It's a funny strike, to not ride the bus. Instead of a big group of people in one location, it is a lot of people staying home or getting a ride.
The revolution may not be televised, but it will be "telephoned".
Even after today, don't stop calling Metro. If we don't demand change, they won't volunteer it. Between the fat cat executives, protecting their own salaries and bonuses (paid for with public tax money and rider fares), and the pencil pushers that just want to keep their jobs, there is no one at Metro, or any government agency or council, that is looking out for the rider.
They are robbing us blind, but we are letting them rob us. Until we demand change and make our voices impossible to ignore, business will continue as usual.
They will keep putting in "landscaping" at transfer centers, instead of building toilet facilities. Fares will increase every two years automatically, even though the fare increases do little more than offset the $5 million they spend in "contributions to outside entities" (political campaign contributions), and won't even make a dent in the $26 million a year interest on their debts.
Rider fares only supply $72 million of their $350 million a operating budget, but they will milk us for every red cent they can get. (Of course, they won't take our pennies anymore. When they did have extra money they spent it on new fare boxes. Did that help their riders? No. They were just sick of pennies. So what if many of their riders have to scrape up change to get their fares? Metro is not about making things better for their customers.)
July 4th is the last day of the World Wide Wave of Action. Today, whether you strike or not, and through the end of the week, do something revolutionary. Right now the economy and world situation is so bad that to change things for yourself requires as much, if not more, energy than to change things for everyone.
If we all "phoned in" the revolution-- made one more call to Metro or city officials, or signed one more petition-- every week, we would not need to resort to the large demonstrations and marches in the streets.
Like the bus strike, the "phone in revolution" is about individual enlightenment and action. It is about creating a culture of leaders, that dictate the government and public agencies, instead of the other way around.
Instead of a Paul Revere, riding through the streets, waking up the people, this Fourth of July, awaken yourself to your own power, AND THEN USE IT.
A whole new world is waiting to be born, it begins with you.
OPTINSTL
OCCUPY! PUBLIC TRANSIT Image by Eric Drooker for Occupy Wall Street, click on image for Drooker's website
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
MORE PRETTY WORDS FROM METRO AND A FEW WORDS OF MY OWN
Metro sent me some more "feedback" on my suggestion that they provide
toilets. It's the same thing they said in the last post, about my
first post on this subject.
Here: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/metro-says-bathrooms-are-to-expensive.html
and
Here: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/03/metro-bus-and-train-stations-need-more.html
Metro executives, and people in power generally, I would like for you to understand something. People like me are tired of "business of usual." I get that you are just "doing your jobs" and "this is how it is" but you see, THAT IS NOT WORKING. FOR MOST OF US.
Not just bus riders in Saint Louis, Missouri, but on every part of this planet, and in every section of society. That the BASIC NEEDS of humans are routinely ignored in favor of profit, and that our entire world has become a "for profit" venture, designed to benefit only a small percentage of the population.
Now, it might be working for you. That's great. As I have said many times before, if you all had to ride the bus every day, everywhere you went, your perspectives would be a lot different.
But the real bottom line is: Public Transit Agencies should NOT BE ABOUT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. If the funding for necessary structures is not available and your customers need it, someone on your staff should be looking into it.
Truly powerful people do not accept limitations. Truly powerful people do what is best for everyone, and not what is best for themselves alone.
Metro SHOULD be in the business of getting better facilities and street services because their riders depend on it.
FROM ANY POINT OF YOUR SERVICE THERE SHOULD BE A TOILET WITHIN-minimum- 90 MINUTES. And 60 minutes would be better. Now, you could have a lot fewer facilities if your system had more Metrolink services in the areas with the most transit riders. But this needs to be part of your overall plan.
I HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT BEING A FORWARD THINKING HUMAN BEING, WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AHEAD OF YOUR OWN JOB COMFORT.
So I am going to continue to send my requests for better service, regardless of how tiresome you find them, I find the lack of toilets tiresome.
I find the fact that your agency- and everyone else "in power"-- does not have an ideal that it is working from, and only deviating from that ideal when all possibilities have been exhausted.
The solutions are out there. Apparently you cannot see them.
