Team Texcoco x Cines
English:
We're two friends from Mexico City fundraising for our participation in this year's Ruta del Jefe! The team name comes from a small city 50 kms east of Mexico City. Texcoco is one of the most beautiful MTB and gravel destinations of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and is also home to family and close friends of us.
Texcoco x Cines is the sign of one of the local bus routes that has become famous as many locals have taken the sign to accompany them on adventures all over the world. We're happy to bring the Texcoco X Cines to Sonora very soon!
Español!
Somos dos amigos de la CDMX juntando fondos para nuestra participación en Ruta del Jefe! El nombre del equipo proviene de una pequeña ciudad, unos 50 km al oriente de la CDMX. Texcoco es uno de los más increíbles destinos para la bici de montaña y gravel, además de que es hogar de amigos y familia cercana.
Texcoco x Cines es la bandera de una de las rutas de transporte público locales, que se ha hecho famosa porque algunas personas originarias de Texcoco se la han llevado a sus más grandes aventuras por todo el mundo. Estamos muy felices de que en esta ocasión nosotros llevaremos el Texcoco x Cines muy pronto hasta Sonora!
Ruta del Jefe
Ruta del Jefe is not just an adventure bicycle ride.
Instead, the event seeks to raise awareness around the beauty and biodiversity of the U.S-Mexico borderlands, their native peoples, and the border wall's impact on animal and human migration. Ruta del Jefe does this by hosting representatives to speak on behalf of the work of the following organizations: Cuenca Los Ojos, N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation, Por La Defensa el Rio de Casas Grande, Frontera de Cristo, Borderlands Restoration Network. The presentations occur the night before the ride to give participants a greater context for the land they will be riding through the following day.
In addition to the community fundraiser, participants of Ruta del Jefe will be taking The Outdoorist Oath. The Oath is a ZERO-BS experience that teaches a model to approach allyship for the planet, inclusion, and adventure. During the workshop, participants will reflect and learn tools to create a unique plan to take action for Planet, Inclusion, and Adventure.
The Ruta del Jefe Community Fundraiser will benefit the following organizations.
- Cuenca Los Ojos, meaning “Watershed of the Springs”, is a 121,000-acre (49,000-ha) protected area in the Sky Islands of Sonora, Mexico. Located directly along the United States-Mexico border, CLO stewards the unique desert wetlands, open grasslands, and soaring mountains of the Madrean Archipelago. They are restoring and rewilding these once-degraded ranch lands by repairing waterways and reviving the natural processes of herbivory, predation, pollination, fire, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling. Today, CLO is home again to jaguars, ocelots, black bears, beavers, and other threatened and endangered species.
- Nacion N'dee/N'nee/Ndé: The N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation is a group of people with their own ethnic identity, customs, traditions, language, beliefs, and religion, and that like every living society, has adapted to the context of their time and space. Those of who form the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation live in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila de Zaragoza under organized communities, which have representatives named “nant’an”. In each community and in an organized way, the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation fights to be included in the list of the nation’s indigenous peoples, which has been achieved so far in Sonora and Coahuila de Zaragoza; their nation is constantly working to revive their language, dressing, traditions, ceremonies, songs, and dances, that were lost as a consequence of the persecution that their ethnic group faced in the n'dee bikeyaa/n'nee bikiyaa/ndé miikeyaa, which is the southern portion of our territory and that nowadays is the north of Mexico.
- Por La Defensa el Rio de Casas Grande: a collective of activists fighting against the construction of a dam in the Casas Grandes River, which feeds a big part of agricultural and natural land in northwestern Chihuahua, near where Cuenca Los Ojos is located. It’s formed by citizens who are concerned about the way this project has been approved and promoted, and the effects the dam would have on the natural environment and human settlements.
- Frontera de Cristo seeks to build relationships that demonstrate God’s will and build bridges rather than walls. So many people are migrating, seeking refuge, and fleeing extreme poverty and violence. Frontera de Cristo’s goal is to address their immediate needs and the root causes of mass migration, creating safe and prosperous opportunities that allow people to stay in the land they call home if they so choose. Through the building of community-driven partnerships with ministries and secular organizations in Douglas and Agua Prieta, Frontera de Cristo offers shelter, resources, education, emotional support, medical care, and new solutions.
- Borderlands Restoration Network: BRN's mission is to partner to grow a restorative economy by rebuilding healthy ecosystems, restoring habitat for plants and wildlife, and reconnecting our border communities to the land through shared learning. We envision connected borderlands where rivers flow, plants, wildlife, and cultures thrive, and communities develop an inclusive restorative economy where a sense of place inspires a sense of purpose.
Ruta del Jefe
Ruta del Jefe seeks to raise awareness around the beauty and biodiversity of the borderlands, their native peoples, and the border wall's impact on animal and human migration.
The Ruta del Jefe Community Fundraiser will benefit the following organizations.
Cuenca Los Ojos
Cuenca Los Ojos, meaning “Watershed of the Springs”, is a 121,000-acre (49,000-ha) protected area in the Sky Islands of Sonora, Mexico. Located directly along the United States-Mexico border, CLO stewards the unique desert wetlands, open grasslands, and soaring mountains of the Madrean Archipelago. They are restoring and rewilding these once-degraded ranch lands by repairing waterways and reviving the natural processes of herbivory, predation, pollination, fire, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling. Today, CLO is home again to jaguars, ocelots, black bears, beavers, and other threatened and endangered species.
N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation
The N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation are a group of people with their own ethnic identity, customs, traditions, language, beliefs and religion, and that like every living society, has adapted to the context of their time and space. Those of whom form the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation live in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Coahuila de Zaragoza under organized communities, which have representatives named “nant’an”. In each community and in an organized way, the N'dee/N'nee/Ndé Nation fights for being included in the list of the nation’s indigenous peoples, which has been achieved so far in Sonora and Coahuila de Zaragoza; their nation is constantly working to revive their language, dressing, traditions, ceremonies, songs, and dances, that were lost as a consequence of the persecution that their ethnic group faced in the n'dee bikeyaa/n'nee bikiyaa/ndé miikeyaa, which is the southern portion of our territory and that nowadays is the north of Mexico.
Por La Defensa el Rio de Casas Grande
Por la Densa del Rio Casas Grandes is a collective of activists fighting against the construction of a dam in the Casas Grandes river, which feeds a big part of agricultural and natural land in northwestern Chihuahua, near where Cuenca Los Ojos is located. It’s formed by citizens who are concerned about the way this project has been approved and promoted, and the effects the dam would have on the natural environment and human settlements.
Frontera de Cristo
Frontera de Cristo seeks to build relationships that demonstrate God’s will and build bridges rather than walls. So many people are migrating, seeking refuge, and fleeing extreme poverty and violence. Frontera de Cristo’s goal is to address their immediate needs and the root causes of mass migration, creating safe and prosperous opportunities that allow people to stay in the land they call home if they so choose. Through the building of community-driven partnerships with ministries and secular organizations in Douglas and Agua Prieta, Frontera de Cristo offers shelter, resources, education, emotional support, medical care, and new solutions.
Borderlands Restoration Network
Borderlands Restoration Networks' mission is to partner to grow a restorative economy by rebuilding healthy ecosystems, restoring habitat for plants and wildlife, and reconnecting our border communities to the land through shared learning. We envision connected borderlands where rivers flow, plants, wildlife, and cultures thrive, and communities develop an inclusive restorative economy where a sense of place inspires a sense of purpose.