Critical Mass occurs on the last Friday of every month.
This month, that will be Friday, July 25th.
Flickr is such a cool website. It allows anyone to upload photos for anyone to see. With category links you can see Critical Mass photos, Reclaim the Streets footage, and there’s also a category for social change pictures.
(from The Advertiser)
KAPUNDA Road Royal Commissioner Greg James, QC, is almost certain to recommend that lawyer Eugene McGee and his brother Craig face criminal charges for hindering a police investigation.
Mr James said McGee had put himself “outside the law and evaded justice” and those who assisted him helped put him “beyond the power of police” on the night he killed cyclist Ian Humphrey in a hit-run accident.
(from the Vancouver Sun)
“The bicycle is symbolic of an ecologically responsible lifestyle, so when we’re blessing the bicycle, what we’re saying is we’re acknowledging that [cyclists] have made a conscious choice to live in an ecologically responsible way.”
Almost every part of the bicycle was blessed at the event. “Bless these seats that they shall carry us in comfort…Bless these wheels and tires that they soften the blow of the unsuspected pothole…Bless these bicycles, martyred saints of the machine age,” cyclists recited on the steps of the cathedral over the rumble of buses, cars and trucks driving past on the corner of Burrard and Georgia Streets.
I’ve somehow misplaced the PDF copies of ALL the stickers and flyers that were once on this site. If you have a copy of them somewhere, please let me know through the comments page of this post.
I’ve tried to create some new ones from these GIFs, but the quality isn’t great.
What a great opportunity to get creative! If you can come up with a decent quality sticker with a catchy design like these, let me know and it will be added to the site.
I will also accept any suggestions or submissions for new or improved leaflets.
Stickers and/or leaflets stolen from other sites and modified appropriately will also be gladly welcomed. Screed and critical-mass.org are some great starting points.
Of course there are no rules, but let me give a few guidelines:
Look forward to hearing from you!
The Kapunda Road Royal Commission, investigating Eugene McGee, who killed a cyclist and escaped a custodial sentence, now has a website including comprehensive transcripts and agendae.
http://www.service.sa.gov.au/krrc/
You can also track news stories on Eugene with Google News Alerts.
(from penguin.invisiblegovernment.net again)
So it worked. It took a while, but it worked. And Eugene’s escaped a jail term, though there’s now a royal commission.
I’m always dubious about attacking court case proceedings, and to be honest feel a little odd about what happened with the Google-bomb, but hey. Mike Rann may be scoring political points off the whole thing, but I still think that what happened was an absolute travesty. Though in hindsight maybe better to have waited for the verdict to do. My bad. Anyway..
His defence was partly based on the fact that he was distressed after defending the Snowtown murderers. Fair enough. Of course that’s highly distressing.
But what of the automatic right to drive? If he was that ‘distressed’, and had been drinking, he simply should not have been driving. The right to drive is the right to be in control of a ton of steel travelling at over 100km/h. This is not a right that should be given lightly, and certainly not judged automatic. The risks involved when the driver is not at their best are not ‘acceptable’. They are not par-for-the-course.
It’s another case of true-cost-analysis, really. What is the value of someone driving a car? What are the costs? How does the potential cost of someone being killed weigh up against the ‘value’ of getting to work quicker / not having to wait for a family member to drive you home / ripping up, degrading, selling off public transport infrastructure?
There are orders of magnitude of difference. It just doesn’t add up. Considering that someone has an automatic right to drive no matter what mental state they’re in, and that mitigating circumstances (had a few drinks, was distressed..) are acceptable, well, it’s just not a value judgement I can reconcile.
(thanks to Bert. Posted at indymedia)
Riders gathered at Victoria Square for a quick mass through the city. No hassles, some fun, and a flat tyre.
5:45 in the city of Churches. Red flashing lights gather at the fountain. Off into the distance they ride. More flashing lights join on Rundle Street for a trundle to Hindley and back up King William. Stop to fix flat tyre and disperse into the darkness. Till next month when the mass returns…
We gathered, we rode, we vented our disgust openly towards the driver of a Ford Excursion (Nimeton, is that your car next to the 3900kg, 1.3 km/l, ahem “commercial vehicle”?)
You know what they say about boys with big cars… (they’re compensating)
Critical Mass turn out wasn’t fantastic, but then there weren’t too many bikes in at uni. People must be scared of the rain or something. My bike was out of order most of this week, the wheel started buckling due to a broken spoke. It’s in just the wrong spot (rear, non drive, inside spoke) and I can’t take the rear sprocket off, so I’m going to wait till after exams and take it to the bikeshop and get them to service it. Rode my sister’s mountain bike in instead. While it is considerably lighter than a Ford, it’s still a fairly gross weight. I don’t know how I ever rode one of those, I must be getting slack or just impatient.
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