Today’s front page AlterNet article begins with “A people's movement is leading the way to establishing the first genuinely universal healthcare system in the country.” The article, by investigative journalist and independent mediamaker Karen Ranucci, chronicles decades of efforts for universal health care in Vermont, and poses the question: What pushed it over the edge?  The NESRI community already knows the answer is that the people of Vermont, through the leadership of the Vermont Workers Center, took matters into their own hands.