The recent story about a church returning a camp to the Abenaki lands directly on top of one of the more bitter and unresolved disputes in contemporary Native American politics: whether the people receiving that land — Vermont’s four state-recognized Abenaki tribes — are who they say they are
“I am very excited to see women’s rights take the forefront in this new fight for legislation. I am a woman, a mother to daughters, a feminist, and an American. I have watched women’s rights get destroyed for far too long,” Nicole Cota of Moms for Liberty said.
In any given year, roughly 1 in every 430 Black Vermonters is directly targeted in a bias-motivated crime. In a small, close-knit community, that’s not a distant statistic — it’s a neighbor, a coworker, a family member.
The death of a 13-year-old student has prompted an outpouring of grief in Barre, along with broader community conversations about youth mental health, bullying prevention, and support for LGBTQ+ young people.
The SPLC had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The couple objected to participating in certain aspects of the training, citing their personal beliefs. Their license was subsequently revoked, prompting legal action.
Lenz passionately explained that antisemitism in Vermont is ongoing and blatant.
In these chaotic times, it is a good idea to reach out for and hold fast to whatever helps us to remember what it means to be fully human. You don’t have to be a Christian, or an activist, to appreciate Strength to Love. You just have to be human and want to be the best human you can be.
Behind Vermont’s DEI debate
Shouldn’t the qualifications for a referee be based on merit and his or her ability to do the job with skill, excellence, and integrity, instead of an artificially imposed quota of arbitrary external characteristics?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of 17 other Democratic attorneys general are urging the U.S. Department of Education to withdraw a proposed expansion of federal data collection on college admissions, arguing it would violate student privacy and distort civil rights law.
I’m very grateful for Jarrod Vaillaincourt’s excellent commentary in the Dec 10th issue of the Vermont Daily Chronicle. He exposes efforts by elementary school staff to market a new school-sanctioned “sexuality” club – to elementary school students! Although such conduct by public school educators is beyond revolting, it’s unfortunately not surprising.
What the research actually says
None of this means most people who identify as transgender pose a violent threat, nor that activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign are intentionally inspiring people to commit violence. However, the violent trend raises serious questions about the unintended consequences of transgender activists’ rhetoric.
Much progress has been achieved over the past six decades in addressing discrimination, but as a nation, we cannot say it is behind us.
Vermont educators were teaching the historical record—while their union’s national leadership was busy diluting it.
Over the past decade, we’ve grown ever more concerned about dubious strains of social-justice advocacy infiltrating medicine. Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, doctors’ pursuit of social reform coalesced, almost overnight, into a mission.
Across campuses and corporations, DEI is retreating into rebranded titles and euphemistic jargon, but its ideology remains intact.
Reflecting on the ongoing enslavement of Black Africans in Mauritania while the nation celebrates Juneteenth.
The canary died on October 7. Are you listening now?
DEI, CRT, and anti-Semitism must go!
Vermont is the only state in New England without any Holocaust education standards, despite bills being introduced seeking this change since 2017. By equipping Vermont’s educational institutions to confront this hatred directly, H.310 not only offers protection but also affirms the dignity and identity of Jewish Vermonters.
Shalomyah Bowers, a leading administrator with BLM Global Network Foundation, was sued by the organization for “siphoning millions “from the group into his own “personal piggy bank.”
The public battle over the name “Massapequa Chiefs”
Incl. is a clip from a Zoom meeting where Vermont educators are encouraged to hire based on race and gender, rather than merit.
They also claim that the Administration is misinterpreting Title VI, which is U.S. law stating that no one should ever be judged or treated differently in any way for a job or service based on factors such as skin color, race, and so forth.
About 50 teachers recently convened to participate in the Sixth Annual Vermont Holocaust Memorial (VTHM) Educators Workshop in Montpelier.
Protesters described the event as anti-trans and the speakers as unqualified.
DEI is inculcated into the lives of our EWSD students day in and day out, but show little to no academic benefits.
Communism and DEI are identical in philosophy and execution.
