On January 26th, 2010, LAUSD students from the Community Rights Campaign launched a new initiative for greater accountability from the Los Angeles School Police Department with actions at Manuel Arts, Westchester, and Cleveland High Schools. Students weathered the rain to promote the campaign to students, teachers and community members at these sites in coordination with the release of the Community Rights Campaign and Los Angeles Chapter of the Dignity in School's, Police in LAUSD Schools.

Press Release: Over the past three years the BRU has faced
a dilemma, while the Mayor has verbally supported bus-only lanes, he has yet to
prioritize funding the project.

On Tuesday, September 22, the Community Rights Campaign will be urging the Neighborhoods and Education Committee of the Los Angeles City Council to oppose the motion to amend Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.04 (LaBonge-Parks) being considered at 3:30pm.

On Thursday, August 27, at 10:00 a.m.,
representatives from Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), along
with dozens of other organizations, will hold press conferences and then will
personally deliver a letter to the Attorney General's offices in Sacramento,
Oakland, and Los Angeles.  The letter urges the
state not to appeal a Federal three judge
panel decision, ordering California
to come up with a plan by September 18th to reduce the number of
prisoners by 44,000 and address horrific prison conditions. The State has until September 3rd
to file a notice of appeal.

Thursday, June
11-The Bus Riders Union (BRU) was successful in halting a Los Angeles County
MTA Board of Directors vote to adopt the 2009 Long Range Transportation Plan
(LRTP), a $270 billion, 35-year blueprint for regional transportation. This
came just 2 days after the MTA notified the public about a scheduled vote at a
Special Board meeting, misleadingly titled a LRTP "workshop." And less than 24
hours after MTA staff made this 60-paged document available for the public to
review. On behalf of MTA Chair Antonio Villaraigosa, Director Richard Katz
asked the Board to hold off on the vote in order to provide the public
sufficient time to review the 2009 LRTP. The Board moved to revisit the 2009
LRTP at the July Board meeting.

Join LVEJO for a press conference. We will celebrate Earth Day by calling for economic recovery through public transit. Little Village Environmental Justice Organization will give an update on the new CTA 31st Street Bus Route and will also be announcing Transit Riders for Public Transportation (TRPT), a new national campaign to shift federal transportation policy.

From the buses and trains in Chicago to Atlanta to Los Angeles, TRTP is advocating for an 80% public transit and 20% freeway funding formula split in the next $500 billion Federal Surface Transportation Act (FSTA) currently under discussion in the House of Representatives. Since the 1950’s the FSTA has locked federal funds 80/20 in favor of highways. Reauthorized every six years, the current act is set to expire in September of this year and is being hailed as the next “six year stimulus.”