Metro's response:
Jessica Mefford-Miller
Chief of Planning and System Development
Metro
707 North First Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2595
Ph: 314.982.1479jnmefford@metrostlouis.org
Here: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/metro-says-bathrooms-are-to-expensive.html
and
Here: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/03/metro-bus-and-train-stations-need-more.html
Metro executives, and people in power generally, I would like for you to understand something. People like me are tired of "business of usual." I get that you are just "doing your jobs" and "this is how it is" but you see, THAT IS NOT WORKING. FOR MOST OF US.
Not just bus riders in Saint Louis, Missouri, but on every part of this planet, and in every section of society. That the BASIC NEEDS of humans are routinely ignored in favor of profit, and that our entire world has become a "for profit" venture, designed to benefit only a small percentage of the population.
Now, it might be working for you. That's great. As I have said many times before, if you all had to ride the bus every day, everywhere you went, your perspectives would be a lot different.
But the real bottom line is: Public Transit Agencies should NOT BE ABOUT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. If the funding for necessary structures is not available and your customers need it, someone on your staff should be looking into it.
Truly powerful people do not accept limitations. Truly powerful people do what is best for everyone, and not what is best for themselves alone.
Metro SHOULD be in the business of getting better facilities and street services because their riders depend on it.
FROM ANY POINT OF YOUR SERVICE THERE SHOULD BE A TOILET WITHIN-minimum- 90 MINUTES. And 60 minutes would be better. Now, you could have a lot fewer facilities if your system had more Metrolink services in the areas with the most transit riders. But this needs to be part of your overall plan.
I HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT BEING A FORWARD THINKING HUMAN BEING, WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AHEAD OF YOUR OWN JOB COMFORT.
So I am going to continue to send my requests for better service, regardless of how tiresome you find them, I find the lack of toilets tiresome.
I find the fact that your agency- and everyone else "in power"-- does not have an ideal that it is working from, and only deviating from that ideal when all possibilities have been exhausted.
The solutions are out there. Apparently you cannot see them.
Metro's response:
In
response to customer requests, Metro has begun to integrate public
restroom facilities in select MetroBus and MetroLink facilities. I
believe I discussed this with you, but to reiterate we currently provide
public restrooms at Riverview and Hall Transit Center; Clayton
MetroLink Station; and Belleville MetroLink Station. In 2015 we
anticipate opening one new transit center (North County Transit Center)
and opening an expanded Civic Center Transit Center. Both of these
new/expanded facilities will include public restrooms.
Metro
is not in the business of providing public restrooms throughout the
entire region, or even at all MetroLink stations and MetroBus Transit
Centers. These facilities, even the pay facilities we have explored, are
expensive to purchase and maintain and in some locations present public
safety challenges. Resources devoted to constructing and maintaining
public toilets reduce available resources for operating public transit.
Metro’s policy moving forward is to integrate public restrooms at new or
reconstructed facilities where they make sense from the perspective of
customer volume and public safety, and where funding permits.
Thank You,
Chief of Planning and System Development
Metro
707 North First Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2595
Ph: 314.982.1479jnmefford@metrostlouis.org
Saturday, April 5, 2014
WHY POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AND OCCUPY MOVEMENTS SHOULD TARGET PUBLIC TRANSIT FOR CHANGE
I named this blog "Occupy" because I thought Occupy Wall Street was a good idea, even if its' time hasn't come yet.
But I don't think that starting at the top, at a national level, is the best way to get things done.
In less than two weeks since I started this blog and began investigating Metro, I have learned how powerful public transit agencies are.
Public transportation is a microcosm for how government and business work hand in hand to make sure wealth flows into the hands of only a small percentage of the population.
They are a funnel for receiving government funds.
They contract local police departments.
They own A LOT of real estate.
They supply a necessary service for low-income people, but, at least in Metro's case (and the Los Angeles Metro) that is not what they are really about, or their primary function.
"Incarceration by lack of decent public transit" is used to keep poor people in poor neighborhoods. People that will work for any wage and in any conditions, and be willing to travel 4 hours a day to get to those substandard jobs.
Moreover, anyone interested in making their city more "green" and eco-friendly does not need to be told that decent public transportation will help save the environment.
If you are political activist, please consider working with OPTINSTL to investigate and change public transportation.
Especially if you are lawyer or accountant. To change things might require legal action- against Metro and the agencies that fund them.
And Metro definitely needs to be audited by the public. They get audited to make sure they are spending federal funds as directed, but there is no one investigating if their budgets could be changed to better serve the public (instead of business owners).
