WHILE PATIENTLY WAITING their turn at the Monument Farms milking parlor this past Saturday, two cows gaze over at a curious visitor who they fear may ask for autographs.
Independent photo/Steve James
A PROTESTER IN Vergennes this past Sunday holds up a sign tying the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a lack of courage. Protests this past weekend in the Little City, Middlebury and Bristol joined others across the country in condemning ICE’s actions following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis.
Photo by Jim Mendell
SOMBER-FACED PROTESTERS at Triangle Park in Middlebury Saturday evening hold candles in memory of Renee Good, a Minneapolis mother who was shot and killed by a federal ICE agent on Jan. 7. About 300 showed up in Middlebury that night. Others protested in Bristol and Vergennes.
Photo by Jim Mendell
BROTHERS MIKE, LEFT, and Steve Warner take a quick snapshot then return to milking Holsteins and Jerseys at Monument Farms dairy in Weybridge this past Saturday morning. The gentlemen usher the cows into the parlor, clean their teats, attach the milking machine, troubleshoot any snafus and move the animals back to the barn. This tandem handled around 580 cows for the first milking of the day; the animals would return for a second session later on Saturday. Steve Warner said he’d been milking cows for more than six decades.
Independent photo/Steve James
ALMOST A YEAR after the Trump administration began a crackdown on civil liberties under the guise of immigration enforcement, Addison County just keeps coming out in huge numbers to protest. On Saturday in Middlebury and Bristol and Sunday in Vergennes, hundreds of Vermonters came out — many with bitingly witty but heartbreaking signs — to protest the latest outrage: an ICE agent’s shooting of a woman in Minneapolis.
Photos by Jim Mendell and Jonathan Blake