00:00We are a cycling group based out of Chicago, Illinois.
00:03We originated in 2020.
00:05At the height of the pandemic, it was three bike friends that loved riding bikes.
00:10And serving our community.
00:11So we organized a group ride for the three of us.
00:15And we went around the city cleaning love fridges.
00:18So love fridges, another amazing.
00:20Mutual aid organization in Chicago has fridges where people fill them, they take from them.
00:25And they rely on volunteers to clean them.
00:26And so it was a perfect opportunity to get outside, be with Frank.
00:30And serve our community.
00:31So back in late 2025, when ICE began tearing.
00:35Rising communities all over the country.
00:37They came to Chicago and they were kidnapping.
00:40Our neighbors, and that included street vendors.
00:42So one of our co-founders had the idea.
00:45Since street vendors are beloved in our community, they're outside.
00:50We're outside, we're outside, they're incredibly vulnerable to being kidnapped by ICE.
00:55And so what we thought, why don't we just raise the money and ride around the city?
01:00We do, and buy the Knox so they can go home and be safe with their families with some money.
01:05In their pocket.
01:06The second half of that is the distribution.
01:08So once we buy out all.
01:10All the food and everything they have, we turn around and we ride around the city and we give it out to folks that maybe.
01:15We're going to be experiencing homelessness.
01:16So that includes encampments, places where we know people.
01:20Gather, shelters, anyone, yeah, love reaches.
01:25Anywhere we know that people might be hungry and could benefit from the food.
01:30And from that, and I wonder.
01:35We learned from partnership with the street vendors association, we learned there was vendors at home who work.
01:40We're scared to go out and weren't able to make any money.
01:43And so we organized home buyouts.
01:45So that's our third initiative where we coordinate with them, we place orders.
01:50We go, we pick up their food, we pay them, and then we ride around the city.
01:55And distribute the food all over Chicago.
02:00We're out and we're going, we run into public so that negatively.
02:03We're going to be riding around the city, we reach out to our third family.
02:04So that's our third.
02:07We're going to be riding around the city, right?
02:09We're going tooque the
02:22new Power MIKE convenient to Youth Academy.
02:24We're going to be riding around the city.
02:29Comunidades que se juntan y apoyan a los vecinos de los vecinos.
02:33Por ejemplo...
02:34Los vecinos de Chicago apoyan a los vecinos de los vecinos.
02:39apoyan a los vecinos de los vecinos de los vecinos de los vecinos.
02:44Dropoff, Whistlemanias, Whistle Distributions, Know Your Rights.
02:49And so there's just a lot of examples that I think born out of.
02:54Very awful situation.
02:57Communities coming together and supporting each.
02:59And so I think you'll continue to see that solidarity well beyond Trump's.
03:04Turn into the future.
03:06It's just made communities stronger and just more resilient.
03:09And so I think you'll continue to see that solidarity well beyond Trump's.
03:14And so I think you'll continue to see that solidarity well beyond Trump's.
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