Axinn Center gets Migrant Justice grant

A three-year, $1.48 million grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative has been awarded to Middlebury College’s Axinn Center for the Humanities to support work to examine local and global issues related to migration. 

Migrant Justice’s Milk With Dignity campaign rallies on

Migrant Justice is a farmworker-led organization leading the charge in advocating for dignified living and working conditions for immigrant farmworkers.

Addison man charged with hate crime, targeted Migrant Justice

ADDISON — An Addison man has been charged with a hate crime, stemming from allegations he deflated the tires of a vehicle belonging to an employee of the organization Migrant Justice and left a voicemail at that nonprofit asking its representatives to sta … (read more)

Police investigate possible hate crime in Bridport

BRIDPORT — An activist group alleges that a group of people recently surrounded farmworkers’ homes in Bridport, shouting insults and firing guns. The group Migrant Justice has called on police to investigate, which they are doing. Following publication of … (read more)

Bristol paradegoers cheer for migrant justice

BRISTOL — Dozens of people organized under the banner of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) marched in the Bristol Fourth of July Parade on Thursday, to protest both U.S.-run concentration camps on the southern border, and the increasing presence of Imm … (read more)

More protests of U.S. detention policies planned

VERMONT — After the group Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) raised the flag of protest against current U.S. immigration policies, more protests in the Green Mountain State are planned. Lights for Liberty, a loose coalition of grassroots activists from … (read more)