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(en) US, Common Action anarchist INTERSECTIONS, Vol. 2, Issue 1 - Taking Back Public Transportation By Alexandra Snapp

After two fare hikes in less than one year's time, Kitsap County residents have been more than outraged. Kitsap Transit has cut routes, raised costs, and shortened service hours to a minimum. Or, as Kitsap Transit's Service Development Director, John Clausen stated "We have gone through the operation and trimmed out as much of the low-producing service we can find. Now were getting in to areas that are political or pretty well used." -- This is the "spine" route method Kitsap Transit has created to reduce cost. Meaning it will cut or limit routes to outer laying areas of Kitsap County, leaving people in rural areas with limited or no transportation. Residences in larger cities such as Bremerton, Silverdale, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, and Bainbridge Island are also dealing with unreliable transportation that seems to be no longer in the public's interest. ... more >>

Friday 12th March: Madame Hatter's Scabrous Cabaret

Source: Black Cat Centre - Bath

Should you be prudish puddings, freak frogs, vegan vultures, breakfast brutes and funky fruits, bang poets or junk poets or even plain poets, blue cabbages and pinktrumpets, merry-go-round travellers or magic roundabout surfers and hulla-hoop singers, studious students and naughty rodents, squatterpillars or passers-by, funny flapping flowers or blooming butterflies, party people or bursting bubbles, the usual crows and so many more if you're hungry for the encore, you are all invited to the first edition of Madame Hatter's scabrous cabaret for a night of sweetdelirium open to all sorts of performers, artists, poets,story-tellers...The Black Cat has currently hold of a massive gig space with a bar, a sound system, a grand piano and even a toilet for you to play with! Roof is high and acoustics much refined, come rock and trash the space and time with paint and taste, we wouldn't mind!She's slim and slimy and could easily break into your pipery, Beware of Madame Hatter coz' of decadence she's the plumber... more >>

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