by Media Team | Oct 22, 2008 | News
Human Rights Hearing: “Healthcare is a Human Right” Where: Burlington City Hall, Contois Auditorium (149 Church St., Burlington)When: Thursday Oct 23 at 7:00 p.m. refreshments, 7:30 p.m. hearingBurlington – For months volunteers for...
by Media Team | Oct 8, 2008 | News
From our allies at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI): Last night’s presidential debate addressed the key issue for health care reform in the United States: do candidates see health care as a right or as a commodity? [ NY Times...
by Media Team | Oct 3, 2008 | News
The following was submitted by a individual we surveyed this summer in Brattleboro. It was read in its entirety at the Human Rights Hearing in Brattleboro. Sept, 2008 I am a resident of West Brattleboro, Vermont. Earlier this month at Brattleboro’s Gallery...
by Media Team | Sep 30, 2008 | News
While attention has focused recently on the Wall Street financial crisis, working families in Vermont and across the country have been facing an economic crisis in recent years, including: unaffordable healthcare, the lack of livable-wage jobs, foreclosures and a...
by Media Team | Sep 30, 2008 | News
Brattleboro, VT — On the evening of September 25th more than fifty Brattleboro residents came to St. Michaels Episcopal Church to participate in the first Human Rights Hearing on Healhcare. This was the first of a series of hearings to be held throughout the state as...
by Media Team | Sep 23, 2008 | News
Statement from the Northrup Grummon workers UE Local 208:”On Friday Sept. 12th, UE Local 208 ratified its first Union contract. The contract contains a 9% wage increase over three years, an increase in benefits and other protections. The vote to accept the...
