Human Rights Day Potluck & Write-a-thon
Join us to celebrate Human Rights Day, the 62nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations.
The Vermont Workers' Center and Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign invite you to join us for a potluck and letter-to-the-editor Write-a-thon for our tremendous opportunity to win universal healthcare in Vermont in 2011. Ave some good food, be with good people and get resources to help draft your letter to help win healthcare for all.
7pm, VWC office, 294 N. Winooski Ave, Burlington
6pm, home of VWC leaders Peg Franzen & Joyce Werntgen
Despite reports of harsh thunderstorms, over a thousand Vermonters, including hundreds of nurses and other healthcare workers, converged for what is believed to be the largest weekday rally at the state capital in memory. The rally was coordinated by the Vermont Worker's Center in Burlington, Vermont, and was also endorsed by well over one hundred different organizations and dozens of faith community leaders from across the state. The event was planned as a major step to change the politics of health care reform. The invitation to Vermont state legislators for the rally said that it was not just changing what was "politically possible,” but given the economic times and the growth of the movement, the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign is making the establishment of healthcare as a basic right "politically inescapable".