TWU Joins in March for Transit Justice on 2nd Annniv of Occupy Wall Street
A crowd of hundreds of activists marched from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations to Chase Bank and then to MTA HQ on Madison Avenue, winding up at Bryant Park. The march -- on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street -- was designed to bring more public attention to the need for a Robin Hood Tax, which would impose a small "transaction tax" on Wall Street trading, freeing more than $500 billion which could be used for human needs, including free education and "building a green grid that would create millions of jobs." TWU members marched to bring attention to the need for a contract as well as the need for transit justice -- more mass transit to green the environment and provide opportunity and mobility for more New Yorkers.