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Vermont Workers' Center Fighting for Workers' Rights!
Fighting for Workers' Rights!
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: Kim Ives and Roger Leduc, journalists from Haiti Liberté
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.
Date:
April 14, 2010 (All day)
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
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
