“Nobody's free until everybody's free.” -Fannie Lou Hamer

If we are to achieve justice, equity, healing, and transformation our mandate is to prioritize the needs of, and direct agency to, those most marginalized and disproportionately discriminated against as we collectively dismantle white supremacy and pursue equity for all.  It is also to recognize that the struggle for black lives is a struggle of mutual liberation - that we are all bound by these systems of oppression. 

Read Rural Vermont’s Affirmation of Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives HERE.