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Ccarlsson: upgraded photo

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	'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''		'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''

	[[Image:~~transit1$critical~~-~~mass~~-~~aerial~~-~~shot~~.jpg]]		[[Image:Critical-Mass-June-1996-east-on-Howard-at-Moscone-Center.jpg]]

	'''June 1996 looking easterly on Howard Street between 4th and 3rd Sts.'''		'''June 1996 looking easterly on Howard Street between 4th and 3rd Sts.'''

Ccarlsson: added type from 2002 anthology and new photos

2014-08-16T03:41:09Z

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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			Critical Mass—the name inspires passion and loathing. Originally a term applied to nuclear fission, it has become a rallying cry for bicyclists, rejecting the priorities and values imposed on us by oil barons and their government servants. But Critical Mass bicycle rides are no protest movement as we commonly imagine. Instead, riders have gathered to celebrate their choice to bicycle, and in so doing have opened up a new kind of social and political space, unprecedented in this era of atomization and commodification. Bicyclists are reclaiming city life from San Francisco to St. Louis, Melbourne to Milan, Berlin to Bombay, and hundreds more cities across the planet.

			Critical Mass started in San Francisco in the dark days of 1992 not long after Bush #1 had manipulated Iraq into becoming the new boogeyman, massacred thousands in the Gulf War and declared a New World Order. Critical Mass had already spread to over a dozen cities by the time the Zapatistas rose on New Year’s Day in 1994 (against the “free market” neoliberal deal NAFTA was shoving down Mexico’s throat). Since the Zapatista uprising, the myriad movements contesting corporate globalization have grown in the shadow of the famous “irrational exuberance” of the 1990s. Alternative seeds have sprouted into thickening branches of oppositional and visionary movements, from Reclaim the Streets to community gardening to the summit-hopping Turtles and Teamsters.


	<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfCMBDAY" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>		<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfCMBDAY" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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	[[Image:~~transit1$critical~~-~~mass~~-~~bikers~~.jpg]]		[[Image:Cm-lombard-july-2007-0036.jpg]]

	'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''		'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. Here the ride descends the famous Lombard Street heading east in July 2007. '''

	''Photo: ~~Nigel French~~''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfcm97" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>		<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfcm97" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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	''Video: Biker-X''		''Video: Biker-X''

			<font size=4>How Critical Mass changed the (American) World</font>

			''by Anna Sojourner''

			Critical Mass is not a protest but a demonstration, in the simplest sense of the word. It is a demonstration of social space, the rarest bird in America. It works, because people automatically feel it’s right, though many of us have never before experienced free public space. Critical Mass cut through the noise and inertia of the American transportation system and taught us to carve a wedge of our city for ourselves. It feeds us a reality we use to create a vision.

			With no knowledge of history or sense of possibility, we assume that the way things are is the way things ought to be. Just because our home is friendlier to autos than humans doesn’t mean it ought to be that way. Critical Mass gave us knowledge and a sense of possibility bigger than any rhetoric, any architectural model, any developer’s ad campaign, or any promise. We humans want social space, we need it, take to it like ducks to water. After 10 years of massing, we found out that the society we want isn’t so unobtainable after all. That’s liberation. Thanks, Mass.

			[[Image:Cmbook cover thumb.jpg\|left]] ''This short essay appeared originally in [http://www.akpress.org/criticalmassbicyclingsdefiantcelebration.html?___SID=U "Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration"] published on the 10th anniversary in 2002 by AK Press.''

	[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]		[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]

Ccarlsson: added 1997 video clip

2014-08-16T01:25:30Z

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			<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfcm97" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

			'''Police attack Critical Mass, July 1997, in San Francisco.'''

			''Video: Biker-X''

	[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]		[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]

Ccarlsson: fixed video code

2014-08-06T23:00:42Z

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	~~{{#ev~~:archive\|ssfCMBDAY\|480}}		<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ssfCMBDAY" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

	[http://www.archive.org/details/ssfCMBDAY Critical Mass September 1995]		[http://www.archive.org/details/ssfCMBDAY Critical Mass 3rd birthday September 1995]


	[[Image:transit1$critical-mass-bikers.jpg]]		[[Image:transit1$critical-mass-bikers.jpg]]

	'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''~~<br>~~''Photo: Nigel French''		'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''

			''Photo: Nigel French''

	[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]		[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]

Ccarlsson: added new link to xerocracy pages

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	'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''<br>''Photo: Nigel French''		'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''<br>''Photo: Nigel French''

			[[Critical Mass Xerocracy\|Critical Mass Xerocracy, or how the movement organized itself during the first years...]]

	Ongoing discussion and debate about Critical Mass in San Francisco [http://www.sfcriticalmass.org here].		Ongoing discussion and debate about Critical Mass in San Francisco [http://www.sfcriticalmass.org here].

Ccarlsson at 01:01, 2 December 2011

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	Ongoing discussion and debate about Critical Mass in San Francisco [http://www.sfcriticalmass.org here].		Ongoing discussion and debate about Critical Mass in San Francisco [http://www.sfcriticalmass.org here].

	[http://www.~~processedworld~~.~~com~~/~~tfrs_web/history~~/howto.html How To Make a Critical Mass]		[http://www.scorcher.org/cmhistory/howto.html How To Make a Critical Mass]

	[[Critical Massifesto\|Critical Massifesto]]		[[Critical Massifesto\|Critical Massifesto]]
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Ccarlsson: changed transit tour order, added link to cm blog

2011-01-20T01:19:09Z

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	'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''<br>''Photo: Nigel French''		'''Over 2,000 cyclists take to the streets in a monthly "organized coincidence" called [http://www.critical-mass.org Critical Mass]. Spreading to over 400 cities around the world, Critical Mass began in September 1992 in San Francisco with 45 riders, and has happened every month since, averaging about 1,500 riders and topping 5,000 riders on several occasions. '''<br>''Photo: Nigel French''

			Ongoing discussion and debate about Critical Mass in San Francisco [http://www.sfcriticalmass.org here].

	[http://www.processedworld.com/tfrs_web/history/howto.html How To Make a Critical Mass]		[http://www.processedworld.com/tfrs_web/history/howto.html How To Make a Critical Mass]
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	[[Image:Tours-transit.gif\|link=~~CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE~~]] [[~~CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE~~\| ~~Continue~~ Transit History Tour]]		[[Image:Tours-transit.gif\|link=The Discovery of San Francisco Bay (1542-1769)]] [[The Discovery of San Francisco Bay (1542-1769)\| Return to beginning of Transit History Tour]]


	[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]		[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]

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Texteradmin at 05:57, 21 August 2009

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	[[Image:Tours-transit.gif]] [[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\| Continue Transit History Tour]]		[[Image:Tours-transit.gif\|link=CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE]] [[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\| Continue Transit History Tour]]

	[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]		[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]

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Texteradmin at 14:15, 20 August 2009

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	[[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]		[[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]

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			[[Image:Tours-transit.gif]] [[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\| Continue Transit History Tour]]

	[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]		[[Hidden Class Politics of Transit \|Prev. Document]] [[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Next Document]]

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Ccarlsson at 07:23, 18 January 2009

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	[[~~The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896~~\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]		[[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]

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	[[~~The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896~~\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]		[[CYCLERS RIDE IN GAY ATTIRE\|The Great Bicycle Parade of 1896]]

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