Upcoming events
Sign the Petition: "No Appetite for Apartheid"
Make City Market, Onion River Co-op Apartheid Free!
City Market Co-op values are: kindness, diversity, responsibility, fun, learning, and positive impact. Positive impact is described on the co-op website as "Embody our purpose from the smallest to the most worldly; be optimistic". In keeping in line with these core values, and our morals as human beings, we call on the City Market Executive and Senior Management, as well as the Elected Board, to have City Market (downtown and south end) discontinue stocking products made in Israel or otherwise financially connected to the Israeli settler occupation and genocide of Palestine, potentially in a phased approach if needed. This includes products from Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, and many others.
In signing this petition, I also demonstrate to the co-op that regardless of if these products are phased out or not, I will no longer be buying products either made in Israel, or products by corporations that are complicit in and financially benefit from any form of colonization, genocide, or apartheid.
SIGN THE PETITION :
Sign the petition: “Vermonters Say 'NO' to Eleos AI at Howard Center”
Vermonters Say 'NO' to Eleos AI at Howard Center
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/noeleosathc
Howard Center has decided to utilize Eleos Health's AI tools in its services. Eleos Health is a company with direct links to Israel and IDF. By using their services Howard Center is directly linking itself, and the community it serves, to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by the apartheid state of Israel. As if that weren't bad enough, AI tools like those made by Eleos Health are unproven with regard to the services provided by Howard Center and have been documented to perpetuate the racism and sexism already rampant in our healthcare system. By using AI tools in its services Howard Center is also exposing its clients to an additional and unnecessary level of risk regarding their sensitive information.
Howard Center management has denied the request of a worker-led petition with over 140 signatures demanding that the agency end its contract with Eleos. As a community, we support Howard Center workers, and we agree that AI has no place at Howard Center. So, as members of the community served by Howard Center, we are demanding that the agency end its contract with Eleos Health now!
Sign the petition: “STOP the deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi”
STOP the deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-deportation-proceedings-against-mohsen-mahdawi
This petition calls for the immediate termination of deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi and a public condemnation of immigration enforcement to punish political speech.
"If speech for human dignity becomes grounds for deportation, then silence becomes the price of safety. This is bigger than one man. It is about whether conscience itself can be criminalized".
Sign the Petition: “STOP the deportation proceedings against activist Mohsen Mahdawi!”
STOP the deportation proceedings against activist Mohsen Mahdawi!
This petition calls for the immediate termination of deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi and a public condemnation of immigration enforcement to punish political speech.
"If speech for human dignity becomes grounds for deportation, then silence becomes the price of safety. This is bigger than one man. It is about whether conscience itself can be criminalized".
Sign the petition here.
“All That’s Left of You” (West Lebanon)
May 29, 6 pm, West Lebanon: All That’s Left of You film screening at the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon. Spanning seven decades, this film follows three generations of a Palestinian family, tracing the intergenerational impact of displacement and occupation while also highlighting hope, love, resilience in the face of trauma and injustice.
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Every Thursday, April 30-May 28, 7pm
At Bread and Puppet’s Anti-Modern Art Museum
“As new life blooms around us this spring, we remember the martyrs in Gaza and the Palestinians who continue to fight against Israel’s torturous regime of genocide, enabled and funded by the USA and a planet of bystanders.”
Find more information here.
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Every Thursday, April 30-May 28, 7pm
At Bread and Puppet’s Anti-Modern Art Museum
“As new life blooms around us this spring, we remember the martyrs in Gaza and the Palestinians who continue to fight against Israel’s torturous regime of genocide, enabled and funded by the USA and a planet of bystanders.”
Find more information here.
General Assembly Meeting
Come to the VCPL Meeting!
Saturday, May 16th, 1-3pm
online
Join our meeting on May 16th at 1pm on Zoom to discuss Nakba Day events throughout the month of May, steps in our struggle to make Vermont an apartheid-free state, and our boycott campaign at City Market. Join us, stop the genocide, end Israeli apartheid, and free Palestine!
Remembering the Nakba (St. Albans)
Remembering the Nakba
May 16, 10:30am-12:30pm
Taylor Park at Fairfield & Church St,
St Albans, VT
Organized by Franklin County for Palestine
We will be gathering in the southeast corner of Taylor Park to commemorate the Nakba with a symbolic display that represents the 500+ Palestinian villages destroyed by Zionists in 1947-49. Stop by anytime between 10:30am and 12:30pm to see the display, chat with your neighbors, and grab a free pin to wear in solidarity (while supplies last).
