Tag: transportation justice

June 26, 2014

The Bicycle Story: Ed Ewing on why expanding diversity is vital for bike advocacy

In a great interview with Josh Cohen at The Bicycle Story, Ed Ewing (Cascade Bicycle Club’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion) spells out the awesome and sometimes surprising ways that bicycling can help empower young people in disadvantaged communities to question inequality. The club has shifted more resources to the Major Taylor Project and has…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, ed ewing, major taylor project, transportation justice
July 15, 2013

On walking and biking justice in America

In the wake of the weekend’s not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, my mother called me from St. Louis completely outraged. She was certain that there must be some kind of law against following a person who was just walking down the street, getting into an altercation with them, and then shooting them.…
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tagged: adonia lugo, gardena, los angeles, transportation justice, trayvon martin