[sea-organizing] [SocialistProject] The Toronto book launch of "Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators"

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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Thursday, June 21, 6pm
Different Booklist, 777 Bathurst St, Toronto
Refreshments will be served.

The Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/503429020054822/

Visit the book's webpage on the Black Rose Books website
for more information on the book and a free sample.

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Praise for the Book:

“In a warming world, one of the most important immediate steps we can take to address climate change is free public transit. But it is also about just mobility for all citizens, re-orienting urban planning away from cars, addressing gender and racial equality, and much more. Judith Dellheim and Jason Prince have brought together some of the most important examples from around the world.... There is nothing like it. Read this book on your local bus and insist fellow passengers join the campaign to demand free fares.”

― GREG ALBO, Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science, York University

"At the end of the first month of free train rides, train usage tripled, and after six months it was sevenfold....Everywhere that it has been implemented, people like it."

“Against the backdrop of austerity, service cuts, and threats of privatization, Free Public Transit asks the seemingly crazy question: ‘Why isn’t public transit free?’ This book compiles both the academic background and the advocacy histories to make a convincing argument―that free transit makes sense and can help remedy the congestion, air pollution, unsustainable petroleum dependence, and climate change caused by our automobile-centered transport system.”

― AARON GOLUB, Director and Associate Professor at the Nohad A.
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University

"For those seeking to secure more sustainable, equitable, and sane cities, this exceptional collection should be cause for celebration. In ways that are profoundly convincing, Free Public Transit suggests that the ostensibly radical and utopian demand for fare-free transit is hardly radical or utopian at all. Indeed, it is just the opposite… not only is free transit eminently achievable, but the benefits can be profound.… For those who remain skeptical that another city is possible, this collection offers a ray of hope and a much needed message: ‘Free transit works, it can be won, get on board!’”

― KAFUI ATTOH, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Joseph S. Murphy
Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York

“Jason Prince and Judith Dellheim have edited a fine collection of articles making the collective case that it is crucial to return our public transportation to the democratic commons. The book analyses transport not in isolation but as an urban issue embedded in the struggles of class, environment, and for a life based on quality rather than quantity. The contributors come from a variety of geographic and political contexts which enriches and deepens the reader’s understanding of the sheer variety of possibilities and struggles in the global political ecology of transportation-related issues.”

― RICHARD SWIFT, writer, activist, long-time editor with The New
Internationalist magazine, and author of SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism

“Free Public Transit is an intriguing... snapshot of what a transit system that served the needs of everyone in the city could look like and how it could be realized.”

― YUTAKA DIRKS, The Montreal Review of Books,

Paperback: $27.00
Hardcover $53.00

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-657-2
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-659-6
eBook ISBN: 978-1-55164-661-9