestream to anyone with internet access. Musicians and speakers are all donating their time and talent.
March with VCPL at Pride Vermont 2025!
March with VCPL at Pride Vermont 2025!
Sunday, 9/7, 11:30am
St Paul St., between Main and College
Burlington, VT
Join VCPL at Pride Vermont! We will have a float, flags, banners, and Apartheid Free Communities signs. We will be petitioning for AFC in many towns throughout Vermont as well as getting everyone to sign the open letter to Burlington’s City Council, demanding they respect democracy and let Vermont’s largest city have the right to vote for AFC. March for collective liberation and a free Palestine! Join us!
Join VCPL at Burlington’s Art Hop
Join VCPL at Burlington’s Art Hop
Friday 9/5 through Saturday 9/6
Pine Street, Burlington
Volunteer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tUswsoaPia4SEvq5EDKnY4B4DWPa9XhZIsiZn-ilML8/edit?ts=68b81e76
Join us at Art Hop! We're looking for creatively enthusiastic volunteers to help with various tasks and roles during Art Hop. In the past, we have been able to find locations to display Palestinian art and project videos, but this year landlords have denied us access to spaces.
But we are going ahead anyway. We are planning on using the green spaces on Pine Street. We will need volunteers who to help set up and take down art, table for Apartheid Free Communities, project short videos in the evening, hold banners, and perhaps marching with the art in the street.
Volunteer to take on responsibilities here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tUswsoaPia4SEvq5EDKnY4B4DWPa9XhZIsiZn-ilML8/edit?ts=68b81e76. Expect a one-on-one follow-up with an organizer to give you more info and exact locations about volunteering!
Labor Day March and Rally
Labor Day March and Rally
An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
September 1st, 1pm
Battery Park, Burlington VT
Join unions and social movement organizations to rally against Trump and the billionaire class this Labor Day in Burlington. We will assemble at Battery Park, march through the city, and return to Battery Park for a concluding rally and family-friendly picnic.
Now is the time to mobilize against the Trump regime’s relentless assault on workers and the oppressed. They want to divide and conquer us to enrich themselves at our expense. We will not fall for their tricks; we know that an injury to one is an injury to all. So, we will unite to defend our democracy and everyone’s rights as well as our jobs, wages, and benefits.
As we did on May Day, we call on all unions and organizations to mobilize their membership to make this Labor Day a demonstration of our unity and solidarity. By mobilizing, we can organize and increase our collective power to defend what we have and win what we want. Our future depends on it.
Don’t Mourn! Organize!
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-day-solidarity-march-rally-picnic
Volunteer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCm8oo37h_im99ctvE6iEHxVRL0F5Ed3M1ikIA38k573jI9w/viewform.
Endorsed by: AFSCME Local 1674 Howard Center Worker’s Union Chapter; AFSCME 1674 Soteria House Workers’ Union Chapter; AFSCME Local 1674 Rights and Democracy Workers’ Union Chapter; AFSCME Local 1674 Spectrum Basic Needs Union Chapter AFSCME Local 1674; AFSCME Local 1674 St. Michael’s Custodians’ Union Chapter AFSCME Local 1674; Black Cap Union; Cooperation Vermont; Free Her Vermont; Gakru United; Green Mountain DSA Green Mountain Labor Council; MetroRock Union; Migrant Justice; People's Kitchen; Planned Parenthood of Northern New England United; Porter Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals; Rights and Democracy; Scoopers United; Teamsters Local 597 Chittenden County Transportation Authority Chapter; Teamsters Local 597 Essex Junction Chapter; Teamsters Local 597 UPS Chapter; Tempest Collective; Trans+ VT; UVM Graduate Students United; UVM Medical Center Support Staff United; UVM Progressives; UVM Staff United; UVM Student Workers' Union; UVM United Academics; UVM YDSA; Vermont Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals; VT AFL-CIO; VT Coalition for Palestinian Liberation; VT Labor for Palestine; VT National Education Association; VT Party for Socialism and Liberation; VT School Workers United; VT State Employees Association; VT Workers Center / Nonviolent Medicaid Army; VT/NH Jewish Voice for Peace; 350 VT; 50501 VT..
