[dc-critmass-list] When's the next ride?

Fri Mar 10 04:07:10 PST 2006

April 7th

Last month had a good showing (for dc!).  
Around 20? 25?

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Subject: [dc-critmass-list] When's the next ride?

When is the next ride? I haven't been to one in a few months. How many 
people atrended the last one?

-chris

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>    1. CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass (Miles Swanson)
>    2. Re: CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass (Michael Ross)
>    3. Re: CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass (Jym Dyer)
>    4. Re: CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass (Michael Ross)

>From: "Miles Swanson" <miles at swanson.com>
>To: dc-critmass-list at lists.mutualaid.org
>Subject: [dc-critmass-list] CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:02:27 -0800
>
>CBS2
>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_066002543.html
>
>Top News
>clock Mar 7, 2006 10:47 am US/Eastern
>'Critical Mass' Bike Ride Gets Dangerous
>One Woman Claims She Was Thrown From Her Bike By The NYPD
>
>Lou Young
>Reporting
>
>(CBS) NEW YORK The young woman showed CBS 2 her fading bruises. She
>said she received the injuries when she was knocked from her bicycle
>by an NYPD Assistant Chief during the controversial monthly Manhattan
>bike outing known as Critical Mass.
>
>27- year-old Adrienne Wheeler said she was acting as a legal observer
>for the National Lawyers Guild during the January ride.
>
>In Times Square she said, "I was grabbed from behind by my chain
>(which was tied around her waist) and pushed forward onto the ground
>then pulled back up."
>
>A tape shot by one of the other observers shows part of the action.
>Adrienne and another man are seen riding slowly onto West 49th Street
>from Broadway when they pass a bald man holding what appears to be a
>Styrofoam coffee cup. They'd apparently come a short distance up the
>wrong way on Broadway into the crosswalk, then East on the street
>toward 7th Avenue.
>
>The camera pans past them and a crash is heard. When the camera pans
>back there is Adrienne on the ground on top of her bike. The bald man
>is standing over he,r holding on to the chain that is wrapped around
>her waist.
>
>The man is Assistant Chief Bruce Smolka, the commander of Manhattan
>Patrol Borough South, but Adrienne insists she didn't realize he was a
>member of the force until after she was on the ground.
>
>"I had no idea who this person was that was behind me grabbing and if
>anyone had asked me to stop then, yes, I would've stopped," she said.
>
>The January ride was the first since a judge had refused the city's
>application for a court injunction against the Critical Mass bike
>ride. The event takes place the final Friday of every month, kicking
>off in Union Square and filing out into the city on a random route
>that police say snarls traffic.
>
>The police had tried to curtail the event with mass arrests for
>disorderly conduct and parading without a permit, but the judge ruled
>the city needs to stick to individual traffic citations.
>
>A traffic ticket is exactly what Adrienne got, but only, she says,
>after very physically being knocked to the ground. She's filed a
>complain with the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board with the
>support of the National Lawyer's Guild. Guild Executive Board member
>Bruce Bentley says it's another example of the city's double standard
>when it come to dealing with cyclists.
>
>"I'm not aware of drivers in cars being pulled from their cars and
>being thrown to the ground as part of being given a ticket," he said.
>
>The police department says it will have no comment while the CCRB
>complaint is pending.
>
>
>
>Also: http://thevillager.com/villager_148/policemaybebackpedaling.html
>
>Video online: http://www.wcbstv.com/video/?cid=48
>

