Our Plan
A comprehensive strategy for the May 8th action and our campaign to demand accountability from ICE and CBP.
In preparation for the demonstration sit-in:
- We will prepare a pamphlet describing the planned event and list of demands.
- Prepare a detailed letter to the local ICE and CBP office with list of demands, along with a request to meet and have a dialogue with ICE leadership.
- Engage with media throughout the process, including sharing copies of the letter sent to ICE, efforts to meet directly with ICE leadership, and immediately prior to the May 8th action.
- Engage with local activists and groups throughout Vermont to participate in the action.
- Organize a series of nonviolent direct action trainings throughout the state.
- Reach out to local police about specifics of the May 8th event.
- Organize and train individuals to serve as Peacekeepers.
- Form legal team.
Timeline
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January – coalition building and form coordinating group, prepare public statement/brochure
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February – initiate outreach efforts to engage local groups and organizations
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March/April – initiate public outreach and media campaign; hold nonviolent direct action trainings; send letter to ICE leadership
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April – meet with ICE leadership
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May 8 – hold demonstration and sit-in.
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May – follow-up, debrief with planning committee, plan future activities
Our Partners
Organizations Signed on to Demonstration and Sit-in – May 8th
- Burlington Friends Meeting
- Central VT Affinity Group
- Chittenden Third Act
- Code Pink Vermont
- Congregational Church of Westminster West
- Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, Rt. Rev. Shannon MacVean-Brown, Bishop
- Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, Racial Healing and Justice Committee
- Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, Task Force on Sanctuary and Refuge for Vulnerable Populations
- First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington
- Franklin County Women for Democracy
- Hanover Friends Meeting
- Hardwick Indivisible
- Green Mountain Alliance Indivisible
- Indivisible Champlain islands
- Indivisible Grafton
- Indivisible Greater Falls
- Indivisible Middlebury
- Justice for All
- L'Chaim Collective
- Middlebury Friends Meeting
- Migrant Support Team of Indivisible Greater Falls
- Milton-Westford-Georgia Indivisible
- Montpelier Insight Meditation
- Newbury Third Act
- Northeast Kingdom Indivisible
- Putney Friends Meeting
- Queen City Vermont Indivisible
- Rail City Indivisible
- Resister Sisters
- Rutland County Indivisible
- St. Johnsbury Indivisible/Brave Little State Alliance
- Three Rivers Indivisible
- Third Act Chittenden
- Third Act Franklin County
- Third Act Windsor/Windham Counties
- Third Act Vermont
- United Church of Christ, Rev. Lynn Bujnak, Conference Minister
- United Church of Christ, Vermont Conference Board of Directors
- Upper Valley Affinity Group
- Upper Valley Resistance Group
- Upper Valley Rise Up
- Vermont Interfaith Action
- 198 Methods