Monday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.

Build VT’s Apartheid-Free Communities Movement! - Online Information and Strategy Training

Register here: https://forms.gle/5hmWNXVp6QHethns6

Our movement to end Israeli apartheid and occupation is at a critical juncture. Words cannot begin to capture the cruelty that genocidal Israel continues to inflict upon Gazans, which somehow manages to reach horrifying new depths with each passing day. This is the case even amidst the so-called cease-fire, which promised to bring welcome relief to Palestinians who have been continuously bombed for 2 years. The basic injustices of apartheid and colonization, the drivers of the genocide, remain in place.   

Fortunately, the winds of change are growing stronger. More than ever before, citizens and governments worldwide are recognizing, condemning, and acting to stop the crimes of apartheid and genocide committed by Israel. Here is what you can do for Palestine now: Help build the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) movement! Sign up for on-line information sessions here.

We made history earlier this year with 5 towns in Vermont voting to break ties with Israeli apartheid and genocide. Thetford was the first in the nation to vote to adopt the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) pledge. We will bring the AFC pledge to dozens more towns next Town Meeting Day. There are already 20 towns organizing. We will be joining with towns in Massachusetts, and with the international Apartheid-free community network of hundreds of communities and organizations. 

Our goal is to build our network of Apartheid-Free Communities across the state and the region. As we make Vermont apartheid-free, we change the narrative on Palestine, demonstrate that Palestine is a local issue, and build the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to undermine U.S. and international support for Israeli apartheid and genocide. 

We need you, organizers and leaders, to help build local AFC campaigns. We do this both for Palestine, and for us, because Palestine is a key local and national question for our free speech, legal rights, public services, and futures. Pro-Israel, authoritarian nationalist forces in the U.S. use support for Israel while demonizing all resistance to injustice as terrorism to suppress our democratic rights and drain resources from our communities to fund war and ethnic cleansing. Register for our training on October 20 and help make Vermont apartheid free!