online – Where is this Train Going? Webinar on Rail in the public interest

Just a few giant corporate monopolies own and operate most of the U.S. railroad network – the largest in the world. Everyone in this country relies on our freight rail system, and the workers who make it run, for transporting our things where they need to go. Yet, this critical piece of our infrastructure is in complete crisis.

While the corporate rail owners rake in record profits, they are perpetrating harmful and toxic derailments, horrible treatment of railroad workers, intensification of the climate crisis, and environmental pollution and injustice in nearby communities. All of us deserve better.

This is why Solutionary Rail encourages you to attend a public webinar this week, organized by our friends at Labor Network for Sustainability, called, Where is this Train Going? Freight Rail in the Public Interest.

Date: Tuesday, Sept 12

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern

RSVP HERE

This webinar will spotlight critical voices united by the need for rail in the public interest:

• Nick Wurst
  • Freight conductor, member of SMART-TD Local #1473, representing Railroad Workers United
• Ashley McCollum
  • East Palestine, Ohio resident, community organizer, researcher, and activist
• Yvette Arellano
  • Founder/Executive Director of Fenceline Watch in Houston, Texas
• Larry Hopkins
  • Road driver for Hallcon rail crew transportation in Chicago, President of UE Local #1177, representing rail crew drivers in several states
• Helen Yost
  • Community organizer with Wild Idaho Rising Tide and producer and host of the weekly Climate Justice Forum radio program
• Thomas M. Hanna
  • President of the Institute for a Democratic Economy and Society (IDES) and author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.

Join our friends at the Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) this Tuesday, and let’s stand with railroad workers and frontline communities calling for a rail system that serves the common good, not corporate greed.