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I’m all signed up for my first century ride next saturday (11.05)! from Oakland to Sacramento. protesting at the state capitol against funding cuts for california public schools. 
please make a donation to support oakland public schools! especially if you’ve attended (or are attending) a CA public school, this is a chance to give back.i was going to suggest $5 if you’re a student, and $10+ if you’re working. however, on the website, the fixed donation is $25. so if you would like to donate more or less than that amount, you can paypal me at dt8k[dot].yee(at)gmail[dot]com and i’ll input that through my account. Thanks!

As of this morning, together we had raised about $30,000, which is a great start. To get to our goal of $80,000 though, we need more people to be involved and everyone to push a little harder. Ride for a Reason is the largest single fundraiser for Oakland International and Emerson Elementary. It’s also an important fundraiser at Oakland Tech [High School] and Claremont [Middle]. More than 50% of the students at each of the schools that are beneficiaries qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Our efforts are important to ensure that all of these students have access to high quality enrichment programs. Keep pushing. Working together we can make a difference.
» Ride for a Reason 2013

A Protest on Two Wheels

A bike ride from Oakland to Sacramento aims to halt cuts to education funding.

..They felt elected officials in Sacramento were not holding up their end of the public school bargain. So they got on their bikes and rode east to demand more money for their school and for all of California’s public schools. “What happens in Oakland is a preview for a whole erosion of schools in general,” Napolitano said.

In the three years since, the state has continued to slash education funding, and the four-parent delegation has morphed into a multi-school force of more than one hundred parents, teachers, students, and community members pedaling to the capital to demand better funding for K-12 schools.

ebx, 02.05.12.

saturday, may 11th, 2013.

thinking about doing this, since i was too lazy to register and raise money for climate ride.. 105 miles from Oakland to Sacramento. doable, yeah?! and gotta root for California public schools!

» A young city turns to young planners

…But are our cities, the places we live, being built for young people? Do kids really care about the way our city looks? The way it is designed, built and managed?

Two young Saskatoon urban planners are looking to answer those questions. They have created a summer camp designed to engage children as young as 10 in the world of urban design.

At the weekend camp, kids between 10 and 13 learn about everything from zoning bylaws and restrictions to how to design roads, build bridges and bike lanes. They take tours through parks and neighbourhoods and learn about different concepts of urban design.

thestarphoenix, 13.06.12.

(Source: lifeonfoot, via captainplanit)

» Women, Trans, Femme Intro to Safe Bicycling Workshop (SF)

In honor of Pride Month, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is co-hosting a Women, Trans, and Femme Intro to Cycling class with Good Vibrations. This class, led by a female instructor, is intended to create a safe and supportive space for people who identify as female, transgender or femme. This one-hour course will teach you how to ride safely and confidently sharing the street, the rules and regulations of the road, and how to integrate bicycling into your daily life from commuting to shopping. All ages and skill levels are welcome to attend and no bicycle is required. This course is funded in part by the SFMTA. RSVP today!

Women, Trans, Femme Intro to Safe Bicycling Workshop
Good Vibrations (1620 Polk Street)
Tues. June 19th 6:30-7:30 PM

sfbike.

» High school seniors suspended for biking to school

On the second to last day of school, 60 seniors from Kenowa Hills High School in Walker, Michigan, rode their bikes to school. It wasn’t an improvised things either, as they had police escort and did it safely, and even the mayor joined them (handing out donuts, which isn’t exactly health food, but nobody was forced to eat them). But their principal, out of some sort of “I’ll show you who’s boss” primal instinct, decided to reprimand them, calling the bike ride a “prank”, going as far as suspending them for a day and threatening to keep them from walking in their graduation ceremony.

treehugger, 22.05.12.
news video clip on wood.tv.
via grist, 23.05.12.

» Walk.Bike.Schools! (seattle)

bike racks full at Bryant today, 04.05.12.

This is pretty awesome. Seattle’s got it so down.

“Bike to School MONTH.” Not just a day!

(via seattlebikeblog: 121 Bryant Elementary kids and parents biked to school today)

Knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.

Andreas Schleicher

Pass the Books. Hold the Oil. nytimes, 10.03.12.

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