March 6,  11AM

In person at Open Source Gallery, 306 17th Street, Brooklyn, NY 

“Ride with Delivery Workers” is a feature-length documentary that follows immigrant delivery workers, who are living on the margins of poverty and facing unjust hyper-policing while riding their electric bikes on NYC streets. With help from New York local organizations and elected officials, workers participated with an advocacy community, the “Delivery Justice” campaign, which successfully legalized e-bikes in New York State and New York City after a four years-long campaign. It took a global pandemic to make lawmakers realize that delivery workers are essential workers and street heroes. Immigrant delivery workers who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the pandemic took a heavy toll on delivery workers’ lives. “54% of New York City’s delivery workers — many of them immigrants — reported being robbed, and 30% said they were assaulted during the robbery. At least ten New York City delivery workers have been killed on the job in 2020.” Their daily lives have been filled with worry, stress, and anxiety as they deliver food for new Yorkers. The tech companies’ market frictionless delivery services as “No Contact Delivery,” but for workers to deliver the hot food to your door involves a lot of friction. Fear of the Pandemic, mental health challenges, and Safety became the main challenges for the community. The film continues “Ride with Delivery Workers”, which documents the new challenges workers faced during the Pandemic, aiming to “deliver Justice” to the worker’s community.

Jing Wang is a female immigrant filmmaker. Her name “Jing” means “quiet” in Chinese. Jing has found her voice by speaking out loud in her artworks. Jing is a storyteller from the inside of the new immigrant community. Jing’s creative works focus on social justice and labor issues within the immigrant community. She developed her feature-length documentary “Ride with Delivery Workers”, while she organizes the immigrant’s community, fighting unjust hyper-policing and participating in the E-bike legalization campaign. The film touches on many sensitive topics, such as workers’ living conditions, work injury, and immigrant issues. The film also takes viewers inside activists’ efforts to respond and organize resistance and advocacy with workers. After three years of active lobbying, organizing, and changing the media narrative, in June 2020, both New York State and the New York City government legalized e-bike.

Jing Wang will be screening part of her documentary film and talking about the activism for immigrant delivery workers’ rights and her creative process. We will serve Coffee and Bagels.