Press Room
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“Activists campaign for free bus passes for students” OaklandNorth July 15,2011
(July 22, 2011)Genesis Receives 2010 “Voices of Conscience” Award
(April 28, 2010)Statewide Transit Justice Organizing Update
The Labor/Community Strategy Center (February 18, 2010)Genesis Wins a Civil Rights Complaint and Saves Transportation Stimulus Funds
The Gamaliel International Newsletter (February 16, 2010)FTA won’t fund BART connector - Letter to BART and MTC (pdf)
(February 12, 2010)FTA OCR compliance letter to MTC (pdf)
(February 3, 2010)Heminger to MTC – let’s give BART some more time; Advocates to MTC – reprogram the money now
Living in The O (January 27, 2010)MTC Gives BART Until Mid-February on Civil Rights Review
SF Streets Blog (January 27, 2010)Advocacy Groups Call BART Airport Connector ‘Discriminatory’
KTVU.com (January 26, 2010)Transit Authority withholds stimulus funds from BART for possible violations of Civil Rights Act
Free Speech Radio News (January 26, 2010)Major Victory for Genesis: Civil Rights Complaint Saves $70 Million in Stimulus Funds for Transit
Genesis (January 23, 2010)OMG, OMG, OMG! FTA withholds funding from BART for OAC
Living in The O (January 20, 2010)Obama Administration Holds Up BART Stimulus Funds
(January 20, 2010)MTC Gives BART Until Mid-February on Civil Rights Review
SF Streets Blog (December 8, 2009)Letter from Don Perata to MTC Chairman Scott Haggerty opposing the Oakland Airport Connector (pdf)
(June 8, 2009)Daniel Borenstein: BART plan for Oakland Airport is folly (pdf)
Contra Costa Times (May 30, 2009)It’s time for BART to rethink the Oakland Airport connector (pdf)
Oakland Tribune Editorial (May 14, 2009)Mayor Bates Makes Courageous Vote (pdf)
Berkeley Daily Planet (March 11, 2009)Oakland: Crowd Packs Transit Meeting to Discuss Use of Federal Stimulus Money (pdf)
CBS Local Wire (February 25, 2009)