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September 2011 Newsletter – English

September 2011 Newsletter – Spanish

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!!!!

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!!

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!

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!

City of Lights Newsletter – June 2011

Boletin de Ciudad de Luces -Junio 2011

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.

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!

We are recruiting passionate volunteers 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!