Nakba Day Vigil (Montpelier)
Nakba Day Vigil (Montpelier)
Statehouse Lawn in Montpelier
Join us for a vigil to commemorate the Nakba in Montpelier, and create a space for remembrance, resistance and poetry as we bear witness to the ongoing displacement of Palestinians. Bring a poem or a song. Bring a friend or just bring yourself and your love.
Witnessing Nakba Day (Brattleboro)
Witnessing Nakba Day
May 15, 5:30 pm
Pliny Park
Brattleboro
Remembering the Nakba (Hanover)
May 15th, 4-6pm, “Remembering the Nakba, Witnessing a Genocide,” Ledyard Bridge, Hanover, NH. Come to the Ledyard Bridge between 4pm and 6pm with flags, signs, and banners to join the long-standing anti-genocide vigil there in marking 78 years of the ongoing displacement of the Palestinian people.
Nakba Day Vigil (Winooski)
NAKBA DAY SILENT VIGIL (Winooski)
12 - 2 pm
Friday, May 15
Winooski Circle
RAIN OR SHINE
Wear your keffiyeh and join us - we will provide some large banners and pictures of keys.
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Every Thursday, April 30-May 28, 7pm
At Bread and Puppet’s Anti-Modern Art Museum
“As new life blooms around us this spring, we remember the martyrs in Gaza and the Palestinians who continue to fight against Israel’s torturous regime of genocide, enabled and funded by the USA and a planet of bystanders.”
Find more information here.
“An Artist Responds to War” (virtual)
Film screening: An Artist Responds to War (virtual)
May 12th, 8pm
A (~45 minute) film about Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater, focusing on the radical political theater group’s history, and how they are currently responding to the genocide in Gaza and colonization of Palestine.
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Every Thursday, April 30-May 28, 7pm
At Bread and Puppet’s Anti-Modern Art Museum
“As new life blooms around us this spring, we remember the martyrs in Gaza and the Palestinians who continue to fight against Israel’s torturous regime of genocide, enabled and funded by the USA and a planet of bystanders.”
Find more information here.
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Unforgetting Gaza Oratorio (Bread and Puppet)
Every Thursday, April 30-May 28, 7pm
At Bread and Puppet’s Anti-Modern Art Museum
“As new life blooms around us this spring, we remember the martyrs in Gaza and the Palestinians who continue to fight against Israel’s torturous regime of genocide, enabled and funded by the USA and a planet of bystanders.”
Find more information here.
“All That’s Left of You” (UVM)
We’re hosting a free film screening of All That’s Left of You on April 10th, 6:00 PM at UVM. This is truly one of the best pieces of Palestinian cinema that captures the deepest human elements of the brutal colonial violence the US, UK & Zionist occupation have wrought upon the Palestinian people since 1948. Put it in your calendar and spread the word.
🗓️Friday, April 10th
🕕6:00 PM
📍UVM Fleming Museum (61 Colchester Ave, Burlington) Room 101
🆓Free & open to public (suggested donation: $5)
Limited parking available in the lot adjacent to Perkins Hall. Additional parking at Jeffords Lot, 436 College St lot, and street parking on College and S Williams St.
Hosted by UVM Students for Justice in Palestine with support from the UVM Palestine Solidarity Coalition and the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation.
Tom Alter Speaks: Democratic Rights Under Siege
Tom Alter Speaks: Democratic Rights Under Siege: Free Speech and Resisting Authoritarianism
Sponsored by The Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series
7:00 PM April 2, 2026
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill, Room 325
Tom Alter was fired from his position as tenured professor of history at Texas State University for comments he made at a socialist conference. He will be in Vermont to talk about his experience and the inspiring campaign in defense of free speech and academic freedom that it has inspired.
On Palestinian Land Day: Host Screenings of Foragers or No Other Land
On Palestinian Land Day :
Host Screenings of Foragers or No Other Land
March 30
VCPL encourages anyone who can to host screenings of films on Palestinian Land Day. Two we suggest to choose from are Foragers or No Other Land. Palestinian Land commemorates the general strike organized in throughout historic Palestine in 1976 to defend Palestinian land and stop ethnic cleansing. Join us in commemorating this historic uprising and the continuing struggle to free Palestine!
