 And the same knowledge that we're standing on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki people, we honor their elders, past and present, as well as future generations. The Abenaki of Lund in this region, for 12,000 years before the first white settlers came, please take a moment to consider how the many layers of colonialism have affected the Abenaki, including violence, displacement, migration and settlement as we gather here today. Let us consider how this history of colonialism and land theft relates to what we are here today to demand. We also pause to recognize their way of life and harmony with the land. We are here today to demand an immediate cease-fire in Israel and Gaza. Present a loud and loving Jewish voice that can hold tight to the safety of our people while we hold the safety of all people. Additionally, it's elected liberation and the sacredness of all life. Our responsibility in this moment is to reach out, bring in and organize other Jews, including those who may not yet share our politics, may feel confused and may have familial ties in Israel. We do this because we believe in a safe and liberated shared future. As Jews, we know what happens when people are dehumanized and expelled and we will not be silent. Never again, attention today is to gather and take a clear stand as Jewish Vermonters. We demand that our government do all it can to stop the violence. We demand an immediate cease-fire and that not one more US dollar or weapon be sent to Israel to further continue and escalate the violence. We have sent three delegations into our three congressional offices. In just a few minutes we're going to have report backs from each of those three teams to hear how that went. I just wanted to orient folks to a couple pieces. We do have a safety team. They're in yellow dress and they're sort of on the perimeter. We also have designated folks to give quotes to the press. So if someone from the press approaches you, you can direct them to... who is our fund coordinator. You can direct them to this person here, Irene, who will help organize quotes for the press. Did folks get sound sheets? Let's start and see the song. I want to start with the song. I'm going to do my best with the song. Call and response and then we're going to do part of it together. So first couple lines are call and response. Okay, so let's have some report backs from our congressional teams who went in. Is there going to be the Bernie Sanders team? Actually, I'm going to give you a second to settle. I'd like to bring up Alyssa, who is with our team. I'm speaking with Peter Welch's office. So if you could just share a little bit about what happened. What was the response? Hey everyone, thanks for being here. To someone named Brian, the staffer at the Welch office. And engaged in a series of questions. I think my crew wanted to keep engaging so they're still talking. And we did ask like how can we have more of an impact on Welch. And they said calling is really important and emailing. And they said that individually kind of drafted calls and emails are really important. Not just like the action at work campaign one. So just really encourage people to call and email and continue to call and email. And we also asked for a meeting with him. And so if that occurs, we'll definitely invite others to join. Kathy, would you like to share what happened at Bernie Sanders office? Thank you again for being here. We spoke with Bernie's staffer Katie Becker. She listened to us read our letter. We're making demands for a ceasefire for signing but not signing on. But introducing legislation similar to Cory Bush's in the Senate. And to consider stopping USA to Israel. And she said basically, you know, Bernie is on the floor constantly. She gave me a copy of what most of us might have seen yesterday. His speech about asking for a humanitarian cause. And we reiterated that is not enough. That people are dying every day. Probably by the time. You know, I said we are very happy at how Bernie has moved through the years on. He's moved his position on this. We know he needs to hear from us. What does he need right now? And she said, just keep coming to our office. Keep calling. I mean, it's all the same stuff. I don't know what the answer is, but Bernie does move. Unlike some of our other representatives who don't seem to go that far. So there we are. We'll be back again. She is going to get back to us hopefully in the next one to two weeks about a meeting with Bernie himself. So we'll see you. I'd like to welcome Debra Stolaroff to talk about what happened in Becca Ballant's office. So we did the same thing as the other groups. We read a letter. We reiterated that we want to ceasefire now. We pushed and we pushed. We kept asking over and over again, why are you not taking steps right now? Every hour. If in this moment someone is being killed and we want you to be working on this right now. As you can imagine, she's thinking about it. She's trying to do what she thinks is right. We reiterated that in fact by not doing something now besides the fact that all these people are dying, it makes us less safe for us as Jews in the world as well. And that she needs to be thinking about that. I have to say right now in this moment, I hate saying that because it's not about us right now in this moment. But we have to go to where she's at to try to move her. Similarly to the other groups, we asked what could you do and it's all about getting in touch and consistently trying to push. She's not hearing from enough of us. So if you have not written yet, if you have not called, pick up the phone and call. You need to do it tonight. Put their number in your phone? Well that's just, we also