Si Kahn and Scott Ainslie: Concerts for Change
The details:
Barre Dinner and Concert for Change with Si Kahn & Scott Ainslie
Saturday, June 6th, dinner at 5:00, concert at 7:00p.m. All are welcome.
Old Labor Hall
46 Granite Street
Barre, VT 05641
Tickets: $25
Brattleboro Concert for Change with Si Kahn & Scott Ainslie
Sunday, June 7th, 7:00 p.m. All are welcome.
West Village Meeting House/All Souls UU Church
20 South Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
Tickets: $15
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Barre Dinner and Concert for Change
North Carolina organizer and songwriter Si Kahn will be in town for the annual meeting of the Vermont Workers' Center and will be joined by Brattleboro blues artist, Scott Ainslie for a concert at the Old Labor Hall in Barre, VT on Saturday June 6th at 7:00 p.m. The concert follows the Vermont Workers' Center's annual celebration dinner which starts at 5:00. One ticket gets you both dinner and the concert! All are welcome!
Brattleboro Concert for Change
Brattleboro's Scott Ainslie will join North Carolina organizer and songwriter Si Kahn for a special community building concert at All Souls Church / West Village Meeting House in Brattleboro, VT on Sunday, June 7th at 7:00 p.m.
Raising Money for Social Justice Organizations
The performers are donating their services to raise money for two social justice organizations and in the interest of developing a network of musicians and artists to work for change. All are welcome.
Proceeds from the concerts will benefit the Vermont Worker's Center and its Healthcare Is A Human Right campaign, and Kahn's NC-based Grassroots Leadership Campaign To End Immigrant Family Detention – a part of their longstanding campaign to close all for-profit corporate prisons in the United States.
The Vermont Workers' Center's 11th Anniversary: Healthcare Is A Human Right
Ainslie & Kahn's 'Concert for Change' is a part of a grassroots organizing tour in celebration of the 11th Anniversary of the Vermont Worker's Center (VMC) which has been building a grassroots network of Vermonters in support of worker's rights and social justice. Following on their historic, Healthcare Is A Human Right rally which brought more than 1,000 people to the Statehouse in Montpelier on May 1st, the VMC is presenting this Grassroots Organizing Tour with Si Kahn with events in Burlington, Barre, and the 'Concert for Change' in Brattleboro. The full tour schedule and more information on the VMC is available on line at: www.workerscenter.org.
"I'm happy to be returning to Vermont, one of the places I feel most at home in our United States," Kahn says, "and to support the work of the Vermont Worker Center, a truly effective and important organization. I'm also delighted to be sharing the stage with my friend and former North Carolina neighbor, Scott Ainslie, one of the great artist/activists of our time."
Grassroots Leadership: Ending Immigrant Family Detention & Corporate Prisons
Founded by Si Kahn in 1980, Grassroots Leadership is a southern-based national organization that seeks to defend democracy, to enhance the public good, and to stop the erosion of our commonwealth and the public sphere through research, issue advocacy, public education, and direct action organizing.
Since 1999, Grassroots Leadership has worked to abolish all for-profit private prisons, jails and detention centers, as a step towards establishing a prison and criminal justice system that is truly humane and just. Proceeds from this event will support Grassroots Leadership's national Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, the recently-adopted practice of putting children as young as infants in prison with their parents, a policy that generates profits for business including the much maligned Corrections Corporation of America. More information on Grassroots Leadership is available on line at www.grassrootsleadership.org.
Grassroots Organizing for a Fair and Humane Society
Ainslie says, "We are interested in energizing and organizing people who believe that our healthcare system and our criminal justice systems have to be changed to make them more fair, more humane, and less destructive. These changes, like most change, will not come about as a result of one vote or one victory. It will come when people of goodwill and vision conceive of it, organize for it, and demand it. Real significant change takes us all."
According to Ainslie, "The 'Concert for Change' and Si's Vermont Worker's Center tour are rallying points for people from all across Vermont to gather, to meet one and other, and to begin to build a community of conscience that can effectively mobilize public opinion and influence public policy. We will also, of course, be celebrating in music, the identification and mobilization of this community."
Dawn Stanger, President of the Vermont Worker's Center, says, "We are very excited to able to bring Si to Vermont right now, when the need and the opportunities for winning lasting positive changes for social and economic justice have never been greater. Si's music and message are uplifting and inspiring. We are glad to partner with Grassroots Leadership and bring attention to the important immigrant rights work they are doing."
Barre, VT dinner and concert:
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Tax deductible donations to the causes can be made at: www.grassrootsleadership.org or www.workerscenter.org.
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