Apartheid-Free Community Volunteer and Training
Help build the Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) movement! Sign up for information sessions here. Our next training is Monday, August 4th at 7 p.m.
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. 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 increasingly use Zionism to draining resources from our communities to fund war and ethnic cleansing.
See below for a list of priority towns where we are aiming to expand existing local committees or launch new ones. We can add new towns to the list as well.
We will be organizing information and training sessions on running AFC campaigns in the coming months. We will connect organizers with one another in different parts of the state.
You can sign up on this form to participate in information sessions, have someone follow up with you, and to register for our next session on Monday, August 4th at 7 p.m.
In Solidarity,
The Apartheid-Free Community Working Group, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation - apartheidfree@vermontcpl.org