Various former school buses in the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts of Belize
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Read Full Post | August 14 2010 | News and Happenings |
Yesterday was the parade celebrating the Lakers’ victory over the Celtics in the NBA Playoffs. Police estimated 65,000 fans showed up. I took Metrolink up to Los Angeles for the day and watched the parade from the same spot in front of the Convention Center that I did last year.
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Read Full Post | June 22 2010 | News and Happenings |
Excerpt from a great post at TomDispatch:
Since September 11th, terror in the US has rated above fatalities from shark attacks and not much else. Since the economic meltdown of 2008, it has, in fact, been left in the shade by violent deaths that stem from reactions to job loss, foreclosure, inability to pay the rent, and so on.
This is seldom highlighted in a country perversely convulsed by, and that can’t seem to get enough of, fantasies about being besieged by terrorists. [Read the full post here]
Read Full Post | February 16 2010 | News and Happenings |
The Rev. Anne S. Howard shares a call to action in this post from the Beatitudes Society:
We have just witnessed a McCarthy-like persecution, and Glenn Beck says that he’s not finished yet—there are other “radicals” in the White House and he’s going to go after them too.
So we need to speak up. We need to speak up with voices of reason grounded in hope. We need to name wrongdoing when we see it, and speak truth in the face of lies. We’ve seen lies grab the headlines: about the President’s birthplace, about death panels and socialized medicine, about the President’s ‘hidden agenda’ encouraging schoolchildren to study hard. Enough is enough. It’s time to name the fear that underlies the politics of hatred.
It’s time to speak clearly, in our churches, in our schools, at our kitchen tables, and at our Labor Day cook-outs—it’s time to name the lies as lies, and to counter fear with steady, strong, quiet, persistent truth.
The politics of hatred need to stop. Politicians need to stop the propagation of lies that will undermine a just and peaceful future. Racially tinged anger and outbursts are a harmful distraction from green jobs, healthcare reform, and other policies that will substantively improve millions of lives.
Read Full Post | September 12 2009 | The Christian Left |
Amtrak locomotive and NJ Transit rolling stock in front of Gateway Plaza at LA Union Station
I spotted some NJ Transit rolling stock at Los Angeles’ Union Station last Friday. I should have taken that instead of flying back to the East Coast.
New Jersey Transit in Los Angeles
Read Full Post | August 27 2009 | Swarthmore and Transportation |
The New York Times reported another TSA failure today. A man on the FBI’s most wanted list has been able to keep his pilots license and try to sell his old plane online:
With such a straightforward match, David M. Schiffer, president of Safe Banking Systems, said it was “highly unlikely” that, despite assurances in June, the Transportation Security Administration was matching the publicly available F.B.I. list with the publicly available F.A.A. list.
Classic TSA – make me take off my flip flops and take all of my electronics out of their cases (a five minute ordeal for a geek like me), but let known terrorists keep their pilot licenses.
Read Full Post | August 18 2009 | Transportation |
I am currently attending the 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church as a member of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Young Adult Presence. You can read about the advocacy work that the seven other young adults and I are doing here.
Read Full Post | July 08 2009 | Anson and The Christian Left |
The Los Angeles County MTA finally launched Google Transit, or at least a “data test” for it. Too bad SEPTA beat them by a week.
Read Full Post | July 06 2009 | Transportation |
Acela
Today marks the 140th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. In celebration, Amtrak hosted National Train Day at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I talked with some members of the National Association of Rail Passengers, picked up some new information on the Silverliner V, saw some great paintings of trains, heard a former Pullman Porter talk about his experiences, and saw Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Probably the most exciting part was the rolling stock tour. I got to walk through an Acela trainset as well as an old Santa Fe dining car.
Read Full Post | May 09 2009 | Swarthmore and Transportation |
A website I maintain, bostononthemove.org, was featured by Bostonist today in a post about the MBTA’s debt. I maintain this site for the Greater Boston Transportation Justice Coalition, of which ACE and TRU are members.
Read Full Post | March 31 2009 | Transportation |
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