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US Freedom Fighters in Vermont: A Discussion of US Wars Against the People at Home and Abroad 06/04/2024

From the organizers:

The Burlington Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Ubuntu Freedom are pleased to introduce the Black Alliance for Peace to the Burlington area. Speakers discuss the connections between the violent repression of student encampments, and what's happening in Haiti, Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and the Sahel, and the historic violence and repression experienced by people of African descent in the US.

Speakers include:

  • Mama Pam Africa, who as a member of MOVE (www.ultraculture.org/blog/2013/05/06/john-africa-move-organization) witnessed the City of Philadelphia drop a bomb on MOVE headquarters in 1985 killing 11 members of her move family including 5 children. Pam has led the fight for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal for 42 years.
  • Russell Shoatz, III., son of veteran Black Panther and Black Liberation Army General Russell Maroon Shoatz who was a Political Prisoner for 50 years, spending 25 years in solitary confinement.
  • Artist YahNé Ndgo, who helped build the Black Alliance For Peace and Ubuntu Freedom, helped liberate Maroon and fights for Mumia and other political prisoners.
  • Tone, BAP Boston organizer who also fights for the release of Political Prisoners, including Mumia and Kamau Sadiki, and organizes with BLM Boston.

75 Years of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Convention on Genocide 12/09/2023

A community discussion about the Declaration of Human Rights. With peace activist Robin Lloyd, lawyer Sandy Baird, and peace and food sovereignty advocate Henry Nicholas. Henry introduces the speakers. Speakers include David Gallup, Director of World Service Authority; Wafic Faour, member of Vermonters for Justice In Palestine; and Mark Oettinger, International Human Rights Lawyer.

Sponsored by WILPF-Burlington, VICII, and Green Valley Media.

Burlington Action for Peace in Ukraine 10/02/2023

Robin Lloyd and Jill Clark-Gollub (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, or "WILPF") discuss the Peace in Ukraine Demonstration on Church Street in October 2023.

For more information: VT Peace/Anti-War Coalition via vpac.us

Report from Nicaragua with Jill Clark-Gollub 02/14/2023

From the organizer:

WILPF members Jill Clark-Gollub (translator) and Dianne Blais discuss their recent trip to Nicaragua. Moderator, Robin Lloyd.  

WILPF Conversation with Prison Reform Activists from Vermont and Beyond 08/08/2022

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom holds a special session on ending mass incarceration and the death penalty with a focus on prison reform in Vermont.

More info: wilpf.org

We the People vs. Corporate Rule: It’s Up to Us! 05/03/2019

Rights & Democracy (RAD) and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) host a community forum with guest speaker Greg Coleridge, outreach director of the Move to Amend campaign.

Talking With Our Grandmothers - World War One and the Women's peace Movement 07/24/2014

Robin Lloyd and Charlotte Dennett share history of war and the Women's Peace movement through conversations with and about their Grandmothers: Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944) and Elizabeth Redfern. More information at: www.womenstopwar.org  robinlloyd8@gmail.com

Bust of Lola Maverick Lloyd created by sculptor Charles Haag

Feminist Media Review: World Nuclear Disarmament 07/14/2008

Feminist and social activist Peggy Luhrs opens the phones to provide a critical perspective of news and government and to propose new ways to build our community.Today's guests are Robin Lloyd, WILPF and Margaret Tamalonius, WILPF.
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