From GoodGoodGood – thanks to Pam P.
Most cyclists bike around their cities as a form of transit or exercise, but members of the Chicago, Illinois collective Cycling x Solidarity take their bike love to a whole new level.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues its targeted crackdown in Chicago, at least three street vendors have been detained by agents, in addition to thousands of others with no proof of criminal history.
So, cyclists are doing their part to support migrant workers who own and operate food stalls in the city.
Over the weekend, Cycling x Solidarity joined the Street Vendors Association of Chicago to lead a Street Vendor Bike Tour. Their goal was to buy out a day’s worth of food from each food cart they visited.
“For the past month or so, ICE has been terrorizing our neighborhoods, [so] we’ve been riding out in the mornings and buying out street vendors — buying everything they have so they can go home and be safe with their families,” one cyclist told journalist Priscilla Ferreyra.
In addition to financially supporting the vendors who have seen lower sales in recent weeks due to ICE’s presence in the area, it also encourages them to go home and be with their families, safe in the privacy of their own homes. (continued on Page 2 or here)