Consider requesting all the information available through the Sunshine Act. I am going to:
From an email from Metro: These are the answers I can provide for you without requiring that you file a Sunshine request for research and compilation of documentation. If you need such documentation, please contact Shirley Bryant in the agency’s Legal Department at sbryant@metrostlouis.org.
(From this post: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/metro-responds-to-my-first-round-of.html)
If you are a social worker or philanthropist, investigate setting up programs to fund low-income and unemployed people with discounted or free transit passes.
I will be adding more as I learn more, but I hope I have convinced you that taking on Public Transit is as effective as going after Wall Street. The "Local 1%" is much easier to reach.
OCCUPY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR CHANGE!
But I don't think that starting at the top, at a national level, is the best way to get things done.
In less than two weeks since I started this blog and began investigating Metro, I have learned how powerful public transit agencies are.
Public transportation is a microcosm for how government and business work hand in hand to make sure wealth flows into the hands of only a small percentage of the population.
They are a funnel for receiving government funds.
They contract local police departments.
They own A LOT of real estate.
They supply a necessary service for low-income people, but, at least in Metro's case (and the Los Angeles Metro) that is not what they are really about, or their primary function.
"Incarceration by lack of decent public transit" is used to keep poor people in poor neighborhoods. People that will work for any wage and in any conditions, and be willing to travel 4 hours a day to get to those substandard jobs.
Moreover, anyone interested in making their city more "green" and eco-friendly does not need to be told that decent public transportation will help save the environment.
If you are political activist, please consider working with OPTINSTL to investigate and change public transportation.
Especially if you are lawyer or accountant. To change things might require legal action- against Metro and the agencies that fund them.
And Metro definitely needs to be audited by the public. They get audited to make sure they are spending federal funds as directed, but there is no one investigating if their budgets could be changed to better serve the public (instead of business owners).
Consider requesting all the information available through the Sunshine Act. I am going to:
From an email from Metro: These are the answers I can provide for you without requiring that you file a Sunshine request for research and compilation of documentation. If you need such documentation, please contact Shirley Bryant in the agency’s Legal Department at sbryant@metrostlouis.org.
(From this post: http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/metro-responds-to-my-first-round-of.html)
If you are a social worker or philanthropist, investigate setting up programs to fund low-income and unemployed people with discounted or free transit passes.
I will be adding more as I learn more, but I hope I have convinced you that taking on Public Transit is as effective as going after Wall Street. The "Local 1%" is much easier to reach.
OCCUPY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR CHANGE!
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
WHY FLOODING METRO'S PHONE LINES IS EFFECTIVE ACTION FOR CHANGE
At last night's Metro Hearing on the July 1st Fare Increase, a man came up to me and said "what is jamming their phone lines going to do? It will just prevent people trying to call in to get bus information."
Yes. That is the point. We, the people, are so blocked from making changes to this agency through the channels that are available to us, that it is necessary to apply pressure to the people running it. It might create some inconvenience and stress. Change- good or bad- does not seem to come without a little stress.
I don't necessarily think Metro exec's are playing computer games and surfing social media all day at work, but they are not working to make things better for us. Even a 10% increase in call volume will disrupt their day to day activities. When these executives are so flooded with calls demanding change, it will alter "business as usual."
AND THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE.
THEY WILL BE FORCED TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
AND THE MORE PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATE, THE LONGER THE PHONE RINGS AND EMAILS COME IN AND LETTERS ARRIVE IN THE MAIL, THE MORE LIKELY THE CHANGES WE ARE DEMANDING WILL HAPPEN.
Money that wasn't available for improvements to existing services will be found. Government regulations will be relaxed for "special circumstances." Loopholes will be found
That's why women can vote. That's why black people can sit on the front of the bus. (That's why marijuana is becoming legal, although that is not in the same class as the other examples.) Etc.
And OPT INSTL is not doing anything illegal or violent, or encouraging anyone to do anything illegal or violent. No one is going to be harmed or injured from this action. Not even the phone lines.
IN FACT, WE ARE DOING JUST WHAT METRO SAYS THEY WANT-- GIVING THEM FEEDBACK!
Metro spends a lot of time crafting responses to complaints and demands for change in service. We callers have to be prepared to hear the same things over and over again from them, every time we call.
BUT THEY ARE USED TO ONLY A CERTAIN VOLUME OF FEEDBACK.
That is why civil disobedience, protests, petitions, marches, sit-ins, strikes, and call-ins so often work.
