“Housing Is a Human Right “Vermont Es Mi Casa” (Vermont Is My Home) “Vivienda Sin Discriminacion” (Housing Without Discrimination) The cluster of speakers in the Cedar Creek Room of the statehouse held up eye-catching signs painted on cardboard cut-out houses in Spanish and English. These members of Migrant Justice were articulate about housing problems in …

CVRAN has actively been preparing for changes in national immigration policy when the Trump administration takes over later this month. You might remember the call for team leaders and volunteers that went out in December as we prepared to take in as many people as the organization could manage. Rachel Cogbill (CVRAN President) and Kathie …

Vermonters continue to share ideas and thoughts on how we might welcome new neighbors to our state. Here are links to two recent opinion pieces on that topic: Bienviedo – Let’s Welcome Our New Neighbors by Tom McKone (Times Argus, December 28 2024). Mexican Hospitality and Ours by Joseph Gainza (Times Argus, December 31 2024). …

Picture a young woman, nine-months pregnant, compelled by forces beyond her control to leave home and make an arduous journey with her betrothed to a foreign land, unsure of their welcome there. At this time of year, most of us raised in the Christian tradition would pretty immediately, if unconsciously, imagine this young woman as …

The changes in immigration policy that lie ahead under the Trump administration have many concerned. Here are links to a few recent media pieces that share what CVRAN and others are doing in response. Rachel Cogbill, CVRAN President –  Interview with Joseph Gainza on WGDR’s Gathering Peace. (Find it in their archives on December 7.) …

Dear CVRAN Community, Can you help? We have only a month before the borders are closed. There are refugees waiting in limbo to come to the US. They are fleeing danger; they already have permission to come and they are waiting. CVRAN would like to welcome up to 10 of these people, perhaps 2 to …

Our new Volunteer Coordinator, Yolanda Bansah, began her work with CVRAN as a high school student at U32, volunteering with one of the CVRAN families and organizing a multi-high school gathering on refugees and asylum seekers. She is now a student at Fordham University, but still impassioned about immigration issues. With her excellent computer skills, volunteer help will …