Community & National Resources
ACLU VT
The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is dedicated to advancing the civil rights and civil liberties of all Vermonters. Since its founding in 1967, the ACLU of Vermont has been the state's premier guardian of liberty, working in the courts, the legislature, and in communities to preserve the individual rights and liberties of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Peace & Justice Center VT
The Peace & Justice Center is a Vermont-based non-profit, membership organization. Their mission is to create a just and peaceful world. To this end, they work on the interconnected issues of economic and racial justice, peace, and human rights through education, advocacy, training, nonviolent activism, and community organizing.
National Bail Fund Network
The National Bail Fund Network is made up of over ninety community bail and bond funds across the country. The NBFN regularly updates this listing of community bail funds that are freeing people by paying bail/bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention.
Rights & Democracy VT
Rights & Democracy is building a popular movement to advance rights and build a real democracy. They work in partnership with community groups, progressive unions, faith communities, organizations fighting for human and civil rights, and environmental and climate action groups.
Community Voices for Immigrant Rights
Community Voices for Immigrant Rights is a grassroots community organization based in Burlington, VT working to fight for immigrant rights in support of and collaboration with immigrant-led groups.
Showing Up for Racial Justice
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial and economic justice. Chapters work to organize and win concrete changes that divest resources from racist systems of policing and prisons and invest them in the people, institutions, and practices we all need to thrive.
Migrant Justice
Migrant Justice is an organization of Vermont farm-workers fighting for food justice and human rights. Their mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights.
Women’s Justice & Freedom Initiative
WJFI is an abolitionist organization, whose mission is to make it known that people become entangled in our legal system because of systemic failures and that our legal system is founded on the control and punishment of black and brown bodies.
Vermont Workers’ Center
Founded in 1998, the Vermont Workers' Center is a statewide organization of everyday people fighting for economic justice and human dignity. They seek an economically just and democratic Vermont in which all residents can meet their human needs and enjoy their human rights,
Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform
VCJR’s mission is to achieve an effective and restorative criminal justice response. Their vision is a system of addressing interpersonal harm that is restorative and community-based, using intervention as a support rather than a punishment.
VT Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
The Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is a group comprised of attorneys admitted to practice law in Vermont who are actively engaged in the defense of criminal cases.
VT Law School National Center on Restorative Justice
The NCRJ’s mission is the advancement of restorative justice (RJ) principles and practices, focusing on less punitive responses to harm, substantial input by victims, accountability, opportunities for people who cause harm to make amends, stronger and more resilient individuals and communities, and broader academic options for those under court supervision or sentence.