Greetings! Join other Vermonters in standing up for democracy and for immigrant rights at Reject the Impeachment Cover Up protests and the No Mas Polimigra vote rally.

-Kina Thorpe, Educational Program Manager
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February 4, 2020
We are doing our annual membership phonathon next week. If you'd like to  become a member or renew your membership , now is a perfect time! Otherwise, if you haven't renewed for 2020, we'll be calling you. We love to talk to you but if you renew now you'll avoid a phone call!

If you're interested in joining us to participate in the phonathon, we still need more volunteer callers. You'll get training, meet other fantastic volunteers, be fed a great meal, and be entered into a drawing for prizes! Reply to this email for more information.

This enews, and much of the work we do, is free to you. However, there is a cost for us and building our membership will sustain our work. Join or renew today!  Membership starts at $15/year (or through volunteering). To find out  more information, click here .
Every semester the Peace & Justice Center brings on interns to be a part of our work. Our interns are a crucial part of our work, and contribute so much, both on a day-to-day basis and long term. The work interns did many years ago is still a part of the work we do today. Many of our interns stay engaged with our work after their internships end, as volunteers, members, facilitators, or staff! 

A couple weeks ago, the PJC welcomed five new fabulous interns for the spring semester. You are likely to run into them if you visit our center/store or attend any of our programming. If you see them be sure to say hello! We asked them to share a little bit about themselves so you can get to know them and follow all of the work they'll be doing throughout the semester (and beyond!).

One of our wonderful high school volunteers, Biscuit, has been putting their artistic talents to use at the PJC and helping us design new buttons! They had been volunteering for almost a year making buttons with designs we already had and when the opportunity arose to design new pro-peace, anti-war buttons, they jumped at the chance and did an amazing job. If you saw our buttons last year for Women's Day, they helped to make those too! Stop by our store (or any events we're tabling at) and pick up one (or all) of our three new anti-war buttons!
This is a partial listing. See more in our public  calendar . The PJC is not directly involved in all of these events.

Tuesday, February 4
  • 6 – 8pm 350VT node meeting 179 S Winooski Ave # 201, Burlington

Wednesday, February 5

Thursday, February 6

Saturday February 8

Sunday, February 9

Monday, February 10

Tuesday, February 11
  • 6 – 8:30pm PJC board mtg, Peace & Justice Center, Burlington

Wednesday, February 12
  • 6 – 9pm VIEW Presents: Racial Justice Community Film Showing & Dialogue, Essex High School
  • 7 – 8:30pm 350VT Local Group Meeting, Bennington
  • 7 – 8:30pm Racial Bias in Criminal Justice in VT, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier

Thursday, February 13

Saturday, February 15
  • 10am – 12pm Champlain Valley Amnesty International Monthly Meeting, Brownell Library, Essex Junction
  • 10am – 12pm Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace, Chapter 57 Monthly meeting, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier
  • 6 – 8pm Racism in the Faith Community, First Congregational Church, Burlington
  • 8:30 – 9:30pm NOFA-VT Winter Conference, UVM, Burlington

Sunday, February 16
  • 7 – 8:30pm Central VT Climate Action, Unitarian Church, Montpelier

Monday, February 17
  • 5:30 – 7:30pm Community Voices for Immigrant Rights Organizing Meeting, RAD, Burlington.


Email  us events for our  google calendar  and enews
PJC
Programs & Events


Toxic Whiteness Discussion Group Thursday, February 13, 5:30-6:30pm at the PJC. This space is held specifically for white people to process how white supremacy culture is harmful to them. The hope is that by joining this space, white people will be better able to allow for the emotional needs of people of color to take priority in multi-racial spaces. FREE

Chocolate & Modern Slavery , Thursday, February 13, 5:30-6:30pm at the Morrisville Co-op. For millions of people, chocolate production means social upheaval, violence, and human trafficking. Learn how child and adult laborers work long, grueling days with little to no pay while facing water and food insecurity, exposure to chemicals, and unsafe living and working conditions. Brainstorm ways that you can help support ethical sourcing. FREE

Community Voices for Immigrant Rights, Monday, February 17, 5:30-7:30pm, 241 N Winooski Ave. Join us as we work to amplify local organizing efforts in support of immigrant rights with an emphasis on Migrant Justice's No Mas Polimigra campaign. Free dinner from 5:30-6. Free child care available upon request, please email Women's March VT . Location is wheelchair accessible.
FREE

Free Trade vs Fair Trade February 29, 2-3pm at PJC. Learn basic information about globalization and how policies & practices have paved the way for huge companies to profit at the expense of people and the planet. Shows how the Fair Trade movement & principles seek to, at a minimum, work against these atrocities. FREE

PJC Activist Award Celebration. Thursday, March 19, 6-9pm, ECHOCelebrate the work of Wendy Coe, co-founder of the PJC, and  Vermont Coalition for Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools  at the 10th annual Ed Everts Social Justice Award Celebration. Enjoy a chili dinner, cash bar, and silent auction!
Suggested donation $25. Tickets soon available for purchase online or in the store. For more info email  rachel@pjcvt.org .


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Media Updates:
Injustice in Palestine>
Repression in Israel>
Complicity by the U.S.>
Murder in Iraq
-Mark Hage, VTJP

January 9: Palestine Chronicle
Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently ensured just that, passing a  bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in aid every year.

January 20: Mondoweiss
Israeli police arrested a delegation of foreign activists, including a member of the Finnish parliament, while the group [Gaza 2020: Breaking the Siege] were attempting to break the 13-year blockade on Gaza by cutting through the Israeli “security fence” around the territory.

The group, accompanied by Finnish MP Anna Kontula, were on their way to the border with the intention of cutting through the border fence.

“I’m participating in the action because the situation in Gaza is awful and needs the world’s attention,” Kntula said in a statement. “It’s like a prison, except that in my country prisoners are [given] more food and better health care than the children in Gaza. And, of course, they can get out some day,” she said.
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Action Alerts:
Reject the Cover Up Mobilization
Vote to End Police and ICE collaboration
Tomorrow , hundreds of thousands of Americans will mobilize to demand:

  • Accountability -- Trump and the Senators and members of Congress who voted to cover up his crimes will be held accountable by their constituents.
  • Democracy -- Now more than ever, we need to ensure a free and fair election in 2020, which means real election security reform and and end to voter suppression.
  • Reform -- Like after Watergate, we demand structural reforms to end the corruption and abuses of power that allowed Donald Trump’s criminal behavior in the first place.

A core principle shared by supporting organizations is a commitment to nonviolent, peaceful actions. All actions that are sponsored or organized on this page are intended to be nonviolent and peaceful. We expect all participants to act lawfully at all times and to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

As of now there are four protests happening in Vermont: Stowe, Hardwick, Essex Junction, and South Burlington.
Migrant Justice has been diligently working on their No mas Polimigra campaign. On February 18, the Burlington city council will vote on it, deciding whether or not close the loopholes or allow for the collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE/Border Patrol to continue. Winooski passed this policy in 2018-- it's time for Burlington to do the same. No human being is illegal!

Join us on February 18th, the day of the vote, for a rally and speakout at City Hall . Show up and make a public comment to speak directly to the Burlington City Council! This is our last chance to show up and stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors.
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