On a warm July day, Greisy Mejia and her two young children entered the Department of Homeland Security’s St. Albans field office. She was told to expect a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a routine check-in to confirm custody of her children and possibly get her ankle monitor removed. Instead, she and her children were immediately detained and, the next day, deported to Honduras.

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Almost a hundred gathered at a vigil in front of Burlington City Hall late afternoon on Friday, November 25th to commemorate the lives lost in Israel’s wave of military and settler violence brought on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Speakers and attendees called for a true ceasefire, not a humanitarian pause, as the first step to ending decades of bloodshed and apartheid.

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A dozen protesters have disrupted a fundraising event for Vermont U.S. Representative Becca Balint in Burlington. The action, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace of Vermont and New Hampshire, is part of an international day of action calling for a ceasefire to end the bombing, siege, and invasion of Gaza by Israeli forces.

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