Petition: We Demand a Just Transit System in New York City
We call upon President Barack Obama, Congress, Governor Patterson, Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Council to ensure that there are sufficient funds from the "Bail Out Funds" to end the public transportation crisis in New York & implement the following:
Reopen all toll booths, maintain 24 hours and current bus and train linesservice;
Reduce train and bus fares to $1. and maintain benefits to students, seniors and the disabled;
Immediately hire additional transportation workers to ensure routes, saftey and cleaniness;
Freeze all layoffs;
Immediately implement an extensive upgrade and expansion program, including a "light rail system;"
Ensure that 50% of workers hired are from the communities of color with the highest unemployment rate;
Disband the current MTA Board & replace with a publicly funded entity that is directly accountable to the residents
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STOP THE M.T.A.!
Rock the MTA’s “Public Hearings”
Bail Out Riders, Not the Banks!
DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE
THEN DEMONSTRATE INSIDE
BROOKLYN:
Wednesday, January 28th – 5 pm
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
333 Adams Street between Fulton & Johnson
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A,C,F to Jay St-Borough Hall
M,R to Lawrence St.
2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall
BRONX:
Wednesday, February 4th – 5:00 pm
Lehman College, CUNY, Lovinger Theatre
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
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4 to Bedford Park-Lehman College
B,D to Bedford Park
The MTA is bringing its panel of bankers and billionaires to Brooklyn and the Bronx-- its very own Farehike-apolooza -- Wednesday night for another so-called public hearing.
Like last week, the Bail Out the People Movement will be there to confront the Wall Street executives and rally the people who come out to the hearing. On January 14, BOPM turned the sidewalk in front of the Hilton into a “People’s Public Hearing,” where transit workers, students and activists rallied 100 people against the MTA. The entire demonstration then marched en masse into the hearing (see YouTube coverage below).
On Wednesday, the demonstration will also continue inside the hearing, with dozens of placards demanding that the MTA scrap its plans to make workers bear the brunt of its debt crisis.
The Times said yesterday that this year 1 out of 6 people will be unemployed this year, a figure which does not take into account the number among immigrant workers and others. Bank of America just got $20 billion more.
Now is not the time to be raising fares and cutting services. Now’s the time for the banks to use the billions they’ve sucked out of mass transit, the treasury and our labor -- and BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE.
NO FARE HIKES -- NO LAYOFFS
NO SERVICE CUTS -- NO BRIDGE TOLLS
ON YOUTUBE
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