*List in formation. To endorse, email: mbottig1@binghamton.edu.
General Assembly Meeting
Come to the VCPL Meeting!
Saturday, August 23, 1-3pm
Friends Meeting House
173 North Prospect St, Burlington, VT
Zoom option forthcoming
We have pushed our regular meeting back one week to Saturday August 23 at 1pm in Burlington’s Friends Meeting House. This Saturday August 16, we encourage everyone who can to get on the bus to the Gaza protest in New York (https://donorbox.org/august-16-burlington-nyc-march-for-gaza) or attend the event in support of Mohsen Mahdawi (below).
On the 23, join VCPL’s meeting to escalate our campaign to put Apartheid Free Communities on ballots and launch BDS campaigns in towns and institutions throughout the state. We’ll also talk about plans for our Apartheid Free Communities Fair as well as Labor Day, Pride, and Burlington’s Art Hop.
After our general body discussion, we’ll break up into our working groups—Action; Apartheid Free Communities; Media; Collective Care; Labor for Palestine. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
Palestine in the Park: An Evening of Gratitude with Mohsen Mahdawi
Palestine in the Park
An Evening of Gratitude with Mohsen Mahdawi
Saturday August 16, 4-6pm
Lyman Park
White River Junction, VT
Please join us in Lyman Park on August 16th for an evening of education, fellowship and gratitude to celebrate Mohsen Mahdawi. He has been an active and beloved member of the Vermont community since moving here in 2014. He is known in Vermont not only for his leadership and activism, but also for his deep commitment to service, empathy, and building a more just and inclusive society. To learn more about Mohsen and the campaign to defend his rights and those of other Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activists, go to his website: https://sites.google.com/mohsen-mahdawi.com/main/home?pli=1.
Come hear Mohsen and other speakers and musicians. Bring what you can for the potluck and for the local food shelf and if you can’t …, no worries! There will be plenty! If you are from an allied cause and would like to table at the event, want to help or If you have any questions, please reach out to info@uvriseup.org.
Build VT’s Apartheid-Free Communities Movement
Dear Palestine Supporter,
Our movement to end Israeli apartheid and occupation is at a critical juncture. Words cannot begin to capture the cruelty that genocidal Israel continues to inflict upon Gazans, which somehow manages to reach horrifying new depths with each passing day. Yet, we also feel the winds of change growing stronger. More than ever before, citizens and governments worldwide are recognizing, condemning, and acting to stop the crimes of apartheid and genocide committed by Israel.
Here is what you can do for Palestine now: Help build the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) movement! Sign up for information sessions here. Our next training is Monday, August 4th at 7 p.m.
We made history earlier this year with 5 towns in Vermont voting to break ties with Israeli apartheid and genocide. Thetford was the first in the nation to vote to adopt the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) pledge.
We will bring the AFC pledge to dozens more towns next Town Meeting Day. We will be joining with towns in Massachusetts, and with the international Apartheid-free community network of hundreds of communities and organizations.
Our goal is to build our network of Apartheid-Free Communities across the state and the region. As we make Vermont apartheid-free, we change the narrative on Palestine, demonstrate that Palestine is a local issue, and build the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to undermine U.S. and international support for Israeli apartheid and genocide.
We need you, organizers and leaders, to help build local AFC campaigns. We do this both for Palestine, and for us, because Palestine is a key local and national question for our free speech, legal rights, public services, and futures. Pro-Israel, authoritarian nationalist forces increasingly use Zionism to draining resources from our communities to fund war and ethnic cleansing.
See below for a list of priority towns where we are aiming to expand existing local committees or launch new ones. We can add new towns to the list as well.
We will be organizing information and training sessions on running AFC campaigns in the coming months. We will connect organizers with one another in different parts of the state.
You can sign up on this form to participate in information sessions, have someone follow up with you, and to register for our next session on Monday, August 4th at 7 p.m.
