Which Way Forward For the Transit Movement in Toronto?

Together we can build a movement to defend, expand and protect Toronto public transit against Rob Ford!

Speakers:

Fair Fare Coalition
Free and Accessible Transit Campaign
Jonah Schein (NDP urban transport critic)
Occupy TTC
Rexdale Youth TTC Challenge
Scarborough Transit Action
TTCriders

Organized by the Campaign for Free and Accessible Transit of the
Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly

contact: torontotransitforum2012@gmail.com

2011 - maybe it wasn't quite 1968 but it was a year of great social upheaval. With 2011 behind us, the GTWA is holding the first in what will be a new series of Coffeehouses to discuss where we are as a movement, with this particular one featuring two local activists who were very involved in Occupy Toronto, and in particular building links between the Occupy movement and the labour movement. Is this the beginning of a new community/labour coalition that we've been waiting for? Will the Occupy movement be able to sustain itself and help awaken a dormant labour movement? How did the Occupy Toronto experience measure up with other Occupations?

What are some of the forces that are driving the current crisis? How is it pushing forward the agenda of business and governments to get working people and our organizations to tighten our belts and accept their calls for austerity? What forms is resistance taking around the world? What are the strengths and limitations of that resistance and what can we learn from it? With the Ford administration's plans to cut social services, dramatically increase privatization and attack the rights of municipal workers, what do we have to do to resist? How must we change the way we have been doing things in our communities and unions in order to prevent our isolation and loss of our livelihoods and key services?