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Transit Equity Day: Livestream 2022
By various - Labor Network for Sustainability, February 4, 2022
This is the national livestream reflecting actions around the country in honor of Rosa Parks' birthday, Feb. 4, 2022, hosted by the #TransitEquityDay Network (TrEN). Hosted by Bakari Height, Labor Network for Sustainability Transit Organizer and Co-Founder of MARTA Army.
00:00 Live on YouTube
06:35 Opening Song, "Voices," The U-Liners (2016)
10:49 Transit Equity Day Video (Official)
13:54 Show Intro
16:37 Bakari Height's Intro
18:17 Nicole Wong, Dream Corps/Green for All
29:06 Pilgrim Baptist Church Green Committee, Fort Wayne, Indiana: Councilwoman Sheila Curry-Campbell, Apostle Dr. Frederick O. Forde and Dr. J Pressey (Special showing of Citilink CEO introducing Proclamation)
42:47 Special showing of FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez and USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg
46:50 Wisconsin and Midwest: Vera Mendoza, The Ability Center of Greater Toledo, and Gail Francis, RE-AMP Network
55:36 Chris "Action" Jackson, Best Friends of Low Country Transit (featuring William Hamilton status update on the pancake social)
1:00:39 Recorded testimony from 2021: Karlah Burton, United Methodist Women, Greensboro, North Carolina
1:05:37 Simon Husted, Buffalo Transit Riders Union (B-TRU)
1:11:09 Recorded testimony from 2021: Clint Sobratti, UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO, Montgomery County, Maryland
1:15:57 2022 Events Calendar, full read w/ Rebekah Whilden, acting deputy director of Sierra Club's Clean Transportation for All campaign
1:33:29 Nancy B. Smith, Massachusetts State Conference, NAACP Transit Environment Climate Justice Committee
1:38:51 Special Appearance: Mayor Michelle Wu, City of Boston
1:42:35 Sara Catalinotto, Parents for Improving School Transit, Brooklyn (PIST NYC)
1:45:00 Rolanda Powell, Atlanta Bikes
1:50:16 Recorded testimony from 2021: Jonathan Smith, President, New York Metro Area Postal Union Local 10
1:50:30 Invest in Transit Equity/Invest in Transit Workers Conversation, Michael Leon Guerrero
Executive Director, Labor Network for Sustainability and Transit Equity Day Co-Founder
2:06:48 Special Appearance: International President John Costa, Amalgamated Transit Union
2:08:52 Read statement from International President John Samuelsen, Transport Workers Union of America
2:08:58 Bakari's closing words
2:11:32 Credits
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