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Environmental Justice & Transportation Issues Workshop
November 8, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CST
Free
GCI Real Time Chicago Lecture Series
Environmental Justice & Transportation Issues Workshop
With GCI staff, LVEJO, and other guest speakers.
Friday, November 8
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street
Suite 400, CUPPA Hall
Chicago, IL 60607
Join GCI staff and guest speakers for a workshop on environmental justice issues in transportation planning. This 2-hour workshop is open to UIC graduate and undergrad, planning and policy, and public administration students, community members, and any other interested parties.
LVEJO Presenters:
Claudia Ayala, Campaigns Coordinator
Flora Ramirez, Public Transit/ Youth Organizer
About LVEJO:
The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization is a collective of community members based in Little Village, Chicago, striving for a clean and just environment. We seek to empower our local and global communities through environmental organizing and youth programming for cleaner air, open space, public transportation, and a sustainable future.
About 31st Street Bus Route Campaign:
For over 15 years the neighborhood of Little Village and many others along 31st street in the City of Chicago have been without a standard east-west bus route (Cicero to the Lakefront), leaving a three and a quarter mile gap between east-west bus routes. People in the affected communities are left in a spatial mismatch phenomenon. In 2007 LVEJO organizers, volunteers, and community residents, began organizing to reinstate #31st St. Bus Route. The presentation will focus on LVEJO’s model for the public transit campaign which will include a discussion about our approach to community engagement and research.
To request disability accommodations, please contact Christiana Kinder, Great Cities Institute, (312) 996-8700, christia@uic.edu
