Media Coverage

Oregon Activists Look to Grassroots Approach to Win Universal Health Care
May 14, 2012
[...] Three activists from the Vermont Workers Center toured Oregon in December at the invitation of local Jobs with Justice chapters to spread the word on how they won landmark legislation laying the groundwork for a single-payer health care system in their state. Their essential message: take... Keep Reading »
School District Grapples with Discipline Policies
May 14, 2012
In New Orleans, suspension and expulsion rates vary dramatically, as do school policies concerning what constitutes a suspendable offense. Some schools suspend only for serious offenses like weapon or drug possession; others have suspended students for smacking gum or singing too loudly.... Keep Reading »
Oregon Coalition Starts Campaigning for Human Right to Health Care
April 25, 2012
Taking a page from Vermont’s playbook, Oregon reform advocates plan to launch a major campaign to have health care declared a human right. “It means you get the care you need when you need it,” said Dr. Mike Huntington of Corvallis, the newly elected president of Health Care... Keep Reading »
Haslam: Vermont Strong = Putting People First
April 18, 2012
The response to the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene should make us proud to be Vermonters. Thousands of people volunteered and contributed to efforts to get communities back on their feet. The new “I Am Vermont Strong” campaign has tapped into this community pride with the goal of... Keep Reading »
Op-Ed: The People’s Budget Puts Vermonters’ Needs First
April 16, 2012
The Vermont Workers’ Center has proposed a People’s Budget that would fundamentally change the way Vermont approaches budgeting and begins to address the problems of income disparity, poverty and the decline of Vermont’s middle class — all but forgotten this legislative... Keep Reading »
Bronx Youth of Color Most Vulnerable to School Arrests and Summonses
March 13, 2012
Bronx, NY -- On March 8, 2012, the New Settlement Parent Action Committee gathered 100 parents, students, educators, and elected officials on the steps of the Bronx Borough President's office to express their outrage over the Bronx's shocking rates of school-based arrests and student... Keep Reading »
Kennedys Help Workers End Fast at Publix Office
March 10, 2012
  LAKELAND | Forty-four years after Kerry Kennedy's father, Robert F. Kennedy, broke bread when Cesar Chavez ended his fast for migrant rights, she broke bread with members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Saturday outside of Publix Super Markets Inc.'s headquarters after a six-day fast... Keep Reading »
In Schools, a Question of Cops vs. Students
March 9, 2012
As a student at Flushing High School, Nilesh Viswashrao said police unfairly punished him, and other minority students, so often that he and many of his friends dreaded going to class — so much so that Viswashrao ended up dropping out of school days after his 17th birthday. “When I... Keep Reading »
Florida farmworkers on hunger strike asking why Publix won't sign on to Fair Food Campaign
March 9, 2012
 LatinaLista — Anyone who has ever spent time outside pulling weeds knows how hard it is — on the back, hands, knees, etc. But what about picking tomatoes from sunrise to sunset? Being stooped over all day at the mercy of the elements Mother Nature throws your way coupled with your... Keep Reading »
Students and advocates protest NYPD in schools
March 8, 2012
 While city schools might have been in mid-winter recess, many students were still busy, and making ample use of their downtime. Approximately 50 students from across the city, including northern Manhattan and the Bronx, rallied together at One Police Plaza this past Wed., Feb. 22nd to... Keep Reading »