by BRU Supporter
Friday, May. 23, 2003 at 11:26 PM
213-387-2800 (BRU)
Overflow crowd of bus riders, led by the Bus Riders Union, plus labor activists and other mass transit activists testifies against MTA fare increase, but MTA passes the increase anyway by one vote.
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The MTA held a public meeting today to vote on a proposed fare restructuring proposal that will have disastrous consequences for the city's mostly impoverished bus riders. Leading the opposition to this increase is the Bus Riders Union (BRU), which mobilized an enormous contingent of mostly poor working and unemployed bus riders to attend the meeting and testify against the increase.
The following pictures are chronologically ordered and the captions briefly tell the story of the meeting.
Media coverage was extensive and I just heard channel 5's report and for corporate media it was fairly informative. When a significant people's movement flexes its muscle in public it _is_ still possible to break through, or at least ruffle, the media's "corporate curtain."
www.busridersunion.org
