Hello Everyone,

I’m Fabian W. and I’m a member of the Bike!Bike! 2018 – Los Angeles organizing committee. One of my specific tasks is to promote and facilitate participation in our event by Mexican, Central American and South American bike groups.

There are two main components to this effort:

Promote the event among groups in those regions.

I’m already reaching out to many across the region but if you know of any specific ones I would really appreciate the contact information.

Fundraise for our travel equity program.

Participation by south-of-the-US Border groups is very difficult because of the cost of visas and airfare.

Jim Mayerstein from Mexico has shared with me some important background information about travel equity funding in previous Bike!Bike! gatherings starting with Detroit. Jim mentioned that a couple of the collectives from Canada were able to do significant funding towards this (Bike Sauce from Toronto and Our Community Bikes from Vancouver).

The Los Angeles Bike!Bike! organizing committee is going to do as much funding for this as possible but any contributions or ideas from the rest of the BikeCollectives community would be very appreciated.

We have started a crowd funding site at: https://bikebike2018.raisely.com/ . Any contributions there would help give momentum to that effort.

So, please if you have any ideas or have specific resources in relationship to both the promotion of the event south-of-the-US Border or, more importantly, in regards to funding our southern friends please contact me at fabian@ucla.edu

Looking forward to meeting many of you in LA in September,

_fabian

Bike!Bike! 2018, Los Angeles, Organizing Committee

Professor, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA

Director, PedaLúdico, Buenos Aires, Argentina (http://pedaludico.org)

Director, cheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (http://chela.org.ar)