National

From the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), hold a press conference with doctors and public health experts representing tens of thousands of health care professionals nationwide.

Together, Sanders and the public health leaders will highlight the lifesaving importance of vaccines in protecting children, families and communities — and push back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dangerous, decades-long crusade against vaccines and his promotion of conspiracy theories that have been repeatedly debunked by scientists.

Joined by:

• Dr. Georges Benjamin, American Public Health Association — representing 450 public health organizations and 23,000 individual members
• Dr. Woodie Kessel, Doctors for America — representing more than 40,000 physicians and health care professionals
• Dr. Roger Mitchell, National Medical Association — representing more than 50,000 African American physicians and professionals

For more information visit: https://www.sanders.senate.gov

From the organizers:

Trump has declared open season on immigrants, LQBTQ+ folks, activists, and workers. The scale and breadth of his administration's attacks have left many people feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to fight back. But resistance is possible, and is starting to grow everywhere.

Organized workers are uniquely positioned to push back against these attacks. We have the power to bring the system to a halt through collective action. Join us as we hear from a variety of local union activists and discuss strategies for building a fighting resistance.

Speakers:

• Migrant Activist, Will Lambek interpreting, Migrant Justice
• Matt Gile, Winooski NEA
• Elizabeth Dunford, VT Labor for Palestine, UVM Staff United
• Nolan Rampy, AFSCME 1674, Tempest Collective

Trump and the billionaires are carrying out class war on workers, the poor, and oppressed. The majority of people in this country oppose all of their attacks. But the Democratic Party establishment has refused to fight, disappointing so many that it is now more unpopular than Trump and the GOP. We cannot rely on them to stop the regime; we have to.

We have to organize bigger marches, rallies, and most importantly political strikes to defend our democracy, rights, wages, and benefits. From the Day without an Immigrant in 2006 to illegal strikes that founded most unions in the 1930s and 1960s, the workers movement has led such struggles in the past. So have unions in countries throughout the world from the militant strikes that toppled apartheid in South Africa to the mass actions and strikes that just stopped a far right coup in South Korea.

Join the Tempest Collective for a panel that will discuss how unions and workers can organize and deploy our power to save what we have and win what we want.

For more information visit: https://tempestmag.org/

From the organizers:

In the face of global opposition, the US and Israel continue to starve and bomb Gaza. Now is not the time for despair, but action. Join Vermonters statewide to make some noise together whether at home, work, or together in common actions on Saturday 8/9 at 11:15 am. Bang pots and pans to demand that the US and Israel end the siege and war on Gaza and allow unlimited food aid to save hundreds of thousands of people from starvation.

At the actions, call on people to join our campaign to get towns to pass Apartheid Free Communities and enact Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel. Also, speak out against the proposed bill H.310, which if passed and enacted would target activists and organizations by conflating support for Palestine with antisemitism.

Meghan O'Rourke, CCTV, hosts a conversation with Sheebah Nabukenya and Catherine Turyamureeba. Alishbah (Sheebah) Nabukenya, age 13 of South Burlington, VT was chosen by Breakthrough T1D, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, to join a delegation of their peers and celebrity advocates in Washington, D.C., this summer at Breakthrough T1D 2025 Children’s Congress from July 7-9, 2025.

For more information visit: https://cc.breakthrought1d.org | https://cc.breakthrought1d.org/delegates-search/?location=vermont

From Breakthrough T1D Children's Congress:

Sheebah is an amazing, thoughtful young lady who, in a group of 11 kids between all her cousins, is always known for her passionate and detailed writing skills. She is also a strong, pain-resistant kid; because of this, her family didn’t immediately recognize she had T1D. She was diagnosed after a scary moment on a family vacation to New York City. Sheebah has since taken charge of her own care, with the need for minimal help here and there. As a Delegate, she wants to advocate for access to more affordable insulin and glucose monitoring devices. Sheebah would love to be a real estate agent when she grows up. She wants to sell houses because she knows it will make her a lot of money, and she will be able to take care of her mother.

Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress was inspired by a boy from Massachusetts named Thom Solo. One day, at age nine, he asked his mother, “Why can’t kids go to Washington and tell their Representatives about what it’s like to have type 1 diabetes and let them know that we want scientists to find a cure?” His mom and other leadership volunteers agreed, and, in 1999, the first-ever Children’s Congress took place in Washington, D.C. Since then, more than 1,000 kids with T1D have served as delegates, and the event has been essential to securing continued government funding for T1D research and raising awareness of the daily burden experienced by people living with this serious autoimmune disease. Delegates form lifelong friendships, meet T1D role models, develop leadership skills, and leave Children’s Congress empowered to use their voices to power progress on the path to cures. To learn more about Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress, visit: cc.breakthrought1d.org.