Vermont Workers' Center Fighting for Workers' Rights!

"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

"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

"Vermont's Own"

Friday March 5, 2010
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_14522731

Vermont supporters of meaningful health care reform have been floating a well-tested format that deserves more than a cursory review this year. Regardless of what happens -- or doesn't happen -- in Washington, they say,
the state would fare better with its own single-payer health care option.

* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * February 26, 2010

BURLINGTON – Four Fletcher Allen nurses recently back from Haiti disaster relief efforts will be honored by the Healthcare Is A Human Right campaign on their float at Magic Hat's 15 Annual Mardi Gras Parade in Burlington, Saturday Feb 27th. The "Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign" is a grassroots organizing campaign aimed to change what is deemed 'politically possible' in an effort to make Vermont the first state in the country to establish the moral commitment that healthcare will be treated as a public good for every resident.

MONTPELIER, VT - Working Vermont, a coalition of Vermont labor unions, has joined the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign in an effort to make Vermont the first state in the country to establish the moral commitment that healthcare will be treated as a public good for every resident.

MONTPELIER – Over a hundred Vermont union nurses and other healthcare professionals held a press conference calling on Vermont to lead the way in establishing healthcare as a basic public good for all Vermonters at the Statehouse today. The event is part of a growing grassroots campaign called the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign, which is coordinated by the Vermont Workers’ Center. There was a live call from Haiti reporting on Vermonters disaster relief efforts as part of the press conference in addition to talking about healthcare in Vermont.

HAITI - Nurses and Technical Professionals at FAHC who are members of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, the union of 2000 members at FAHC, are organizing donations and groups of volunteers to go to Haiti in the coming days, weeks and months to help with the relief efforts.

**NOTE: INCLUDING VT NURSES CALLING IN TO REPORT FROM HAITI**

WHAT: Press Conference: Live Report from Nurses Haiti Relief Effort and Vermont nurses and health professionals stand up on for Healthcare Is A Human Right.

WHEN: 12noon, Friday, January 29th

WHERE: Cedar Creek Room, Statehouse, Montpelier

Press Conference: Vermont nurses and health professionals stand up on for Healthcare Is A Human Right.
12noon, Friday, January 29th, Statehouse Montpelier

A call for health reform
Statehouse crowd details system's faults, horrors, urges change.
by Dan Barlow
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100113/NEWS/100119988

MONTPELIER – Hundreds of Vermonters filled the Statehouse Tuesday for a public forum on health care reform, with a vast majority urging lawmakers to adopt a single-payer system.