workers' culture

BENEFIT: HARDCORE FOR HEALTHCARE
7pm, Friday, April 23, 242 Main Street, Burlington

Burlington - On April 23rd, Vermont's hardcore and punk community comes together to raise money and awareness for the Vermont Worker's Center's Health Care is a Human Right Campaign.

The benefit show will take place at 242 Main Street in downtown Burlington, a staple venue of the underground music scene for the past 25 years. Bands performing for the benefit include Fight Back, Crucial Times, Fractures, As We Were and Dead Icons.

"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.

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.

This concert will kick off the "Road to Detroit," a series of events between now and June that will bring people together to discuss a people's movement agenda as we prepare for the USSF in Detroit.

WHEN: 12 noon - 3pm, Monday, September 7

WHERE: Battery Park, Burlington

West Village Meeting House/All Souls Church (Unitarian Universalist)

20 South Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-254-9377

Tickets are $15 and are available online at:
http://cattailmusic.com/concert-for-change/

Old Labor Hall
46 Granite Street
Barre, VT [ map ]

Vermont Workers' Center
294 North Winooski Avenue
Burlington

Legendary singer, songwriter and organizer Si Kahn leads founding meeting to explore how Vermont musicians and artist can help build grassroots movement for social change. After the meeting, at a local recording studio artists will record an album of social justice themed songs.

Legendary singer-songwriter Si Kahn will perform a benefit concert to raise money for the "Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign" of the Vermont Workers' Center and other local and national grassroots organizing projects.

Flynn Space, 147 Main Street, Burlington

Tickets are $25 and are available through the FlynnTix Regional Box Office, where workers are members of UE Local 203:

• In person at the Flynn Theatre Box Office, 153 Main Street, Burlington
• Over the phone at (802) 86-FLYNN