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Op-Ed: Protests Are A Form of Placemaking

These instances of road repurposing and placemaking are born from pain and anger, and yet they have brought communities together and created beauty.

Olivia Grenzebach

July 8, 2020

Op-Ed: Protests Are A Form of Placemaking

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

Black Rides for Black Lives uses cycling to highlight the need for police reform

The goal of their recent protest ride was to demand the creation of a Civilian Police Accountability Council, as well as reducing or eliminating funding for the CPD and reallocating money to social services.

Cameron Bolton

July 6, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

How to Center Community Input in Slow Streets Projects

47th Ward alderman Matt Martin hosted a panel on these topics with reps from the Active Transportation Alliance, the Metropolitan Planning Council, and Streetsblog Chicago.

Courtney Cobbs

June 22, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

How to Address Anti-Black Racism in Urban Planning

The Canadian Urban Institute recently held an online panel centered around the question of “How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations?”

Courtney Cobbs

June 14, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Events

Bus Drivers Organizing Against Transporting Police

A rally and march were held to announce “legal charges against the Chicago Transit Authority for breaking workers'... rights to freedom of speech."

Alyssa Iovinelli

June 9, 2020

Streetsblog Los Angeles |Bicycling

L.A. Cyclists Ride for Justice for George Floyd

More than a thousand cyclists, mainly Black and Latinx, commemorated the death of George Floyd via a peaceful South L.A. RIde for Justice

Joe Linton

June 8, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Events

Op-Ed: Police Have Always Limited Black People’s Mobility and Safety in Public Space

This moment is an opportunity to redefine the role of police and center Black lives, our freedom, and our movement through spaces.

David Zegeye

June 3, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

Creating a Body-Inclusive Cycling Community

A person's body size or weight has no bearing on their worth as a human being. Bike culture should reflect that.

Courtney Cobbs

May 14, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

Active Trans Has 3 ‘Moonshot’ Goals for the 2020s

The group wants a unified regional transit system; more bike and bus lanes, and car-free streets; and downtown congestion pricing to fund sustainable transportation.

John Greenfield

March 9, 2020

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Climate Change: A View From the Deep Sea

A discussion with Columbia paleoceanographer Peter B. deMenocal

Aaron Donovan

October 27, 2006

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