Zero hunger, zero hypocrisy (tags)
Today, flight from hunger and war often enough does not lead to a new "home," but to a refugee shelter, homelessness, or deportation back into misery. In view of the worldwide crises and the distribution struggles still to come, where will this lead, if not to mass "homelessness"?
Assange Has Been Arrested for US Extradition (tags)
Extradited for journalism. In a blur, everything that Assange and WikiLeaks have been warning about for years has been proven correct, contrary to mountains of claims to the contrary by establishment loyalists everywhere.
San Francisco Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Interstellar Ride (tags)
San Francisco Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Interstellar Ride, Friday September 28th from 6PM onward.
Ciclavia 2012, around Macarthur Park (tags)
Short videos of Ciclavia 2012 around Macarthur Park in the Westlake area of Los Angeles.
Inland Empire General Strike! (tags)
Inland Empire General Strike!
Occupy Riverside, in cooperation with our friends and allies, is working to make May 1 a day of community empowerment in which individuals disengage from the institutions and practices that oppress us, and engage in activities that foster community and humanity.
We are starting with 5 days of "Spring training" to gear up for the big day!
Labor Rallies in Support of Occupy San Diego Oct. 28 (tags)
Despite a pre-dawn police raid on both Occupy San Diego sites — the Civic Center Plaza near City Hall and the Children's Park across from the Convention Center — a rally sponsored by organized labor in support of the occupation went ahead as scheduled October 28. At this time, the occupiers are still there.
CALL OUT: HOW TO MAKE TROUBLE AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE- U.S. EDITION (tags)
Call out for images and stories about innovative and satirical political pranks, scams, street art and direct action from the U.S.
HABEAS LOUNGE Perspective Group 10 / Bicyclists + Public Transportation / DTLA Art Walk (tags)
How does downtown exist as a hub for MTA riders and bicyclists in the city? The HABEAS LOUNGE is a built environment created by LA artist Linda Pollack, specifically constructed to foster and animate civic dialogue. Topics of past LOUNGE series include urban planning, constitutional issues, the economy, and city history.
(Commentaries on Science, Religion, Spiritualism, Politics and The Resource Based Economy)
critical mass PRIDE
The Battle Of The River (tags)
A Fiction
Food Not Bombs National Gathering reportback (tags)
By nearly all accounts the Food Not Bombs National Gathering was a smashing success: Activists of all types and ages from FNB chapters all over the country were brought together in Nashville, TN for a Critical Mass bike ride, no-pants dance party, a day of workshops, a group meeting, scavenger hunt, huge food sharing downtown and a march through the streets.
The Eagle Rock Vigil Enters its Sixth Year (tags)
Reflections, a retrospective, and a (mostly-accurate) list of film screenings at Flor y Canto from 2003-2005.
Film Night at Flor y Canto: March 2003-September 2005 (Part 1 of 2) (tags)
To mark the five-year anniversary of the Eagle Rock Peace Vigil, here is a list of films shown at Flor y Canto over a two-and-a-half year period. These almost-weekly screenings were an outgrowth of the Eagle Rock Vigil. (A link to the rest of this list can be found below in "comments.")
Rev. Billy's anti-consumer society campaign (tags)
Help anti-consumerism hero, Rev. Billy get his special message into theaters this Christmas! His film "What Would Jesus Buy?" previews in CA theaters soon.
Critical Mass - Halloween in Santa Barbara (tags)
About 100 bike riders took to the streets on this last Friday of October....
Critical Mass Santa Barbara (tags)
Cops and bicycles battle in SB
Critical Mass (Bike Ride) Against War in Santa Barbara! (tags)
Hundreds of students and community members took to the streets on M17 against the war.
CM makes an impression
Bikes Not Bombs at the Oct. 5 Rally (tags)
Bring your Bikes to the October 5th World Can't Wait Rally. What better way to demonstrate against the Bush regime's war for oil and against it's deception on climate change and environmental issues, than on a bike?