In Solidarity,
The Apartheid-Free Community Working Group
Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation
AFC Priority Towns
Jericho
Underhill
Hartford
Norwich
Burlington
Montpelier
Hartland
Turners Falls, MA
Marshfield
Ferrisburg
Essex Town
Essex Junction
Hardwick
Calais
Strafford
Putney
East Montpelier
S. Burlington
Richmond
Fairfax
Bradford
Sharon
Springfield
Milton
St. Albans
Craftsbury
S. Burlington
Shelburne
Bristol
Middlebury
Bennington
Rutland
Greensboro
Waterbury
Colchester
Charlotte
Putney
Barre
Manchester
St. Johnsbury
Lebanon, NH
Northampton, MA
Montague, MA
Add your town!
General Assembly Meeting
On Zoom
Join VCPL’s meeting on Saturday August 2! With the US and Israel starving Gaza, our work is more important than ever. We’ll discuss plans to put Apartheid Free Communities on more ballots and launch BDS campaigns in towns and institutions throughout the state. We’ll also talk about plans for our Apartheid Free Communities Fair. After our general body discussion, we’ll break up into our working groups—Action; Apartheid Free Communities; Media; Collective Care; Labor for Palestine. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
VCPL Meeting
Come to the VCPL Meeting!
Saturday, July 19, 1-3pm
Burlington Friends Meeting House
173 North Prospect St, Burlington
Hybrid Option
Join VCPL’s meeting on Saturday June 19! We’ll discuss plans to put Apartheid Free Communities on more ballots and launch BDS campaigns in towns and institutions throughout the state. We’ll also talk about plans for Labor Day in Burlington. After our general body discussion, we’ll break up into our working groups. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
Report Back From Global March to Gaza
Report Back From Global March to Gaza
Fhar Miess Speaks
July 16, 6pm
Brattleboro, VT
Register for location and zoom option here
Fhar Miess, a member of Southern VT for Palestine and VCPL, joined thousands of people from across the globe in Cairo to march to the border with Gaza. They had intended to break the Israeli siege and protest the genocide. But the Egyptian regime blocked the march, subjecting organizers and participants to surveillance, arrests, beatings, kidnappings, and deportation. They even prevented the activists from peacefully assembling in Cairo.
Fhar will report back on his experiences and share lessons learned for organizing in repressive conditions. The event will be hybrid, with the physical location in Brattleboro and the Zoom link to be shared out prior to the event. Please register here for the location and, if you want to join by zoom, select the remote option.
March with VCPL in Montpelier’s Independence Day Parade
March with VCPL in Montpelier’s Independence Day Parade
Thursday, July 3, 5pm
Summit St., Montpelier, VT
VCPL invites Palestine solidarity activists, endorsers of Apartheid Free Communities, and all the unions and social justice groups that rallied at No Kings demonstrations to march together in Montpelier’s Independence Day Parade. We must unite against Trump’s authoritarian nationalist agenda of class war at home and imperial war abroad.
The Trump administration has bombed Iran, escalated Washington and Israel’s genocidal war in Palestine, and is carrying out a McCarthyite witch hunt against Palestine solidarity activists. To pay for that militarism and repression, Trump is firing federal workers, gutting social programs, and trying to divide and conquer any opposition by scapegoating migrants, trans people, Black and Brown people, women, and the poor.
Join us to march against war, apartheid, and genocide and for unity, solidarity, and collective liberation!
VCPL General Assembly Meeting
Come to the VCPL Meeting!
Saturday, June 21, 1pm
Burlington’s Friends Meeting House
173 North Prospect St, Burlington
Zoom forthcoming
Join VCPL’s meeting this Saturday! We’ll talk about our huge success in raising the profile of Palestine at the No Kings Rally, talk about how to respond to the US and Israel war on Iran, brainstorm ideas for July 3rd in Montpelier, and discuss plans in our campaigns to free Mahmoud Khalil, pass more free speech resolutions, get Apartheid Free Communities on more ballots, and launch BDS in towns and institutions throughout the state. After our general body discussion, we’ll break up into our working groups. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
Emergency Rally: No War on Iran!End all US Aid to Israel!
