Get up to date and involved in TRU's latest campaigns and initiatives. Please RSVP to Lee (617.442.3343 x229; lee@ace-ej.org) and let him know if you have any agenda items or childcare needs.

The T Riders Union will be featured on Boston Neighborhood Network's "City Journal", hosted by Bob Terrell, on March 27 from 8:00 to 8:30 pm. The show is a call-in program, so feel encouraged to respond to what you see!

The Radical Organizing Conference is a chance for progressive organizations and community members to share and strategize around issues in our communities. Run by City Life/Vida Urbana and organized by ACE and other partner organizations, the day will be full of opportunities to discuss issues and attend workshops. Contact Lee (617.442.3343 x 229; lee@ace-ej.org) to get involved in planning or to learn more about the day.

Come discuss what climate change means to you and your community with other concerned individuals. The Jamaica Plain Forum and Boston Climate Action Network are hosting a community gathering on what global warming means to each of us, individually and as a community.

Come out to support the United Youth and Youth Workers of Boston at the City Council Youth Affairs Committee Hearing. We will be making a presentation on how to end youth violence by investing in youth jobs, programs and street outreach.

Join TRU in attending and giving testimony at the MBTA monthly Board of Directors Meeting. For more information contact Lee (617.442.3343x229; lee@ace-ej.org).

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Beverly Wright (Xavier University and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice) and Ted Glick (U.S. Climate Emergency Council and the Climate Crisis Coalition) will speak on behalf of their work in environmental justice.

The Museum of Science and Northeastern University present a Forum on Alternative Energy and Nanotechnology. Climate change concerns, rising energy costs, and dwindling natural resources are causing people everywhere to think harder about the relationship between human activity and our environment. The emerging and exciting field of nanotechnology presents great promise to address these issues, but carries a great deal of uncertainty…and perhaps its own environmental risks. In this forum, you and other participants will become the decision makers, as you weigh the possible environmental benefits of nanotechnology against its potential pitfalls. Should the bulk of research funding be dedicated to the implementation of existing technologies and to conservation, or should more efforts be dedicated to designing new nanotechnologies that might be of greater long-term impact? Thursday, April 3 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dodge Hall at Northeastern University Refreshments will be served from 6:30 until 7:00; the forum will begin promptly at 7:00.

The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) and the Racial and Ethnic Approach to Community Health (REACH) Coalition are putting on a screening of the film Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? on April 7, 2008 at the Lila G. Frederick Pilot Middle School on 270 Columbia Road, Dorchester MA 02121.

The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) will hold two Open House sessions on April 8 at the State Transportation Building to invite members of the public to learn more about and comment on the following MPO activities: April 8, 2008 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Suite 2150, State Transportation Building 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 • Update of the FFY 2009 Unified Planning Work Program • Update of the FFYs 2009-2012 Transportation Improvement Program • Overviews of Roadway Safety Planning • Overviews of Mobility Monitoring For more information or to request an interpreter, please contact the MPO at (617) 973-7100 (voice), (617) 973-7089 (TTY), (617) 973-8855 (fax).

The youth have been actively campaigning to reduce harmful diesel emissions in their neighborhoods for years. Interested in getting involved? Contact Jodi (617.442.3343x223; jodi@ace-ej.org for more information.