workers' culture

BENEFIT CONCERT: Hardcore For Healthcare

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.

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

paul-baker-image300.jpg"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.

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.

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.

New Resource for Vermont's Union Members

VWC has just become an affiliate of Union Communication Services, a 100 percent union bookstore which offers the largest, most varied and helpful selection of hand-picked books ever created for union leaders, activists and rank-and-file members. Tools for activists, resources for negotiators, health and safety, economics and labor history, even books for young adults and children. Purchase items through the UCS Online Book Catalog and support the Workers' Center!

Burlington Labor Day Celebration & Benefit Concert

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

WHERE: Battery Park, Burlington

Si Kahn and Scott Ainslie Fundraising Tour, June 4-7

The Vermont Workers' Center (VWC) is bringing legendary singer-songwriter-organizer Si Kahn to join them on a series of events and fundraising concerts across the state. For the Barre and Brattleboro performances, Kahn will be joined by Scott Ainslie, the world-renowned blues guitarist based in Brattleboro. The tour celebrates the eleventh anniversary of our work to grow a grassroots network of working and low-income Vermonters for workers' rights and social justice. This tour builds the momentum and energy of over a thousand participants who converged on the Statehouse in Montpelier on May 1, 2009, to celebrate our historic "Health Care is a Human Right" rally.

Concert for Change with Si Kahn & Scott Ainslie

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/

Si Kahn & Scott Ainslie Benefit Concert

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

Vermont Artists United

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.

Si Kahn Benefit Concert

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
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