Saturday, May 17, 2025
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Sat, May 17, 2025, 2:00 PM
Meet at 2, ride 2:30
End location: NW
For over a decade, activists around the globe have come together in May for Anti-Chevron Month. This May, we're heeding the call to action by getting on our bikes and going on a spirited protest tour of Chevrons around town. We'll meet in Irving Park at 2pm and roll out promptly at 2:30. We'll stop for mini protests at 3 Chevron locations over the course of a 5 mile ride, and finish out with a bonus activity at a mystery location in NW. This is our third Chevron protest ride, and this time we're asking riders to bring their big feelings and revolutionary joy in the form of whatever noisemaking device they prefer, whether that's their clapping hands, a pot or pan, or an impassioned speech to give to the crowd. We'll have a big speaker and a mic–don't be shy! Please also bring your signs, flags, banners and keffiyehs! This will be an easy-paced no-drop ride; all wheels/all riders welcome. There won't be a store stop but there will be vegan food and drinks at our end location. A FEW REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US IN PROTESTING CHEVRON: –Chevron is the perpetrator of the worst oil-based disaster in history: the intentional mass dumping of 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and oil into the Ecuadorian Amazon –Chevron produces more greenhouse gas emissions than nearly any other investor-owned company –Chevron is supporting/profiting from the genocide in Gaza, and is one of the biggest targets of the Palestinian-led BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement –Chevron spends millions upon millions of dollars annually on lobbying politicians to prevent any meaningful climate change legislation from happening (democracy and capitalism are incompatible, y'all) ***Journalists who wish to come along on our rides are encouraged to contact us in advance. Please DO NOT publicly post identifiable pictures of attendees without getting consent.*** See you there!
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