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No Lease Extension for VTANG! Ground the F-35 Now! Rally and Demonstration 10/23/2023

From the organizer:

This rally is in opposition to the 25-year extension of the lease of 280 acres at the airport for the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG). The existing lease expires in 2048. The mayor is asking the city council to ratify the agreement to extend that lease to 2073.

Fight for our children, our mental health, our physical health, our planet, affordable housing, and peace and justice. Fight against deafening noise pollution, genocide and war, corrupt politicians, carbon pollution, air pollution, and forever chemicals.

Emergency Rally for Gaza: Stop The Genocide Now 10/18/2023

From the organizers:

Now is the time to take action to stop this war, end the siege, provide humanitarian aid to desperate people, and stop the US government from continuing to support, fund, and arm this genocide.

UVMMC Union Demonstration 07/29/2023

From the organizer:

Management's response to our union's proposal for livable wages is unacceptable. Join us in calling on the leadership of UVMMC and the UVM Health Network to take action for Support Staff and Techs, and to take care of us so that we can take care of our patients and community.

Nadando Contra la Corriente con Justicia Migrante: Migrant Justice - Milk with Dignity Farmworkers and Faith Leaders Picket Hannaford Supermarkets 07/28/2023

From Migrant Justice:

Dairy workers and faith leaders from around the country picket in front of a Hannaford supermarket to denounce human rights abuses in the company’s dairy supply chain and to call on the grocery chain to join the Milk with Dignity program.

Milk with Dignity implements a farmworker-authored Code of Conduct setting standards for labor and housing conditions on dairy farms. Participating companies require dairy suppliers to enroll in the Program and pay a premium to cover raises and improvements. Workers are educated on their rights in the Program, and standards are enforced by an independent monitor.

For more info: migrantjustice.net/milk-with-dignity-campaign

Wake Up, Step Up! Climate Rally 07/24/2023

From the organizer:

This is the climate crisis in real time. Join us for the Burlington City Council meeting at Burlington City Hall to demand Mayor Weinberger and the City Council take immediate climate action!

Party at the Plant! A Climate Rally at McNeil 07/22/2023

From the organizer:

Join us to demand that the city of Burlington shut down the super-polluting McNeil biomass power plant. 

McNeil burns trees to generate electricity, accelerating the climate crisis and spewing harmful air pollution into our neughborhoods and our lungs. 

Sponsored by Stop Vermont Biomass, Standing Trees, Extinction Rebellion Vermont, and Upper Valley Affinity Group.

Mad Pride Rally 2023 07/15/2023

From the organizer:

The annual Mad Pride March and Celebration that celebrates psychiatric survivors, consumers, neurodivergent folks, mad people, and folks the world has labeled "mentally ill" kicked off Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Burlington.

Marchers walk down Church Street, through the Church Street Marketplace, to Pearl Street and into Battery Park.

Vermont Mad Pride is organized by volunteers committed to creating a kinder world for folks who experience trauma, and/or mental and emotional distress.

For more information, https://madfreedom.org/madpride/.

Stop Cop City Rally & Press Conference 03/09/2023

From the organizer:

FreeHer VT | Cooperation Vermont | Peoples Network for Land and Liberation | Food Not Cops | People’s Kitchen

In response to the National Call to Action from the Stop Cop City Coalition in Atlanta, GA, activists in Vermont rally and hold a press conference in solidarity, directed at Cox Enterprises to immediately divest from Cop City and cease their fundraising activities.

The City of Atlanta has leased 381 acres of Weelaunee Forest (the last substantial green space in the Atlanta area) to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a militarized police training facility funded by corporations. At the price of 90 million dollars, it includes a mock city to practice urban warfare, tear gas and explosives testing, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. Supported by the Atlanta Committee for Progress, which is composed of over 40 corporate elites including the CEOs of Coca-Cola, Home Depot and Cox, its aim is to further the surveillance of the population, stifling decent, and gentrification of the city.

Jim (Fergie) Cox Chambers, Jr. speaks out on March 9th in Burlington against his family company’s (Cox Enterprises) direct involvement in the private fundraising efforts for Cop City.

Cox Enterprises owns Dealer.Com in Burlington

https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/

Mad Pride Rally 2022 07/16/2022

Vermonters gather to show support for neurodivergent community members.

Bread Not Bombs - Support for Peace in Ukraine 05/07/2022

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Code Pink invite Peter Schumann, director of the Bread and Puppet Theater, of Glover VT, to hand out his sourdough rye bread as part of an event in support of Bread not Bombs on Saturday, May 7th.

This is part of a nation wide movement - PeaceInUkraine - which calls for a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement in Ukraine.

Peter was born in Silesia, a region of Central Europe, now mainly in Poland. His recently deceased wife, Elka Schumann, has family in Russia.

Out of family concern, and also as a long time bread maker and peace activist, Schumann is deeply distressed with the war in Ukraine, its impact on the people, the climate, the world and bread making.

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