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My Radio Arte – First Voice piece regarding the 31st Street Cooperative featuring interviews with Chicago IWW Branch & Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) activist Mike Pitula & residents of Little Village.
Pplinterviews31st by metro3pesos
December 12th, 2010
Welcome to First Voice on Radio Arte, broadcasting live every Tuesday from the heart of [...]
Chicago streets go on a road diet – chicagotribune.com.
Hilkevich came out with this story a few weeks ago.
There is a climate change angle to this story. That is that current forecasts for climate change in Chicago suggests we’ll be seeing (and we’ve already been seeing) increased precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) Paved surfaces increase flooding [...]
Chicago taxi co. to use natural-gas powered cabs | Transportation | Crain’s Chicago Business
Natural gas burns much cleaner in the city and reduces air pollution. That is a good thing.
But it should be noted that natural gas is a fossil fuel. It still has environmental impacts where it is mined.
Burning it [...]
The Chicago IWW and LVEJO have been looking into what it would take to form a worker self-managed, community-controlled transit cooperative to run bus service along the 31st St. corridor. We are exploring the possibility of a better service, owned by those who operate it, with union-scale wages and benefits, for less [...]
2 LVEJO organizers wrote for this issue. Please come out and celebrate with us.
Busy Building Buslines
LVEJO’s efforts to improve public transit
The Infrastructure of Survival
Who Owns Chicago’s Water System?
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On October 1, 2010, AREA Chicago is releasing its tenth issue: Institutions & Infrastructures at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E [...]
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Cosponsors – Little Village Environmental Justice Organization – Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241 – EcoJustice Collaborative – IWW GMB OC - Nuclear Energy Information Service – Pilsen [...]
