Monday, October 7 • 5:30pm-6pm • City Hall Park Steps, Burlington
Join us for a sit-in on Burlington’s City Hall Park steps in solidarity against the targeted racial harm that continues to happen to former Director Tyeastia Green and Black womxn throughout Vermont. As declared in 2021, racism is still a public health emergency. We need to acknowledge and take accountability for the racial reckoning that never happened. Black liberation is our collective responsibility. People are invited to join us after the City Council meeting, as we continue to sit-in and speak truth to power during public comment.
“No priority can be addressed without racial equity at its foundation.” -President Mia Shultz, NAACP Rutland
Racial equity, inclusion, and belonging are not optional—they are non-negotiable and must be at the core of every priority Burlington addresses, from housing and public safety to economic development. The city’s continued failure to deliver reparative justice for Tyeastia Green perpetuates the very inequity it claims to dismantle. Her harm extends beyond her employment with the city, with targeted attacks on her reputation that have undermined her future employment. This injustice cannot be tolerated. Burlington must confront these wrongs head-on, and racial justice must be embedded in every decision, policy, and initiative if true progress is to be made. No priority can be addressed without racial equity at its foundation.
The city’s priorities are community safety without racial equity, houselessness without racial equity, and substance use disorder without racial equity. They don’t understand that racial equity informs these topics, and is not a subset of them.
Justice for Tyeastia Green. Justice for Black Femmes. Justice for the Collective.
We invite you to get engaged and read submissions to our Open Letter Campaign in support of former Director Tyeastia Green. These letters were written to Mayor Mulvaney-Stanak and Burlington City Council. We will share more about the city’s vindictive response and how they continue their character assassination of Ms. Green.
Black liberation is our collective responsibility. Contact BlackFemmesVT[at]gmail.com for more information and opportunities to get involved.
Rutland Area Branch of the NAACP 