Bikes Not Bombs is awesome, help them out with their tool fund!

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Bikes Not Bombs Tool Fundraiser and Potluck!

Friday, March 26th

BNB Hub – 284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
6:00pm-8:00pm:
6pm-7pm – Potluck
7pm-7:30 – Youth Presentation
7:30-8pm – International Presentation
www.bikesnotbombs.org/tools

Bikes Not Bombs is having an evening of potluck and presentations to benefit the tool supply for the youth program space and international programs, and needs your help! Since BNB works on thousands of bicycles every year through our educational programming and preparing bicycles for international delivery, the tools get a lot of use! BNB is conducting a fundraiser to help buy more bicycle repair tools for youth and international programs. Please join us as we hear updates from the youth instructors and our international programs director, back from touring several of BNB’s projects. It will be a night to remember and fun for all!

Tickets will be available at the door, but purchasing in advance is strongly recommended. Tickets are $10-25 on a sliding scale and can be found through the website (www.bikesnotbombs.org/tools). When purchasing, please indicate what dish you intend to share. Even if you can’t attend, please consider a donation!

This looks pretty epic, mark your calendars. (stolen from MassBike)
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Don’t Miss this inspiring slide show about a physical and cultural bicycle journey across Central Asia. Listen to Sage Cohen from the Boston University School of Public Health tell her tale of cycling across some of the most rugged and beautiful terrain on earth. Be inspired, and awed by this amazing bicycle journey through Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Nepal.

Arrive at 6:30 to enjoy light refreshments with new and familiar friends – presentation at 7pm.

This event is a benefit fundraiser for MassBike, all donations will go to support MassBike. Sliding scale admission ($5 minimum, $10 suggested $40 or more gets you a free MassBike membership).

Thursday March 18th, 6:30-9pm at the BU George Sherman Union. 775 Comm. Ave (2nd floor conference auditorium)

Two Days to Bike Night 2009: Buy Tickets Now!
Bike Night 2009: A Party to Support Bicycling!

Saturday, April 18, 2009, 5-8pm

Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
154 Moody Street, Waltham MA 02453 map

Click here for Regular Admission

Give yourself the VIP Package and help MassBike even more

The Event: Join us at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation on Saturday, April 18 from 5 to 8 pm, MassBike’s Bike Night includes a cocktail reception featuring hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, silent and live auctions, bicycling advocacy awards, advocacy and industry displays from geekhouse bikes, Zipcar, Ciclismo Classico, Urban AdvenTours, and more, and live music from The Moving Co. and Jess Baggia. Advance tickets recommended, tickets may not be available at the door. MassBike members save $10!
Food and Drink: Thanks to the generosity of several local businesses, we will have light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar with beer provided by Harpoon. Have your appetizer course at Bike Night, then try one of the many great restaurants in Waltham and beyond. Food sponsors include Redbones, Unos, Margaritas, In-A-Pickle, Jake’s Dixie Roadhouse, Grasshopper, Iggy’s, Russo’s, Idylwilde Farm , and Whole Foods.

Live and Silent Auctions: You won’t want to miss this year’s auction!

* A coveted spot in this year’s sold-out Harpoon Brewery to Brewery Ride (B2B)
* A day on the Dutch Bicycle Company’s Conference Bike with your friends
* Ride along “on the beat” with the Cambridge Police Bike Patrol
* Own Sheldon Brown’s mountain bike!
* Cycling get-away packages to Martha’s Vineyard, Northampton, Provincetown
* And much more! Click here for a full auction listing

Bikes, Bikes, and More Bikes: We’ve got the whole museum to ourselves, including the special exhibit “The Wheelmen’s Machine – The Bicycle and its Innovators”, with high-wheelers, classic bikes, and more! Ride your bike to Bike Night and use our free Valet Bike Parking! We’ve even got a group ride from Boston to Bike Night – contact Doug Mink for ride details.

The museum is also easily accessible via the MBTA, and public parking is available. Click here for transportation information

Volunteers Needed: We need people to help out with various Bike Night duties. If you would like to get in for free in exchange for a little old fashioned work, please contact James (James@Massbike.org).

There’s still time to become a Bike Night sponsor! Contact David Watson for sponsorship packages.

Got this in the email today, looks like a cool movie. Plus BNB rocks my freaking socks off, so you should support them.

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GHANA FILM: EMMANUEL’S GIFT, with BIKES NOT BOMBS Thursday November 6 6:30-8:30

Screening at the City Year Headquarters
287 Columbus Ave
Boston, MA 02116

Full info and a map at http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/node/419

With donated bicycles from Boston and the support of hundreds of local volunteers and donors, Bikes Not Bombs is co-sponsoring the development of a retail shop to be collectively managed by physically challenged people in Koforidua, Ghana. Join us for an inspiring film and discussion about this endeavor.

BNB is undertaking this project in partnership with a foundation in Ghana created by an extraordinary man, Emmanuel Yeboah. The First Look Pictures documentary, Emmanuel’s Gift (trailer and photos here:
www.emmanuelsgift.com) by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, is narrated by Oprah Winfrey. Following Emmanuel’s struggles and achievements, it gives a background for this new project.

For insightful updates and beautiful photos, please check out the blog of David Branigan, BNB staff in Ghana: http://bikesnotbombs-eefsa.blogspot.com/ and his photos page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnbghana

A five minute documentary on BNB, One Peace at a Time by Allegra Anderson, will open the evening, and a discussion with Carl Kurz, BNB’s founder and International Programs Director, will follow the screening of Emmanuel’s Gift.

Special thanks to City Year for generously allowing BNB to take advantage of their hi-tech, new, green media space.

Please spread the word. Please contact arik@bikesnotbombs.org or
617-522-0222 x100 if you are available to help distribute flyers!

Tickets are $7-$15, sliding scale and available for purchase online at http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/node/419, or by phone: 617-522-0222, or at the door.

MORE INFO:
Bikes Not Bombs is working with Emmanuel’s Education Foundation and Sports Academy for the Physically Challenged (EEFSA) to establish a bicycle workshop that will employ physically-challenged people in the city of Koforidua. Our trainer/mechanic David Branigan has been in Koforidua since May 2008 getting the shop setup and training the new mechanics. The micro-enterprise model plans for the eventual cooperative ownership of the business by the mechanics. We sent our first container of aid on April 26th 2008 with the tools, parts and bikes necessary for the establishment of the workshop. Included were workbenches custom-built by volunteer Paul Martin to be accessible from wheelchair height.

The film Emmanuel’s Gift tell the story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a physically challenged athlete who rode a bicycle across Ghana with one leg in his campaign advocating for the rights and abilities of the physically disabled in Ghana. Emmanuel’s campaign influenced the Government of Ghana to pass a Disability Rights Law that protects the rights of the physically disabled. Emmanuel went on to establish the Emmanuel Education Foundation and Sports Academy for the Physically Challenged with the financial support he received from the international community. He has been the winner of numerous awards including the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and the prestigious Casey Martin Award offered each year by Nike corporation. His leadership in bringing dignity and inspiration to the growing international movement for the rights of the disabled has led his people on to a new paradigm in Africa, one that challenges the stigma of poverty and self-deprecation that has pushed disabled individuals into the destitution of begging and marginalization on the fringes of society.