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ROAD TO DETROIT: Latin America Protest Singer Challenges Us to "Take Our World Back"
March 21, 2010 - 6:30pm
"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.
Date:
March 21, 2010 - 6:30pm
ROAD TO DETROIT Benefit Concert and Kick-off Party
March 27, 2010 - 7:00pm
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.
Date:
March 27, 2010 - 7:00pm
Dr. Dorothy Williams at Saint Michael’s College
March 30, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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
Date:
March 30, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
ROAD TO DETROIT: "After the Earthquake: The Struggle to Transform Haiti"
April 14, 2010 (All day)
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.
Date:
April 14, 2010 (All day)
Benefit Concert: "Grassroots Rockin' for Healthcare Reform"
April 16, 2010 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
"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
Date:
April 16, 2010 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
ROAD TO DETROIT: International Labor Solidarity
April 18, 2010 - 4:00pm
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
Date:
April 18, 2010 - 4:00pm
Labor Notes Conference
April 23, 2010 (All day) - April 25, 2010 (All day)
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
Date:
April 23, 2010 (All day) - April 25, 2010 (All day)
May 1st Healthcare Is A Human Right Rally
May 1, 2010 - 11:00am - 2:00pm
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
Date:
May 1, 2010 - 11:00am - 2:00pm
US Social Forum
June 22, 2010 (All day) - June 26, 2010 (All day)
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.
Date:
June 22, 2010 (All day) - June 26, 2010 (All day)
Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign
VWC Video
Workers' Rights Hotline
Get answers to your workplace questions about:
* Wrongful Firing
* Discrimination
* Unpaid Wages
* Health & Safety
* Your Right to Organize
* Workers Compensation
* Family & Medical Leave
Do you have a problem at work? Call the Hotline to find out what you can do. (All calls are confidential.)
Call toll-free: 866-229-0009
in Chittenden County: 802-861-2877
workerscenter.org/hotline
