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Peter is making quite the impact in the Chicago Beyond Coal ad campaign! More outlets have gotten wind of the ad launch and have started connecting the coal fights on both the local and national level: The American Independent: http://www.americanindependent.com/194831/obamas-smog-decision-backed-by-big-business-donors-called-a-huge-loss-for-public-health “I want to fight for my kid to be able to breathe, [...] Little Village, Chicago-At 11:00am today, six activists with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), Rising Tide North America, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the Backbone Campaign were arrested after climbing the fence to Midwest Generation’s controversial Crawford coal plant in Little Village. The activists unfurled a 7′ x 30′ banner atop a 20 [...] Our mission is to work with our families, coworkers, and neighbors to improve our environment and lives in Little Village and through out Chicago through democracy in action. We work for a real voice in building democracy, including if, how, when and where any development of our communities takes place, as the basis for environmental, [...]
Transit Riders for Public Transportation (TRPT) is a new national campaign that aims to intervene in the reauthorization of the national surface transportation act. We are changing the terms of the debate by flipping the script. TRPT is asking for an 80% transportation and 20% highway and freeway funding split as a major step towards improving mass transit and stopping the catastrophic speed of global warming. Present federal transit funding has a “formula” of 80% for freeway and highway and only 20% to public transportation. The current act, reauthorized every six years is set to expire in September of this year, and the next act is being hailed as the next “six year stimulus,” worth $500 billion. TRPT is meeting with congressional representatives from Oregon, to New York, to Atlanta, to Los Angeles, and also leading grassroots district campaigns. Continue reading Quality Public Transit is important to everyone! Stand Up for Your Right to Social Justice.
by Melanie Cervantes of JustSeeds The City of Chicago has a history of privatizing public assets in order to get a quick influx of cash to fill budget holes (the Chicago Skyway and the city’s parking meters were both leased out to private companies, to name a couple examples). Chicago’s economic state is not getting any better, but rather than looking for creative, long-term solutions, the city is continuing with their short-sighted strategy of looking for publicly owned resources to sell off to the highest bidder. The next thing handed over to a for-profit corporation may be a resource so basic that no one can live without it – our public water system. Continue reading Don’t Privatize Our Water |
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