Los Angeles Global Frackdown Bike and Walk for a Frack-Free LA

Los Angeles Global Frackdown is a community gathering focused on the fracking taking place in the Los Angeles Basin and around Culver City, followed by an optional biking tour and walking brigade! Local food vendors will also be attending.

The event will feature speakers from local groups, highlighting the effects of fracking on our local watersheds, community health and property values. We will hear from our neighbors in communities already affected by fracking. Elected officials will also speak about efforts to ban fracking in cities across Los Angeles.

If you're not familiar, fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals thousands of feet into the ground to break up oil and gas formations. Even when the most up-to-date techniques are used, highly toxic leakage can and does occur. These wells can also malfunction or blow out in the face of a natural disaster, like earthquakes.

The rally will be followed by a 5-7 mile bike ride that tours the surrounding area to show how fracking is affecting the Culver City and Baldwin Hills communities. The bike ride will start at Veterans Memorial Park, make it's way to the Inglewood Oil Field via the Ballona Creek and West LA College, and travel back again to Veterans Park.

If you don't have a bike, you can join the walking brigade! We will walk a shorter route through the streets of Culver City with signs to raise awareness about fracking.

This is a family friendly event. A helmet is mandatory if you plan to ride your bike with us. Also, make sure to bring water and sunscreen!

For more info and to RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/385139934946897/