On Town Meeting Day this year, Brattleboro, along with six other Vermont towns, will have the opportunity to vote to declare itself an Apartheid-Free Community. That pledge, which originated with a campaign by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) in 2022, reads: WE AFFIRM our commitment to freedom, justice, and …
Category: Brattleboro
This dystopian future is blowing up my phone
Or “Israel Boycotts Itself” This past Tuesday, our little town’s Selectboard voted to enact an “Acceptable Community Conduct Ordinance,” marking a definitive break from its self-declaration as a “Compassionate Community” seven years prior. Seven years to shift from humanizing people who have fallen on hard times (albeit with a very …