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Monthly in cities around the world, bicyclists take over the streets in an "organized coincidence" called Critical Mass. Riding along several hundred strong, hooting and hollering, whistling, laughing and singing; it is a coup on wheels, a clever tactical strike against our oil-dependent culture. Containing writings from participants worldwide, this colorful book bundles together 10 years of legendary debates, photographs, artwork, and life-transforming experiences evolving from the celebratory, visionary revolt on bicycles called Critical Mass.
Chris Carlsson is a founder and editor of the notorious underground magazine, Processed World, and the director of the historical multimedia project, Shaping San Francisco. He was recently awarded the Golden Wheel Award by the San Francisco Bike Coalition for founding Critical Mass in 1992.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781902593593 |
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| Publisher: | AK PR INC |
| Publication date: | 09/01/2002 |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. He has edited four collections of political and historical essays. His most recent book is After The Deluge, a utopian novel of post-economic San Francisco. He was long-time editor of Processed World magazine.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 5 | |
| Part I | Sweet Sounds, Sweeter Smells | 9 |
| The Power Is Here (Chicago) | 11 | |
| Rugged Individualists of the Road Unite! (Chicago) | 18 | |
| Spraypaint Slingers, Celebration and a Tidal Wave of Outrage (Montreal, Canada) | 23 | |
| Climate Change Caravan (Canada) | 30 | |
| Dildo Man (San Francisco) | 31 | |
| Halloween 1998 (San Francisco) | 35 | |
| Phantasmagoria on Wheels, Halloween 2001 (New York City) | 37 | |
| CM Toronto (Toronto, Canada) | 39 | |
| I am a Critical Mass (Stuttgart, Germany) | 44 | |
| An Aesthetic Rebellion (Milan, Italy) | 52 | |
| Critical Mass III (Sydney, Australia) | 55 | |
| Melbourne, Australia Photo and Xerocracy Gallery | 57 | |
| Mumbikers Take to the Streets (Bombay, India) | 59 | |
| Lancaster CM: Does It Still Exist? (Lancaster, UK) | 60 | |
| Critical Mass London Style (London, England) | 68 | |
| Global Gallery from Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Pune India, Budapest, Copenhagen | 70 | |
| Part II | Defining Anarchy | 72 |
| Crit Mass | 73 | |
| How Critical Mass Changed the World | 74 | |
| Cycling Under the Radar: Assertive Desertion | 75 | |
| A Quiet Statement Against Oil Wars | 83 | |
| Of Oil Wars and Leaked Memos | 85 | |
| From the Ground Up | 87 | |
| A Uniquely Democratic Experiment | 90 | |
| Unleashing Public Imagination, or How 'Bout Another Shot of Existential Whup-Ass for your Flagging Civic Libido? | 94 | |
| Politics Can Be Fun | 100 | |
| Why They're Wrong About Critical Mass: The Fallacy of Bicycle Advocates' Critique | 105 | |
| Good for the Bicycling Cause | 112 | |
| UCCM: University of California Critical Mass (San Francisco) | 116 | |
| Thousand Bicycle Wheels poetry | 119 | |
| Lombard Street, San Francisco, July 1999 | 120 | |
| Maybe You Should Check the Statute (Flagstaff, Arizona) | 122 | |
| Massive Critique by Hugh D'Andrade and photo gallery (Berkeley, California) | 129 | |
| March Madness! Hale Bopp! Hail Bop! (San Francisco) | 132 | |
| U.S. Gallery Lubbock, Buffalo, Boulder, Charleston SC, more | 136 | |
| Part III | Making Media, Making History | 139 |
| The Velorution Will Not Be Digitized | 140 | |
| Reels on Wheels | 145 | |
| If You Don't Move I'll Run You Down! (Madison, Wisconsin) | 153 | |
| A Well-Camera'd Society is a Polite Society (Berkeley, CA) | 156 | |
| Crossing the Pond Underground | 159 | |
| Critical (Bike-Not) Snack, a 'zine excerpt (London, England) | 163 | |
| An Unknown and Unexpected Prehistory (Ramsgate, UK) | 166 | |
| The World of the Bicycle | 167 | |
| The Great Bicycle Protest of 1896 | 175 | |
| NYC flyers and photos from 1972-73 | 183 | |
| Part IV | The Fight for Our Streets | 185 |
| Riding to See | 186 | |
| Biciteka in Mexico City | 193 | |
| Reclaiming The Streets of New York | 195 | |
| Personal History of Portland's Critical Mass (Portland, Oregon) | 204 | |
| To the Mass | 211 | |
| Austin Critical Mass: Then and Now (Austin, Texas) | 212 | |
| Ride a Bike, Go to Jail! CM Democratic National Convention 2000 (Los Angeles) | 214 | |
| Victorious Critical Mass Lawsuit (San Francisco) | 219 | |
| No Space in the First Place (Minneapolis) | 223 | |
| Vancouver CM (Vancouver, Canada) | 227 | |
| Part V | Appendicitis! | 230 |
| San Francisco Critical Mass Glossary | 231 | |
| Bicycling Over the Rainbow | 235 | |
| How To Make A Critical Mass (Lessons from the SF Experience) 1993 | 239 | |
| Global Listing of Critical Mass rides | 249 | |
| About the Editor | 251 | |
| Contributors' Notes | 252 | |
| Index | 254 |
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