Emergency Rally: No War on Iran!
End all US Aid to Israel!
Wednesday, June 18, 6pm
Top of Church St
Burlington, VT
Having spent the past 20 months committing a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, while invading and bombing both Lebanon and Syria, and carrying out airstrikes against Yemen, the Israeli regime has lit the fuse for a wider, regional war that could easily morph into a global conflict by launching a major, illegal bombing campaign against the people of Iran. Come to the top of Church Street at 6pm where we will strategize, hear from a lightning-quick group of speakers to guide us about what we can do in these times, and loudly and proudly declare that Vermonters want their needs met, and do NOT support the US sending billions to bomb even MORE children.
Emergency Rally: Free Nacho and Heidi!
Emergency Rally: Free Nacho and Heidi!
Monday, June 16, 6:30pm
Vermont Statehouse
115 State St., Montpelier
This Saturday as tens of thousands of Vermonters protested Donald’s Trump’s authoritarian rule and assault on immigrants, his Border Patrol agents arrested and detained two Migrant Justice leaders in Franklin County. They pulled their car over, smashed its windows, and violently detained Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz and his stepdaughter and recent Milton high school graduate Heidi Perez. At the No Kings Rally, we all promised to defend everyone under attack without exception. Now is the time to deliver on that pledge. All out to free Nacho and Heidi! No human being is illegal!
No Kings, No Bosses, No Borders!
No Kings, No Bosses, No Borders!
VCPL Feeder March to the No Kings Rally
June 14, 11:30am
City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington VT
Join VCPL’s feeder march to 50501 and Indivisible’s No Kings Rally in Burlington. It is part of a national day of action against Donald Trump’s military parade in DC on his birthday. There will be actions throughout the state with the largest planned for Burlington’s waterfront park, where thousands are expected. It will feature freed Palestinian political prisoner, Mohsen Mahdawi, along with politicians, activists, and union members. Come to our rally along with Free Her, Migrant Justice, and unions and march to the No Kings demonstration to protest Trump’s authoritarian program, Washington’s bipartisan genocide in Palestine, and the bosses’ attack on workers, migrants, trans people, people of color, women, and all the oppressed. We must fight not only Trump but the whole ruling class in a struggle for collective liberation here and throughout the world. Bring signs, banners, and Palestinian flags. None of us are free until all of us are free!
From LA to Burlington: ICE out of our Communities!
From LA to Burlington: ICE out of our Communities!
June 10, 6pm
City Hall Park
Burlington, VT
Last week, the Trump administration ordered ICE raids on workplaces in LA to arrest and deport migrants, triggering mass protests from the city’s multiracial working class. ICE and the LAPD responded with brutal repression and arrests, including of SEIU union leader David Huerta. Trump has mobilized the California National Guard to LA, his advisor Steven Miller is threatening further deployments elsewhere if people resist ICE raids, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has floated the idea of sending in the Marines. With our democracy in peril, we call on everyone, especially union members, to oppose Trump’s authoritarian repression, defend immigrant rights, and get ICE out of our cities and state. Join the emergency protest on Tuesday at 6pm at Burlington’s City Hall Park. An injury to one is an injury to all! Solidarity is the only way to win!
Join VCPL at People’s Pride
Join VCPL at People’s Pride
June 7, 12 noon
Battery Park, Burlington
Join VCPL at this year’s People’s Pride. We will have flags, banners, and a speaker as part of the rally and march. There will be an art build and workshops at 11am. The march will start at 12:30 and culminate with speakers at City Hall at 1pm followed by a full afternoon of performances and tabling. We embrace People’s Pride and their call to “join us to tie the struggles together, emphasize solidarity, show the power we have collectively, and celebrate our queer identities and lives." Until all of us are free, none of us are free.
"No Other Land" film screening
Tickets at the door.
