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Anti-Occupation & Anti-Racism Activism
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BDS Organizing
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- VTJP continued to lead an international effort to end Ben & Jerry’s commercial complicity with Israel’s occupation. In April, on Free Cone Day hundreds of people sent emails to Ben & Jerry's about sales of their ice cream in illegal Jewish-only settlements in occupied Palestine.
- Our allies in Finland challenged Ben & Jerry's at the World Village Festival.
- VTJP sent letters in April and May to corporate executives at Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s parent company in the Netherlands, calling on them to put an end to their Israeli subsidiary’s business in occupied Palestine.
- A letter with supporting documentation was sent by VTJP to the United Nations Human Rights Council asking that Ben & Jerry’s name be added to its database of companies doing business in occupied Palestine.
Community Awareness
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- VTJP wrote several articles published in the Peace and Justice Center newsletter and blog.
- We collaborated again with Peter Schumann (founder of Bread & Puppet Theater) at the South Burlington Art Hop.
- We organized a six-week long Palestine and Israel Film Series in Montpelier – the room was packed!
- We supported our friends in Brattleboro when they published a full-page ad in the Burlington Free Press thanking Bernie Sanders for speaking out about Gaza.
- We worked with a national organization to document that Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is still sold in illegal settlements.
- In November 2017, we organized a series of actions under the heading "The Ghost of Lord Balfour" to recognize the 100th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and co-sponsored Steven Salaita's lecture at UVM on Palestine: Long Road to Freedom – Reflections on Resistance to Occupation & Colonialism on the Centenary of the Balfour Declaration.
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