Most people hate disruption and surprises more than anything else. The more comfortable a person's life, the less likely they are to welcome disruption. That is why so many people just run through their lives, like rats in mazes. (Turns out rats might have more empathy than many people. http://www.nature.com/news/rats-free-each-other-from-cages-1.9603)
WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR NEEDS OVERWHELMINGLY OBVIOUS, SO THAT METRO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO IGNORE US!
You know, like when you are trying to sing a long with a song, and someone turns up the volume on another piece of music? It's hard not to slide into that key, that harmony and melody, that rhythm. The sound of the other song is too loud. Flooding the Metro phone lines, jamming them with calls, giving them so much specific information about what we need, they will not be able to continue running through the rat maze of "business as usual."
INFORMATION CREATES CHANGE.
And if there ARE any visionaries and forward-thinking innovators among the Metro executives then jamming the phone lines and creating disruption will bring them out. We won't even need to ask them directly or know who they are. The Metro workers that create the solutions will be put in charge to get the phones to stop ringing!
In the current situation, even if those leaders and idealistic engineers wanted to make the same changes we are demanding-- even if they are singing the same song we are-- the "business as usual" tune is too loud. They would have to risk their jobs to make as much noise as we can.
This is why we, the transit riders, have to be so willing to really go the distance-- keep calling, every week, every month, every time we ride. As I said, they will keep saying "our hands are tied" and "we can't do that" and "that's in development" and "we don't know when."
Slave owners did not teach slaves to read because knowledge is power. A slave might read about a successful slave revolt. And get the idea that he or she could revolt, too. It's the same thing with all other protests and movements for change. Not just the material change the protest brings about, but the changes to the people doing the protesting.
If a small portion of this city is able to change something in the transportation system by legal, non-violent action, you have a whole new crop of leaders, ready to take on another problem. Then the success encourages other people to join. Even those that might have refused to take part in the first revolt.
Now profits and business as usual are disrupted again. And again. And the changes will just keep coming. And the leaders.
IF THE SONG OF THE 99% GETS EVEN A LITTLE LOUDER-- JUST 3.5% OF THE POPULATION-- THE 1% WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR TUNE.
The 75ish, middle-class, white, guy (who I suspect is a retired Federal cop***) that told me it was wrong to jam the phone lines also said to me "I hope when you Occupy the bus you will pay your fare." That statement told me what he thinks Occupy is about, and was against it.
I laughed. Of course I am going to pay my fare. I don't have a car! Besides, I want to live in a city with great public transit and I don't mind paying for it. I DO mind paying so much for such awful service and lack of attention to the real problems with Metro.
Then he told me that Occupy Wall Street was just a bunch of "criminals camping out illegally in Zucotti Park", and that "nothing" would happen from jamming the phone lines or the World Wide Wave of Action.
Who was a bigger threat in Occupy Wall Street? Non-violent protestors, using their right to Free Assembly at Zucotti Park, or the armed SWAT teams surrounding them? Who is really dangerous? The people working for social change and justice, through non-violent, legal means? Or the 1% starting wars to make themselves more money?
This guy and his kind, they are afraid of the power of the people, and their mindset is ALL about money. They always assume that you are motivated by the same greed they are. ("Don't think you can get a free ride and call it social change, missy." No, he didn't say that. But it seemed like he did.)
(The JAM THE PHONE LINES flyer will be updated soon with some telephone numbers for the real power behind Metro- The East West Gateway Council of Governments. The local businessmen and politicians that make the decisions and control the money. The face of the "Local 1%." http://rt.com/usa/sadoff-inequality-rich-poor-685/)
I hope people will join me in working to change public transportation in St. Louis. Part of the reason I am doing this is to share what I have learned about political activism. To encourage others. To try to find the way that works. I can write this blog and hand out leaflets, and research the power structure, but if no one calls Metro this won't be effective.
If my suggestions don't work for you, I hope you will do something else. I hope you will believe in yourself and your power. It almost doesn't matter WHAT you do, just that you DO SOMETHING AND KEEP TRYING. We can't be afraid to fail and try again, just like the first Occupy Wall Street seemed to fail, and now is going to try again, with World Wide Wave of Action.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!
YOU MATTER!
YOUR NEEDS ARE IMPORTANT! YOU ARE NOT JUST A COG FOR PROFIT!
IT IS TIME FOR AN END TO "INCARCERATION BY LACK OF DECENT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION"!
