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Who is Oscar Grant?

Transit Justice — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:01:47 +0000

Do you know who Oscar Grant is? Do you know what happened to him on the train platfrom in Oakland? Have you seen this on TV, in the newspaper, on the radio?

Check out Youth Radio’s Grant Station: A Killing and the Aftermath.

Transit Action Meeting-Blogging

alinares — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:52:53 +0000

July 9, 2010 meeting. LVEJO Transit organizer, Mike Pitula, assisted 3 people set up a blog. ^ people were able to attend the meeting.

The LVEJO transit meeting overviewed:

-LVEJO’s participation in the US Social Forum

-Saw the article on the rally for next week (July 14, 2010 at 10:00am at CTA Headquarters Building 567 W. Lake.

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Labor Beat: Stop CTA Service Cuts

king1028skwirl — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:15:38 +0000

A rally against mass transit service cuts in Chicago took place on Dec. 9, 2009. Carlos Acevedo, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, told a large protest crowd in front of CTA headquarters: “It seems the riding public gets numb to it because it seems not to happen, they get bailed [...]

Labor Beat: Rally for Mass Transit

Transit Justice — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:12:17 +0000

A two-part show

On CAN TV Chicago cable tv Channel 19:

Thurs., Feb. 18, 9:30 pm Fri., Feb. 19, 4:30 pm Thurs., Feb. 25, 9:30 pm Fri., Feb. 26, 4:30 pm

On Evanston Cable Channel 6:

Mon., March 1, 5:30 pm Wed., March 3, 9:00 pm Sat., March 6, 12:30 am Mon., March 8, 5:30 pm Wed. March 10, 9:00 pm Sat., March 13, 12:30 am

1. Rally [...]

Doomsday 2010 – Day 1

Transit Justice — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:15:44 +0000

We’ve had a couple updates from riders on how the Doomsday is affecting them. So far here is what we’ve heard:
One rider from the Art Institute to Little Village told us a one train, one bus trip that normally takes 40 minutes took an hour. There was a longer wait on both [...]