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The University of Vermont (UVM) has canceled United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement speech amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus as protests sweep colleges across the nation. “We are looking forward to the upcoming Commencement ceremonies and the opportunity to celebrate our 2024 UVM graduates,” Suresh Garimella, the university’s president, said in a message to the… […]
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University of Vermont cancels UN ambassador’s address amid Gaza protests
May 4th, 2024 
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No Comments »Fire at Sanders’ Vermont office investigated as arson after string of vandalism incidents targeting lawmakers
April 7th, 2024 Awake Goy Investigators are treating a fire in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office Friday night as arson, according to local authorities. In an updated press release Saturday afternoon, the Burlington Fire Department announced that it had “deemed this fire incendiary in nature” and said the investigation has been transferred to the Vermont State Police. State police said […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, arson, investigated, office, sanders, string, Vermont No Comments »Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear.
April 7th, 2024 Awake Goy Police in Vermont are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire Friday outside the office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze caused minor damages but no injuries. Authorities say an unknown male suspect sprayed what they described as a possible accelerant on the office door, set it on fire and fled. They […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: arson, bernie, caught, office, sanders, suspected, Vermont No Comments »Progressive Vermont Rep. Becca Balint visited Israel on AIPAC trip
August 26th, 2023 Awake Goy Why did progressive Rep. Becca Balint go to Israel on a trip sponsored by AIPAC? “I was on this trip with people who absolutely disagree with me,” she says. And left the trip off social media. Still! Source Views: 0
Burlington, Vermont Seeks to Give Voting Rights to DACA Illegal Aliens
March 10th, 2023 Awake Goy Burlington, Vermont voters are seeking to extend local voting rights to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as well as foreign nationals with green cards and newly-arrived migrants with work permits. Source Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: aliens, burlington, illegal, rights, seeks, Vermont, voting No Comments »Vermont Girls Basketball Team Forfeits State Tournament Game Due To Trans Player On Opposing Team
February 28th, 2023 Awake Goy A Christian girl’s basketball team in Vermont recently withdrew from Vermont’s division IV basketball tournament due to a transgender (biological male) being on the opposing team. Mid Vermont Christian School forfeited their upcoming Division IV state tournament game due to the opposing team having a biological male on the girl’s team. MVCS head of school […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: basketball, forfeits, girls, state, tournament, trans, Vermont No Comments »Burlington, Vermont, reeling from highest number of murders in decades after defunding police
December 13th, 2022 Awake Goy (FOX News) — Homicides are skyrocketing in Vermont this year to levels not seen in decades in a state that is often considered one of America’s safest places. For the state’s largest city, Burlington, the bloody increases come after its police department was defunded and then ultimately refunded after concerns from the community. “We are not used […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: burlington, decades, highest, murders, number, reeling, Vermont No Comments »Vermont Episcopalians condemn Israeli apartheid, setting up a national showdown
November 5th, 2021 Awake Goy The Episcopal Church of Vermont stood up loudly against Israel’s U.S.-backed oppression of the Palestinians, Nov. 4, as its annual convention, condemning by an 89-25 majority what it said are the Jewish State’s apartheid policies. The action added to a barrage of condemnations of Israel’s apartheid regime since January by human rights groups and leaders […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: apartheid, condemn, episcopalians, israeli, national, setting, Vermont No Comments »BDS Resolution Blocked in Vermont
September 17th, 2021 Awake Goy A Battle in Burlington Let’s start in Vermont, the small state that’s dominated much of our U.S. coverage for the past couple months. Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (VTJP) is the organization that kicked off the campaign targeting Ben & Jerry’s over a decade ago, but that’s certainly not the only issue they organize around. […]
Vermont BDS resolution gets sent back to committee after pro-Israel backlash
September 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Burlington, Vermont’s city council was scheduled to vote on a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) this week, but the sponsor sent the measure back to committee after backlash from pro-Israel groups. Burlington City Council member Ali Dieng had introduced the resolution in response a campaign waged by Vermonters for Justice in Palestine […]
‘It shows that BDS works’: Wafic Faour on how a group of Vermont activists got Ben & Jerry’s to move
July 24th, 2021 Awake Goy This week Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling its ice cream in illegal Israeli settlements. The move has been cheered by Palestine activists and condemned by Israeli lawmakers. Wafic Faour is member of Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (VTJP), the group that has led a campaign targeting Ben & Jerry’s for over […]
Vermont Republican Governor Seeks to Give Non-Citizens Voting Rights in Local Elections
June 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) is asking state lawmakers to pass an elections law that would allow non-citizens across the state to vote in local municipality elections. Scott vetoed two pieces of legislation that sought to give non-citizens the right to vote in local elections in Montpelier and Winooski, Vermont. However, he said he is not opposed […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: citizens, Governor, Republican, rights, seeks, Vermont, voting No Comments »Why Is The AFL-CIO So Worried About Its Vermont Affiliate?