Shaking Uncontrollably: Does Guzzling Gas Make You Piss Fire? (tags)
Bad ideas are like starfish: You can cut them up, but unless you squash them into jelly and incinerate the remains, they will multiply. I’m not really saying that we should go around murdering idiots . . . but this week’s “news” certainly made me want to beat a few people mercilessly.
Ride for Climate Justice: A Critical Mass Call to Action (tags)
On August 25th, 16 cities around the world will be swarming the streets by bike to demand an end to environmental injustice and bring the issue of climate change front and center.
South Central Farm Crisis in Los Angeles (tags)
Willie Nelson, Darryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Joan Baez, Julia Butterfly-Hill support farmers in the struggle to save the nation's largest urban farm. Darryl Hannah appears on Larry King Live with Willie Nelson to show footage of eviction. Danny Glover calls eviction a Day of Mourning, a Day of Shame
LOS ANGELES – May 12, 2006 On the 2nd Friday of the month at 9:30 pm , bicyclists gather at the intersection of Sunset and Echo Park. This has become the starting point for a late night bike ride that weaves its way through the streets of Los Angeles. They call themselves the Midnight Ridazz.
THE FILIPINO PEASANT IMAGINATION VERSUS AMERICAN LEFTISM (tags)
The following remarks are intended to supplement the author's paper "Blueprint for a Bulosan Project" posted in the online journal OUR OWN VOICE. This essay critiques the position of "leftists" in the elite U.S. academies who claim a "manifest destiny" to civilize colonized subalterns and peasant radicals like the Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan who (they claim) have failed to take "America" out of a transnationalizing U.S. Studies. Are we seeing a replay of the "Thomasites" who produced generations of neocolonized "little brown brothers" now serving U.S. imperialist aggression in Iraq, Aghanistan, Palestine, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and in the Philippines, its former direct colony? "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea...."
Biodegradable Eating Utensils, Alternative Energy, and Indigenous Culture at Eco Maya (tags)
“The paper goods are made from [materials] like corn, rice, and sugarcane, and they are all biodegradable. Even the trash bags are biodegradable. What we’re trying to do is change the way that festivals are produced.” – Carmelo Alvarez, event co-organizer
Santa Monica Critical Mass bike ride & 1st Anniversary party (tags)
Critical Mass is a vision of a joyful, bike-friendly world replacing our polluted, congested roads. We are a protest for better cycling facilities and against car culture. We are a reclamation of our public space. We are a just merry ride through neighborhoods of Santa Monica and Venice with friends. Critical Mass is all this and more, rolled into one convenient monthly ride right after work.
Santa Monica Critical Mass, Fri. Dec 2 (tags)
Critical Mass is a vision of a joyful, bike-friendly world replacing our polluted, congested roads. We are a protest for better cycling facilities and against car culture. We are a reclamation of our public space. We are a merry ride through neighborhoods of Santa Monica and Venice with friends. Critical Mass is all this and more, rolled into one convenient monthly ride right after work. Ride with us!
Senator Jim Elliott is no fan of cyclists, so why is he concerned about our civil rights (tags)
Senator Jim Elliott from the red state of Montana is no fan of cyclists, so why is he concerned about what’s going on with Critical Mass in in NYC ? Find out what got this cowboy mad enough to write an article for us.
November 2nd World Can't Wait (tags)
On November 2nd, in over 60 cities across the country including high schools and colleges in many of these cities, The World Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime launches the first national movement in American history dedicated to driving a sitting president out of office.
Video: Critical Mass, Santa Monica, 10-7-05 (tags)
Critical Mass Santa Monica began less than a year ago with hand full of riders and has grown to over a hundred riders in a short time.
Santa Monica Critical Mass This Friday (tags)
Santa Monica Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road.
