Things to do, people to meet, places to be in June.
Indivisible, St Johnsbury
Meets Wednesday’s 11-12pm Location: The UU Church on Cherry Street, St J
Indivisible, E. Burke
Meets Sat at 3 at Café Lotti, East Burke
NEK Indivisible
To be added to the NEK Indivisible emergency PHONE TREE, please send to peacekingdom@vtlink.net: first & last name, if ok with that, town, and cell phone & landline, if you have both.
Fast for Gaza
Find out more on https://afsc.org/fast-gaza-week-action
Bread and Puppet Museum Opens
Sunday June 1 at 2pm
Join us Sunday, June 1 at 2pm for a celebratory afternoon of performances, bread, and museum appreciation to mark the beginning of the summer season at the Bread & Puppet farm. Guest performances will feature throughout the afternoon, concluding with a performance of Oh You Beast Descendants. 
Bread and Puppet: Oh You Beast Descendants
Performances in June Friday June 6 at 7pm Friday June 13 at 7pm Friday June 27 at 7pm
Summer is here and our Cathedral show is set for the month of June: Oh You Beast Descendants Performed on the Bread & Puppet Farm in the Paper Maché Cathedral. Limited seating, $15 tickets, no one turned away for lack of funds. We human beasts, descendants of revenge and elimination gods, and of the gods of love who preach by killing love, how can we survive while our very own evil empire promotes incinerations and starvation warfare and supreme inhumanity is performed in front of our eyes? We, the numerous people here on the face of the earth, we occupants of not knowing where else to be, living in the jungle of beastly minutes, need Mother Dirt to rebirth our joy muscles, strip us of our horror inhumanity, and make water and bread of life obligatory. 
Bread and Puppet Poster
Unite for Veterans:
Friday, June 6
Friday, June 6 Unite for Veterans: If you are interested in helping to organize or participate in a trip to Washington, D.C. for the June 6 Unite for Veterans’ protest of cuts to the VA, and to protect veterans’ jobs and benefits, please contact peacekingdom@vtlink.net. More info: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/17/veterans-organizing-call-action-rally-d-day-anniversary-nations-capital.html **Related actions to stop draft-dodger Trump’s $100 million military parade for his birthday, while he cuts veterans’ earned services, benefits and jobs, and tries to politicize and destabilize the military:
- Send letters to Congress: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-wasteful-and-authoritarian-birthday-military-parade
- Call Congress: 202-224-3121 and tell Senators and Representatives to stop Trump’s military parade.
- Send a personal letter to the editor to your local paper. Example: https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/letters/article/military-parade-trump-s-birthday-stop-madness-20316279.php
- Write Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, 1000 Defense Pentagon, Washington DC 20301-1000 and The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
EcoGather’s Vermont
Jun 7, Sat 3-5pm the topic is In the Shell of The Old
EcoGather’s Vermont based facilitators of community learning are collaborating with Hard-Pressed Community Print shop in West Danville, Vermont to offer a series of EcoGatherings in the Northeast Kingdom. They have 5 sessions scheduled, each with a different focus topic. On Feb 22, Sat 3-5pm the topic is Rage/Joy On Mar 20, Thu 6-8pm the topic is Solidarity On Apr 19, Sat 3-5pm the topic is Work On May 17, Sat 11am-1pm the topic is Language On Jun 7, Sat 3-5pm the topic is In the Shell of The Old
Breakfast Club
June 8th 9-11 am. at Wandering Vine on Railroad St. Focus on environmental issues in June.
Poetry Pot Luck
Wednesday June 11th 7-9pm at wandering vine St j A FREE Poetry Pot Luck
NO KINGS DAY RALLIES
June 14
Please see https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-and-partners-announce-no-kings-nationwide-day-defiance-flag-day-during for background information. Veterans are encouraged to join in uniform if possible. NEK Indivisible June 14 Events:
- 11am – 1pm in Barton Village Square https://www.mobilize.us/nekindivisiblevt/event/787956/
- 2pm – 4pm in Newport municipal parklet https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/787481/
- Statewide event in Burlington: https://www.mobilize.us/freedomoverfascism/event/784865/
Make Your Own Altar: Honor a Pet, Person, or Thing (all ages)
Saturday, June 14, 2:00 pm
Presented By: Catamount Arts
Location:
Dog Mountain
143 Parks Road
St. Johnsbury, VT
Class fee: FREE
While this is a free workshop, please register via our CLASS PORTAL ahead of time as space is limited.
