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POSTPONED: MOTHERLOAD Online Community Screening, Santa Monica Spoke
May 31, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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You can still RSVP to watch the Movie through end of today – May 31st.
UPDATE MAY 31:
In light of current unrest, we will postpone our event – MOTHERLOAD – Live Panel Discussion. With a heavy heart, in deference and solidarity with the peaceful protestors responding to recent national events that weigh heavy on us all we will postpone this evenings live panel. It feels as though it would be really wrong to try and activate and enjoy a great conversation about bikes, equity and MOTHERLOAD with our communities in such a state of unrest and suffering.
Your private link to watch MOTHERLOAD the movie (with RSVP) is still good through the end of today – Sunday, May 31st. We will look forward to gathering same time same place a week from today, next Sunday, June 7th at 7:30pm with our same panelist. We hope you can join us, today is just not the day for that discussion.
Be safe and be well.
Together let us be a model of a nonviolent community and work for all forms of true justice.
Join us for an Online Screening of the film MOTHERLOAD | and a Live Panel Discussion.
— We will look forward to gathering same time same place a week from today, (tentatively) to Sunday, June 7th at 7:30pm with our same panelist, . We hope you can join us, today is not the day for that discussion.
RSVP for your link to watch the film (on demand*) through May 31st. Our Live Panel has been postponed from May 31st (tentatively) to June 7th at 7:30pm with:
••••••• Liz Canning, Filmmaker/Director
••••••• Ross Evans, Xtracycle’s Cargo-bike Evangelical Optimist (CEO)
••••••• Cynthia Rose, Santa Monica Spoke, Santa Monica Save Streets Alliance
••••••• Cris Gutierrez, Climate Corps, Santa Monica Save Streets Alliance
••••••• Larry Kraemer, PE – Director of Public Infrastructure, Cannon
••••••• Debs Schrimmer, Senior Manager, Future Cities, Lyft
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![Liz Canning, Director/Editor/Writer/Producer MOTHERLOAD Liz Canning’s film work has screened internationally and won awards including a Sundance Special Jury Prize (American Blackout - editor/producer). She is a Brown University grad, a lifelong bike commuter and former racer. She has run a film festival, pedaled 200 mountainous miles in a day, birthed 7-pound twins, and finally completed her first feature film.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Director-Liz-Canning-HeadShot-scaled-e1589604242101.jpeg?w=410&h=421&ssl=1)
![Cynthia Rose, Director Santa Monica Spoke, Co-founder of the Santa Monica Safe Streets Alliance Cynthia Rose is the Director of Santa Monica Spoke and co-founder of the Santa Monica Safe Streets Alliance working to make Santa Monica a safer and better place to live, walk, bike, work and play through community engagement, education and encouragement. She is a dedicated community advocate focused on collaborations to establish policy and infrastructure for safer walking and biking as a means for creating more environmentally sustainable, equitable and healthy communities. In addition to her local advocacy she is current Board Chair of the California Bicycle Coalition and previous board member of the the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Sustainable Streets. Cynthia is a certified cycling instructor with the League of American Bicyclists.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CBC_Headshots-13_Cynthia-e1589605928635.jpg?w=207&h=208&ssl=1)
![Cris Gutierrez, SaMo Safe Streets Alliance Co-Chair Cris Gutierrez lives a voluntary simple life conscious of being a creature of the biosphere. In 1998, Cris gave up her car and since then has gone far by bicycling, walking and using public transit. A co-founder of Climate Action Santa Monica and the CASM Climate Corps Program Director, she leads the Climate Corps, teams of young environmental leaders from high school and college, to engage the community to advance climate resiliency and carbon neutrality. Cris is a Clean Power Alliance Community Advisor and a Santa Monica Community Gardens Advisory Group Member. Over the years, she has helped establish Santa Monica’s Sustainability Rights Ordinance that recognizes the rights of Nature and community rights as fundamental and has advocated for the abolition of nuclear weapons. For decades, she coached, taught or counseled young people from diverse backgrounds. Cris has a B.A. with honors in Humanities/Renaissance Studies and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cris-Gutierrez-SQ-e1590096446746.jpg?w=207&h=209&ssl=1)
![Debs Schrimmer, Senior Manager, Future Cities Debs Schrimmer develops cutting-edge partnerships with public agencies around the country and helps oversee Lyft’s transportation policy initiatives around street design, public transportation, and the built environment. Prior to Lyft, she worked as a digital policy strategist at Code for America and as a transportation planner at the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. Debs received her B.S. from the University of California, Davis in Community and Regional Development, is an honoree of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, and has served on the Board of the California Transportation Foundation.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Debs-Schrimmer.jpg?w=165&h=165&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Larry Kraemer, PE – Director of Public Infrastructure, Cannon Larry Kraemer, PE – Director of Public Infrastructure, Cannon Since 1986, Mr. Kraemer has developed extensive civil and environmental engineering experience within both the public and private sectors. He has worked on notable multimodal projects throughout California such as 21st Street Green and Complete Street in Paso Robles, the Shell Beach Road Complete Street Improvement project in Pismo Beach, and the 4th Street Improvement project in Santa Monica. Further, he is passionate about helping local communities achieve their Vision Zero goals along with developing user-friendly approaches to infrastructure design.  As an avid cyclists, he has participated in Cannon’s “Coaster†ride, cycling the entire coast of California; participated in the Death Ride multiple times, and regularly commutes to work on his bike or electric scooter. He is a champion for accessibility for all and is excited to participate in this panel discussion.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Larry-Kraemer-e1590187339532.jpg?w=165&h=177&ssl=1)
![Ross Evans, Founder and CEO of Xtracycle and family In 1995, 19-year-old Ross Evans stowed his Stanford University textbooks and traveled to Nicaragua, carrying with him bike tools, a welder, and a question for his undergraduate thesis: could a different kind of bicycle help lift the poor out of poverty? Alongside a group of war-disabled men, he set out to design an elegant, affordable solution. His passion to empower people with transformational tools continues today at the helm of Worldbike.org and Xtracycle—a pioneering manufacturer of electric and lifestyle bicycles. Ross’s two sons believe him to be 3.14 parts dragon. He is constitutionally unemployable.](https://i0.wp.com/www.smspoke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bio-pic-ross-family-e1589604280396.jpeg?w=452&h=346&ssl=1)
THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, MOTHERLOAD is a crowd-sourced documentary about a new mother’s quest to understand our current cultural shift toward isolation and disconnection, what this could mean for the future of the planet, and how life on a cargo bike could be the antidote. As filmmaker Liz Canning explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle’s history and potential future as the ultimate “social revolutionizer.†Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, make it clear to Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing.
* rsvp to view the movie starting Saturday, May 30thÂ