News Junkie Scott's Blog (9/9/05) (tags)
The unexplained crack in the concrete-reinforced New Orleans seawall
Bike Light on Critical Mass :: Pittsburgh (tags)
Bicycling Magazine once rated Pittsburgh as one of the worst cities for biking in the US, but the local bike community is working hard to change Pittsburgh's bad rep, and its efforts have begun to pay off. We spotlight Pittsburgh's increasingly successful Critical Mass ride, and local rider Jessi Berkelhammer gives us the inside scoop on what's behind its recent success.
Close to 100 Show up at LA Critical Mass (tags)
Close to 100 cyclists showed up for the LA Critical Mass at Western and Wilshire, on the last Friday of July at 6 PM.
Whoever Doesn't Really Try, Consents. (tags)
Mass symbolic, sanctioned marches that do nothing to actually change the status quo serve as painless absolution rituals, that allow the participants to “bear witness”, to “speak truth to power” and to “wash their hands of the blood of empire.” Marches, with their biting satire and snazzy costumes, do not provide a real means for stopping the carnage they deplore. A “functioning” democracy needs some form of sanctioned, orderly protest to stimulate discussion, and if the current regime were really “that bad” they wouldn’t allow big demonstrations, right? Ineffective activism, like regulated marches, actually provides a façade of healthy interchange and is welcomed by the status quo. The majority of demonstrators are aware well in advance that their actions will likely have no tangible effect on the negative of the empire, but they go to a huge rally and can sleep better at night having chanted out their guilt. Just as it can be said qui tacet consentive videtu (whoever is silent consents) it can also be said “whoever doesn’t really try, consents.”
Critical Mass in OC where nothing radical ever happens
Traveling Critical Mass VideoZine! Coming to your city! (tags)
We are traveling to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years, encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media. We want to interview you! I will be in LA june 17-19!!
June 3rd is the start of Bike Summer 2005 (tags)
Massive Bike Summer kickoff party on June 3rd! In Solidarity with Critical Mass riders worldwide
Travelling Critical Mass VideoZine!CALL FOR WORK AND INTERVIEWS! (tags)
We will be traveling to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years, encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media. We want to interview you
Travelling Critical Mass VideoZine!CALL FOR WORK AND INTERVIEWS! (tags)
We will be traveling to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years, encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media. We want to interview you!
Santa Monica Critical Mass 5/6/2005 (tags)
Report from the Santa Monica Critical Mass bicycle ride on May 6, 2005. (details below)
Santa Monica Critical Mass (tags)
The Santa Monica Critical Mass ride takes place on the 1st Friday of every month. There are three meeting points. Bicycle riders meet in Westwood and Venice Beach at 6 PM then those two groups ride to the main meeting point in Santa Monica, next to the pier, where they merge with others bicycle riders to form one group. On Friday, May 6th, 47 riders got together to ride the streets of Santa Monica and Venice.
International Call to Action on Causes of Climate Change (tags)
As of this writing we've not heard of any events planned in the U.S. for the International Call to Action on Root Causes of Climate Change called for the final day of the G8 in Scotland, July 8 2005. A national event in Detroit would, for obvious reasons, be ideal. If United Auto Workers members could be involved it would be even better. Re-tooling for new hybrid and electric vehicles means jobs. In any case, such a national action does not rule out creating local actions in your own region! [see links at bottom for details]
A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival! (tags)
http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm
A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival! (tags)
http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm
Critical Mass LA has changed its starting location, starting this month!
Critical Mass in Orange County (tags)
This is the critical mass bike ride that took place in Orange County on Buy Nothing Day
NYC RNC Critical Mass Video (tags)
Ugly arrests & good music. ~~~ FLUXVIEW, USA has been HiJacked... Please remove all links to Fluxview.com you're only driving the populaity of Marketing Slime at this time. Fluxview, USA will rise from the ashes again... later.
Video from Critical Mass NYC 8-27-04: (tags)
Video from Critical Mass NYC 8-27-04:
Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian Meeting in North LA County (tags)
Los Angeles Critical Mass Rides Through Vons (tags)
While the corporations refuse to back down, autonomous actions by small groups are becoming more and more necessary.
