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The “Winter Gathering” is a special event of ECHO’s permanent exhibit, “INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS: Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain,” and is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the support of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy; with additional support from the ECHO Annual Fund, KeyBank, the Vermont Arts Council, and from a 2009 Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program. This video was produced by James Gero.

A day focusing on one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time, The Vermont Global Health Coalitioin and St. Michael's College have sponsored a series of events dealing with the 'Crisis in the Congo'.  This program features Keynote Address by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World; Special Envoy to the UN for HIV/AIDS in Africa, 2001-2006; author of best-selling book, Race Against Time.

One viewer comments: Well..This video has made me reconsider where my donations go.  Not that I was donating to poor organizations, but the power of this speech by Stephen - was so overwhelming - that I cried almost all the way through it.

A day focusing on one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time, The Vermont Global Health Coalitioin and St. Michael's College have sponsored a series of events dealing with the 'Crisis in the Congo'.  This program features a lecture by Herbert Weiss, Emeritus Professor, City University of New York; Senior Research Scholar, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

January 19-February 11 In celebration of Black History Month, Burlington College presents “Black History: Then and Now”, an exhibit of the work of activist/photographer/filmmaker/human rights advocate Roz Payne. The show features Payne’s photographs and memorabilia from her days at NewsReel, the group of independent filmmakers, photographers, and media workers she founded in 1967, one year before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in a basement on the Lower East Side of New York.  NewsReel members shared their resources, skills, and equipment as a collective to produce films relevant to the socio-political climate of the times. These individuals documented demonstrations and acts of resistance, and came away with film footage and photos rarely seen on broadcast news. Payne’s documentary What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party, is a product of this initiative. The show features many of the images Payne captured through her association with the Black Panthers. Vido produced by Dan Higgins