reiterated that. Right, she's done nothing, right? So, yes. So anyways, we too, we're going to have a meeting with her hopefully in the next week. I told David, who we met with, David, cheer that we will, I will call him tomorrow. And hopefully we will have an ending person meeting. So, that's it. What we're hearing from the teams that met with the congressional members is they need to hear from us more. So if you look at your chance sheet in the bottom corner, there are these two QRL codes. QR codes. QR codes. Dating myself. So you can scan these and there's people here that can help you do this if you need help. And that'll take you directly to contacting them. And that's something like if every single one of us does that today, if every single one of us does that as much as possible moving forward, it's what we're hearing from the teams right now. There are also QR codes on some of the posters. So if you're holding one with a QR code, you can share it with your neighbors. This will continue. Of course, we need to keep our pressure on and increase the pressure. There's folks with clipboards and sign-up sheets and also on the chance sheets and on the handouts that are around that give some good historical overview. The same QR codes are on there. And one of them is also to sign up to get on our mailing list so that we can contact you for future actions. I want to invite folks to sing another song with me. All my Jewish siblings speak up. Let's sing the song. Next, I'd like to invite up Liz Bloom to share with us some words. Liz is a key organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. Vermont. And also, Eilike. Good to open everyone. I'm Liz Bloom from Norwich, Vermont. And I am Eilike from Burlington. We are Jews, Vermonters, and members of the rapidly growing Vermont chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest aggressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. We're organizing a grassroots, multi-racial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and seeking peace for all. Like generations of Jewish leftists before us, we fight for collective liberation by building solidarity across communities, by creating home, safety, and belonging where we land in the diaspora. We believe that through organizing, we can and will dismantle the institutions and structures that sustain injustice and grow something new, joyful, beautiful, and life-sustaining in their place. We are not helpless to change this world, and that's why we're constantly calling for the end of Israeli occupation of Palestine and the end of the bombing of Gaza right away. We find more and more people around the world who want peace, a ceasefire, for the hostages to be freed safely, and end to USAID to Israel in humanitarian support for the people of Gaza. We watch in horror as Israel carries out ethnic cleansing, it's branding bombs, terrorizing and killing the people of Gaza. The occupied West Bank is exploding with settler and IDF violence, interfering with the funerals of those killed by Israeli forces. There is no shelter, food, water, or medicine for the people of Gaza. They are trapped in an ever diminishing space. 2.3 million people. Half of them shelter. What do Palestinians get? Separation and apartheid. Bombing and ethnic cleansing. Say it with me. Not in our name, not with our money. For 75 years, Israel has displaced Palestinians, justified massacres by the Israeli army, the destruction of Palestinian villages and farms, and the separation of Palestinian families. As Jews, our own history teaches us the dangers of being kept separate of apartheid, of supremacy and nationalism. Zionism is not our home. We reject the notion of an ethno-religious state. Thank you so much. We reject the notion of an ethno-religious state based on occupation, dispossession, and militarism. We see Israeli fascism, which places power and violence in the heart of political culture as purposefully accelerating the crisis in order to manufacture the pretext for ethnic cleansing. By fighting this state violence against the Palestinian people, we're also fighting an ideology that is spreading in our country. One that dehumanizes communities, whether they be black, trans, or queer, Muslim, Arab, immigrant, in order to gain power and establish supremacy. The Israeli military also engages in deadly exchange. Training our U.S. police in violent tactics, the sale of weapons and technology that surveil and squash to send movements right here at home. We know that the struggle for justice in Palestine is part of a global struggle against the outright violence of apartheid and the hatred and fear of supremacism. We have a long road ahead of us to end Israeli apartheid and heal its intergenerational damage. The oppression and separation of Palestine harms everyone in Israel and Palestine. We're here today asking you will you personally do whatever you can to stay in this fight for the long term, whatever way that looks like for you? Will you stay in this struggle with us for a long time? One more time, can we count on you to stay in this struggle? In Congress and to demand a ceasefire. Say it with me. Cease fire! Immediate humanitarian aid to Gaza. Immediate! And to funding Israel with our dollars. I'll say this part, but... Thank you for joining us and continuing to speak up and resist. Woo! We're going to sing another song. This one I believe was Bernice Johnson-Riggin, Sweden and the Rock, Ella's Song. Here we go. We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. So I wanted to invite up Jory Hurst to share some words. Woo! But you can't hear me. Better? Thank you. Sorry, I'm usually quite loud. I'm actually really grateful for whoever made this beautiful