Critical Mass bicycle ride this Friday (tags)
Yes, there are small amounts of people on bicycles in Los Angeles, but we are active and growing. Join us!
CA Anarchist Gathering 2004 FEB 18-20, 2004 (tags)
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Long Beach All ages Venue under threat by LBPD (tags)
Long Beach Police AT IT AGAIN!!! (tags)
argh!
BTL:Groups that Defeated Congressional Energy Bill Gear Up to... (tags)
...Fight Any New Attempt to Pass the Measure Interview with Winona Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Energy and Environmental Program, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
BTL:Consumer Groups Link Power Outage and Failing Grid to Utility Deregulation (tags)
Interview with Wenonah Hauter, of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris.
Get out your ass for Critical Mass
Critical Mass ride to Bush protest (tags)
Saw a flyer for this downtown
Critical Mass Ride Tonight! (tags)
Exxon Mobile Kiss our A-s... Critical Mass needs no gas! Let Critical Mass take you for a ride through the streets of Los Angeles. Several locations to choose from...
Palm Springs' 1st Critical Mass (tags)
Pictures of Palm Springs' 1st Critical Mass.
State of California monitored war protesters (tags)
Oakland Tribune: State monitored war protesters Intelligence agency does not distinguish between terrorism and peace activism
Critical Mass Palm Springs (tags)
Critical Mass bike ride starting up in Palm Springs.
Critical Mass Rides Tonight! (tags)
In the city of Los Angeles hundreds of bicyclists prepare to take to the streets tonight.
DO IT ON A BIKE!
under the Bush radar-deconstructing US militarism/LA-SF-LA (tags)
in Bush's favorite state, CA--quietly people continue to practice democracy--counter to the rule of the day--to stop US war(s)
Big Critical Mass Ride Tonight! (tags)
Announcement: Join Critical Mass for a celebration/demonstration of the world's most effecient and gas-free form of transportation, the bicycle.
Critical Mass - This Friday (tags)
The last Friday of every month in over 100 cities around the world, cyclists, roller bladers, boarders, etc...come together for a festive rolling celebration. It's an organized coincidence with no leaders and no set agenda. People come together for many reasons, to assert their right to cleaner air, less congestion, safer roads, no blood for oil, and to celebrate and ride in solidarity with other cyclists and like minded individuals. Celebrate this month with Critical Mass in Los Angeles!
Critical Mass LA - This Friday (tags)
The last Friday of every month in over 100 cities around the world, cyclists, roller bladers, boarders, etc...come together for a festive rolling celebration. It's an organized coincidence with no leaders and no set agenda. People come together for many reasons, to assert their right to cleaner air, less congestion, safer roads, no blood for oil, and to celebrate and ride in solidarity with other cyclists and like minded individuals. Celebrate this month with Critical Mass in Los Angeles!
Bike Block NYC recap F-15 (tags)
NYC protest news
Night for Bikes @ Griffith Park (tags)
Support the right of cyclists and pedestrians to view the Festival of Lights. Help break our oil habit. Have fun riding through the Griffith Park Lightshow. Show support for a Car Free Festival of Lights.
Night for Bikes! @ Griffith Park Festival of Lights (tags)
See the Griffith Park "Festival of Lights" on two wheels in the fresh air! Bring friends and family to show demand for Car Free days next year. Enjoy the Christmas Lights show without sitting in a car burning oil.
Call for Mega Critical Mass! (tags)
As Shrub prepares to start yet another oil war in Iraq, now is the time to strike back!
Dozens of tanks and other military equipment seen on rail flatbeds this morning(8/15/02).
People’s needs vs. guns and corporate greed (tags)
MADISON, Wisc. – Groups with diverging politics converged June 14 -18 around the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Call for Expanded Critical Mass Protest (tags)
With Bush continueing his World Oil War, we must expand the Critical Mass Movement to include pedestrians and transit users.
