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Stop F-35 Bomber Training During Pandemic: DSA City Councilor and Progressive Majority Win City Council Resolution
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the Burlington City Council passed a resolution calling for a halt to Vermont Air Guard F-35 bomber practice flights. Perri Freeman, Progressive Party City Councilor and Champlain Valley DSA member, introduced the resolution in response to ramped up flight training of the newly deployed F-35s from the city’s airport.
Champlain Valley DSA Forms Covid-19 Working Group
We are forming a local socialist response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are looking for people that want to get involved, even if they are not members of DSA.
Union Power and the Crisis at Hand: An Interview with Vermont AFL-CIO President Dave Van Deusen
We interviewed Dave Van Deusen, DSA member and President of the Vermont AFL-CIO, on workplace and union responses to the Covid-19 crisis. With 70 local affiliates representing 10,000 workers in Vermont, the AFL-CIO advocates for a stronger role for unions in responding to the crisis and forging a worker led Green New Deal in the future.
No One Is Illegal! Not One Left Behind! Time to Escalate the Fight for Immigrant Rights
The federal government’s hypocrisy and cruelty toward undocumented immigrants in our state and throughout the country is on full display. Amidst the pandemic, the Trump administration has continued its war on migrants, deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Custom and Border Protection (CBP) to arrest, detain, and deport them.
TCI Is Not A Climate Solution
In a recent op-ed in VTDigger, Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen argued against climate policies that hurt workers. Case in point is the proposed Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) supported by Vermont Climate Solutions Caucus. TCI is a carbon cap and trade system that depends on a regressive fuel tax that will be passed down to workers at the pump.
Black, Latinx, and Muslim Workers Under Attack
While racism and xenophobia are nothing new, it is undeniable that we have seen a dramatic increase in their expression as hate crimes. Even so, it is a mistake to attribute the lion’s share to Trump. In fact, ICE terrorism of immigrant and particularly Latinx workers was a staple of the Obama administration, which deported more immigrant workers than any other previous administration in history–including more than every other administration of the 20th Century combined.