All-women bike ride sets on March 12

Photo by Jimmy Domingo
Photo by Jimmy Domingo

FILIPINO cycling groups and climate advocates announced on Thursday, March 9, 2023, an all-women, 16-kilometer bike ride on March 12 "to raise awareness on the issues of food and clean energy and women’s vulnerability to the impacts of the climate crisis."

According to the organizers, the all-women bike ride “will open the 2023 Pedal for People and Planet (PPP) bike action series and will be the first-ever all-women bike ride organized under PPP.”

"The bike ride also aims to encourage women to fight for the right to food, access to resources and information, gender-responsive policies and programs and effective solutions to the global climate crisis," the organizers said in a statement.

The bike rides are organized in Quezon City, Batangas City, Bulacan, Atimonan, Camarines Norte, Cagayan de Oro and Cebu.

The PPP organizers and partners include the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Oxfam, Quezon City Gender Development Office, Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, the Firefly Brigade, Siklista Pilipino, Pinay Bike Commuter Community, Tropang Women Bikers, Women Bikers for Safe Spaces, 350 Pilipinas, Sanlakas, Oriang, and Aniban ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura .

Similar all-women rides will be held in India, Indonesia, Nepal, and Pakistan.

PPP is an Asia-wide initiative to urge governments and corporations “to save the planet from the worsening climate crisis and to take urgent, bold, ambitious, just, and equitable climate solutions." (SunStar Philippines)

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