Vermont Racial Justice Alliance

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The Vermont Commemoration of First African Landing Day will be August 22, 2026 at Intervale Center!

Theme: Press On

Here is the Volunteer Sign-up and Tabling request
https://forms.gle/VybhxFw3MzvB98ch8

See Governor Scott's proclamation here: https://bit.ly/4fiCviy





Intervale Center
Richard Kemp Center
Vermont Professionals of Color Network
The Root Social Justice Center The Rutland Area NAACP
City of Burlington's REIB Office Vermont Workers' Center
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington Vermont
Human Rights Commission, Vermont
Food Not Bombs Burlington
People's Kitchen
NOFA-VT
Vermont Interfaith Action
Faith in Action
Peace & Justice Center
Migrant Justice Justicia Migrante
Rural Vermont
Liberation Ecosystem
Vermont Council on Rural Development
Greater Burlington YMCA
First African Landing Vermont
Hampton History Museum
Project 1619 Inc.
400 Years of African American History Commission

Today, the Vermont House of Representatives voted to pass Proposal 4, the Equal Protection Constitutional Amendment.

This means that Vermonters will now have the opportunity to vote on whether equal protection under the law should be made explicit in the Vermont Constitution.

This is a historic moment for our state.

At a time when federal civil rights protections are weakening and equal protection doctrine continues to narrow, Vermont has chosen to move forward — not backward.

Proposal 4 would establish a clear constitutional foundation for equal protection in Vermont.

It does not create special rights.
It does not eliminate judicial review.
It does not mandate outcomes.

It provides constitutional clarity and helps ensure that equal protection under the law remains durable and enforceable for future generations.

This amendment now belongs to the people of Vermont.

And now the people must speak.

Now the people must vote.

Over the coming months, we will work to ensure Vermonters understand what Proposal 4 is, why it matters, and why this constitutional moment is so important.

History teaches us that democracy depends on equal protection being real — not symbolic.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this moment possible.

Sign on to the SHIELD VERMONT Campaign HERE:
https://forms.gle/pp79vJej2TdxiusL9

Human Rights Commission, Vermont
ACLU-Vermont
Vermont Commission on Women
Vermont Interfaith Action
The Rutland Area NAACP
Vermont Center for Independent Living
Rural Vermont
Vermont Growers Association
NOFA-VT
Disability Rights Vermont
Outright Vermont
Liberation Ecosystem

On April 29th the United States Supreme Court took the final steps in gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the most consequential civil rights law in the history of the US. Though this decision ranks amongst the the most severe blows the SCOTUS has ever made to reverse equal protection and civil rights in the United States this is not new. We will discuss what this all means to this state and this nation and how we as a community and a state must rise to meet this challenge at a time such as this.

The Rutland Area NAACP
ACLU-Vermont
The Root Social Justice Center
Disability Rights Vermont
Vermont Center for Independent Living
MadFreedom Advocates
Outright Vermont
Peace & Justice Center
350 Burlington, VT
Food Not Bombs Burlington
Vermont Workers' Center
Migrant Justice / Justicia Migrante
People's Kitchen

Human Rights Commission, Vermont
City of Burlington's REIB Office