Press release from Just Economics of WNC:
The People’s (VOTE) Voice on Transportation Equality, a group of concerned Asheville area residents, emerging from Just Economics of WNC’s Voices for Economic Justice Leadership Training Program, will hold a State of the Transit Campaign Celebration on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 3-6 p.m. in the historic Triangle Park on South Market Street.
At the event, the group will honor the campaign’s originators, celebrate the victories of the campaign thus far since its inception in the fall of 2012, and sound the call for people to join the campaign to continue the work to accomplish each of the 19 Points on the People’s Transportation Agenda.
The event will feature free food, music, creative expression, a kid’s area, interactive booths where folks can learn more about the campaign and take action. The event begins at 3 p.m. with the main program taking place at 3:45 p.m.
The People’s Transit agenda focuses on five major areas of change:
• making sure there is proper representation in decision-making from non-elective riders,
• making sure that planning prioritizes the needs of the people who use public transit out of necessity,
• advocating for equality in terms of a clean and safe bus system including bus stops,
• supporting policies that are consistent, courteous, transparent and hold everyone mutually accountable,
• and encouraging route reform focusing on the most efficient access for non-elective riders to meet their basic needs and get to and from work.
Just Economics of WNC is a local non-profit promoting economic justice through living wages and all citizens being able to meet their basic needs. Our mission is to educate, advocate, and organize for a just and sustainable local economy that works for all in Western North Carolina. Our partner organizations who have joined us in the organizing of this campaign are the Access Cluster of the Food Policy Council, Asheville Homeless Network, BeLoved House, Center for Paticipatory Change, Children First Communities in Schools, Just Folks of Asheville, Party for Socialism and Liberation, The Success Equation, Women’s Wellbeing & Development Fund, and Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!).
For more information or to join the campaign, go to www.justeconomicswnc.org.
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