Rally sets bar high for U.S. presidents

An estimated 45 residents of Bristol and neighboring towns gathered at the Bristol Green on Presidents Day.

Four Addison County residents were among 11 peaceful protestors arrested for criminal trespass on Monday after refusing to leave the Department of Homeland Security office building in Willison.

As the number of recent arrests, detentions and acts of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials climbs across the country, local citizens are joining Americans across the country in growing numbers to push back.

Vermonters are expected to show up in large numbers this Saturday to take part in “No Kings Day 2.”

On Monday, Sept. 1, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., the Bristol Town Green will see a combination of families, activists and workers celebrating Labor Day.

Northeast Addison County Indivisible sponsored “Chalk the Walk” in Bristol. The group distributed sidewalk chalk and encouraged people to “express community spirit and uplift each other.”

Educators at Middlebury are organizing a walkout and protest slated for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. on the Old Chapel Quad to urge college officials to take responsibility for what they believe has been poor fiscal oversight.

A Vermonter’s photos of protests from 1960s Washington, D.C., are on view in Montpelier through November.

As a bonus to our Jan. 7 story about Middlebury College professor Kemi Fuentes-George and his upcoming J-Term class on protest music, the Independent is pleased to present the following playlist, curated by Fuentes-George, which features some of the songs … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — On April 25, 2019, Ayman Mao, a Sudanese musician living in the United States, flew back to his native city of Khartoum to participate in a sit-in outside that African nation’s army headquarters. Two weeks before, amid massive protests, the c … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Political activists, both locally and nationally, are preparing for the worst-case outcome on Election Day — an election that’s too close to call that evening and a rule-defying president who has deliberately spread doubts about the valid … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — Anger over the precipitous decline in the quality of mail delivery from the U.S. Postal Service showed itself this past Saturday when protests popped up in front of at least three local post offices. Slogans on placards and po … (read more)

BRISTOL — More than 350 people attended a peaceful vigil on the Bristol town green Tuesday afternoon to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and to mourn the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed on May 25 by a whit … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — People started gathering in College Park, the former site of the Middlebury town offices, a little before 6 p.m. on Saturday. As the numbers swelled it became obvious that pandemic or not many Vermonters were so upset that the … (read more)