Vermont Workers' Center

Note: This OpEd by Brattleboro resident and VWC field organizer Shela Linton was published today in the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus. Linton and Senowa Mize-Fox of Burlington are representing the Vermont Workers' Center at the UN COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, as part of the It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm delegation.

Note: This article by VWC CoCo member Jonathan Kissam and Put People First! PA member Karim Sariahmed was originally published on the Healthcare is a Human Right Collaborative site.

Organizing our Whole Selves: Reflections on the 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference

Last Thursday evening, two young women of color in Burlington were targeted by a person or people affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, who delivered fliers to their doors. These fliers are only the latest incident in an ongoing escalation of racist acts aimed at people of color in our community, and part of a national rise in state and vigilante violence towards communities of color.

Yesterday, VWC President Ellen Schwartz gave this speech at the 2015 Burlington Labor Day celebration:

Twelve years before President Grover Cleveland established the Labor Day holiday, Matthew Maguire -- a machinists’ union leader and socialist from Paterson NJ and one of the organizers of the Central Labor Union of NY -- proposed a “Mammoth Festival, Parade, and Pic-Nic.”