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"Copenhagen leaves us no choice: We, the People, must take our world back."
—Paul Baker Hernández, Coordinator of Water Not War referring to the failed UN climate talks last December in Denmark
Paul Baker Hernandez, the Carthusian hermit-turned-protest singer, will perform his powerful songs at the Vermont Workers Center on Sunday, March 21 at 6:30 pm. The Workers Center is located at 294 No. Winooski Avenue in Burlington, VT.
Join us at the Workers' Center for a great party featuring live music by Julie Winn, Joe Adler and Secret Heliotropes, and learn about the Workers' Center's delegation to the 2nd US Social Forum in Detroit in June.
Tuesday, March 30
5 pm, Farrel Room, Saint Michael's College
Living Through Segregation to the Election of President Obama: A Southern Black Woman’s Perspective
Sugar Maple Ballroom
Davis Center
University of Vermont
This event is sponsored by the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series.
The democratic popular uprising that was unleashed with the Duvalier regime's fall in February 1986 has continued over the past 24 years despite dictatorships, coups and occupations aimed at containing it. The earthquake destroyed the Haitian state and now US imperialism, the Haitian bourgeoisie, and popular forces are scrambling to array their "alternatives" to fill the void.
"Grassroots Rockin' for Healthcare Reform"
7:30 pm, Friday, April 16
Unitarian Church, 152 Pearl Street, Burlington VT
Performers:
Scott Ainslie (who will also MC)
Bow Thayer with Kristina Stykos and Patrick Ross
Mayfly (Katie Trautz and Julia Wayne)
Share an evening with some of Vermont's best-loved roots musicians in support of the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign. This campaign coordinated by the Vermont Workers' Center is building a grassroots movement for Vermont to lead the country in establishing healthcare for all. Learn more at www.workerscenter.org/healthcare
Join Robin Alexander, Director of International Affairs for the UE, and Benedicto Martinez, of the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), one of the most important independent labor organizations in Mexico, for a discussion of the importance of international labor solidarity in the era of corporate globalization, and the role that the Social Forum movement can
Share strategies with a thousand other committed workplace and labor activists from around the world at the April 23-25 Labor Notes conference in Detroit, Michigan.
http://www.labornotes.org/conference
More info contact traven_L@earthlink.net
Healthcare Is A Human Right Rally
MAY 1st, 2010
11am March on the Statehouse
meet at Montpelier City Hall, 39 Main Street
12noon, Massive Rally w/Senator Bernie Sanders
Let's prove that Vermonters want real change. Bring everyone you can.
Need a ride? Can give a ride? Want to help organize?
Call 802-861-4892 or email info @ workerscenter.org
On June 22-26, 2010 social movements from across the United States and globally will converge in Detroit for the second US Social Forum. THE US SOCIAL FORUM is a movement building process. It is not a conference but a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic, social and ecological crisis.