Mr Justice Marshall, writing for the unanimous Supreme Court of the United States.

Está acontecendo esse seminário muito massa e Quem quiser rever a incrível apresentação do professor @norton.bsky.social Peter Norton e de Daniel Santini, é só clicar neste link.

I live in Charlottesville. When armed terrorists descended on our city in 2017, bearing Nazi flags and chanting racist slogans, they met peaceful, brave, unarmed counterprotesters. The invaders injured many of them – and killed one. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Edmonton, 1970: “School patrols … can’t step out onto the street to stop traffic. This means a wait of several minutes before children can cross in a break in traffic. … The mothers group, numbering about 20, planned to take shifts.”

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955, part 2: After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955: After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, 1973: When Joan Couture posted a “20 mph” sign on her home, facing the street, police told her to take the sign down. When she refused, she was charged with posting an illegal sign.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, 1973: Following injuries and deaths to people walking, volunteers made stop signs and “20 mph” signs, posting them where needed. Police removed the signs. Volunteers then painted “20 max” on the pavement.

In Richmond today, at the governor’s mansion. Disregard the rumors. In Virginia, all of the flags flying today at half-mast were honoring Heather Heyer.

Today! Look forward to seeing a whole bunch of y'all today

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal 1973: To slow drivers down where children walked to school, residents resorted to installing home-made signs marked “20 mph.” ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Liz Brooks (background), head of Montreal’s Esplanade Street Committee, organized a street blockade after her son Gary (age 6) was injured in traffic. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, June 27, 1973: After Sissy Brooks (age 5), her older brother, and other children were injured by motorists, residents demanded streets safe for everyone.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, November 12, 1974: At Clarke and Bernard streets, about 100 parents, organized as the Esplanade Street Association, blocked motor traffic for half an hour to demand safer conditions for walking. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal 1973: Following several injuries to children walking to and from school, local residents organized. On Friday, April 13, on Esplanade Ave at Van Horne Ave, about 30 people, including children, blocked all motor traffic for one hour.

Decades before the famous Dutch "stop de kindermoord" protests of 1972-73, Canadians were fighting for walkable streets.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, April 13, 1973: Following injuries to their children walking to and from school, about 30 people blocked the intersection of Esplanade and Van Horne avenues for an hour. They demanded a crossing guard or anything else that would make walking safer.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Laval, Quebec, 1966: The prehistory of driving children to school.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Montreal, August 20, 1966. Dorys Bernbaum: “Must we wait for deaths?”

Canadians fought for walkable streets. On April 23, 1974, about 70 parents, wearing black arm bands, marched to the office of Montreal’s traffic director, bearing funeral wreaths to present to him. They were calling attention to the deadly peril children faced on their walks to school. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. On Thursday morning, November 10, 1960, Gordon Malone, age 6, was walking to school in north-end Montreal’s Nouveau-Bordeaux neighborhood. ...

Canadians fought for walkable roads. Windsor, Ontario: On May 10, 1965, in Sandwich East, Diane Paton, age 5, was walking on Grand Marais Road when she was killed by a driver. She died in front of the home of Aimee Soulliere. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. The Tecumseh Road protests, part 3. Windsor, Ontario, September 10, 1955.

Horsepower vs. People Power Windsor, Ontario, September 10, 1955, part 2 ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Southwest Windsor, Ontario, September 5, 1955: As Patsy Hart (16) and Jerry Souilliere (15) crossed Tecumseh Road at Campbell Avenue to go to a movie, a speeding driver ran them down, killing both. ...

Canadians fought for walkable streets. The Victoria Park Avenue demonstration, part 3. Victoria Park Avenue at Parma Court, North York, Toronto, November 23, 1968.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Toronto, 1968: In North York, residents had been demanding a traffic light on Victoria Park Avenue at Parma Court for two years. Then on November 16, nine-year-old Linda Adams was killed crossing the road there. ...

The prehistory of the school car line. Toronto 1968: That children of elementary school age would be driven “only six blocks” to and from school was front-page news. But when nine-year-old Linda Adams was killed crossing Victoria Park Ave in North York, parents like Anne Waugh saw no other choice.

Canadians at an illegal street blockade: “Don’t kill our children” / “On strike against death” / “Sorry for any inconvenience.” ...

Time to build a university governance model that serves our students, staff and state first and shields our world-class institutions from federal overreach. @creighdeeds.bsky.social and I spent time listening to professors as we work towards legislative solutions to do just that.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Dollarton Highway at Seymour River Place, Vancouver, April 5, 1974.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Oak Street at 67th Avenue, Vancouver, August 29, 1969.

As DT plays king, stuffing the Oval Office with gold bric-à-brac and planning a $200 million White House ballroom, it’s worth remembering the consternation Nancy Reagan faced for spending $200,000 in donated money for new White House china. Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1981.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Meet Helen Gale.

Canadians fought for walkable streets. Burnaby, British Columbia, November 5, 1976: About 35 volunteers (called “irate mothers” by the Vancouver Sun) blocked the busy intersection of Canada Way and Douglas Road. The protest followed a third injury to a child in two months. ...

The struggle for livable streets has a long but neglected history. Soon after the Miller Homes complex opened in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1965, residents asked for a traffic light at the corner of Miller and Seward avenues to protect people crossing the street there. ...

March 21, 1977: In S. Ozone Park, Queens, children walking to and from PS 121 and St Teresa of Avila school had to cross 109th Avenue. Near the scene of a seven-year-old boy’s death, volunteers blocked traffic to protect walkers and demand safer conditions for people on foot. (photo: Jack Clarity)

“We love our kids and want them to live.” Even small towns like Boonville, Indiana, need people-friendly streets. To my knowledge, The Ballad of Boonville’s Speedsters has not yet been set to music.

We will never know how many lives livable streets advocates saved. May we learn from the example they set us. On September 30, 1968, a motorist struck and killed four-year-old Michael Jones near his home on Van Hook Street (now Carl Miller Boulevard) in Camden, New Jersey. ...

Americans fought for walkable streets. Great Kills, Staten Island, 1970: On February 6, Tommy Osgood, age 5, was walking to the school bus stop with his brothers, ages 8 and 9. In front of his older brothers, Tommy was struck and killed by a motorist. ...

Even small communities need walkability advocates. In Bennettsville, South Carolina, Pearlie Lawson long led demands for safe walking conditions. Bennettsville is the county seat of Marlboro County. ...

Communities need walkable streets. In 1987, residents near the intersection of Ashby Street (now Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard) and Neal Street in northwest Atlanta, citing deaths and injuries to pedestrians, requested a traffic light there. ...

Communities need walkable streets. Little Earth of the United Tribes is the largest indigenous urban housing community in the United States. Established in 1973 just south of downtown Minneapolis, it was originally called the South High Housing Project. ...

Children defended their right to walk.

Herblock 1961

Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred. Cleveland, March 22, 1982: After unsuccessful requests for a traffic light and a fourth injury to a child crossing the street, residents organized a protest. ...

Through the height of the automobile age, Americans fought for walkable streets. ...