Advocacy looks like community.
What a gorgeous evening to ride our bikes on Lyndale Drive in support for the neighbourhood’s petition to keep it at 30 Km/h year-round.
This week’s newsletter is packed with information for this week and next, so make sure to get your PDAs ready to take some notes! Dear Gen Z, if you don’t know what PDAs are, imagine a phone that doesn’t make calls, connect to the internet, take videos or pictures, or let you argue with people from around the world. So, basically a pocket typewriter. I know you know what those are because you’re so cool and retro with your film cameras and stuff.
There’s been a lot of stuff on the news lately about bikes, cops, collisions and protests. It would be completely ok to say, “This is too much,” and put on some Netflix instead of going for a bike ride. But please note that this is exactly when we need that group ride, those bike friends, and the grocery store run where you leave your car at home and take in the fresh air and the sounds of your neighbourhood. It’s from that privileged bike seat position that we see the world in its clearest form, our community and its trials and tribulations.
It’s from our bike seats that we become better world citizens.
There are many ways for you to get involved and we’d love to have you. We’ll be holding a small information session called Intro to Advocacy, where we’ll present some volunteering gaps we’ll need filled, which might be just the right-sized gap to fit you in.
If interested, please fill out this Doodle Poll with your availability. It’ll be online, sometime next week.