Instructor: jen berger
Inaugural 560 Railroad Community Artist jen berger will lead participants of all ages (children must be accompanied by an adult) in creating altars to honor and respect a pet, person, place or thing. We will be offering this free workshop at Dog Mountain, home of the famous Dog Chapel, where hundreds of people have left remembrances of their pets who have passed on. If you have any small items that are important to you that you’d like to include in your artwork, please bring them. We will provide other materials with which to create your unique piece of art.
NEK PRIDEFEST
Sunday, June 22, 12-4pm
Gardner Park, Newport. NEK Indivisible will be marching in the parade and have an information table; please let us know at NEKIndivisible if you want to march with us or help at the table. More info and/or sign up with NEK Rainbow Coalition as an event volunteer here: https://nekrc.org/pridefest
VOTE FORWARD – Help get out the votes! Nationwide action center.
“To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
― Auguries of Innocence
Waterford’s Banned Book Book Club
Meeting at the Davies Memorial Library Meets every two months
Do you have any idea how many books have been banned or challenged in the United States of America? The answer: Countless. A quick Google search will enlighten and disappoint you; give it a try. All are invited to participate in Waterford’s Banned Book Book Club (you don’t have to live in Waterford). We will meet once, every 2 months, to discuss our past read and to pick our next book. Most books will be available at your public library-YAY for public libraries! Our first book is The Handmaid’s Tale. I read this when it was first released and look forward to revisiting it. Context and timing will certainly play into my 2025 perception. I am curious to hear how others feel about it. Hope to hear back from you. – Robin Migdelany 
Upcoming events with Rights & Democracy
https://www.mobilize.us/rightsdemocracy/event/755065/ Hope to see you at one of these upcoming meetings!
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50 protests.
50 states.
1 movement.
Join us in the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. This website shows you all the protests going on around the country.
Visit https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ to find out more
Climate Café Monthly Gathering:
Monday, June 30, 2025
7 pm for 90 minutes
A place to connect with others and share feelings about our changing climate and associated impacts. This is not a therapy group, but is focused on deep listening and our shared humanity. Facilitated by Sara Demetry and Judith Springer To get the zoom link or with questions, contact Judith, see poster for contact information. No charge! This will be a monthly offering. -Jen Here is the flyer: 
A song
Show me where the fire burns inside you
Let the light of love take hold and guide you
Hand in hand, my brother, we are in this word together.
Show me where your heart cries out in freedom
Break away the chains that hold your feet down
Hand in hand, my sister, we are in this world together.
One voice, one sound, one song to sing
One heart, one pulse, one love to bring
A song by Sarina Partridge: https://sarinapartridge.com/
The red sun rises on a world on fire,
but it also rises on a holy choir.
Singing through the dark times, through the ash and smoke,
weave the grief into the song and sing our way back to home.
A Poem by Matthew Olzmann a VT poet
Interview at https://www.interlochenreview.org/matthew-olzmann
https://poets.org/poem/letter-someone-living-fifty-years-now
Most likely, you think we hated the elephant,
the golden toad, the thylacine and all variations
of whale harpooned or hacked into extinction.
It must seem like we sought to leave you nothing
but benzene, mercury, the stomachs
of seagulls rippled with jet fuel and plastic.
You probably doubt that we were capable of joy,
but I assure you we were.
We still had the night sky back then,
and like our ancestors, we admired
its illuminated doodles
of scorpion outlines and upside-down ladles.
Absolutely, there were some forests left!
Absolutely, we still had some lakes!
I’m saying, it wasn’t all lead paint and sulfur dioxide.
There were bees back then, and they pollinated
a euphoria of flowers so we might
contemplate the great mysteries and finally ask,
“Hey guys, what’s transcendence?”
And then all the bees were dead.
Copyright © 2017 by Matthew Olzmann. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 14, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.