An emergent vision for pivoting from harm to benefit by transitioning US rail from private profit to public purpose.

Wednesday, April 22

5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern

Solutionary Rail welcomes a panel of environmental justice and labor organizers to discuss how we can shift US rail from being a source of harm to an infrastructure that benefits us all.

Join us on Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day) for a Solutionary Circle.  Our friends at Pace e bene are calling for Solutions Circles as part of this year's Earth Week, and we are honored to collaborate by hosting such incredible guests.  Included in the panel are Andrea Vidaurre (People's Collective for Environmental Justice), mark! Lopez (East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice), Tabitha Tripp (Public Rail Now), Ryan Calbreath (UE Green Locomotive program), and Jess Conard (Rail Watch), along with Solutionary Rail Director Bill Moyer.

Over the last few years, EJ and labor organizers have been deepening their bonds of solidarity and finding common cause in the fight to electrify our rail system. But electrification is not the only interest or benefit that a more accountable rail system would provide. Another goal is shifting our rail system toward delivering greater community safety and broader societal benefit by getting more trucks off the road, reconnecting service to rural communities, and hosting new transmission on rail corridors.

Working at the state and federal level, these allies and organizers are shaping policies and shifting the political calculus to overcome the profound power of the biggest (“Class 1”) railroads (BNSF, UP, CSX, NS, CN, and CPKC) whose management has been captured by extractive Wall Street forces. 

We'll start at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern on 4/22/26. RSVP below to get the Zoom link.