MBTA Rally & Hearing, February 28th

Next Tuesday, at Somerville’s High School, the MBTA is holding a hearing on the proposed service cuts and fare increases.

The hearing is scheduled to run from 6pm-8pm. If you want to speak, you should arrive early to get a number

Occupy Somerville will be meeting there at 5pm, along with other citizen groups, to hold a rally and share information about the big banks’ involvement with the MBTA’s funding.

Feel free to download, print, and distribute this flyer about the MBTA Somerville Hearing and Rally!

Here is another flyer in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Haitian Kreyol.

Tell your friends and neighbors! Bring residents of other towns – the High School Auditorium has LOTS of seating, and it would be fantastic to fill it to overflowing.

GA location change for February 15

GA will be held at the SEIU 888 Hall this week (Feb. 15), and NOT at First Church Somerville.

The address is 52 Roland St., in Charlestown, a mere block or two over the border from Somerville. It is very close to Sullivan Square and all the buses (and Orange Line) that stop there.

Please spread the word!

Occupying the MBTA

Occupy Somerville has been spending a great deal of time lately focusing on the MBTA’s proposed fare increases and service cuts.

We have been passing on flyers in Davis Square and Sullivan Square, and informing fellow riders on the bus and trains. We are also making plans to join the rally on February 13th in Copley Square, being held immediately before an MBTA hearing at the Boston Public Library. The rally starts at 4:30pm; the hearing is at 6:00pm.

As you can see from this T/Occupy mashup map, there are Occupy groups along every branch of the subway:

Subway map showing Occupy groups

We invite all other Occupy groups to join us next Wednesday, from 7-9pm, at the First Church of Somerville on College Ave., to join us and make posters and plans for the rally!

You can join our MBTA mailing list here, or follow Occupy the T on Facebook.

Read the MBTA’s official page of information about the service cuts and fare increases.