[dc-critmass-list] Critical Mass Book / Video East Coast Tour

[Kevin Cole]

       CRITICAL MASS EAST COAST BOOK AND VIDEO TOUR
    with editor Chris Carlsson and other contributors
          New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
          College Park, Washington, Richmond
                   July 24-30

Download the PDF of the flyer (and learn a bit about Chris) from
http://www.well.com/~kjcole/Bike/booktour.html

A book reading and film screening to celebrate Critical Mass bike
rides.  Critical Mass is a noncommercial, noncompetitive monthly bike
ride held in hundreds of cities in dozens of countries.

The DC reading will be Wed July 29
at the Brian Mackenzie Infoshop
1426 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
(http://www.dcinfoshop.org/index.html)

The Book:
CRITICAL MASS: BICYCLING'S DEFIANT CELEBRATION
(Chris Carlsson, ed. 2002 AK Press) 256 pgs.

Essays, personal anecdotes, photos and flyers by dozens of activists
and theorists from San Francisco, Montreal, Stuttgart, Milan, Sydney,
and seven other cities.

This leaderless, grassroots social movement cuts through the noise and
inertia of car-clogged urban transportation and teaches us to carve a
wedge of our city for our dreams. So says essayist Anna Sojourner in
this pushy and irreverent collection of inkworthy social critique and
optimistic celebration. Four dozen contributors document, define and
drive home the beauty of a quiet ride with a thousand friends, the
anarchy of grassroots inspiration, the melodrama of media coverage and
the fight for the survival of our cities.  Website: www.akpress.org

The Film:
(WE AREN'T BLOCKING TRAFFIC,) WE ARE TRAFFIC!
(Ted White, 1999) Documentary 50 minutes

Interviewees include many of the contributors to the newly released
book. WE ARE TRAFFIC! chronicles Critical Mass, a movement of
thousands (and twice as many wheels) as they reclaim public space and
put bicycling and transit smack-dab in the middle of contemporary
politics.  The film explores the fun, complexity and struggle involved
in social change.  Website: www.tedwhitegreenlight.com

  MON JULY 27 BALTIMORE        TUE JULY 28 COLLEGE PK MD
  Black Planet Bookstore       Vertigo Books, College Pk Shopping Cntr
  1621 Fleet Street            7346 Baltimore Ave
  Baltimore, MD 21231          College Park MD 20740
  (410) 537-5005               (301) 779-9300
  bp at mobtown.org               no website

  WED JULY 29 WASHINGTON DC    THURS JULY 30 RICHMOND VA
  Brian Mackenzie Infoshop     Location TBA
  1426 9th St NW
  Washington, DC 20001
  (no phone yet)
  http://www.dcinfoshop.org/