Gas prices surging - got #transit?

Gas prices surging beyond $4 a gallon -- and they will go higher - San Jose Mercury News: "Gasoline prices are rising at an almost unheard-of pace, and painfully so in California, where the cost for a fill-up now exceeds $4 a gallon in five cities and is approaching that dreaded mark in numerous others, including San Jose and Oakland."

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amor mundi: Car Cult Deprogramming

amor mundi: Car Cult Deprogramming: "people are drudging away to maintain their cars, even where convenient, practical, healthier transportation options are available (public transportation, car-share, biking, walking) in a world distressed beyond bearing by the pollution, costs, fatal accidents, waste, and noise of our irrational car culture."

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Oakland threatens the 99%, but arrests no bankers for fraud

The City of Oakland welcomes peaceful forms of assembly and free speech; however,...

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/cityadministrator/documents/pressrelease/oak033073.pdf

Cars do not belong in cities

Progressive Transit: "Even if you ignore the pollution, cars simply take up too much space. Next time you are stuck in traffic behind what seems like a million cars, try to imagine if all those cars where replaced by pedestrians or bike riders. Suddenly, the congestion is gone."

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No money for public #transit? Here is where it went

Occupy the Banks - #owswest #ows

http://www.occupywallstwest.org/wordpress/

The banking system has received trillions of dollars worth of help from the U.S. federal government and the Federal Reserve Bank in outright bailouts and cheap loans. This money is printed money, it is not real, but it will have to be re-paid by real labor. The banks are using the crisis that they created as an excuse to evict people from homes and push cuts in fiscal social investment.

In the U.S., the bank robs YOU

http://bankruptingamerica.tumblr.com/