[Peace-discuss] Vermont Healthcare Advocates Disrupt Legislature

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

Vermont Healthcare Advocates Disrupt Legislature

Description: Healthcare is a human right Vermont 2011


By Staff,  <http://www.PopularResistance.org> www.PopularResistance.org
January 8th, 2015

Above: After building a statewide campaign for healthcare as a human right
led by the Vermont Workers Center, Vermont passed a law that provided for
universal healthcare. In 2015 the governor said he could not find a way to
fund it and abandoned the law (Photo: Vermont Workers' Center).

Health care protesters disrupt inauguration, demand healthcare is a human
right

 
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/08/we-wont-back-down-vermont-prote
sters-launch-sit-statehouse-demanding-universal> Common Dreams reports on a
sit-in at the Vermont legislature on January 8, 2015:

 
<https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Vermont-health
care-protest-Put-People-First-Banner-Source-Burlington-Free-Press-e142076149
7486.jpg> Description: Vermont healthcare protester holds sign "Put People
First" Banner, Source Burlington Free-Press by GLENN RUSSELL

Vermont healthcare protester holds sign "Put People First" Banner, Source
Burlington Free-Press by GLENN RUSSELL

Protesters occupied the chambers of the Vermont Statehouse Thursday
afternoon, saying they refuse to leave until legislators meet their demands
to respect the first-ever U.S. law for universal, publicly-funded health
care, won by social movements nearly four years ago yet stymied by the
governor last month.

The Vermont Workers Center is pushing the legislature to proceed to funding
the universal health care plan even without Governor Shumlin.
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/08/health-ca
re-protesters-disrupt-inauguration/21457063/%20> The Burlington Free Press
reported:

The protesters, organized by the Vermont Workers' Center through the Health
Care is a Human Right Campaign, demanded that House Speaker Shap Smith,
D-Morristown, schedule a public hearing on single-payer financing by Jan.
29.

 
<https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Vermont-health
-care-protesters-disrupt-inaugural.-Source-Burlington-Free-Press-e1420761616
753.jpg> Description: Single-payer protestors disrupt Gov. Peter Shumlin's
inauguration ceremony at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Thursday, January
8, 2015. Source: Burlington Free Press by GLENN RUSSELL

Health care advocates disrupt Gov. Peter Shumlin's inauguration ceremony at
the Statehouse in Montpelier on Thursday, January 8, 2015. Source:
Burlington Free Press by GLENN RUSSELL

James Haslam, executive director of the Vermont Workers' Center, called the
day's demonstration "incredibly effective overall" and said "it was
absolutely peaceful and civil."

"We came here today with hundreds of people to say . that this is something
that is far too important to not move forward on," Haslam said.

The protest was designed to coincide with the inauguration of Governor
Shumlin. Common Dreams reported:

Immediately preceding the occupation, nearly 200 protesters had filled the
halls of the statehouse, singing, "We have come too far, we won't back down.
We'll flood these halls with justice, the time is Now!"

According to the Burlington Free-Press "As of 5:30 p.m., the protesters
remained seated on the floor of the House chamber, long after the
sergeant-at-arms had instructed them to prepare to leave the building."

More photos and tweets below.

 
<https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Vermont-Sit-in
-at-the-Capitol-January-8-2014-Burlington-Free-Press.jpg> Description:
Healthcare protesters sit down in the well of the House chamber after Gov.
Peter Shumlin's inauguration ceremony at the Statehouse in Montpelier on
Thursday, January 8, 2015. Photo: GLENN RUSSEL of the Burlington Free Press)

Healthcare protesters sit down in the well of the House chamber after Gov.
Peter Shumlin's inauguration ceremony at the Statehouse in Montpelier on
Thursday, January 8, 2015. Photo: GLENN RUSSEL of the Burlington Free Press)

 
<https://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Vermont-health
care-activists-hold-sign-The-Time-Is-Now-January-8-2014-from-Burlington-Free
-Press.jpg> Description: Vermont healthcare activists hold sign 'The Time Is
Now' January 8, 2014, from Burlington Free Press

Health care advocates disrupt Gov. Peter Shumlin's inauguration ceremony at
the Statehouse in Montpelier on Thursday, January 8, 2015. Photo: GLENN
RUSSELL, Burlington Free Press

 

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