If the books in question remain in the curriculum, it will be a violation of ACSD’s policies by excluding religious and traditional Western points-of-view
Vermont state policies and White House executive orders present potential showdowns concerning social justice, climate policies, and more.
AGs from California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island also co-signed the sternly-worded letter.
Birthright Citizenship hurts the nation: A constitutional examination of what makes an American.
Program specifically to assist “Black and Brown communities in Burlington by putting resources directly into the hands of BIPOC people” and those serving them.
Legislation designed to rescue American students from the ideology of far-left academia.
The Commission was set up in 1987 to advocate for various human rights protections such as providing representation for renters while in court for housing disputes.
The issue of using government to allocate pollution – like calls to reallocate wealth for past harms based on race – is an example of elevating “equity” above “equality.” Critical race “theorists” posit that “the only cure for past discrimination is future discrimination.”
The organization sees police as inherently corrupt and seeks to remove police from schools.
In the past, the State of Vermont set a precedent to allow prioritized healthcare by race. It remains to be seen if this may be the case again.
“Old time religion” practitioners are now the odd souls in the Green Mountain State’s nouveau humanist-pagan zeitgeist. Social vengeance replaced divine mercy.
State Supreme Court says harassment – even without racial undertones – occurred with “fried chicken” comments.
According to the Racial Equity Office’s state website, the last public meeting it held took place July 26, 2023. Since then: NOTHING.
The trans-justice case against Trump.
The land trust has a program to help people of color make a down payment on their house.
Scientific inquiry jeopardized by ideological taint
If someone chose not to hire a person due to their hairstyle, it could be construed as an act of racism.
Vermont is a culture of individualism, not government dependency; farming, not commuting; free speech, not stifling autocracy; of seeing all people as equal.
How Dean betrayed our first inhabitants, and the Republican who fought for them.
A backfired effort to cancel John Mead.
Here’s the rub – no advocate for Proposal 4 has actually furthered a need for the legislative change aside from a feel-good virtue-signal.
The U.S. Ambassador to the UN won’t be speaking at UVM. But pro-Palestine demonstrators who’ve been demanding her disinvitation will face the music for UVM policy violations.
“Natural disasters don’t discriminate. Neither should USDA.”
The antisemitic, pro-Hamas movement looks a lot like the KKK of the 1920s.
Vermont’s Prop 4 represents a failed opportunity to truly move the needle in advancing justice and liberty for all.
The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is the result of racial discrimination
Christian school banned from competitions; Fired snowboard coach wins lawsuit; WCAX takes down report
It calls students to organize “civil resistance” and “establish and maintain a Racial Justice Student Alliance,” in the “Racial Justice: PBL Challenge” class.
A critical look at the new bondage promoted by Critical Race Theory.
The bill requires board applicants have “a record and reputation for excellent character and integrity,” off-putting language for someone not from a traditional Vermont background, an equity official says.
If it’s hateful to warn a tiny Vermont town to take a closer look at the source of its sudden social problems and rising incompetence at the local government level then I plead guilty.
From first in the nation to best in class
All social theories sooner or later are shown to be flawed. This is because no theory, no matter how brilliant, can capture all of reality.
Milton High is not the only school debating whether to bring down its BLM flag, members of the Champlain Valley School District School Board are considering taking theirs down as well.
The post gained a lot of attention from parents, players, and community members in Northfield and Milton.
A bill introduced Jan. 10 deprioritizes the majority of Vermonters for proposed flood recovery assistance.
A coalition of 36 parent organizations, including SPEAKVT, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona expressing concerns with anti-semitism in K-12 schools.
Who gets first dibs on this money will at least in part be determined by your race. Certain covered populations have been at an economic disadvantage compared to others, thus justifying the policy.
“The main thing that the critical social justice types want to get you to do is to buy into what they want you to believe and to not question it,” Dr. Kindsvatter told the crowd.
The Essex-Westford School District defines equity as “Distributing resources, power and decision making to marginalized groups or individuals in order to redress marginalization.”
