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From the organizers:

From racial equality to trans rights, climate justice to Palestine solidarity, we are seeing alarming attacks on our constitutionally protected rights to free speech, assembly, and protest. Now the incoming Trump regime promises to intensify these attacks by targeting “the enemy within,” including using military force against protestors. How do we defend our rights? How do we come together to ensure justice for all? Come to this teach-in and hear from students, faculty, staff, union and community members about organizing for our collective liberation. Panelists will include members of Graduate Students United, Queer Student Union, Students for Justice in Palestine, United Academics, FreeHer, and more. The panel will be accompanied with discussion and brainstorming for building community and learning together in the year ahead.

Sponsored by: Department of Sociology, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program, United Academics, Staff United, Graduate Students United Palestine Solidarity Caucus, Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series, Department of Community Development & Applied Economics, UVM United Academics Palestine Solidarity Caucus, UVM Staff United Palestine Solidarity Caucus, Queer Student Union 

From the organizers:

Election 2024: What happened? What can we expect? What next for the Left?

Join Vermont Tempest, a revolutionary socialist collective, for a discussion on the Left, our movements, and possible paths forward in Vermont and beyond in the wake of the 2024 election.

Sponsored by The Tempest Collective 

From the Essex Community Justice Center:

Learn about the proposed women's correctional facility and re-entry center. Panelists include women's program providers in South Burlington correctional facility. 

The Essex Community Justice Center serves as a neutral facilitator of these upcoming community events. The in-person forum is a chance for Essex community members to hear from the program providers who offer services inside the current women’s correctional facility. The virtual webinar is an opportunity to ask questions about the local impacts of the present facility, as well as the proposed re-entry center project. These events are being hosted separate from the Town of Essex Planning Commission meetings where zoning and siting decisions may be considered.

For more information visit: www.essexcjc.org

From the Office of Senator Welch:

Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) hosts a press conference at Primary Care Health Partners in Williston to discuss how cuts in Medicare reimbursements have impacted small and independent health care providers and businesses already struggling to provide health care in rural communities. Senator Welch highlights his bipartisan Physician Fee Stabilization Act, which updates an outdated, decades-old policy that triggers harmful cuts to provider payments. He is joined by the Vermont Medical Society and Local Primary Care Providers.