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Written By: king1028skwirl on April 5, 2012 No Comment

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Who are We?

The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization is a grassroots community led organization committed to leadership development for the sustainable self determination of Little Village [...]

Written By: king1028skwirl on February 1, 2011 No Comment

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 [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on January 25, 2011 No Comment

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 [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on January 24, 2011 No Comment
Chicago taxi co. to use natural-gas powered cabs | Transportation | Crain’s Chicago Business

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 [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on November 9, 2010 No Comment
31st Street Bus cooperative

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 [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on September 30, 2010 No Comment
AREA #10 Release

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 [...]

Written By: Transit Organizer on September 1, 2010 No Comment
Chicago Clean Air and Water Show

Stay tuned for updates on the Chicago Clean Air and Water Show. It was a hit. We had 30 riders on the 31st Street Bus Route to the beach.

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