ROAD TO DETROIT: Latin America Protest Singer Challenges Us to "Take Our World Back"

"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.

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March 21, 2010 - 6:30pm

ROAD TO DETROIT Benefit Concert and Kick-off Party

US Social Forum Benefit ConcertJoin 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

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: Kim Ives and Roger Leduc, journalists from Haiti Liberté

Sugar Maple Ballroom
Davis Center
University of Vermont

This event is sponsored by the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series.

Date: 
April 14, 2010 (All day)

ROAD TO DETROIT: International Labor Solidarity

Solidarity Without BordersJoin 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

US Social Forum

US Social Forum, June 22-26, Detroit, MIOn 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)