RIGHT TO MOBILITY AGAINST RACISM
Channel: RosaluxEuropa
Date: 2021-03-26

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung will hold a debate on March 25th entitled Right to Mobility against Racism. The event is part of the international webseminar Right to Mobility, a joint initiative of the RLS Brussels, New York and São Paulo offices. It will be broadcast on the social networks of the three offices in English and Portuguese, with participants from South and North America, and Europe.
 
The meeting will count with members of two of the main organizations that promotes free public transport in the world: Paíque Duques Santarém, from Brazilian MPL, and Anna Nygård, from Swedish Planka.nu; and with two participants from New York City: Debipriya Chatterjee, from the Community Service Society and Marion Jones, from Transportation Alternatives. The mediation will be carried out by Katarine Flor, communication coordinator at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - Brazil and Paraguay.
 
On the occasion, Paíque Duques Santarém will present the book Antirracism Mobility (Mobilidade Antirracista), with articles about racism and mobility. He is one of the organizers of the book. Anna Nygård and Katarine Flor also contributed with articles.
 
The event is the second in the series of the webseminar. The first debate, on women in the city and mobility, took place on February 25 (video). The third and final meeting of the series will be on paths for the free pass and will take place on April 22, with transmission in English and German. More information and registration in English and German. on the Rosa Luxemburg Brussels Foundation website.
 
RIGHT TO MOBILITY AGAINST RACISM 
International Webseminar Right to Mobility
March 25, 2021 
Time 2 p.m. NYC / 7 p.m. CET in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen
 
Interpretation in Portuguese and English:
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation YouTube - Brazil and Paraguay
 
PARTICIPANTS
Anna Nygård (Planka.nu - Sweden), Debipriya Chatterjee (Community Service Society New York, USA), Marion Jones (Transportation Alternatives from New York, USA) and Paíque Duques Santarém (MPL - Brazil)
MEDIATION Katarine Flor (FRL Brazil and Paraguay).
Organization: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels - New York - São Paulo
 
----MORE ABOUT PARTICIPANTS
Anna Nygård - activist and one of the founders of Planka.nu, an organization that promotes free public transport. She currently works as an editor for a local newspaper covering the Järva area in Stockholm's suburbs and as a secretary at the Swedish Center for Marxist Studies.
 
Debipriya Chatterjee - Senior Policy Analyst for Income Inequality at the Community Service Society in New York. She works with issues related to employment, poverty, inequality and economic mobility. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.
 
Marian Jones - a member of the non-profit organization Transportation Alternatives, based in New York. Most of her work involves bringing improvements for bicycles, pedestrians and public transport to the Bronx. She is also the editor of the new socialist-feminist magazine Lux.
 
Paíque Duques Santarém – member of Movimento Passe Livre, Master in Anthropology (PPGAS / UNB) and PhD student in Architecture and Urbanism (PPGFAU / UnB). He has militancy in several areas, especially in the Black Movement, for the Right to the City, Urban Mobility and Popular / Traditional Cultures. He fights and juggles for the construction of Popular Power.
 
 Katarine Flor - Communication coordinator at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation - Brazil and Paraguay. Journalist, specialist in Organizational and Integrated Communication (ESPM). Undergraduate in Literature - Portuguese and Literature (UFF).