most people assume we can't get rid of nuclear weapons but what happened with chemical weapons and landmines? People said the same about them. Share your voice. Take a simple action below.
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Thanks to all our new donors from July! We exceeded our $5,000 goal and received the full matching donation!
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PJC Educational Programs and Events
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Understanding Free Trade Agreements Presentation
Saturday, August 10, 12:00, PJC. Join a PJC Volunteer Orientation at 11:30. FREE
Tuesday, August 22, 12-1pm, PJC. Also September 26. FREE
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Book Discussion Wednesday, September 13, 7-8:30, PJC. L
ed by Emily Bernard. Supported by the VT Humanities Council. Registration coming soon.
Mindfulness for Activists
September 28, 6-
8pm. This program focuses on ways to utilize mindfulness for nonviolent social justice and peace work. Emphasis is on developing skills in deep listening, and what Gandhi called "soul force." CVU High School, Hinesburg. Register online.
For more info on these events visit the Upcoming Events page on our website or contact us at 863-2345 x6 or program@pjcvt.org
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Center Hours
Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm
Store Hours
Monday-Saturday: 10am-6pm
Sunday: 9am-4pm
Hours are subject to change. Call
802-863-2345 x2 to confirm.
Location
60 Lake Street, Suite 1C
Burlington's Waterfront.
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How to Talk With Kids about Racism: The Importance of Starting Conversations Young
by Margaux Miller, PJC Racial Justice Intern
While my parents promoted ideas of equality and anti-racism in my own liberal home, as a child, I was never really spoken to about the realities of race and racism in a meaningful way. Like so many other parents, mine allowed prevailing culture or other sources of influence to inform how my sister and I understood race relations....
Join Isaiah Hines and Jade Walker in our three-part discussion group starting tomorrow in Richmond. There's still time to register. Find
more information and sign up here
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Film: Vermont Speaks for Itself
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Vermont Speaks For Itself
is a 1973 social justice multi-media documentary project produced and distributed by the Vermont Media Project. The documentary uses extensive interviews with Vermonters and original photography to illustrate the economic and social hardships endured by Vermont's low-income and working people during that period. Additional narration presents research findings and proposes solutions for a way forward. A traditional string band sound track recorded by local performers accentuates the project.
In recent years, the progressive path of Vermont has aroused widespread attention, most notably with the national political campaigns of Vermont activist Bernie Sanders. There is great interest in why and how Vermont became the symbol of progressive politics it is today. Vermont Speaks for Itself is an important part of that story.
Vermont Speaks for Itself was originally produced as a slide-show accompanied by a separate audio track. That was the advanced state of multimedia in those years! ....
Film Screening followed by Q&A with Filmmakers
Friday, August 18, 2017, 7:00pm First Unitarian Universalist Society 152 Pearl St, Burlington, VT
FREE
For more information on the event: contact Jesse Drew at jdrew@ucdavis.edu or 415-819-2859.
This event is sponsored by the Vermont Media Project,
the California Center for Media Arts and Democracy: Stories of Solidarity, the Peace & Justice Center, and the Economic Justice Task Force of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington.
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Benefit Yoga Class for Peace & Justice Center
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This is a partial listing. See more events in our public
calendar.
August 9, Wednesday, Nagasaki Day
- 11-12 noon, Silent Vigil to Commemorate the bombing of Nagasaki, top of Church St, Burlington. Sponsored by Pax Christi Burlington.
August 10, Thursday
- 11:30am-12pm New Volunteer Orientation. PJC, Burlington.
- 12-1pm Free Trade Agreements Presentation. PJC, Burlington.
- 5:30-7:30pm WILPF meeting at PJC, Burlington.
August 12, Saturday
- 9am-4pm KidSafe Community Yard Sale. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction.
- 10am-12pm Caroline Fund Pro Se Legal Clinic. Lawline of Vermont, 274 N Winooski Ave, Burlington. Every Saturday.
- 11:30am-2pm Benefit Brunch For Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom. Waterworks, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski.
- 12-2pm Rutland Democracy Summer Town Hall. Vermont Food Center, Rutland.
- 5-6pm Champlain Area NAACP needs YOU! Champlain Area NAACP
August 13, Sunday
- Camp Uprise: teen activist camp. Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend.
- 9-11am Ohavi Zedek Gleaning Party! Intervale Center, Burlington.
- 9am-4pm KidSafe Community Yard Sale. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction.
- 1-4:00pm Pie & Ice Cream Social. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh.
August 14, Monday
- 6-8pm Vermonters for Justice in Palestine meeting at the PJC.
- 7-8:30pm Burlington Node Mtg. 350VT office, Burlington.
- 7-10pm Black Lives Matter VT Action meeting. Integrated Arts Academy, 6 Archibald St, Burlington.
August 15, Tuesday
- 5:30-8pm Volunteer drop-in at 350VT Office, Burlington.
- 7-8:30pm Champlain Area NAACP meeting. 427A Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington.
August 16, Wednesday
- 5-6:30pm Veterans Book Group: VA Women's Care Center. 215 N Main St, White River Junction.
- 6:30-8:00pm Coalition for a Livable City PJC, Burlington.
August 18-20, Friday-Sunday
August 18, Friday
August 19, Saturday
- 10am-12pm Vets for Peace. Kellogg-Hubbard library, Montpelier.
- 12-2pm St. Albans Democracy Summer Town Hall. Place TBD.
- 2-3:15pm Hatha Flow Class at Laughing River Yoga with Candace Taylor, proceeds support the PJC. 1 Mill St #126, Burlington.
August 20, Sunday
- 7-8:30pm Central VT Climate Action meets at Montpelier UU church.
August 22, Tuesday
August 23, Wednesday
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Action Highlight: Can we abolish nuclear weapons?
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On August 6 we commemorated the 72 year anniversary of the US Military attack on Hiroshima, Japan and on August 9, we will commemorate the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.
Some say it is impossible to abolish nuclear weapons, but that was also said about land mines and chemical warfare. We abolished those weapons and we can do it again but we have to do it together. The majority of governments around the world are preparing to sign the recently adopted United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Guess which government is predicted to not sign on??
Read more here about the anniversaries of these tragic bombings and click here to email your U.N. Ambassador. urging them to sign the treaty.
And one other thing related to nuclear weapons: As president of the United States, Donald Trump has supreme authority to launch a nuclear strike and literally no one can stop him. We can change that. Two members of Congress, Rep. Ted Lieu and Sen. Ed Markey, have proposed urgent legislation to prevent the U.S. president from starting a nuclear war without a declaration of war by Congress.
Sign the petition here.
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