Eric Channing and Barbara on Ciclavia South LA

Voices From The Frontlines

This week on Voices from the Frontlines Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Barbara Lott Holland speak about Ciclavia South LA, the Strategy and Soul pitstop along the route, and the realities of riding a bike as a Black and Latinx person in a police state. In February the Strategy Center will work with 7 other organizations to launch the South Central Power Up E-bike lending library. As part of that effort we are ramping up programing around Bikes and what we're calling a community run 1st class Transportation system. The program will be free for the first 6 months. Channing speaks about the controversy of riding a bike as a Black person, which includes being subject of pretextual stops and criminalization by police. Eric speaks about the idea of launching a truly 1st class transportation system while Metro runs the public transportation system into the ground. Barbara speaks about running the pitstop at Ciclavia.