2nd Annual Vermont Labor for Palestine Community Gathering
Sunday, March 29th, 2-3:30 pm
Fletcher Free Library, Fletcher Room, Burlington
Apartheid-free refreshments will be provided
Join Vermont Labor for Palestine for a conversational and collaborative event about solidarity actions across the state! Ongoing union and workplace campaigns will give updates on their efforts followed by group discussion on next steps, new campaign ideas and what Palestine solidarity looks like within the labor movement in Vermont today. Vermont Labor for Palestine continues to affirm that the labor movement has a specific obligation to uphold the call to not cross the global picket line in response to the ongoing occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine, regardless of any false “ceasefire” in place. An injury to one is an injury to all!
Join VCPL at No Kings 3!
Join VCPL at No Kings 3!
Stop the War on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine!
Burlington
March 28, 11am
Waterman Manor, UVM
85 South Prospect St.
Montpelier
March 28, 11am
Vermont Historical Society Museum
109 State St.
Brattleboro
March 28, 10am
Preston Lot, Flat St.
Join VCPL at No Kings in Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro, and throughout Vermont. We will have banners, signs, flags, and fliers for Apartheid-Free Communities. We will not let Palestine and Trump’s barbaric war on Iran and Lebanon be excluded from the rallies and marches.
The current war is the direct continuation of the joint US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. They want to impose their imperial rule over the region even if it blows up whole countries and the world economy. We encourage everyone to join us at No Kings 3 everywhere and raise the slogan, “Stop the War on Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine.”
Report-back from the West Bank
Report-back from the West Bank
Sunday, March 1st, 3 pm
Bugbee Senior Center
White River Junction
Two Vermonters recently returned from a trip to the West Bank will lead this presentation about Palestinian life under occupation. Discussion and Q&A will follow.
“No Other Land” (Richmond)
Screening of Occupied Palestine
Sponsored by Richmond Racial Equity
4pm to 6:30pm, February 22,
Richmond Free Library, Community room 2nd floor.
Come watch the Oscar-winning documentary film, No Other Land, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years. No Other Land provides a harrowing account of the systematic destruction of Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military. The film will be introduced by a talk by a Palestinian American living in Vermont, in retirement from a 30 year career with the United Nations development agencies, primarily the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and will be followed by a discussion with a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and Richmond resident.
Propose AFC at your Town Meeting!
Propose AFC at your Town Meeting!
Info Session on How to Raise it in “Other Business”
Saturday, Feb 21, 1PM
on zoom
We have successfully placed the Apartheid-Free Community Pledge on Town Meeting ballots throughout the state. But we can raise it in many more in-person Town Meetings on March 3. Join us on Zoom to learn on to propose AFC from the floor in “Other Business.” Let’s make Vermont an Apartheid-Free state!
A Sunday Conversation with Mohsen Mahdawi
Finding Peace in a Sea of Injustice
A Sunday Conversation with Mohsen Mahdawi
Sunday, February 15, 10am
The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington
152 Pearl St, Burlington, Vermont
The First UU Society of Burlington, Vermont is hosting Mohsen Mahdawi for a conversation with our senior minister Rev. Karen at the 10 am worship service on Sunday, February 15th. Services are typically 75 minutes long. It will be followed by a Q&A session with Mohsen, also in the Sanctuary, led by the Palestinian Solidarity Team, starting at 11:30 am. (The Q&A session is one-hour long.) These events are free and open to the public. Also, the livestreamed service is at: https://youtu.be/us1OCa-NKJo.
“ONE FAMILY IN GAZA”
ONE FAMILY IN GAZA
An original play by Crystal Zevon
Sponsored by UU’s Palestinian Solidarity Team
7 pm, Friday, February 13
The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington
152 Pearl St, Burlington, Vermont
We are pleased to invite you to a dramatic reading of an original play by Crystal Zevon, called One Family in Gaza. This non-fiction drama is based on the friendship between playwright Zevon and a young father in the Gaza Strip named Yasser. The story is told through their correspondence since the fall of 2023, reflecting Zevon’s efforts to help the family, intertwined with short news reports that give context to the letters. The main focus is the messages received from the young father. While telling a story that in some ways reflects universal truths about living through any war, it offers insights into this particular conflict. Not unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, the piece is a rare telling of a war experience in real time, calling upon us to never forget our common humanity.
“From Ground Zero” (West Lebanon)
Free Film Screening of “From Ground Zero,” February 9, Kilton Library Community Room, West Lebanon: Join Upper Valley for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for this Oscar-nominated compilation of stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through Israel’s devastating and ongoing war in Gaza. Doors open at 5:30 pm with screening at 6 pm and discussion to follow. If you can, bring a food or personal care item for our donation collection for The Haven.