OPT IN STL!
*** EDIT: This post has been heavily edited and the edits will eventually be a separate post called Why Occupy? And also one about undercover cops, federal and local, and vigilantes, and their tactics at meeting like this.
I will post the links here when they are done.
Yes. That is the point. We, the people, are so blocked from making changes to this agency through the channels that are available to us, that it is necessary to apply pressure to the people running it. It might create some inconvenience and stress. Change- good or bad- does not seem to come without a little stress.
I don't necessarily think Metro exec's are playing computer games and surfing social media all day at work, but they are not working to make things better for us. Even a 10% increase in call volume will disrupt their day to day activities. When these executives are so flooded with calls demanding change, it will alter "business as usual."
AND THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE.
THEY WILL BE FORCED TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
AND THE MORE PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATE, THE LONGER THE PHONE RINGS AND EMAILS COME IN AND LETTERS ARRIVE IN THE MAIL, THE MORE LIKELY THE CHANGES WE ARE DEMANDING WILL HAPPEN.
Money that wasn't available for improvements to existing services will be found. Government regulations will be relaxed for "special circumstances." Loopholes will be found
That's why women can vote. That's why black people can sit on the front of the bus. (That's why marijuana is becoming legal, although that is not in the same class as the other examples.) Etc.
And OPT INSTL is not doing anything illegal or violent, or encouraging anyone to do anything illegal or violent. No one is going to be harmed or injured from this action. Not even the phone lines.
IN FACT, WE ARE DOING JUST WHAT METRO SAYS THEY WANT-- GIVING THEM FEEDBACK!
Metro spends a lot of time crafting responses to complaints and demands for change in service. We callers have to be prepared to hear the same things over and over again from them, every time we call.
BUT THEY ARE USED TO ONLY A CERTAIN VOLUME OF FEEDBACK.
That is why civil disobedience, protests, petitions, marches, sit-ins, strikes, and call-ins so often work.
Most people hate disruption and surprises more than anything else. The more comfortable a person's life, the less likely they are to welcome disruption. That is why so many people just run through their lives, like rats in mazes. (Turns out rats might have more empathy than many people. http://www.nature.com/news/rats-free-each-other-from-cages-1.9603)
WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR NEEDS OVERWHELMINGLY OBVIOUS, SO THAT METRO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO IGNORE US!
You know, like when you are trying to sing a long with a song, and someone turns up the volume on another piece of music? It's hard not to slide into that key, that harmony and melody, that rhythm. The sound of the other song is too loud. Flooding the Metro phone lines, jamming them with calls, giving them so much specific information about what we need, they will not be able to continue running through the rat maze of "business as usual."
INFORMATION CREATES CHANGE.
And if there ARE any visionaries and forward-thinking innovators among the Metro executives then jamming the phone lines and creating disruption will bring them out. We won't even need to ask them directly or know who they are. The Metro workers that create the solutions will be put in charge to get the phones to stop ringing!
In the current situation, even if those leaders and idealistic engineers wanted to make the same changes we are demanding-- even if they are singing the same song we are-- the "business as usual" tune is too loud. They would have to risk their jobs to make as much noise as we can.
This is why we, the transit riders, have to be so willing to really go the distance-- keep calling, every week, every month, every time we ride. As I said, they will keep saying "our hands are tied" and "we can't do that" and "that's in development" and "we don't know when."
Slave owners did not teach slaves to read because knowledge is power. A slave might read about a successful slave revolt. And get the idea that he or she could revolt, too. It's the same thing with all other protests and movements for change. Not just the material change the protest brings about, but the changes to the people doing the protesting.
If a small portion of this city is able to change something in the transportation system by legal, non-violent action, you have a whole new crop of leaders, ready to take on another problem. Then the success encourages other people to join. Even those that might have refused to take part in the first revolt.
Now profits and business as usual are disrupted again. And again. And the changes will just keep coming. And the leaders.
IF THE SONG OF THE 99% GETS EVEN A LITTLE LOUDER-- JUST 3.5% OF THE POPULATION-- THE 1% WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR TUNE.
The 75ish, middle-class, white, guy (who I suspect is a retired Federal cop***) that told me it was wrong to jam the phone lines also said to me "I hope when you Occupy the bus you will pay your fare." That statement told me what he thinks Occupy is about, and was against it.