>From: Michael Ross <jmichaelross at verizon.net>
>To: "Miles Swanson" <miles at swanson.com>, 
>dc-critmass-list at lists.mutualaid.org
>Subject: Re: [dc-critmass-list] CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:45:02 -0500
>
>For those of you learning about power, and contemporary USA "democracy" (in 
>the (likely exclusive) sense you probably understand democracy as a purely 
>formal political mechanism, whjere representative elites offer the voting 
>public (not to be confused with the potential pool of voters;  the USA has 
>not mandatory voting law like, say, Australia, and there s arason for that 
>that also bears on my comments here) a chance to ratify or reject decisions 
>already made:
>
>Critical Mass in NYC (and Ive been on many of their rides;  theyre great! 
>as well as the after-parties, etc.) has WON every battle to date...but is 
>clearly losing the war for transportation sanity.  CM in NYC is about TORT 
>reform in the USA...did you know that???
>
>I feel for the younger generation in this country.  It's only going to get 
>worse, in concrete terms of truncated opportunities for living a meaningful 
>life in Modernist terms (as opposed to merely making a paycheck and 
>consuming stuff and being fashionable and media saavy...as all of this adds 
>little to the kind of life lived in a Medieval village in 1206....).
>
>It's also going to be a lot less fun in abstract terms, as what can even 
>been thought and proposed is severly constrained as well.  Who has  good 
>word for Utopia these days?  Who of your generation would be as turned on 
>by Edward Bellamy's  *Looking Backward* as were the young people of a 
>hundred years ago (when it was a best seller?!).
>
>I say a young femal messenger in downtown DC who had a sticker on her 
>Quattro Assi that read "I Hate You." As I rode up to her at the light I 
>said, sarcastically, "Nice sticker."  She replies: "Oh, it's just a 
>sticker;  it doesnt mean anything."  Huh!!!!!!!  It's on HER bike!!!!!  The 
>sticker didnt put itself there!  The cynicism and lack of hope of young 
>people have in the USA -- not that it is not warranted! -- is still deeply 
>disturbing...
>
>At least were on bikes!...
>
>
>At 04:02 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote:
>
>>CBS2
>>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_066002543.html
>>
>>Top News
>>clock Mar 7, 2006 10:47 am US/Eastern
>>'Critical Mass' Bike Ride Gets Dangerous
>>One Woman Claims She Was Thrown From Her Bike By The NYPD
>>
>>Lou Young
>>Reporting
>>
>>(CBS) NEW YORK The young woman showed CBS 2 her fading bruises. She
>>said she received the injuries when she was knocked from her bicycle
>>by an NYPD Assistant Chief during the controversial monthly Manhattan
>>bike outing known as Critical Mass.
>>
>>27- year-old Adrienne Wheeler said she was acting as a legal observer
>>for the National Lawyers Guild during the January ride.
>>
>>In Times Square she said, "I was grabbed from behind by my chain
>>(which was tied around her waist) and pushed forward onto the ground
>>then pulled back up."
>>
>>A tape shot by one of the other observers shows part of the action.
>>Adrienne and another man are seen riding slowly onto West 49th Street
>>from Broadway when they pass a bald man holding what appears to be a
>>Styrofoam coffee cup. They'd apparently come a short distance up the
>>wrong way on Broadway into the crosswalk, then East on the street
>>toward 7th Avenue.
>>
>>The camera pans past them and a crash is heard. When the camera pans
>>back there is Adrienne on the ground on top of her bike. The bald man
>>is standing over he,r holding on to the chain that is wrapped around
>>her waist.
>>
>>The man is Assistant Chief Bruce Smolka, the commander of Manhattan
>>Patrol Borough South, but Adrienne insists she didn't realize he was a
>>member of the force until after she was on the ground.
>>
>>"I had no idea who this person was that was behind me grabbing and if
>>anyone had asked me to stop then, yes, I would've stopped," she said.
>>
>>The January ride was the first since a judge had refused the city's
>>application for a court injunction against the Critical Mass bike
>>ride. The event takes place the final Friday of every month, kicking
>>off in Union Square and filing out into the city on a random route
>>that police say snarls traffic.
>>
>>The police had tried to curtail the event with mass arrests for
>>disorderly conduct and parading without a permit, but the judge ruled
>>the city needs to stick to individual traffic citations.
>>
>>A traffic ticket is exactly what Adrienne got, but only, she says,
>>after very physically being knocked to the ground. She's filed a
>>complain with the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board with the
>>support of the National Lawyer's Guild. Guild Executive Board member
>>Bruce Bentley says it's another example of the city's double standard
>>when it come to dealing with cyclists.
>>
>>"I'm not aware of drivers in cars being pulled from their cars and
>>being thrown to the ground as part of being given a ticket," he said.
>>
>>The police department says it will have no comment while the CCRB
>>complaint is pending.
>>
>>
>>
>>Also: http://thevillager.com/villager_148/policemaybebackpedaling.html
>>
>>Video online: http://www.wcbstv.com/video/?cid=48
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>From: Jym Dyer <jym at econet.org>
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>Subject: Re: [dc-critmass-list] CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:32:52 -0800
> > Critical Mass in NYC (and Ive been on many of their rides;
> > theyre great! as well as the after-parties, etc.) has WON
> > every battle to date...but is clearly losing the war for
> > transportation sanity.
>
>=v= That "war" has been ongoing since before CM's existence
>and has been and continues to be fought by numerous parties.
>Your construction echoes the sentiments of this one guy, a
>former activist who couldn't work with others and is now in
>marketing, who's been all over the NYC press as The Community
>Activist With Concerns About CM.
>
>=v= Of course, they said exactly the same stuff about CM in
>San Francisco when we were dealing with police oppression
>there.  Now they're holding up San Francisco as "how it was
>done right" -- d'oh!
>
> > CM in NYC is about TORT reform in the USA...did you know
> > that???
>
>=v= Say what?  The City of NYC trying to stop CM with a lawsuit
>is only part of what CM is "about," not the whole of it.  The
>various court actions may have the effect of "reforming torts"
>in the pedantic sense of righting civil wrongs, but none of this
>has anything to do with the (generally corporate-backed) agenda
>that's usually meant by the words "tort reform."  Indeed, the
>whole point of "tort reform" is to restrict people like us from
>suing for what's right.
>     <_Jym_>
>