Confused by the news? Want to watch a real and current story, produced by a Palestinian and an Israeli, about defending people from the destruction of their homes and forced displacement? Join us for showings of the Oscar winning documentary, No Other Land. It captures the resilience of the Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta, West Bank. Filmed over several years, it chronicles activist Basel Adra's efforts to document and resist the forced displacement of his village by Israeli forces. Collaborating with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, the film offers an intimate look at friendship, resistance and the human cost of oppression. Celebrated for its unflinching portrayal of life under occupation, No Other Land has garnered international acclaim for shedding light on stories often overlooked.
VCPL General Assembly Meeting
Hybrid — join on zoom or at the Friend’s Meeting House in Burlington
"The Encampments" Film Screening
https://www.nugget-theaters.com/movie/the-encampments/
Two Days Only Sat 5/17 & Sun 5/18!
Rated NR — Running time 1:35
When a group of students at Columbia University launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of other campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.
Starring Mahmoud Khalil, Bisan Owda, Ali Abunimah, Jamal Joseph and Rabbi Abby Stein
Directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker
Nakba Day Vigil
Nakba Day Vigils
Thursday, May 15:
Montpelier, 12pm, State House Lawn
Burlington, 5pm, City Hall Park
Brattleboro, 5:30pm, Pliny Park
On Nakba Day, May 15, please join us in remembrance, grief, and continued solidarity with the Palestinian people. In commemoration of the Nakba, we invite you to create memorials for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered and displaced by the State of Israel (and Zionist paramilitaries prior to its creation) since 1948. If you would like to contribute, please bring items such as candles, flowers, drawings, photos, shoes, shrouds, signs, flags, and more. We welcome your creativity in expressing our shared grief and solidarity.
"No Other Land" Film Screening
Tickets at the door. Suggested donation of $10. Proceeds go to Masafer Yatta.
Confused by the news? Want to watch a real and current story, produced by a Palestinian and an Israeli, about defending people from the destruction of their homes and forced displacement? Join us for showings of the Oscar winning documentary, No Other Land. It captures the resilience of the Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta, West Bank. Filmed over several years, it chronicles activist Basel Adra's efforts to document and resist the forced displacement of his village by Israeli forces. Collaborating with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, the film offers an intimate look at friendship, resistance and the human cost of oppression. Celebrated for its unflinching portrayal of life under occupation, No Other Land has garnered international acclaim for shedding light on stories often overlooked.
Nakba Day Vigil
Nakba Day Vigils
Thursday, May 15:
Montpelier, 12pm, State House Lawn
Burlington, 5pm, City Hall Park
Brattleboro, 5:30pm, Pliny Park
On Nakba Day, May 15, please join us in remembrance, grief, and continued solidarity with the Palestinian people. In commemoration of the Nakba, we invite you to create memorials for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered and displaced by the State of Israel (and Zionist paramilitaries prior to its creation) since 1948. If you would like to contribute, please bring items such as candles, flowers, drawings, photos, shoes, shrouds, signs, flags, and more. We welcome your creativity in expressing our shared grief and solidarity.
Nakba Day Vigil
Nakba Day Vigils
Thursday, May 15:
Montpelier, 12pm, State House Lawn
Burlington, 5pm, City Hall Park
Brattleboro, 5:30pm, Pliny Park
On Nakba Day, May 15, please join us in remembrance, grief, and continued solidarity with the Palestinian people. In commemoration of the Nakba, we invite you to create memorials for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered and displaced by the State of Israel (and Zionist paramilitaries prior to its creation) since 1948. If you would like to contribute, please bring items such as candles, flowers, drawings, photos, shoes, shrouds, signs, flags, and more. We welcome your creativity in expressing our shared grief and solidarity.
All out for Rumeysa Ozturk! Rally
Emergency mobilization!! The Trump administration’s request to appeal Rumeysa’s transfer to Vermont was denied! Now, her bail hearing is scheduled for Friday morning in Burlington. We will take to the streets outside her hearing to demand freedom for Rumeysa and an end to these attempts to silence our movement!