Tag: Anti-Apartheid

Apartheid-Free Palestine

Painted banner that shows five people standing side by side, each wearing a mask that features a different social cause. The masks feature the Palestinian flag, the Progress Pride flag, Land Back, Black Lives Matter, and one reads Shalom. In the sky, doves fly with a banner strung between them that reads "One Struggle".

Vermonters for Justice in Palestine have launched Apartheid Free Burlington, a campaign to oppose Israeli occupation and the human rights abuses facing the Palestinian people. Voters in the City of Burlington can sign VTJP’s petition to help put Palestinian solidarity on the ballot for Town Meeting Day in March 2024. This local effort was inspired by the nationwide Apartheid Free Communities movement started by the American Friends Service Committee.

Learn more on the campaign website:

Apartheid Free Burlington
Palestinian solidarity activists march in Montpelier, VT.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in Montpelier, VT as part of the 2023 Independence Day rally. Supporters gathered from Central VT Jews for Palestinian Liberation; Party for Socialism and Liberation; Champlain Valley Amnesty International; Education Justice Coalition; and Free Her.

To learn more about what’s happening in Palestine, check out these conversations on the political economy of health under occupation; and how Palestinian struggles relate to the Stop Cop City movement. Check out the Rethinking Palestine podcast to dive into what self-determination might look like. Or read the beautiful comics of Naji al-Ali featuring Handala, a witness to the horrors of occupation.

Political cartoon showing a seed shaped like Palestine, sprouting and taking root in dry Earth. A key decorates the sky, and Handala's foot is visible. Reads "Tending the Roots to Free Palestine" and Apartheid-Free Community.