Bikes Across Borders Benefit @ Rhizome Collective

This one comes from Rachael Stewart, and is a fund raiser for those wacky international cyclists, the Bikes Across Borders crew!

Everything happens Saturday, March 14th at 8:00pm. The event is now going on at Club DeVille (900 Red River), otherwise the details are the same. The Rhizome Collective is down at 300 Allen St., end of the street. You can't miss it. If you don't know what BAB is about, here's what they had to say before their trip last January:

The organization Bikes Across Borders is based at the Rhizome Collective. The collective is an east Austin center for community organizing and urban sustainability projects. Bikes Across Borders is a local nonprofit bike workshop with an international mission. Since it began in 2000, the organization has repaired salvaged bicycles as well as provided bicycle and bike trailer workshops to area cyclists. The group has also delivered more than 500 bicycles to countries south of the U.S. border.

The idea to help those in Mexico and elsewhere was born when group members learned that assembly plant workers in Mexico were spending up to 15 percent of their salaries on transportation costs. In 2001, the group coordinated with Comite Fronterizo de Obreros, a human rights organization in Piedras Negras, to bring about 80 bicycles into the area. Since then, Bikes Across Borders has delivered bikes to Cuba and Central American countries as well.

If that's not a cause that's worthy of $5 (and there'll be beer and food by Ararat!), I don't know what is...