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LNS and our partners had a successful Transit Equity Week 2026 🥳 🚃 🚌 Watch this video to learn what this day means to us and how we celebrated! We are excited to continue growing our transit equity work and organizing riders and workers everywhere. #TransitEquityDay
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The next video in our series is out!
Based on the report by Jeremy Brecher, "Social Strikes: Can General Strikes, Mass Strikes, and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny?"
In collaboration with @LN4S
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They said “unions couldn’t win in the South.”
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga said, watch this.
A first-ever union contract.
20% raises.
Better healthcare.
Real protections.
That’s worker power. ✊🏿
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Our Executive Director, Joshua Dedmond, was a guest on the Redneck Gone Green podcast with David Cobb!
Same Boss, Same Enemy: Why Workers and Environmentalists Win Together—or Not at All
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The hardworking @ATUComm Local 268 operators, mechanics, and other frontline transit workers keep us moving across Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. That's why we're celebrating ATU transit workers with coffee and donuts at both @GCRTA bus garages.
Without the ability to move about freely, we don't have freedom at all. That is why desegregating public transit was one of the most important strategies of the Civil Rights Movement; and why we recognize February 4, Rosa Park's birthday, as #TransitEquityDay.
ALT Transit Equity Day Photo of Rosa Parks against photo of bus in background
Check out this video series from ZNetwork about Social Strikes--the latest report from our co-founder & senior strategic advisor, Jeremy Brecher!
Next video in our ongoing series is up!
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This Transit Equity Day, we remember Claudette Colvin, the civil rights icon who passed away last month at age 86. Colvin refused to move from a bus in Montgomery, Alabama when she was 15 years old riding home from school, 9 months before Rosa Parks did.
Although Colvin’s brave act and large impact was not always given the credit she deserved, she was one of the 4 plaintiffs involved in the first federal court case challenging bus segregation in Montgomery.
Have you seen a bench like this appear at a bus stop in your community? It's likely not from the transit agency--it's built by community advocates and volunteers! 💪
In response to this, there has been a growing movement of grassroots groups who build, paint, install, and maintain a network of unauthorized bus stop benches in their communities--in San Francisco, Nashville, Connecticut, Washington, Denver, Kansas City, and more.
Public transit is essential infrastructure that all communities deserve. However, the operating costs which are essential to keep our buses, trains, and trolleys running on a day-to-day basis are often ignored.
We must advocate for better resources and equitably funded transit systems that improve reliability, access, and affordability.
Here are 2 bills that allow us to do just that. Call your reps and tell them why you believe these are essential to support! #TransitEquityDay
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In celebration of Transit Equity Day, @LN4S & Transit Equity Network are hosting: Transit Moves Democracy–a national day of action and storytelling that lifts up workers, riders, and communities fighting for just, accessible, and fully funded public transit.
Happy Transit Equity Day! And happy birthday to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who this day was created in honor of for her fight for transit justice and racial equity during Jim Crow in 1955.
Transit Equity Day was created by a network of labor unions to commemorate Parks and other civil rights icons and to advocate for accessible, reliable, and affordable transit powered by renewable energy for all people.