International

Presented by Erik Esselstrom, PhD, Professor of East Asian History and Director of Asian Studies Program, UVM.

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From Mark Hughes:

In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution, the second reconstruction amendment, was created to provide citizenship, equal protection, due process, and certain privileges and immunities for the formerly enslaved. Over the past 155 years the Equal Protection Clause has faced backlash and resistance and has scarcely fulfilled its promise of equal protection to us Black folks. Now the Equal Protection Clause is being turned against us, challenging corrective and reparative economic policies designed to correct what government policies have caused. Is this Backwards Day?

It is the state's responsibility to protect us where the federal government won't. We must amend the constitution to make it so. Let's run a sanity check on this with a legal perspective. Peter, where you at?

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, chats with Peter Teachout, a Professor of Law, Constitutional Law, at Vermont Law School.

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Presented by Linda L. Fowler, PhD, Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair, Emerita, Dartmouth College.

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From the organizers:

Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. It has killed over 23,000 people, obliterated entire cities, driven 2 million Palestinians from their homes, and blocked humanitarian aid, precipitating mass hunger and disease. Now more than ever, we must unite to stop Israel’s war and stand with Palestinians in the struggle for liberation from Israeli occupation, siege, and apartheid.

Demands:

• Ceasefire now
• Stop Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
• Provide unrestricted humanitarian aid to all Palestinians
• Free all Palestinian prisoners and hostages
• Defend the civil rights of Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists
• Stop all U.S. aid to Israel
• Enforce boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel
• End Israel’s siege, occupation, and apartheid system
• Support Palestinians’ right to self-determination, right to return, and equal rights

Sponsor: Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation

Endorsing Organizations (list in formation): Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace VT/NH, Champlain Democratic Socialists of America, Cooperation Vermont, Education Justice Coalition VT, Free Her VT, Migrant Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Tempest Collective, Upper Valley for Palestine, Vermont Peace/Antiwar Coalition