art around me. Hi! I'm my student child. But it's so fitting. I'm worried I'm not in quite the right route because all I'm feeling is grief about thinking about speaking in front of you today. And so I was sort of grateful to be surrounded by these two women. I mean, not grateful, but they're the right vibe. So... Okay, sorry, I'm going to hold that really close. So this is a time of, I mean, immense grief. Watching the horrors of genocide unfold before our eyes in Gaza is just breaking my art. I keep finding myself returning to some of my familiar Jewish touchstones to help me kind of stay guided. There's a poster in my classroom that reads, Whoever destroys a single life destroys the entire world. And you may know this. Whoever saves a single life saves the world entire. It's from the Talmud, which is a rabbinic teaching on the Torah. And I just recently found from a student the same line, almost exactly as Sura in the Koran. That's the same message that we're living in. Well, just a reminder of the sanctity of life. The idea of Tzadaka is deep committed to justice and Judaism, a sacred duty. It's not about charity at all. It's about knowing that people deserve to live with dignity. And that every year at Rosh Hashanah I recommit to these ideas of Tzadaka and Tshuba, this like commitment to the dignity of others. And for 75 years, we've been watching what's been happening for Palestinians. And there is so little dignity and justice in that. So that is part of why I'm here today. I think again of this line also from the Torah Tzadak Tirdof, which means justice, justice, we shall pursue, which repeats itself twice as a reminder that you cannot give up. You have to keep saying it to yourself. And that peace and justice are not the same thing. That justice is about equity and about making sure people are able to live their lives. They deserve their life to live and that their children to live. And then lastly, this idea of tukun olam repairing the world another commandment to live by a deeply held value for me and many others here. And just being here with you in this space feels like an act of tukun olam to be together. And it is all those three threats that for me it feels imperative that we declare today as the leaders of this rally have said that for me as a Jew and for all of us to call for a ceasefire to demand an end to US military and to the real no more lives lost not in our means. Not in our names. Never again. Not in our names. Not in our names. And in thinking about grief which is really where I am I think I'm finding I need a lot of stillness to access my own grief which then sort of allows me to find space for action and so I'm actually going to let us have a moment of silence. It's maybe weird to do this now but that's where I am and I'm the first person here so I just this morning looked up. I just wanted to give some numbers from this morning updated and then I just want us to hold about 30 seconds of silence And if you're near someone and you especially if you know them or even if you don't and you want to reach out and maybe be connected That would be lovely But so from the Palestinian Ministry of Health this morning there were over 7,000 reported dead They don't have exact numbers on children that it is many of them There are some reports that are estimating that at least 50 of the Israeli captives Have been killed by Israeli airstrikes We knew that there were 1300 Israelis killed on October 7th as well and the numbers are just growing in Gaza by the moment So what is the cause collectively to know and just remember the amount of grief that we're holding in for the lives lost Thank you all for being with us I want to give a big thank you to Brent and Puppet Theater that sent these beautiful matters to to frame us today Next I wanted to bring up someone who I think exemplifies dignity and in the struggle So I wanted to invite up Wafiq, Fou and Dana Dekker I'll be hugging my daughter because she's safe and that's like whole other speech, but I have to tell you that We talk about peace, but a lot of Middle Eastern communities don't even know what that word is and The fact that we could go on day to day and live our lives well Your people are dying because we have this imaginary border that we're not all humans which we are I'm going to say that Tonight Our homes and public families can just be grateful that you live in Brooklyn And say enough is enough and call those numbers and tell them to stop Aiding this war and all the other wars that you don't even know about We call, I'm a Palestinian border cuisine, not a non, my family still living both sides Of the patient border. Thank you Jewish boys for peace. Thank you for all you do us Palestinians and the Jewish community worldwide. We are in chain together We have no jobs. When we lost our identity as Palestinians and we lost our land The same enemy took from you your identity and from a Jewish pain you became labeled either connected to Israel or Zionism You have a choice here You have a choice here either You stand with us and you stand with them No, no Thank you Jewish for Peace for going to those offices of representative They are part of this imperial connection between the United States and Israel Which is the same history of colonialism expansion at the key cleansing racism and apartheid Or They are cowards I say They are both The alternative are those people in the front of us who believe injustice and believe resistance to occupation believe Resistance to apartheid and freedom of Palestinians I don't have all the evening and I'm not going to tell you What's the history of Palestine Israel, but I'm gonna tell you story. I just heard it yesterday on 30 second The history