Astrodime Transit Authority

Today is the 2nd anniversery of Hurrican Katrina, a storm that broke the levees that devasted New Orleans. Astrodime Transit Authority sees this as a public transportation disaster. Why were so many people left in New Orleans directly after the storm?

Here’s an opinion from Facing South: Blogging for a Progressive South produced by the Institute for Southern Studies, a progressive non-profit based in Durham, North Carolina.

And here’s some videos of people displaced by Katrina produced by colorofchange.org: changing the color of democracy

http://voicesfromthegulf.com/about.html

Finally, here is a seminal music video created right after Katrina in a collaboration between the Legendary K.O. and a video editor by the name of The Black Lantern.

This summer, gina kamentsky and sam smiley checked out the transportation system in Taxco, Morelos, Mexico. Everything is on an incline..the buses and taxi’s are VW buses and Beetles. Buses are cheaper (5 pesos) and more fun, but the taxis are great to watch. here’s a video by sam smiley