“The Encampments” (UVM)
Screening of The Encampments
Sponsored by the UVM Palestine Solidarity Coalition
Thursday, February 5, 5pm
UVM, Flemming Museum, Room 101
61 Colchester Ave., Burlington
The Encampments is a documentary about the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and protest movement at Columbia University as well as other pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the US. It features interviews with campus leaders like Mahmoud Khalil and documents the tireless determination of students to stand up for Palestine in the face of university and state repression. Bring your friends, fellow students, and co-workers!
Join VCPL for Lobby Day at the Statehouse
Join VCPL for Lobby Day at the Statehouse
Support Freedom of Speech, Legislative Ethics, & Justice for Palestine
Thursday, February 5, 11am – 3pm
Statehouse, Montpelier
Join VCPL at Jewish Voice for Peace’s Press Conference at 12 noon in the Cedar Creek Room. Speakers will support the ethics investigation into the five legislators that went on an all-expenses paid junket to Israel, where they got training and guidance in how to block legislation in support of Palestine and its struggle for self-determination.
The press conference will also support three bills in the statehouse: H.615 that defends freedom of speech, including on Palestine, in the education system; H.168 that guarantees the right to teach Palestine in public schools; and another that calls for Vermont to become an Apartheid-Free State.
The press conference will also speak out against the Shalom Alliance’s Zionist bill, H.310 that weaponizes the IHRA definition of antisemitism to criminalize solidarity with Palestine. After the press conference there will be a teach-in on the Jewish perspective on Palestine and Israel.
Before and after these events, we encourage supporters of Palestinian liberation to meet with their legislators and call on them to support the ethics investigation and our three bills as well as oppose H.310. Call in advance to arrange appointments with your legislators. If you cannot be there in person, call or email your legislators. Join us in our campaign to get Vermont to stand with Palestine.
VCPL Meeting
Come to the VCPL Meeting!
Eyewitness Report from the West Bank
Saturday, January 17, 1-3pm
Join VCPL’s meeting to hear from Carmela Ormando and Bethany Logan, who just returned from the West Bank. They’ll give an eyewitness report about the reality of Israeli genocide, settler colonialism, and ethnic cleansing today. We’ll then discuss next steps after our historic press conference for our campaign to get the Genocide 5 to resign and to push the Statehouse to pass pro-Palestine bills. We’ll also talk about our campaign for Apartheid Free Communities resolutions on Town Meeting Day as well as our BDS initiative, No Appetite for Apartheid. 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!
“Israeli Apartheid and Beyond”
Israeli Apartheid and Beyond
Presented by Hamed Bakir
Hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Group of the
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington
Friday, January 16, 7 pm
Top of Church St, Burlington
In person only, no Zoom
Watch No Other Land in Bristol
Watch No Other Land in Bristol
Jan 7, 2026, 6:30 to 9 PM
Holley Hall, 1 South St, Bristol, VT
Come watch the Oscar-winning documentary film, No Other Land, at Holley Hall on Wednesday, January 7. Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, No Other Land provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military.
Admission is FREE. Donations will be collected to offset the cost of licensing the film and benefit Masafer Yatta directly. The film will be followed by an information session about the campaign to have Bristol adopt the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge: https://afsc.org/apartheid-free-communities. Please contact BristolAFC@proton.me with any questions.
VCPL’s Press Conference: Demand the Resignation of the Genocide 5!
Watch & Share VCPL’s Press Conference:
Demand the Resignation of the Genocide 5!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUu_JAiBE8
The Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation (VCPL) hosted this press conference on Tuesday January 6, 2026, in Vermont’s Statehouse in Montpelier. We brought together speakers from Vermont’s labor and social justice movements to demand two things of our legislators. First, we demanded that they call for the immediate resignation of the 5 representatives—Will Greer, Matthew Birong, James Gregorie, Sarah Austin, and Gina Galfetti—that went on an all-expenses paid trip to Israel as it committed genocide in Gaza.
Second, we demanded that they oppose the Shalom Alliance’s bill 310 that would impose a pro-Israeli curriculum on our education system, requiring teachers to indoctrinate students in Israeli apartheid. Instead of this racist bill, we called on them to support VCPL’s three bills: one that will defend the right of educators to teach their students about Palestine; another that will defend the rights of activists, including Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists, to freedom of speech, organization, and protest; and the last that will pledge Vermont to become an Apartheid-Free State.
Please watch and share the video of the press conference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUu_JAiBE8