Who are we? Green Mountain Justice is what we do.
We care for the well-being of our communities by caring for our neighbors. We center the needs of the marginalized, helping families and individuals connect with dignifying care and effective support.
We connect people with each other, with actionable information, and with opportunities to demonstrate their values and expend their privilege to lift the disenfranchised.
We collaborate with like-hearted partners along a spectrum of innovative justice-focused actions, from direct care of individual Vermonters in crises to advocating for systemic change through policy and legislation.
When neighbors fall through the cracks, we step into the intersections to catch them.
In Vermont today…
Too many of our neighbors are facing impossible choices—between food and medicine, between kids’ shoes or the power bill, between safety or shelter with an abusive partner, between dignity and survival. With a motto of ‘freedom & unity,’ the values of commonwealth, unity, and justice are woven into the cultural fabric of our Green Mountain home.
But today, that fabric is fraying. The threads of too many lives are being strained and broken by impoverishment, housing insecurity, hunger, systemic race, class, sex, gender, and ability inequities, and insufficient health and substance disorder treatment options. Repair and reconciliation require more relational (and less transactional) care, deeper human-to-human connections, and focused collaboration. Green Mountain Justice exists to care for our neighbors, connect our communities, and collaborate for the systemic changes needed to eliminate these impossible choices.
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Please explore the rest of our website, consider supporting us, and reach out to us as we put our values to work creating a more just Vermont for all.
Food for Thought & Action
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Voices From the Edge (Episode 2), Bumper-Sticker Deep Justice: A Black Veteran's Vermont
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Voices From the Edge (Podcast Series), Episode 1: First Responder, Left Behind
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Freedom & Unity: Breaking the Myth of Scarcity