[van-announce] Bus Riders Union Organizing

[Bus Riders Union]

                       Bus Riders Union
          TAKING IT TO TRANSLINK, TAKING IT TO THE STREETS

  This fall the Bus Riders Union campaign to fight transit racism and win
back the Night Owl buses kicks into high gear.  In late September we’ll
be releasing a document based on our grassroots research on the impacts
of the Night Owl cuts.  Based on 18 months of organizing and over 75
“Public Transit Rights Violation” forms – testimonials filled out by bus
riders in their own words.  This document refutes once and for all the
TransLink claim that ‘no one really needs the night owl buses’ and shows
clearly who relies on access to late night service: low-wage workers,
many of them immigrants and refugees, and most of them women and youth.

  In early October we’ll be taking this document and our anger and energy
to the TransLink board meeting and demanding an immediate restoration of
the Night Owl buses.  We’re calling on all allies and activists to stack
this meeting and force TransLink to respond to the needs of the working
class and marginalized people of this region.

  We’re also working to contribute to building a broad and international
movement for social and economic justice.  On September 10th we’ll be
hosting a public forum on “building anti-imperialist practice from the
ground up” and presenting a skit about the WTO produced in partnership
with the Group of Friends and Relatives of Political Prisoners in
Mexico.  And on September 28 we’ll join the world in marching against
war and the occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.

  Finally on October 11 our fall campaign will culminate with a March for
Economic Human Rights!  For our communities’ right to jobs, housing,
healthcare, education and transit.

  Get involved!  Join us for one of these upcoming events or get in touch
at 604 215 2772 or bru at resist.ca

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, September 10, 7pm
SFU Harbour Centre
Educate! Organize! Mobilize! Building anti-imperialist practice from the
ground up.
Theatre, slide presentation, music and discussion.  Find out about BRU
organizing on the buses, in the streets and in the community.

Wednesday, October 1, 9am
Place TBA
TransLink Board Meeting
Help us turn the TransLink Boardroom into bus riders turf as we take our
demands for Night Owl Buses: End the Curfew Now!

Saturday, October 4, 10am
SFU Habour Centre
Public Meeting
Find out about the BRU and help plan for our October demonstration.  Also
join us for a theater performance about the tyranny of the Skytrain
police, produced by the Carnegie theatre group.

Saturday, October 11, 1pm
Main Street Skytrain
March for Economic Human Rights!
For our communities right to jobs, housing, healthcare, education and
transit!


Bus Riders Union
407-119 West Pender Street, Vancouver
(604) 215-2775
http://bru.resist.ca/
bru at resist.ca