On Wheels: A Transnational Bike Tour for Climate Justice
Sobre Ruedas: Un Tour de Bici Transnacional por Justicia Climática
The Tour and the Objective:
On this trans-national bike tour, we will travel more than 4,000 miles (7,500+ km) from Santiago, Chile to Quito, Ecuador (and beyond). This tour is not just a personal challenge for us, but will also be educational and open to many more people. We will stop at schools, NGOs and environmentally focused community organizations along the way to exchange ideas and stories about climate change and the movements that have formed to address its root causes, such as consumer culture and colonialism. We will also collect stories and disperse them to help the cross-fertilization of various movements. We will have a focus on the bicycle as a cheap, accessible, autonomous and environmentally-friendly form of transportation and sport. We will be exploring the ways in which we can get more people riding—especially women and other people who aren’t encouraged to ride and have less access to bikes—in order to increase the quality of life for all.
Who we are:
We are two young people, an Ecuadorian and a U.S.A.er, who are going to come together to do this trans-cultural tour. We both have a strong interest in environmentalism, social justice and the bicycle. We have worked in our respective cities (Quito, Ecuador and Minneapolis, USA) to promote the bicycle as a means of transportation and as a sport and we have decided that we need to take a greater challenge and push our limits to bring our passion to another level by bike touring and sharing it with many other people.
Are you interested?
If you are interested in supporting this project, joining it, or can donate resources to help make it happen, please contact us at: cstoscheck@gmail.com (Claire) o redlinecristhianbike@hotmail.com (Cristhian).
This tour is sponsored by: Rising Tide North America and The Sibley Bike Depot
El tour y El Objetivo:
Vamos a pedalear en bici más que 4,000 millas (7,500+ km) desde Santiago, Chile hasta Quito, Ecuador (y más alla). Este tour sería educativo y vamos a ir a escuelas, ONGs y organizaciones communitarios en la ruta para compartir ideas e historia sobre el cambio del clima y los movimientos que han formado para luchar contra las razones fundamentales, como la cultura de consumismo y colonialismo. También vamos a coleccionar historias para cruz-polinizar y difundir movimientos. Vamos a tener un foque en la bicicleta y las maneras en que podemos tener más gente pedaleando, especialmente mujeres y otra gente marginalizados, para aumentar la cualidad de la vida para todas y todos.
Quien somos: Somos dos jóvenes, un ecuatoriano y una estadounidense, que van a unir para hacer este tour transcultural. Los dos tenemos un interes muy fuerte en ambientalismo, justicia social y la bici. Hemos trabajados en nuestras cuidades respectivas (Quito y Minneapolis) para promover la bici como transporte y deporte y hemos decididos que necesitamos tomar un reto mas grande e impulsar en nuestros limites y traer nuestra passion mas adelante.
¿Tiene interés? Si usted esta interesado en apoyar este proyecto o puede hacer un donativo, por favor contactanos a: cstoscheck@gmail.com (Claire) o redlinecristhianbike@hotmail.com (Cristhian).
Sunday, July 15, 2007
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