I laughed. Of course I am going to pay my fare. I don't have a car! Besides, I want to live in a city with great public transit and I don't mind paying for it. I DO mind paying so much for such awful service and lack of attention to the real problems with Metro.
Then he told me that Occupy Wall Street was just a bunch of "criminals camping out illegally in Zucotti Park", and that "nothing" would happen from jamming the phone lines or the World Wide Wave of Action.
Who was a bigger threat in Occupy Wall Street? Non-violent protestors, using their right to Free Assembly at Zucotti Park, or the armed SWAT teams surrounding them? Who is really dangerous? The people working for social change and justice, through non-violent, legal means? Or the 1% starting wars to make themselves more money?
This guy and his kind, they are afraid of the power of the people, and their mindset is ALL about money. They always assume that you are motivated by the same greed they are. ("Don't think you can get a free ride and call it social change, missy." No, he didn't say that. But it seemed like he did.)
(The JAM THE PHONE LINES flyer will be updated soon with some telephone numbers for the real power behind Metro- The East West Gateway Council of Governments. The local businessmen and politicians that make the decisions and control the money. The face of the "Local 1%." http://rt.com/usa/sadoff-inequality-rich-poor-685/)
I hope people will join me in working to change public transportation in St. Louis. Part of the reason I am doing this is to share what I have learned about political activism. To encourage others. To try to find the way that works. I can write this blog and hand out leaflets, and research the power structure, but if no one calls Metro this won't be effective.
If my suggestions don't work for you, I hope you will do something else. I hope you will believe in yourself and your power. It almost doesn't matter WHAT you do, just that you DO SOMETHING AND KEEP TRYING. We can't be afraid to fail and try again, just like the first Occupy Wall Street seemed to fail, and now is going to try again, with World Wide Wave of Action.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!
YOU MATTER!
YOUR NEEDS ARE IMPORTANT! YOU ARE NOT JUST A COG FOR PROFIT!
IT IS TIME FOR AN END TO "INCARCERATION BY LACK OF DECENT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION"!
OPT IN STL!
*** EDIT: This post has been heavily edited and the edits will eventually be a separate post called Why Occupy? And also one about undercover cops, federal and local, and vigilantes, and their tactics at meeting like this.
I will post the links here when they are done.
Monday, March 31, 2014
APRIL 4TH: WORLDWIDE WAVE OF ACTION
On April 4th, from 6:01 to 6:05 PM CDT (18:01 to 18:05), there
will be a worldwide vigil for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This will begin 3 months of action by Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, and Worldwide Wave of Action.
OPT INSTL encourages you to participate in the vigil, where ever you are, and whatever you doing-- stop! give the memory of this great man 4 of silence and meditation on the lessons we learned from him.
And to help focus on what we can ALL do to change this world for the better, following Dr. King's legacy of courage, leadership, and non-violent action!!!!
Dr. King: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/dr-kings-2-minutes-to-you-silence-is-betrayal-speak-as-one-who-loves-america.html
For more on Worldwide Wave of Action, please see:
https://waveofaction.org/job/worldwide-wave-launch-gatherings/
Also, to learn more about the King family's trial against the US government for assassination: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/mlk-assassinated-us-govt-king-family-civil-trial-verdict.html
This will begin 3 months of action by Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, and Worldwide Wave of Action.
OPT INSTL encourages you to participate in the vigil, where ever you are, and whatever you doing-- stop! give the memory of this great man 4 of silence and meditation on the lessons we learned from him.
And to help focus on what we can ALL do to change this world for the better, following Dr. King's legacy of courage, leadership, and non-violent action!!!!
Dr. King: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/dr-kings-2-minutes-to-you-silence-is-betrayal-speak-as-one-who-loves-america.html
For more on Worldwide Wave of Action, please see:
https://waveofaction.org/job/worldwide-wave-launch-gatherings/
Also, to learn more about the King family's trial against the US government for assassination: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/mlk-assassinated-us-govt-king-family-civil-trial-verdict.html
APRIL 4TH to JUNE 30th JAM METRO PHONE LINES!
Call them every time you ride!
Demand they not raise fares!
IF THEY DO RAISE FARES, STRIKE CITYWIDE JULY 1st, THE DAY THE NEW FARES GO INTO EFFECT! DON'T RIDE THE BUS OR METROLINK!
Feel free to use and distribute this flyer, or create your own!
http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/03/jam-phone-lines-leaflet-for-use-and-to.html
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