This year's graduating class of the Individualized Master of Arts program at Goddard College, VT, proudly invited Mumia Abu-Jamal to be the keynote speaker of their commencement this past Sunday, August 10th 2008. It was a unanimous decision made by all of the graduates to invite Abu-Jamal, alumni of the college, to shed his wisdom and insight as a renowned journalist, freedom-fighter, and scholar. Watch video of introduction / Listen to full speech

On April 28th, 2008 there were many AFL-CIO members amongst the 200+ people at the Vermont Workers' Center (VWC) 10th Anniversary Celebration in the Old Labor Hall in Barre, where the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign was officially launched.

NEK Fest, August 1st and 2nd!

IPS reports award winning journalist Mohammed Omer, Rafah, was assaulted and abused by Israeli security forces at the Jordan-West Bank checkpoint Thursday. Omer was on his way home from a Netherlands trip sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Dutch Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Winter Soldier on the Hill: Veterans testify before Congress while House debates funding for Iraq occupation

On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, ten peace activists in Burlington, Vermont entered General Dynamics and locked themselves together in the main lobby of the building in protest against the company’s weapons manufacturing and war profiteering.

Brattleboro, Vermont— Today Vermont became the seventh “sweatfree” state in the United States when Governor Jim Douglas signed a sweatshop-free purchasing policy into law.

The Governor's signing ceremony was held at Brattleboro Union High School. Members of the student organization Child Labor Education and Action (CLEA) had initiated and led the campaign to pass the law.

As the war in Iraq shifts into its sixth year, the executive board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, which represents thousands of workers in Vermont, has unanimously passed a historic resolution expressing their “unequivocal” support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq. Vermont union members will be in solidarity with of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), which will seek to shutdown all west coast ports for a period of 24 hours on May 1st 2008. This will be the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq.