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Ella Baker Human Rights Conference

The Vermont Workers' Center is working with dozens of campus and community organizations to recognize the week of December 7-13 as Human Rights Week, ending with the Ella Baker Human Rights Conference on Saturday the 13th. The Ella Baker Human Rights Conference will be held from 9am - 3pm at the Davis Center at the University of Vermont. This December 10 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and December 13 will be the 105th anniversary of the birth of civil rights leader Ella Baker. The conference will feature workshops on a wide range of topics in the human rights framework, including healthcare, workers' rights, livable wages, tenants'/housing rights, the war, anti-racism and civil rights, women's rights, gender oppression and LGBTQ rights.

Our goals are to popularize and deepen understanding of and commitment to the human rights framework and movement-building strategies among our base and allies and to bring together organizations from different movements to discuss the intersections of our work. We are hoping to involve a large segment of the Vermont community in this conference and week of activities, which is going to be a free statewide event. We are confident that together we can use this as an important opportunity to advance the movement for human rights.For more information, contact conference@workerscenter.org