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Early Deadlines<br />

January 3, 2018 Issue<br />

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Wednesday, Dec. 27 at 5:00 PM<br />

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Friday, Dec. 29 at 10:00 AM<br />

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& MONDAY, JANUARY 1<br />

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Vermont’s Fair & Impartial Policing<br />

Policy Needs to Uphold the Values<br />

and Laws that Protect ALL People<br />

Dear Editor,<br />

As members of the central Vermont chapter of Showing Up<br />

for Racial Justice, we want to state boldly that Act 54 and its<br />

provision to revisit the details of Vermont’s Fair and Impartial<br />

Policing Policy needs to uphold the values and laws that protect<br />

ALL people who come in contact with the criminal justice<br />

system, regardless of race or immigration status. So far,<br />

the collaborative process with the Vermont Criminal Justice<br />

Training Council between stakeholders and policy writers has<br />

had some good results — protections of privacy and mandates<br />

for training and accountability, to name a few.<br />

BUT, still there is more we need to do to assure things like<br />

the open sharing of information about immigration status is<br />

not permitted. Why? Because the result will be appeals to<br />

racial profiling, harassment of new Americans, and ineffective<br />

policing where victims and witnesses who are not protected<br />

from deportation simply will not come forward.<br />

Immigration and customs officials should not have access to<br />

persons held in state jails, nor folks in witness protection.<br />

And racial profiling of any type should not be practiced.<br />

Sign the petition calling on the Criminal Justice Training<br />

Council to approve the version of the Fair and Impartial<br />

Policing Policy (FIPP) that stakeholders and community<br />

members are calling for before their meeting on December<br />

<strong>12</strong>th. To access the petition online, visit racialjusticereformomnibusbillvt.wordpress.com/.<br />

All Vermonters, regardless of race or immigration status,<br />

deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Victoria Pearson & Claire Wheeler<br />

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Join Us on National Wreaths Across<br />

America Day<br />

Dear Editor,<br />

Fellow residents of Bennington and the surrounding area,<br />

we are asking you to Join us on National Wreaths Across<br />

America Day; December 16 at <strong>12</strong>00 at the Vermont Veterans’<br />

Home on 325 North Street in Bennington. Each December on<br />

National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission to<br />

Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinating<br />

wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as<br />

well as over 1,100 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at<br />

sea, and abroad. We at the Vermont Veterans’ Home are honored<br />

to participate in this national event as one of the locations.<br />

Last year the day was cold, windy, and snowing, yet as<br />

hardy Vermonters, you attended and participated in honoring<br />

those who had served our great nation. Observing all who<br />

were present lay a wreath, call out the Veteran’s name, and<br />

salute each time was a memory I shall always carry with<br />

me.<br />

If you are a leader of a youth organization, please consider<br />

attending this event with your group. This is a tremendous<br />

opportunity to Remember, Honor, and Teach about our heritage<br />

and heroes. <strong>The</strong>se graves contain warriors from the<br />

Civil War to current conflicts. Our earliest interments contain<br />

warriors who marched south into the unknown so that others<br />

may be free.<br />

Please bring family and friends to participate in this year’s<br />

event. It is vitally important for our children to understand<br />

and honor our departed Veterans on this day. <strong>The</strong> Ceremony<br />

itself is short, but meaningful. Its purpose is not to “decorate<br />

graves”, but to commemorate their sacrifice and dedication to<br />

these United States and to the cause of Freedom.<br />

Looking forward to seeing you there!<br />

Semper Fidelis<br />

Colonel A. M. Faxon Jr<br />

Deputy/COO Vermont Veterans’ Home<br />

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