Events

It's Time the Transit District Stopped Dumping on Public Transit Riders!

Join us for a look at the possibility of forming a San Diego Bus Riders' Union, Thursday, March 20th.  We will also be showing "The Bus Riders Union" documentary and discussing the options in San Diego to oppose the city's increase of bus riding fares.  Members of the Los Angeles Bus Riders' Union will be speaking at the Rally.  Donation of $10 is suggested to help pay for the film and attorney fees for a possible legal injunction against the elimination of transfers.

Film beings at 6:30pm at the Joyce Beers Center.

  "The Bus Riders Union" is a feature length documentary by Academy Award winning  cinematographer Haskell Wexler, tracing three years in the life of one of the nation's most dynamic social movements.

  Haskell Wexler is considered one of the finest cinematographers in the world, with a prolific body of work including "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf," "Medium Cool," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Bound for Glory," "American Graffiti," and "Matewan."  He has been nominated five times for academy awards, winning two Oscars for Best Cinematography.

  The film traces three years in the life of Los Angeles' Bus Riders Union as it forges a powerful multiracial movement to fight transit racism, clean up L.A.'s lethal auto pollution and win billion-dollar victories for real mass transit for the masses.

  "Bus Riders Union" is a rare mix of fine film making, good politics, and a complex portrayal of a multiracial grassroots movement that is taking on some of the most powerful forces in Los Angeles - and winning.

  Suzanne Baustad, director of Mayworks, Vancouver, Canada: "I was so inspired by "Bus Riders Union" that I invited seven other activists and organizers over for a viewing.  I have done anti-poverty work in the city for the past 5 years and recognized immediately just how important and unique (especially in North America) the BRU and its model of organizing is."

  Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 13, 2000: "Wexler, who may be the best cinematographer in the world, captures the joy of struggle on the part of a polyglot group ...all of whom never lost their humanity in the struggle."