The Vermont Workers’ Center (VWC) has announced three new additions to their staff team. The new staff members include Sandy Gaffney as the Central Vermont Organizer, Shela Linton as the Southern Vermont Organizer and Heather Pipino as the new Development Coordinator.
Join us for series of statewide informational forums on the next steps for implementing a universal healthcare system in Vermont. This will be a great opportunity to come out and have your questions answered about the road ahead for healthcare reform and to equip yourself with knowledge and information.
Check out the multimedia project put together by the People's Media Project over the course of the People's Convention for Human Rights.
Vermont People’s Convention
Declaration of Human Rights
Burlington, Vermont - 2 September 2012
Download the illustrated version below.
Introduction
We have gathered here as members of many communities in Vermont, North America and the world, to lay out a plan to work together for social justice. We are more than 400 individuals from every county of the state and other communities around the world, representing more than 40 organizations. Though diverse in our origins, ancestries, faiths and dispositions, as people we are united in our common humanness.
Link to original story (with video and photos)
WCAX
Posted: Sep 02, 2012 7:32 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 03, 2012 12:01 PM EDT
By Kyle Midura
School's in session at Burlington High this Labor Day weekend, but most of those in attendance aren't in grades nine through 12.
Strategic communication is essential to the movement building work we are doing with the Vermont Workers' Center. It's about understanding the power of stories and narratives, and the tension between dominant narraitve that prop up existing power structures and our story that contests that and proposes a more just system that fulfills our human rights. We are seeaking interns who could do any or many of the following:
The Vermont Workers’ Center is seeking volunteers to assist with media-making projects for the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign and the Put People First Campaign. Volunteers would work with our staff and our grassroots leaders across the state to create exciting media projects. Specifically, we’d love to have volunteers with the following:
-No production experience necessary
-Commitment to social justice
-Ability to follow through on project and ask for assistance when needed
-Self motivated, but with the ability to request and incorporate feedback on any work
Original story: http://truth-out.org/news/item/10621-americas-green-summer-from-vermont-...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 11:55
By Michael Levitin, Truthout | Report
Ever seen a human oil spill? It's not a lot like the real thing, except in the ways that it is: black, silent and ominously stationary - because these bodies, like crude, aren't going anywhere.