of Palestine for 75 years a 10 year old Palestinian from Gaza got injured under the rubble of his house The ambulance come to take him He hang on his backpack the helper asked him You don't need it. Don't you know where we're taking you? He said yes to the hospital. He said leave this body That bag he said Remnants of my brother inside the bag This is the history of Palestine that a victim Carrying another victim Walking with other victim and Like our children are dying Almost three thousand There is no alternative for Palestinian but one thing and If you don't support it, you're not supporting the For a freedom we have nothing but resistance For many of us from Jewish families as One could imagine Taking a stand on the right side of history can be a scary and For some dangerous thing. I know I was personally impacted many years ago When cousins of mine found out about Solidarity work that I was doing and I ended up on all kinds of Zionist magazines and lists in the Israeli government that landed me in detention in Israel and And Part of what we're trying to do here is to build our community to support each other To continue being on the right side of history And there are more of us than we think There really are and it means so much to us to know that we have the support of our community Are you know the beloved community? That stands for justice and equality And so I just want to give a few shout-outs of groups that have either come with folks here today Or have sent us messages in the past two three days that they really support us being here today. I Want to thank migrant justice the education justice coalition of Vermont for peace of freedom The Dartmouth Palestine Solidarity Coalition Dartmouth University Please continue to stand with us. I wanted to make a few announcements Because there's a lot going on and we just want to bring everyone with us so first There is a resolution that is happening here in Burlington That is asking voters in Burlington I believe to sign on supporting an apartheid free zone here in the city of Burlington This is a fabulous campaign. This is organized with the American Friends Service Committee They're doing this all over the country encouraging communities to become apartheid free zones And so folks with clipboards for that raise them up high if you have one So I see one of these folks around look around spin around if you live in Burlington sign up one of one of these Also, there are folks around with clipboards to sign up to be connected more with Jewish organizing around this Raise your head high with those clipboards. There's one there. There's another one back there And there's a third one here. So sign up here if you want to stay involved As I mentioned Couple people mentioned we're building a statewide chapter Jewish voice for peace and so if you click on that qr code You can sign up there and we're working as fast as we can to build our capacity as we go So stay tuned. We're gonna have a we'll have upcoming new member meetings orientations actions gatherings So stay tuned for that There is going to be a national rally in DC on November 4th and Here in Burlington, there is going to be a Vermont State rally So come on out to that It's going to be here in Burlington. Yeah Mal, where's now I wanted to bite Mal seagull to come up folks that I'm sure have been hearing about what happened this week at UVM With the lecture that was canceled tonight moved online So I wanted to bite Mal up as a graduate student there to read a statement that came out from students at UVM Thank you. My name is Mal. I'd like to share two excerpts I'm going to share two excerpts from two publicly available statements One is from UVM's as JP students for justice of Palestine And the other is an excerpt from the October 18th statement from the board of the Will Miller social justice lecture series UVM Administration canceled this week's Will Miller social justice series with Mohammed Elker One of the most important and influential Palestinian voices in the entire world Against the wishes of both sponsoring departments and the dean of CAS We are repulsed by UVM's decision to center this event in a blatant betrayal of their supposed commitment to openness and justice Even more outrageous than the decision itself is their reasoning their excuses hinged on safety concerns that they did not have the capacity to accommodate an obvious lie as They have more than enough resources to protect the safety of a seated guest lecture with one entrance Their true motive was revealed in one of their paragraphs Additionally our safety and security concerns extend beyond the date of the event to secondary impacts to our campus affiliates that are foreseeable Therefore the event will not be held on UVM campus UVM is directly implying that a Palestinian poet and attendees of his event are a danger to other students This rhetoric is disgusting and racist It is indefensible It sends a clear message to Palestinian students that you are seen as a threat That we do not care about your free expression and that we will make no effort to protect your safety That was from the SJP Mohammed L. Curd speaks as a poet Journalist and activist about his own and others Experiences as Palestinians living under occupation He writes for Mando Weiss and the nation and participates with many other groups and diverse individuals in a global movement for equality and justice in his poetry in his journalism and In his public intellectualism. He's an outspoken critic of Israel's policies groups as diverse as Jewish voices for peace and the American Association of University professors have affirmed that the conflation of criticism with Israel and Zionism with anti-semitism