Berkeley Critical Mass

Berkeley Critical Mass rolled through Berkeley on its regular East Bay Ride on Friday, October 13, 2006.

Highlights included costumes in anticipation of Halloween Critical Mass in San Francisco (Oct. 27); a festive and jubilant rolling rendition of "Fuck tha Police" on Telegraph (site of recent police abuses), replete with dancing pedestrians; and an echoing velodrome in the Unsafeway Parking Garage.

A summary of some change points in the piece:

00:00 I like dirt intro montage
00:20 Fuck the Police on Telegraph
03:23 Metal meets James Brown at Ashby BART
(ride through the concourse)
04:38 Pickup truck alert -- dancers instead
04:53 Over the bluff to Safeway
05:37 enter the Safeway Parking Garage
06:22 Enter the Magic Shopping Cart
07:17 Have a global warming day montage

Berkeley Critical Mass meets every second Friday at the Downtown Berkeley BART plaza (Constitution Plaza), gathering at 5:30 to leave after 6 PM. The ride celebrates its 14th birthday in March, and five years of almost zero police harassment. For more information about the Critical Mass movement around the globe, including times and places when you're traveling to any of the over 425 cities where it has occurred, check http://www.critical-mass.org/