Big Ride for Palestine
media release: Madison’s 2025 Big Ride for Palestine: a fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance
July 20, 10am-Noon, leaving from Olin Park in Madison
Madison area cyclists of all ages and abilities are invited to participate in the 2025 Middle East Children’s Alliance Big Ride for Palestine, presented by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project.
The ride is scheduled for July 20 at 10:am, leaving from Olin Park on the Capital City Bike Trail. Cyclists will ride east along lake Monona to BB Clarke Beach and then return to Olin Park, a distance of about 6 miles. Bike decorations, watermelon and ice water will be available at Olin Park, and participants are encouraged to wear Kuffiyas and decorate bikes in solidarity with the children of Palestine.
Registration is now open and Madison area riders can visit https://madisonrafah.
Participants have until July 15 to register and receive a Ride for Palestine shirt but are encouraged to register now and build support for their personal ride among friends, family and colleagues to make this year’s event a success in this time of desperate need in Gaza.
MECA works to protect the lives, rights, and well-being of children in Palestine and refugee camps in Lebanon. After over 75 years of ethnic cleansing, displacement, and attacks on their lives and livelihoods, Palestinians remain steadfast on their land and fiercely committed to the cause of freedom and liberation. Riding is an act of solidarity with Palestinian communities as they struggle to protect their children’s lives and their culture from erasure.
As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues unabated, our support is needed more urgently than ever. All funds raised by the ride will go to MECA’s Gaza relief work. Learn more about that humanitarian work at https://www.mecaforpeace.
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is a local volunteer organization committed to standing with the people of Gaza and Palestine as they struggle to remain in their homeland despite decades of Israeli settler colonialism, occupation and violence. Jewish Voice for Peace-Madison is a local chapter of the national organization organizing a grassroots movement of U.S. Jews in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle.
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