On the Line
On the Line Bikes for the World Chicago "Bikes are magical," says Lee Ravenscroft amid piles of tires, handlebars, gear boxes, and buckets of chains in the unheated warehouse of Working Bikes...
...The cooperative has working relationships with nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and Africa...
...Last year, Congress approved the 2004 omnibus spending bill, which included an amendment that allows Congress to deny federal funds to local transit authorities that display advertisements promoting the legalization or medical use of controlled substances...
...Nick Colombo, a college student and volunteer, says that Working Bikes Cooperative is a good introduction to the "subversive yet innocuous rebel subculture" of people who like bikes...
...The Ad You Couldn't See Washington D.C...
...In the Third World, bikes help farmers deliver produce and enable children to go to better schools, Ravenscroft says...
...The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Change the Climate, the Drug Policy Alliance, and the Marijuana Policy Project filed a lawsuit against the U.S...
...government and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for refusing to run this ad...
...to 5 p.m...
...Back to Work Spaniards rallied in Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia on February 15, the one-year anniversary of the global day of action against the Iraq War...
...For more information, contact the ACLU at www.aclu.org/DrugPolicy...
...The all-volunteer group takes donated and discarded bikes, repairs them, and then distributes them locally and internationally...
...Women of Ju??rez Seek Justice Ciudad Ju??rez, Mexico Over the past decade, more than 300 women have been murdered in the border town of Ciudad Ju??rez...
...Los Angeles Some 60,000 grocery workers are going back to their jobs after more than four months on strike in Southern California...
...to 5 p.m...
...The warehouse is located at 927 S. Western Avenue, Chicago, and is open Wednesdays 12 p.m...
...Elizabeth DiNovella For more information, contact the group at www.workingbikes.org...
...Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) struck at three large supermarket chains...
...On February 14, demonstrators demanded justice from the Mexican legal system, which has yet to solve the cases...
...and Saturdays 10 a.m...
...The union preserved health care benefits for current workers but was unable to defeat the chains' demands for a two-tier wage system and increased health care costs for future workers...
...Our aim is to get more people riding bikes in Chicago and developing countries...
...On the Line Bikes for the World Chicago "Bikes are magical," says Lee Ravenscroft amid piles of tires, handlebars, gear boxes, and buckets of chains in the unheated warehouse of Working Bikes Cooperative...
...We take garbage and make it usable," he says...
...In April, the three-year-old group plans to ship several hundred bikes to Angola...
...People get a vandalized wheel or they break a couple cables and they don't want to pay for the repairs so they put it out in the alley," says Ravenscroft...
...We get a lot of bikes this way-about thirty a week...
...And it recently managed to send a volunteer to Ghana in addition to bicycles...
...The lawsuit asks the court to declare the amendment unconstitutional...
Vol. 68 • April 2004 • No. 4
