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San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005. Critical Mass is a form of direct action in which people travel as a group on bicycles at a set location and time. The idea is for people to group together to make it safe for each other to ride bicycles through their streets, based on the old adage: there's safety in numbers.
Ride of Silence, Berlin, 2015, as the cyclists pass the German Chancellery and Reichstag. The Ride of Silence is an annual multi-location, international bicycle ride to commemorate cyclists killed and support those injured while riding on public roads. It helps to raise awareness among motorists, the public and decision makers of the dangers ...
In December 2004, a federal judge dismissed New York City's injunction against Critical Mass as a "political event." [30] On March 23, 2005, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Time's Up!, a direct action environmental group, from promoting or advertising Critical Mass rides. The lawsuit also stated that Time's Up! and the public could ...
Critical Mass rides and Ciclovia events typically attract feeder rides. Depending on the geography, feeder rides can sometimes take on the appearance of a star when represented on a map, hence "Sternfahrt" in German. Feeder rides may have developed from so called "tributary marches" which were common in the anti-war movement.
The name 'Kidical Mass' is a pun on the Critical Mass cycling event and 'kid' meaning 'child'. The name was first used for a ride in Eugene, Oregon which took place 18 April 2008. [2] [3] Kidical Mass rides now take place in cities around the world.
Johnson came back with a new spending plan Thursday approved by Trump that had a two year suspension of the debt ceiling. That approach failed, despite the president-elect urging Republicans to ...
Critical Mass rides emerged in 1992 in San Francisco where cyclists take to the streets en masse to dominate the traffic, using the slogan "we are traffic." The ride was founded with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists. [24] The movement has grown to include events in major metropolitan cities around the ...
He said a president could simply argue for efficiency and cost savings and reinterpret federal employment law to engage in a mass layoff of half the federal workforce within a year.