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Critical Mass bike ride – and prep for S.19 Draw The Line mass ride
People have been asking. But the Saturday morning Critical Mass ‘Parkways For People’ rides of the past two years haven’t been happening this year. And neither have the more traditional last-Friday-evening-of-the-month ‘self-organized’ Critical Mass rides.
So for August, we’re making sure one does happen.
Were you one of the people asking? Be there for this!
Want to take back the streets without anyone’s permission? Be there!
Haven’t done it before and not sure what it’ll be like? Be there!
We will also be making use of this opportunity to prepare for the upcoming Mass Bike Ride action of Friday September 19th, and building our skills at taking back the road.
The S.19 ride is a lead-up to the big Draw The Line march the next day, September 20th, which is part of a national day of action, and part of mobilizations across the world Septembeer 19th-21st. These are multi-issue* actions to address the very serious and interconnected problems we’re now facing as a society. To which we answer: Solidarity, in action!
On August 29, we’ll have posters and flyers** on hand you can take with you to help build the September 19 ride. And we’ll be discussing the September 19 plans, including how we can make the feeder rides*** work.
Let’s roll!
It’s only as much of a success as we collectively make it.
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*1: The five highlighted issues are:
🌍 Building a renewable future
🌿 Upholding Indigenous sovereignty
✊ Fighting for migrant justice
🕊️ Standing up for peace and democracy
💪 Investing in people and public services
*2: You can also print the posters and flyers from whereever you are, to put up and pass around. The files are in this google drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2G9PWz3Qbqxs-oINAkQ8m2M58pou3db
*3: The plan is to have some ‘feeder’ rides that start at different locations (including Gatineau) outside of the downtown core and then all come together at Confederation Park for the start of the main ride. We need volunteers to be the 3-4 anchor people at each feeder departure location. Organizations or self-assembled groups can also decide to initiate their own feeder ride, for example from a school/campus or workplace or any desired location.