VPAC/VCPL PressConference and Reading the Names of Gaza Infant Casualties
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Film by Jerome Lipani, Ad Hoc Films
This film documents the October 15, 2025 Vermont Peace/Anti-war Coalition (VPAC) and Vermont Coaltion for Palestinian Liberation (VCPL) Press Conference outside of Bernie Sanders' Burlington VT office, to address our political & economic complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Elbit Systems and General Dynamics, located in Williston VT supply lethal weapons and surveillance equipment to Israel that enable genocide, despite international high-level condemnation. The focus of this Action is the transformation of the US war economy into a Peace Economy, first of all in Vermont.
Go to novermontbombs.org for more information. Here's a brief introduction:
'THE BOMBS ARE MADE HERE: There are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons being made in Vermont, from Elbit Systems, to Collins Aerospace, to General Dynamics, and many others. In fact, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems has a $191 million contract to make weapons right here in Vermont. Many of these weapons systems are actively in use in the Israeli arsenal, from Elbit’s “Iron Fist” system, to General Dynamics’ MK-82 missile.
We need to figure out which weapons are being shipped from Vermont to Israel’s genocide. And then we need to pass legislation to ban these companies from Vermont until they stop doing business with Israel––or until the Apartheid system, illegal settlements and displacements, and the military occupation of Palestine all come to an end." The Press Conference is followed by the reading of the names of Gaza Infant casualties of the genocide.
You can find your favorite speaker here:
00. : Introduction by Duncan Nichols, VPAC
6:40 : Katy Van Haste, Senator Sanders' representative
11.00 : Robin Lloyd, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
15:00 Sally Lincoln, educator
20.55 : Crystal Zevon, CodePink, VPAC
24.00 Henry Nichols, VPAC, VCPL
32.00 Wafic Faour, Co-founder Vermonters of Justice in Palestine, on the "Ceasefire"
35.00 Duncan and questions from the Press and others
52:00 Reading of the Names of Gaza Infant Casualties
102.00 Sally Lincoln 106.00 High School teacher Jordana Churchill - "What does it mean"?
112.00 Wafic, Henry, Jordana reading names of Palestinian children murdered.
