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Greetings, In this Message: RUTLAND COUNTY 6:30pm, Tues, Oct 6, Rutland Public Library The Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign, coordinated by the Vermont Workers' Center is organizing a series of healthcare forums with local state legislators around Vermont. The forums include personal testimonies, presentations on the human right to healthcare and how Vermont can lead the way when the federal health reform falls short of solving the current crisis. Forums so far in Washington, Bennington, Windham and Chittenden Counties have turned out a huge amount of community support for Healthcare is a Human Right. Join us tomorrow in Rutland and let us know if you want to help organize a People's Forum on Healthcare in your community. These public forums with State Legislators will focus on human right to healthcare and what we can do to change current state healthcare policy. They are being organized local committees of the Healthcare Is A Human Right, a group of local residents have been doing outreach throughout the community about the impact the broken healthcare system is having on our community. More People's Forums are being planned in other Vermont counties, if you want to learn more contact info@workerscenter.org VPR Report on Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign Brattleboro Reformer Article on Windham County Forum Story and Photos
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Forum The Road to Detroit: The US Social Forum and Grassroots Responses to the Economic and Environmental Crisis Michael Leon Guerrero of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance will be speaking at the University of Vermont on "The Road to Detroit: The US Social Forum and Grassroots Reponses to the Economic and Environmental Crisis." Mr. Guerrero is one of the key organizers of the US Social Forum, and also a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum. The event is sponsored by the Vermont Workers' Center, the Student Labor Action Project and Students for Peace and Global Justice, and will also include speakers from local organizations. More information: http://workerscenter.org/node/130
Contact kate@workerscenter.org or 802-861-4892 if you can come to Welch's Congressional Forums Saturday, October 10th 10 a.m. Saturday, October 17th 3:30 p.m.
At the Savoy Theater in Montpelier and Merrill's Roxy in Burlington, Vermont Workers' Center leaders have been tabling at showings of Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story". People leave the film wanting to take action to change this unjust system. We've collected lots of healthcare is a human right postcards from movie viewers and talked to lots of people about getting involved. We encourage you to see the film and join us tabling at the theater! Contact kate@workerscenter.org if you have any questions or if you are interested in helping out. Read Naomi Klein's interview titled "Michael Moore: America's Teacher" Check show times at the Savoy Theater and
Merrill's
Roxy. -Oct. 6 Tuesday in Rutland, Community forum sponsored by the Workers' Center, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Rutland Free Library, Nella Grimm Fox Room, 10 Court Street, Rutland -Oct. 27 Tuesday in Montpelier. Community forum sponsored by Montpelier Citizens for Single Payer, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Bethany Church, 115 Main St., Montpelier. -Oct. 27 Tuesday in Brattleboro. Citizens discussion of state of Vermont health care, sponsored by Vermont Citizens Campaign for Health, 7 p.m. in The Gathering Place, 30 Terrace, Brattleboro. -Nov. 4 Wednesday in Middlebury. Come hear a presentation by Professor John Seavey of the University of New Hampshire on the Canadian Health Care System. Location to be announced. Sponsored by Addison County for Single Payer. -Nov. 10 Tuesday in White River Junction. "Single Payer Healthcare 4 VT; How do we get there from here?" sponsored by the Orange and Windsor County Working Group for Single Payer, 7 p.m., at a place to be announced. |
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