LAist: Bus Riders Union Rocks the Anti-War March

sssamtaylor

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:42:48 -0800

Maybe they can bring warm bodies. Eric and Lian Mann's 2006 tax return just became public. They (husband & wife) took home $267,340 in FY 2006 and $283,366 in FY 2005. Running the Bus Riders Union is hard work. Getting lots of demostrators is hard work. But, don't they represent poor people? How many other Executives of nonprofits take home this kind of money?

jrb

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:05:09 -0800

Many of us feel that we wouldn't be at war in Iraq if it we not because of our oil dependent economy. Iraq didn't attack us, had no ties to Al Queda, had no weapons of mass destruction. These are facts that were known to the Bush administration, and yet his entire adminisration conspired to cherry pick intel, squash UN wepoms reports, outed a CIA agent, and orchestrated an attack on an oil rich nation, so we could grab their resources for the big oil conglomerates, so they could sell it back to us at top dollar. Bus Riders Union has been very active in drawing attention to the negative impacts of being as oil dependent as we are, and though I wish their leadership were more open minded about public transportation including more rail projects they do a lot of good and can produce a lot of warm bodies to attend a demonstration.

RMSpuhler

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:01:52 -0800

I must be missing something ... Iraq and riding the bus correlate how?