>From: Michael Ross <jmichaelross at verizon.net>
>To: dc-critmass-list at lists.mutualaid.org
>Subject: Re: [dc-critmass-list] CBS Coverage of Feb. NYC Critical Mass
>Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:04:05 -0500
>At 11:32 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote:
>> > Critical Mass in NYC (and Ive been on many of their rides;
>> > theyre great! as well as the after-parties, etc.) has WON
>> > every battle to date...but is clearly losing the war for
>> > transportation sanity.
>>
>>=v= That "war" has been ongoing since before CM's existence
>>and has been and continues to be fought by numerous parties.
>>Your construction echoes the sentiments of this one guy, a
>>former activist who couldn't work with others and is now in
>>marketing, who's been all over the NYC press as The Community
>>Activist With Concerns About CM.
>
>I dont know this guy, the Community Activist with CM Concerns.  I do know 
>that I see Cm as one of the most important social movements in America.  of 
>course, there really aren't many social movements left (no pun intended), 
>but that's another story...
>
>
>
>>=v= Of course, they said exactly the same stuff about CM in
>>San Francisco when we were dealing with police oppression
>>there.  Now they're holding up San Francisco as "how it was
>>done right" -- d'oh!
>
>NYC is not San Fran.  Neither is Wash DC.  Context and locality matter 
>mightily.
>
>
>> > CM in NYC is about TORT reform in the USA...did you know
>> > that???
>>
>>=v= Say what?  The City of NYC trying to stop CM with a lawsuit
>>is only part of what CM is "about," not the whole of it.  The
>>various court actions may have the effect of "reforming torts"
>>in the pedantic sense of righting civil wrongs, but none of this
>>has anything to do with the (generally corporate-backed) agenda
>>that's usually meant by the words "tort reform."  Indeed, the
>>whole point of "tort reform" is to restrict people like us from
>>suing for what's right.
>>     <_Jym_>
>
>If the USa had tort reform along the lines of civil law in the EU, things 
>would change big time, not just for CM but for a whole host of social 
>issues. I agree with you about the reform on the agenda being driven by the 
>right wing, and by corp. USA.  The kind of Tort reform I have mind is 
>modeled on that in, say, England, or more impressive  Sweden or Holland 
>(what backgrounds this choice:  Im a radical participatory democrat (used 
>to be called socialist or left wing anarchist) who hates income 
>stratification and wage differentials...)
>
>best, mike
>
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