human rights

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".

HELP US BUILD FOR THE HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT RALLY ON MAY 1 IN MONTPELIER

Healthcare is a major issue in our communities. All over the state Vermonters are working hard to build for a rally in Montpelier on May 1st that will change what is politically possible in Vermont and declare "Healthcare is a Human Right". The Vermont Workers' Center is asking as many people as possible to sign up to get 10 signatures on a petition that says "I'll Be There on May 1st" for Healthcare is a Human Right.

Health horror stories heard at forum
NEAL P. GOSWAMI, Staff Writer
Bennington Banner

Friday, February 20
BENNINGTON — Erica Rogers, a cancer survivor, thought her worries about health insurance would be over when she was approved for the state's new Catamount Health plan.

"I thought, 'this is going to be great, I finally have health insurance' — until I got the bill," she said Thursday during a forum on health care sponsored by the Vermont Workers' Center.

No one doubts that we are living through difficult economic times. For many working-class Vermonters, the current economic crisis is simply an intensification of the long crisis that we have been experiencing long before the recent financial meltdown. For the last several decades, there has been a shift in government and public policy towards helping the rich get richer at the expense of working people.