Vermont Workers' Center

Producer

Description

The Vermont Workers' Center is a democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for workers' rights and living wages for all Vermonters. For more information, http://www.workerscenter.org/

Programs in this Series

Format: 2024-04-19
Format: 2024-04-19
We Are Winning the Right to Healthcare in Vermont... Much More to Do! - 04/29/2011
Traven Leyson hosts this monthly call-in. Joining Traven to discuss efforts at Healthcare Reform is David Kreindler and Megan Sheehan.
Peoples Budget Campaign - 03/25/2011
Traven Leyson hosts this monthly call-in. Tonight's topic is on Vermont's healthcare debate with VWC Leader, Leslie Matthews.
Health Care is a Human Right PSA - 02/18/2011
Health Care is a Human Right PSA
Insurance Company Insider Warns Corporate PR Will Try to Kill Health Care Reform - 01/28/2011
Traven Leyson hosts this monthly call-in. Tonights guest is Wendell Potter, author of 'Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans' 
People's Budget Report & People's Movement Assembly - 12/20/2010
Traven Leyson hosts this monthly call-in. His guests today are Anja Rudiger, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative and Peg Franzen, Chair, Vermont Workers' Center.
A Win-Win for Moran Redevelopment Project Workers - 11/01/2010
Traven Leyson hosts, Matt Lash, Marketing & Business Development Director International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 300, and Michael Morelli Business Agent Ironworkers Local 7 to discuss the Moran Plan Redevelopment and efforts...
Re:Imagining Change - Book Release & Celebration - 10/27/2010
Authors Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough, authors of Re:Imagining Change - How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World (PM Press, 2010) share accounts of how communities across the country are using...
Workers Organizing for Justice & Safety - 10/22/2010
Host Traven Leyshon with Chuck Norris-Brown, CCTA Driver and Nancy Welch, English Professor, UVM.
Building a Movement for Jobs, Peace & Justice - 09/24/2010
Host Traven Leyshon speaks with Jill Charbonneau, acting President Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO & Alan Benjamin, Executive Committee member, San Francisco Labor Council; Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign - Also...
Organizing to Meet the Job Crisis - 08/27/2010
Host Traven Leyshon speaks with Anja Rudiger of National Economic & Social Rights Initiative and Jeff Thompson with Political Economy Research Institute on the issues surrounding jobs.
Introduction to The Vermont Workers' Center - 08/19/2010
Introduction Video to the grassroots Vermont based organizing Non-profit Vermont Worker's Center. 
"Health Care is a Human Right" Campaign Advances - 07/23/2010
Host Traven Leyshon is joined by Peg Franzen and Cassandra Edson, both on the Healthcare is a Human Right Policy Committee, to discuss the current status and next steps for the Campaign.
2010 U.S. Social Forum Report - 06/25/2010
Host James Haslam, speaks with representatives attending the 2010 U. S. Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan.
Arizona and Immigration in Context - 05/28/2010
Host Traven Leyshon speaks with Jonathan Kissam of the Vermont Workers Center and Jen Soriano, Communications Coordinator for Grassroots Global Justice on immigration issues.

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!

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