Apartheid Free Community Campaign

The AFC Pledge

Apartheid-Free Community (AFC) affirms support for freedom and equality for all peoples and commits a community to working to end Israeli settler colonialism, occupation, and apartheid. These are the historical factors leading to the genocide in Gaza, and they are what we must challenge to win justice and democracy for everyone in Palestine.

The pledge says:

  • ​​WE AFFIRM our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all people; 

  • WE OPPOSE all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and oppression; and 

  • WE DECLARE ourselves an Apartheid-free community and to that end, 

  • WE PLEDGE to join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.

This pledge is based on the language of the International Apartheid-Free Community campaign which we are part of.

Support for AFC

40+ communities have adopted the pledge:

48 Gove Ct. LLC. | AFSCME 1674 Howard Center Union | AFSCME Local 1343 Soteria House Workers Union | Board of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series | Burlington WILPF | Champlain Valley Democratic Socialists of America | Cloud Fossil Design | Dancing Bee Gardens | Education Justice Coalition of Vermont | Episcopal Peace Fellowship Palestine Israel Network (EPF/PIN) | FreeHer VT | Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine | Haymaker Bun Company | Jaquith Public Library and Community Center | Jewish Voice for Peace, Vermont/New Hampshire chapter | Marshfield Village Store | Mental Health Safe Place | Migrant Justice | Onion River Campground | Otter Creek Yoga | Party for Socialism and Liberation | Plex Arts Festival | Rural Vermont | Rutland Area NAACP | Southern Vermont for Palestine | Spiral House Art Collective | Stone Leaf Teahouse | Sunrise Movement Champlain Valley | Tempest Collective | The Peace and Justice Center | The Rainbow Bridge Community Center | UE 255 Local (Hunger Mountain Co-op union) | Vermonters for Justice in Palestine | Vermont Peace/Anti-war Coalition | Vermont Workers' Center | Young Democratic Socialists of America (UVM) | Outright Vermont | Wonder Web Creative

Voters in 4 towns have asked leadership to adopt the pledge:

Winooski | Brattleboro | Newfane | Thetford

(In March 2025, Thetford became the first municipality in the country to vote to adopt the AFC pledge!)

Hundreds of communities around the world have adopted the pledge:

Check out the growing global movement!

What can I do?

  • Your community can adopt this pledge: Your community can be a workplace, recreational club, political group, theater group, union, committee, sports team, student association, school, mosque, synagogue, or church, to list a few examples.

  • Your town or city can vote to adopt this pledge: Bring this pledge to the ballot on your town meeting day and let voters have their voice heard.

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