April 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Mattpopovich – CC BY 4.0. For as long as Richard Trumka has been a national AFL-CIO leader—more than a quarter of a century—his labor federation has been encouraging its local affiliates to revitalize themselves to help reverse union decline. Now nearing retirement as AFL-CIO president, Trumka was part of a “New Voice” slate that […]
Republican Vermont Governor Demands President Donald Trump’s Resignation
January 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, demanded President Donald Trump resign “or be removed” after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. After violence and destruction broke out while the Congress was meeting to review and accept Electoral College votes, Scott blamed Trump for the melee and called it “an attack on our democracy.” “Make […]
Posted in electoral college Tags: demands, donald, Governor, president, Republican, Trump, Vermont No Comments »Migrant Justice in Vermont refuses to ‘sanitize’ oppression in Palestine
December 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy Migrant Justice (Justicia Migrante) is a Vermont-based organization dedicated, in its words, “to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights.” In early December, the organization demonstrated again its unwavering solidarity with their oppressed brothers and sisters in Palestine. It categorically […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: justice, migrant, oppression, Palestine, refuses, sanitize, Vermont No Comments »High-school student attempts to preserve Vermont’s oldest Jewish cemetery
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy The autumn leaves crunched underfoot as Netanel Crispe walked uphill toward the northwest corner of the small cemetery. He stopped and examined a toppled headstone.“The last time I was here this was standing up,” he said, regarding the weathered, gray stone. “At least it hasn’t broken.”Crispe brushed away the leaves to reveal a carving at […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: attempts, Jewish, oldest, preserve, school, student, Vermont No Comments »George Pearsons Says Vermont’s COVID-19 Restrictions Sound ‘Like Nazism’
December 1st, 2020 Awake Goy ALL donations 3X-MATCHED by 12/31 to save our democracy! Every day, the reporters and researchers of Right Wing Watch expose the hateful words and deeds of right-wing leaders and the far-right players who fueled Trump’s rise to power and aim to keep him there. Our work is read daily and used by major media outlets, […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: covid, george, Nazism, pearsons, restrictions, sound, Vermont No Comments »Public works truck gets stuck in sinkhole in Burlington, Vermont
May 4th, 2018 Awake Goy You know the roads are bad in Burlington when this happens. A resident snapped this shot of a Department of Public Works truck stuck in a big hole! It happened Tuesday at Kilburn and St. Paul streets. The resident posted it to the online forum Reddit and the department responded, blaming aging infrastructure for […]
Vermont uses first major gun control laws to stop suspected school shooting plotter from getting a gun
April 16th, 2018 Awake Goy RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A day after Vermont’s governor signed a package of gun control measures , one of the new laws was used to keep a school shooting plot suspect from possessing dangerous weapons. A superior court judge signed an extreme risk protection order Thursday saying Jack Sawyer, 18, poses an extreme risk […]
Posted in World News Tags: control, first, Major, school, shooting, suspected, Vermont No Comments »Democrats And Progressives Push US War Machine In Vermont
February 4th, 2018 Awake Goy Democrats And Progressives Push US War Machine In Vermont By William Boardman, Readersupportednews.org February 3, 2018 Above Photo: F-35 fighter jet. (photo: U.S. Air Force) Donald Trump loves the F-35 and so does Burlington City Council – that is the real state of the union his is a story primarily about corrupt practices by the Burlington City Council, […]
