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