Image: Motor City Freedom Riders demonstration in Detroit.
Transit Rider Organizing
Bus Riders Union (Haskell Wexler, 1999): Documentary film on the LA Bus Riders Union.
T Riders Union: A Tale of Two Campaigns in Boston (Penn Loh, 2005)
Organizing Transit Riders: A How-to Manual (Greg LeRoy, 2011)
Fight For Your Ride: An Advocate’s Guide (Transportation for America, 2018)
Best Practices for Rider-Driver Solidarity (TRUST, 2020)
Organizing Principles
Jemez Principles (1996): framework for inclusive, bottom-up organizing in the context of the environmental justice movement
Partners
Labor Network for Sustainability: Devoted to helping union members and environmentalists further the cause of “making a living on a living planet.” (There aren’t many jobs on the non-living ones.)
National Campaign for Transit Justice: Dedicated to the fight for more federal funding for transit across the country.
TransitCenter: NY-based foundation and transit policy center, working with agencies and advocates for a just, sustainable and transit-abundant future.
Transit Riders of the United States Together (TRUST) 