Vermont Workers' Center Fighting for Workers' Rights!

Rutland and Arlington, VT - People started arriving for Senator Bernie Sanders Town Meeting on Healthcare in Rutland at 5am this past Saturday. That's four and a half hours before the event was to begin. In total 600 more people arrived, from all over the state for this much anticipated event, where the Vermont conservative right wing hoped to show a huge amount of opposition to any government involvement in healthcare.

Saturday, May 30th

HONK & WAVES: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Burlington, corner of Church Street & Main Street
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Montpelier, Farmers' Market at intersection of State Street & Elm Street

VIGIL: 10am - 12noon, Brattleboro Post Office

BRATTLEBORO/BURLINGTON - On Saturday, May 30th, the Vermont Workers' Center's "Healthcare is a Human Right" campaign will join thousands of other single-payer advocates from around the country in a coordinated, nationwide day of action to support improved Medicare for all, (H.R. 676), and say "healthcare yes, insurance companies, no." The demonstration is also a show in solidarity with the demonstrations at the AHIP (American Health Insurance Plans, a private health insurance lobby) conference in San Diego, California.

"Healthcare Is A Human Right" Rally Shaping Up to be Biggest Healthcare Rally in State's history

What: Groups will gather with signs at major intersections in towns throughout the state to spread the message about a historic Healthcare Is A Human Right rally to be held May 1, 2009 at the Statehouse in Montpelier. The Healthcare Is A Human Campaign, coordinated by the Vermont Workers' Center, is geared at building grassroots supports to "change what is politically possible" for healthcare reform.

The May 1 rally - By RICHARD DAVIS
Brattleboro Reformer, www.reformer.com

GUILFORD - It seems like it should be a no brainer. Access to a basic level of health care should be a human right, something that a civilized society determines is due all of its citizens. In all of the industrialized countries in the world, except one, that is the case.