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  • Comment now to ensure Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes get approved!
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    The draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes Project has been released for public review! Your comments will be critical during this time because full public participation makes the Environmental Impact Report that much stronger.

  • Video from May 27th MTA Board Meeting
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    The BRU's campaign to defeat MTA's racist fare increase reached a fever pitch on Thursday, May 27, when 150 BRU members and allies shut down the MTA Board.

  • Wilshire bus lane study to be released next week
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    The long-sought project to add a bus lane to 9.5 miles of Wilshire Boulevard for peak hour commutes will take a step forward next week when a draft environmental impact report is released jointly by Metro, along with the city and county of Los Angeles.

     

  • Hunger Fast Showdown at MTA--Recap
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    After months of campaigning and an intensive week of fasting and organizing at the Rosa Parks Tent City, 150 BRU members and allies shut down the MTA Board. We were left with no choice but to stop business as usual. We brought the MTA Board meeting to a halt for the better part of 4 hours. In the process, two of our organizers, Sunyoung Yang and Gabriel Strachota, were arrested in an act of civil disobedience. Here's a recap of the day...

  • Profiles of the Fasters: Staci Williams & Rosa Miranda
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    Interviews with two of the BRU hunger fasters. Rosa Miranda, inmigrante mexicano, lives in Westlake, mother of 3, a bus rider. Staci Williams, unemployed, lives in South LA, mother of 2, a bus rider.

  • LA Times, media breakthrough on fight to stop fare hikes
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    Yesterday on the front page of their local news section, the LA Times ran a strong story on our fight to stop MTA's racist fare hikes. We also saw excellent coverage in La Opinion, by radio and on television (so far we have confirmed coverage on Channel 7, NBC Channel 4). The Times article quoted BRU Co-Chair Barbara Lott-Holland and lead organizer Esperanza Martinez talking...

  • Part 2: Are we still trying to change the world?
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    Last November, I blogged about being disturbed by the absence of anger and the outrage in the middle of the worst economic crisis in 80 years. But maybe things are starting to change. Last week the L.A. Daily News was talking about people feeling left out if they didn't have a protest...on Wednesday.
  • UPDATED In surprise move, Mayor reaches out to BRU for public hearing
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    UPDATE 4/22: On Thursday, April 15, Mayor Villaraigosa introduced Motion #49 to the MTA Board, with L.A. DOT General Manger Rita Robinson and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. The motion proposes an informational briefing to announce the fare increase and listen to “comments”; this is not a public hearing and not...

Radio Show Interviews

Every Monday 4 - 5 pm on Pacifica 90.7 KPFA in LA

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  • Gary Grant: Shirley Sherrod, racial hypocrisy, & Black farmers

    The President of the Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association, himself the son and grandson of Black farmers, talks about the hypocrisies of the Shirley Sherrod controversy -- how the US Department of Agriculture caved to a fallacious right-wing attack by firing a veteran of the Black civil rights movement while white USDA officials continue denying justice to Black farmers by flouting the federal court decision in the civil rights case Pickford vs Glickman.

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  • Fahad Ahmed: The Islamic Center near Ground Zero and the Right-wing attack on US Muslims

    An organizer in the fight to challenge Islamophobia talks about the controversy of the Islamic Center planned for lower Manhattan -- how the campaign led by Sara Palin, Rick Lazio, and the Anti-Defamation League is the leading edge of a much larger Right-wing offensive against Islam in the US . Where has the Left gotten in wrong on the question of Islam and where is the fightback?

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  • Robert Weil: The free market and grassroots resistance in contemporary India and China

    An expert on modern China and India talks about the transition to market socialism in China, the growing Maoist movement in India, and the historically divergent and increasingly convergent paths of two global economic superpowers emerging in Asia.

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  • Rick Wolff: Austerity & Class War in Europe & the US

    The well-known radical economist breaks down the economic and political crisis in Greece and the grassroots response from the Greek Left, drawing paraelles between the so-called austerity crisis sweeping Europe and the deep crisis here in the US, and what long-term and short-term demands should be advanced by the a US movement in waiting.

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