Both Vermont branches of the NAACP need support! They are dedicated to the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminating race-based discrimination in Vermont.

Steffen Gillom, founding chapter president of Windham County Chapter, shared his concerns about a racist facebook post made by Town Manager Karen Astley during the September 2 Select Board meeting. She did not respond gracefully as you can see in this video of the meeting (starting at about 1 hour).

Please call or send letters to demand that she take accountability and/or step down:

Tabitha Moore, founding chapter President of the Rutland County NAACP and State Director of the Vermont NAACP, also needs your help. Tabitha and her family are no longer safe in their home. She and her children have been targeted with threats, violent language, and racist attacks. Recently, Tabitha's neighbor physically assaulted her while also calling the police on her. Her children live in constant fear. She recently did an interview with VT Digger outlining her experience.

Tabitha is raising money to move out of her current house to find safety for her and her family. Please consider donating. You can money directly to Tabitha via Venmo (@Tabitha-Moore22) or PayPal (paypal.me/tabithamoore22) to help her with moving and closing costs.

-Richard Czaplinski, Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace (WMGMVP), Chapter 57, President

At our monthly meeting on August 15, members of WMGMVP discussed the very real potential for actions by the POTUS that could well further threaten our democracy in the run up to the elections in November and into 2021. We discussed the great importance of all Peace and Justice and related groups being in close contact during this time and being prepared for a coordinated, rapid response to actions that may be taken by the President and others.

A US president has huge powers that remain largely hidden from the general public. This power lies in his basic power to declare National Emergencies and in the largely secret documents called Presidential Emergency Action Documents ready to be issued when the president declares a National Emergency.

As one can learn from the number of National Emergencies declared by US presidents since 1976, there have been many more declarations in recent years, with the current president having already issued 31 such declarations, by far the most, in less than one term of office: Since passage of the National Emergencies Act in 1976, every U.S. President has declared multiple national emergencies, some of them over two terms:

The Peace & Justice Center staff stand in solidarity with the protest encampment outside the Burlington Police Department.

We share the demands of the protesters: Terminate officers Cory Campbell, Jason Bellavance, and Joseph Corrow. These officers have demonstrated violent tendencies, especially toward black men.1 There is no room for this in the world and there is certainly no room for it in Burlington.  

The encampment started following a protest on August 25 organized by The Black Perspective after Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times in front of his four children in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The protest is being run as a decentralized democracy that centers the voices of Black and Indigenous People of Color.  

For the past nine nights (as of September 3), dozens of people have slept and lived in Battery Park across from the police station. Deep community care and relationship–building is at the core of the encampment. They share resources, they cook for each other, and they lead programs on nonviolence and de-escalation. It is a beautiful thin. They are building a community that they want to live in -- that all humans should live in -- where those who are most marginalized are centered and accountability is taken for missteps.

All of the events listed below are happening online unless otherwise stated. This is a partial listing of event. See more in our public calendar. The PJC is not directly involved in all of these events. If you have questions about a non-PJC event, please reach out to the organization listed. 

Please email us events for our google calendar and enews.

With your help, we work for racial justice, immigration justice, anti-militarism, and fair trade. We strengthen the fabric of all our overlapping issues. By building community, we fight fascism. 

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We have volunteer needs including:

If you'd like to join our team of volunteers or to find out more details, please email our Volunteer Coordinator: volunteer@pjcvt.org