Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign organizer Sunyoung Yang promotes "CRUDE" for its excellent portrayal of Ecuador's indigenous groups and colonial rainforest dwellers' fight against U.S. oil giant Chevron Texaco. 

Strategy Center organizer Tammy Bang Luu will co-moderate a discussion led by Nobel Prize- winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, titled "Challenging the G20's Agenda of Corporate Globalization." Chaired by President Obama, the G-20 Summit opens this week in Pittsburgh.

There are two major breakthroughs for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes Campaign this month.  First on Wednesday September 22nd the city council approved the recommendations made by L.A. Department of Transportation and the MTA to conduct a full Environmental Impact Report for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes Project. Secondly, Congress has approved the 2010 budget for transportation which includes the second installment of $13.5 million, awarding a total of $23.3 million of federal funding for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lanes Project.

We, the undersigned, join with Community Rights Campaign in urging you to withdraw your motion in support of expanding Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) 45.04 to allow police officers to cite students on public school grounds.  We are very concerned about the negative impacts that expanding the jurisdiction of law enforcement to address issues of school discipline will have on our students and school communities.

We, the undersigned, join with the Community Rights Campaign in urging you to withdraw your motion in support of expanding Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) 45.04 to allow police officers to cite students on public school grounds.  We are very concerned about the negative impacts that expanding the jurisdiction of law enforcement to address issues of school discipline will have on our students and school communities.

Join us in urging LAUSD and City Council to oppose the expansion of Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.04 and to implement a moratorium on daytime curfew ticketing.

As a result of the press release that the Community Rights Campaign sent out last week regarding the systemic problems within the Los Angeles School Police Department and the LA Weekly article titled LAUSD's Finest I will be on KPCC's Air talk with Larry Mantle tomorrow from 10:30-11:00am.

On August 29th, 2009 the Community Rights Campaign and its Summer Youth Organizing Academy held our third annual Graduation Celebration at a local community marketplace, Mercado La Paloma.  Through spoken word pieces, each SYOA alumni reenacted a revolutionary activist/organizer from the past that inspires their work today--as they train to be the next generation of civil/human rights organizers with the Community Rights Campaign.

In the second part of our series of delegation visit reportbacks for the Transit Rider's for Public Transportation National Campaign, Bus Rider's Union members, John Bell and Maria Paz Jaen, visited the office of their congressmember, Xavier Becerra on Thursday September 3, 2009.  They urged Congressman Becerra to co-sponsor and support H.R. 2746 and the TRPT campaign platform for better low fare bus service for low income communities of color.

BRU member Rosa Miranda shares her experience of our run in with the Mayor.