Be sure to check out the City of Lights Newsletter for November!
November 12, 2011
September 6, 2011
Hey folks, check out the City of Lights September Newsletter for upcoming events, news, and info on how to get involved! Click below for the PDF in English or Spanish.
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September 2011 Newsletter – English
September 2011 Newsletter – Spanish
August 13, 2011
BiciDigna ride to Celebrate 7th St. Bike Lane next week on August 19th!
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The 7th St. Bike Lane is Coming next month!!!! BiciDigna invites you to our ride to Levitt Pavillion to raise awareness and celebrate with us on Friday, August 19 @ 5 pm.
Meet at Lincoln Park: El Parque de Mexico on the corner of Main and Mission to Macarthur Park’s Levitt Pavilion to listen to the music of Mariachi Los Reyes.
We’ll be accepting monetary donations, bicycles, and parts in general. See you there!!!!
August 2, 2011
City of Lights partners with LA Conservation Corps to engage youth to advocate for more bike lanes in South LA!
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Last Thursday, on July 28th, City of Lights did the first of a series of presentations around the Bike Plan and bikeways 101 for low-income cyclists at the LA Conservation Corps’ Headquarters High School. There were 15 attendees. The 18-24 year old youth who attended all lived or worked in parts of South and East LA. In pop-ed style, after a brief explanation of bikeway terminology, we broke out into conversation with the youth about their experiences in biking, in which many expressed speeding traffic, truckers, a lack of bike lanes, and feeling so unsafe that they had to get back on the sidewalk.
Allison and Andy presenting at the Conservation Corps
The youth then drew out on a map of Downtown and South LA what destinations they frequented, the routes they took, and the streets they wished had bike lanes. After this, they voted on their top priorities of the list of over 10 streets. We hope to revisit the Conservation Corps soon to gather more feedback from other cyclists/students. The gathered feedback will be submitted to the Department of City Planning and DOT.
Youth marking up the maps!
This is part of a bigger effort of City of Lights’ to bring more participatory, inclusive bike planning to low-income cyclists who may be riding every day, but unaware of the bike plan or how to voice their concerns. We hope to partner with other organizations in high need, low-income neighborhoods, to do similar workshops, so that a local, diverse bike movement is grown!
Dominique--A lucky winner in raffle after presentation!!
June 20, 2011
This Sunday: Bici Digna and Corazon del Pueblo SOLIDARITY RIDE!
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Join us this Sunday at 11am as Corazon del Pueblo and Bici Digna join up to bring you the Solidarity Ride – a chance for us to celebrate our communities and our work on a chill Sunday afternoon.
It’s a $5 donation to ride and participate in the raffle at the end – five lucky people are going to win some bikes! So come on over, Sunday June 26th, at Hollenbeck Park at 11am. We’ll be riding over to MacArthur Park and back again.
Yay!
Solidarity Ride flier - feel free to print and share!
June 14, 2011
Check out this video for a glimpse of one of Bici Digna’s mobile bicycle workshops!
Bici Digna will be doing mobile bicycle workshops at the CARECEN Day Labor Center every first Saturday of the month, as well as at several other locations throughout the month. Check out the Bici Digna blog for more info!
June 5, 2011
Hey all, check out the June City of Lights Newsletter!
City of Lights Newsletter – June 2011
Boletin de Ciudad de Luces -Junio 2011
May 15, 2011
Join us for a 7th St. Bike Lane Awarness Ride this Sunday, May 22!
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This Sunday, May 22 City of Lights is going to be hosting a ride from Hollenbeck Park to MacArthur Park along 7th St. We’re excited about the Bike Master Plan’s inclusion of 7th St in its work to get more miles of bike lanes painted in the city. Hopefully you’ll join us on the ride so we can celebrate these efforts, raise awareness, and have a little fun!
We’ll be meeting at the corner of St. Louis and Inez, the southeast corner of Hollenbeck Park, at 11:30am, and taking off by noon. For more info, please contact Miguel Ramos at (626) 375-6799.
January 18, 2011
City of Lights Featured in Good Magazine!
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Good Magazine, one of the urban planning and art world’s favorite magazines recently interviewed City of Lights and BiciDigna volunteers, along with the BRU! Click here or on the graphic below to read the link: http://www.good.is/post/80/
We’re excited to have been shown in a magazine that reaches a different type of community than the Social Justice/bike worlds and with such a well-written article, too! The piece covered land use/transportation and equity in Los Angeles.
If this also excites you too, consider making a donation via paypal, marking “City of Lights” in the comment field.
We will be collaborating with the DREAM Act Riders for their ride from LA to the OC next month on 02/20 to highlight undocumented students’ struggles. Stay posted for more info and a flier!
January 10, 2011
City of Lights Needs Your Help! Volunteers Wanted!
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Help us expand in 2011 to reach more low-income folks on bikes!
We are recruiting passionate volunte
ers to help us grow City of Lights’ efforts and be a part of our team!
By now, you’ve kept tabs on our program through our blog, and as an engaged and/or interested community member, we want to invite you to be a part of our project! Our collective of volunteers does a lot of exciting work reaching out to immigrant Latino cyclists, from getting more Spanish language safety workshops, to the BiciDigna bike repair co-op at a day labor center, to bike rides with soccer games, to more bike lanes and parking in Central LA. Though we’re a small group, we’ve managed to accomplish so much through volunteer power!
We do this work because we recognize that bikes are used as transportation by low-income communities already and we believe we can build a movement to create more social equity in these and other marginalized communities in need throughout LA.We need people of all backgrounds and skillsets–anything from mechanic skills, to grant writing, to campaigns, to public speaking, and of course, ideally, Spanish speakers! Meetings are once a month and we will be having an upcoming retreat, in early February. Now is a great time to join and participate and make your ideas and passions known!
If you are interested, email allison@la-bike.org or call the LACBC office at: 213-629-2142.