is false And we have seen no evidence of behavior or speech by Mohammed L. Curd that would warrant disinviting him from UVM The lecture series has multiple connections to the University of Vermont and we have welcomed speakers to campus With support of academic departments and groups for two decades These events have often been controversial and of course not everyone agrees with the positions represented by the speakers the sharing of ideas The willingness to hear different perspectives and engage with difficult topics are at the heart of the University's mission to expand knowledge and foster debate Mohammed L. Curd's scheduled lecture is entirely consistent with UVM's mission to give voice to diverse populations and foster a multiplicity of perspectives Preventing Mohammed L. Curd from appearing on campus sends a chilling message that Palestinians are not welcome here it contributes to the repression that is ongoing a Free speech just when we need pluralism and open exchange for the most and did not uncancellable The two groups that I mentioned here put a lot of work to organize Virtual screening of the speech will still be happening online and now in partnership with a market Will be hosted virtually this evening at 7 p.m. If you are a UVM student there will be a screening on campus at Moral Halls room 10 The young VSA is posting a screening as well with a location provided on online registration go to their Instagram For community members in the larger Burlington area for monitors for justice in Palestine I have organized a screening event of the Berlin to the friends And students for justice in Palestine The tragic way that this event has unfolded really brings home that this Is about all of us. Yeah, it is about our freedom as well and How policies can limit freedom and expression here as well. Thank you all so much for coming Thank you so much for being here today Thank you for joining our voices together And I wanted to bring up a line We're so grateful that you all could be out here today standing in solidarity with Palestine and with justice Right, which we know is what we do in public together. It's something we create together We're in the power of our relationships and our organizing and sort of wrap this up We are going to all opponents leave in a couple of minutes and mark to the top of Church Street and Chan and make our presence known merely And then we'll disband from up there and of course disbanding from here is not ending the work We need all of you in this word for the long call to talk to each other organized together Figure out what's your next step sock a care of each other and with that Tony will pass it to you I'm gonna do another call in response You say what I say Over Here From a pack she got another Having trouble with that Thank you I'm going Sam. You take like this so I can take a piece of You're good Thank you to you guys Oh, I thought you're asking if I wanted to trade hold the cameras and draw your stick I was just asking for holding so I can take All his features here That's too close You can zoom it out Can you talk a little bit about why you're here at this rally? Yeah, um, I It's my sister. We're Jewish and um As the sign says genocide is not a Jewish value. I think um I Understand the incredible like hurt and terror Jewish people our people have experienced and um In no way do I believe that justifies the massacre that's been happening and is happening very very intensely right now in Gaza So we're here to join a lot of other Jewish folks in vermont who believe deeply in the in the Liberation of Palestinian people and that we don't want genocide or massacre happening in our name or with our money awesome anyone else Covered. Yeah um, I think one other piece is uh a central part of Judaism is the idea of takuna long which means to heal the world And this is the opposite of healing genocide ethnic cleansing is not as it says that's not my Jewish value That's not my Judaism. Um, and I think the ways in which Jewish people have been conflated with the actions of the Israeli government Create a picture as if being critical of their Actions is inherently anti-Semitic and I think that that is could not be farther from the truth because as Emma said, I think Jewish people have thousands and thousands of years of like felt history of what it means to be Persecuted and that informs many of us to deeply believe in not doing that to other people and in Yeah, just supporting Palestinians ultimate rights to freedom and liberation and sovereignty Um, do you guys like here in vermont? How do you see um like community coming together around this and like sort of the spreading of Um, you know a lot of people up until a couple weeks ago didn't really know um about the occupation in Gaza so I'm wondering if you've noticed like um Coming together of the vermont Jewish community. Um, or yeah, just any observations about that kind of thing Um, yeah, I think I think worldwide we're actually seeing people convene. I've been like so moved watching videos of people Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world like in the streets like fervently sort of Articulating a stance of believing in the self-determination and freedom of palestinian people and I think that's also true here Um, I yeah as you can see vermont's a small place and I think in Crete over and over There's like a really meaningful turnout of folks who are interested both in learning more about what's happening in Israel and Gaza and Palestine um, and I'm really interested in like Using um like organizing ourselves around being having sort of being being jews who like Are just anti-zionists like we don't um having a critique of the Israel's military