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Two outstanding members of our bike community were arrested today in a massive protest against corporate America being titled #F29. I saw this on twitter: and this from Alison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio Joe Sharkey (@critmasspanic) of NYC World Naked Bike Ride and Time’s Up volunteer Monica Hunken were nabbed outside of [...] Today (Leap Day) the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking it to the street on bikes. As seen by: @critmasspanic BRING YOUR BIKE AND STAY ON IT. Meetups in NYC: 9am Pulitzer fountain (5th Ave &59th), 10am Tudor city (2nd Ave & 43rd), 11:30am NY Library (5th Ave & 41st) Find out [...] Here is another article about proposed changes to the Prospect Park traffic loop. New York Daily News: Bike, walk or run in Prospect Park? Big changes coming down the road. Cars to be reduced to one lane By: Simone Weichselbaum Published: February 27, 2012 (photo caption: Pack of fast bike riders in Prospect [...] Today there will be no posts on this blog in solidarity with many other sites who are taking a stand, such as Boing, Boing, Wikipedia.org and google.com. The reason for this internet black out is in response to the US Senate which is considering legislation that would radically alter this thing we call the [...] Learned about this through Time’s Up. Activist Technology Demo Day Saturday, January 28 3-6pm Eyebeam Art + Technology Center From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, technology has played an important role in shaping contemporary resistance and the representation of these events in the media. What new tools of protest and occupation have emerged [...] I first meet Andrew Lynn when I participated in a fun action where we walked around Kmart in the East Village and didn’t buy anything. This was part of an anti-consumer form of street theatre called Whirlmart. Since then Andrew has been super active in bicycle issues, working upstate with Troy bike rescue and [...] Did everbody see this? The latest in the NYPD embarassing harassment of bike riders. Jasmijn Rijcken, the general manager of VANMOOF bicycles in Amsterdam was in town at the end of April to attend the New Amsterdam bicycle show in NYC. The NYPD welcomed her to our fair city by almost writing [...] Kind of late but I just saw this on Brooklyn Spoke: There is a community board 10 meeting tonight to discuss a bike lane for Bay Ridge. From CB10: “Community Board 10’s Traffic and Transportation Committee…member Bob Cassara put forward a motion to call on the Department of Transportation to paint a [...] This just in: There will be a special action in Wall Street on Thursday, May 12th, 4:00pm A call for a huge action and civil disobedience for those who tanked our economy with corporate greed and continue to plunder our environment. Looking for a bike block. Stand by for more details. “who’s street?…” Time to get involved and make our voices heard that we want sustainable, safer infrastructure for bicycles in NYC. This means telling local politicians and our community boards that they should get with the program instead of bringing out their “Big Gun” Lawyers. Community Board 6 which covers Cobble Hill, Prospect Park and [...] |
       
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