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