This Saturday. Sept. 25, 1pm-8pm, the Vermont Workers’ Center will celebrate its 12th Anniversary at the Old Labor Hall (46 Granite St.) in Barre.  

The event will offer activists and the general public a chance to discuss and celebrate the hard work involved in organizing for civil rights and justice in the workplace and the community, with particular focus on the Center’s Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign this past year.

Committee and Membership meetings will run from 1pm to 5pm, followed by the 12th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Party from 5pm to 8pm, with live music by Africa Jamono, and a Silent Auction. And the Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project will screen their short film: Silenced Voices.

The Celebration Dinner will also honor the work of Vermont’s union nurses and health professionals who helped out in Haiti early this year, the work of Fletcher Allen hospital techs who organized to join their union, and the work of thousands of childcare providers organizing to establish Vermont Early Educators United.

And yes, folks, there will be DANCING.  So come out to Barre Saturday and have some fun while getting things done.  (Corny rhyme, Peter)

Forget the rhyme, just come out!

And see the Vermont Workers’ Center site: http://www.workerscenter.org for the big One Nation March in Washington, DC on October 2nd.  Or call:  802-861-4892.

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.