Visit Taco Bell This Week (tags)
Direct Action Gets the Goods!!!
Critical Mass: Bike Against The War, Washington DC (12.07.01) (tags)
Critical Mass: Bike Against The War, Washington DC (12.07.01)
Bicyclists Arrested at DNC Sue L.A. (tags)
Bicyclists riding in the Critical Mass bike ride during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles sue L.A. for civil rights violations.
Critical Mass Riders Exonerated (tags)
Charges against Critical Mass DNC riders are to be dropped
In solidarity with the 71 Critical Mass riders arrested and forced to sign undertakings not to ride their bikes.
Articles, photos & videos on L.A. Labor News web site (tags)
Resources: Convention protest articles, videos and photos available on L.A. Labor News,
YO IMC - Plea Bargain Accepted 5 pm 8/22 (tags)
The arrestees in the U'wa civil disbedience, Critical Mass and the Ramparts civil disobedience (which isn't everyone) accepted a plea to a 415 "disturbing the peace" for time served.
Chicago Tribune trashes LAPD (tags)
Two wonderful stories from the Chicago Tribune about the LAPD. One relates the experiences of a cycling reporter busted while covering the Critical Mass action -- the other examines the fear and resentment the community feels toward the LAPD. Enjoy!
Critical Mass takes the streets of Downtown LA (tags)
Watch Critical Mass rule the roads as police try to keep up in a bicycle squadron.
What Democracy in LA looks like: "Is biking a crime?" (tags)
These are images from the DNC protests including the entrapment of critical mass cylists on 8/15/2000. After being escorted by police cruisers, bicycles and motorcycles for nearly an hour, critical mass bicycle riders were corralled under the 10 freeway, violently arrested and detained for nearly 48 hours.
Critical Mass story by arrested Tribune reporter (tags)
This is a story from a Tribune staff writer assigned to cover the convention protests who was arrested with 70 others at the Critical Mass ride. These are the kind of pieces we need in the mainstream press.
As a few dozen bikers took to the streets in a permitted, scheduled critical mass bike ride, appoximately 60 were singled out and arrested. UPN had reported yesterday evening, 8/15, that they were being held on 20,000 bail each.
As a few dozen bikers took to the street in a permitted, scheduled critical mass bike ride, appoximately 60 were singled out and arrested. UPN had reported yesterday evening, 8/15, that they were being held on 20,000 bail.
Critical Mass Bicycle Arrest (tags)
edited footage of critical mass arrests
Arrested Critical Mass Bicyclist (tags)
Handcuffed bicyclist being detained against a fence after being arrested during a critical mass ride early Tuesday evening. Approximately 15 cyclist, including an AP News Correspondent, were arrested at this location on Pico Street near Hope. More were arrested at other locations. This group had been split off from approximately 250 other riders.
Critical Mass Arrests at Flower & 18th (tags)
One section of the Critical Mass rally was arrested at Flower & 18th tonight.
LAPD Creates Chaos as They Charge Critical Mass Cyclists (tags)
LAPD motorcycle police break up critical mass with brtual charge.
critical mass results in show of force (tags)
Los Angeles is an extreme car culture and a peaceful demonstration by bicyclists is transformed by LAPD into a ugly display of power.
* critical mass ride ends with arrests (tags)
critical mass bicycle ride ends with police forcing riders to ride against traffic and against the metro train.
Critical Mass detained by critical ass (tags)
Critical Mass bicycle riders detained by LAPD.
Critical Mass Bicyclists Setup and Arrested (tags)
Tuesday, 15 August 2000 - Los Angeles – At 6:20 P.M., PST, Police entrapped and arrested about 40 Critical Mass bicyclists near the convention center. Critical Mass is an event repeated across the world in which bikers get together and bike around a city in support of bike friendly policies.
Can't make it to LA? Why not bring LA to you?
So...you can't make it to LA? Why don't you bring the spirit of LA to you?