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DESCRIPTION:  At 6:00pm on Monday, June 10 at 16th and Mission BART, the MORE Public 
 Transit Coalition made up of low wage workers, families of color, youth, 
 elderly, disabled passengers and drivers will hold an action denouncing the 
 re-implementation of MUNI’s Proof of Payment “saturations.”  The MTA 
 suspended this extreme form of Proof of Payment due to community pressure 
 on May 13.  The saturations were a terrifying experience for community 
 members, who sometimes had to go through a line of over 20 MUNI and SFPD 
 agents at a bus stop just to get on a bus. SFPD and MUNI agents would then 
 demand ID, going through people’s personal belongings and creating a 
 hostile environment for riders while slowing down bus service for drivers.  
 \n\nJustifying the moratorium of the “saturations,” Nathaniel P. Ford 
 Sr., SFMTA Executive Director/CEO, himself stated, “Muni fare inspection 
 is in place in order to promote fare compliance and for no other reason.” 
  In spite of this logic, the MTA has decided to re-implement the 
 saturations beginning July 13th. POWER member Teresa Molina says in 
 Spanish, “I saw some agents mistreating a rider just the other day on 9 
 bus.  They beat him up terribly.  Didn’t they say this enforcement had 
 ended?”  Community groups know that 60 days of training is not enough 
 time to shift the thinking of power hungry MUNI TFIs and SFPD, and doubt 
 whether there can be any type of fare and justifiable “saturation."       
                              \n\nFacing an already hostile climate both 
 locally and nationally due to the economic crisis and immigrant 
 scapegoating, low-income immigrant communities, youth elderly and disabled 
 understand MUNI saturations as just another form of repression.  On 
 Wednesday, June 9th San Francisco was forced to adopt the new Federal 
 Secure Communities Program (S-Comm), where anyone arrested and 
 fingerprinted can be turned over to ICE (Immigration and Customs 
 Enforcement).  Although the Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution 
 against S-Comm, there are still questions about whether San Francisco can 
 legally opt out of this Federal program.  S-Comm and MUNI Saturations with 
 SFPD involvement increases the changes of immigrant deportation by 
 increasing unnecessary contact with local authorities.  Losing a transfer 
 is not a crime; San Francisco residents should not fear deportation for 
 trying to ride a bus.                        \n\nThe MORE Public Transit 
 Coalition is demanding an end to these types of saturations that create 
 checkpoints and raids on buses, and criminalize working families, youth and 
 elderly people.  The MORE Public Transit Coalition will be claiming their 
 victory and fighting against the re-implementation of the MUNI saturations 
 as well as presenting the SFPD at the local Mission Precinct with a 
 citation and demanding to see their identification.  This is not Arizona, 
 this is San Francisco, and the MORE Public Transit Coalition demands an end 
 to MUNI saturations, raids and checkpoints!  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/14/18650629.php
SUMMARY:Community Acts Denouncing MUNI Saturations Raids
LOCATION:16th and Mission BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/14/18650629.php
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