occupation of Palestine Having a critique of zionism and like that not being and so being like deeply deeply connected to jewish community and like our jewish ancestry Uh What are y'all asking the people of vermont to do today? Yeah, I mean specifically this valley specifically is I think like You know stop like as a harm reduction strategy right now, which is just like calling for an immediate ceasefire. So like all bombs and like all Manners of killing Palestinians need to stop immediately people are dying at like unbelievable rates right now And And that's just yeah Thousands of children. Yeah So I think that's like the most immediate action and this specifically is a sort of a call around ceasefire and I think many many of us have like a much longer term vision of Actually like the sovereignty and self-determination of Palestinian people Which means that israel would fully end in occupation of palestinian land I mean palestinians would have the right to return They'd have the ability to to govern themselves and they would like all terror would be ended. Um Yeah, people's like meaningfully would have basic human rights. Um Yeah, and I think ultimately thinking about what does it look like for jewish people in palestinian people to live Under one state with a democratic leadership majority of palestinians in my understanding support A vision in which actually palestinians and jews are able To share A democratic government, you know and jews and Muslims and christians lived in the land of palestinian for thousands and thousands of years like in community and in harmony Like that's a very very possible most of history. That's actually what happened. So the the ability to return to that I think is very possible But there needs to be the organizing and political Will among folks outside of palestine to actually help support that to happen And I think a huge piece of that is the israeli the united states government needs to stop funding The united states government gets three four billion dollars a year to the israeli occupation of palestine um, and so Obviously, I think in this vision too, the united states would like fully defund the israeli army And um a tangible step that anyone can take towards that is we met with a representative from senator welch's office earlier before the rally And he was saying that Folks would be surprised by how few calls and emails they get about things and that um, even though the senator doesn't hear the voicemails specifically or read the emails he gets reports of like the kind of constituent engagement and so For people to actually call his office bernie's office back a balance office Consistently and regularly and if everyone does that every day and gets a few friends to do it every day that That message actually gets across to our representatives and there's a resolution that's been introduced in the house To call first he's fired, but there hasn't in the senate So in the house the message is to support the resolution and in the senate the Message and request is to put one forward We heard at the rally today that The jewish voice for peace was calling for an apartheid free zone in vermont and barlington specifically. What does that mean? I don't I don't I don't actually think I'm the best person to answer the question My understanding is that it's like a sort of a structural like um city-wide commitment to Uh to like have a critique of the apartheid israel's apartheid And to like support ending apartheid and to have like a clear position against A genocide and racism that Palestinian people experience And Yeah, I don't feel like I'm the best to ask about that very specific like Organizing right now. Yeah, we were wondering like about that too and like just trying to brainstorm what that might mean And we're thinking similarly like the The defunding of the israeli occupation in vermont, so I'm not sure, but I think that's probably part of it Yeah, it's also a really intimate relationship between even like United states police but the burlington police and there's rally IDF and that like there's tons of train The there's burlington police officers that have gone to israel to get trained by the IDF that um the israeli army, so I think also Part of like defunding israeli occupation of Palestine is also like Cutting ties with that with the IDF I don't know if this is specifically a part of um Jvp's organizing around apartheid free zone here, but there also are national boycotts going on I think starbucks is a really good example I've seen videos mostly on social media of people who work at starbucks saying that they've seen like 30 40 percent fewer customers in the last like week or so And so I don't I imagine that at some level there would also be conversation around what type of business is Are we either hosting in burlington or is the burlington city government investing in that? Are helping to fund the apartheid and and the ethnic cleansing Um, I know that there are a lot of like really uh powerful Um communities and groups doing work like um jvp, and I'm wondering if are there Certain groups that you guys are going to in burlington Um to rallies or protests or just to get more information I mean, I don't have an answer Yeah, I've been following uh the organizing jvp's doing um and uh Vermont justice for monters for justice in Palestine um Jewish voices of her peace is like a kind of growing chapter right now And I think they've been taking a lot of leadership. This was organized by them. Um Yeah, I think those are the main two places I've sort of been turning um organization wise Back to you any other questions anything else you guys want to add? Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, that was awesome