The Indypendent: Economic Disobedience on the NYC Subway
Julia Dunn at Indypendent reports (via Waging Nonviolence) ..
In response to the economic recession and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) fare hikes, community activists across the city are organizing the People’s Transportation Program (PTP), days where the goal is to swipe as many people through the turnstiles as possible with several daily unlimited MetroCards … Perhaps, surprisingly, the People’s Transportation Program is not breaking the law. Individuals are free to share unlimited MetroCards, although they must wait 18 minutes between swipes for the card to reactivate … The activists say their inspiration is based on models of autonomous community organizing created by the Black Panther Party more than 40 years ago. The Black Panthers developed community “survival programs” that provided aid to neighborhoods in need
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