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Bicycling for Peace Friday all Day and Night

by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
Bicycles continue to have a transformative
power, with mobility, legality, peturbations to the war machines here in the streets, and spreading the message of possible peace.
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Bicycles continue to have a transformative
power, with mobility, legality, peturbations to the war machines here in the streets, and spreading the message of possible peace.

§every evening of war at 5 at pee wee herman plaza
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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bicycling to spread the word
sand in the war machine
create peace
§bikes open space
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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public space, the streets, become comfortable to a queer march down market street thanks to bicyclists who rolled around market and castro, then regrouped and rolled with a tail of troopers.
§convergence
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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After blocks and blocks of parallel motion, bicyclists converged with marchers on Gough by McAllister. A motorcycle police whiped out (embarrasing timing) and bicyclists shifted and protected some jogging marchers, while hundreds other were rushed and arrested (including my sister, I think)
§flowing
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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It is blissful to continue in peacefull motion. Pedal Powered. Keeping tabs. Not being scared. Occupying public space. Not burning oil. Conversing. Riding.
§foot and bike
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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§gorgeous flags
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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§gorgeous flags
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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I think this friday was poetic. Beautiful.
§hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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§spread
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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put in your two cents, catch the wild fire, illustrate your ideas on this. . .
§riding and jogging
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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use your legs to be free
§riding and walking
by Benjamin Connelly (benjamin [at] monopod.net)
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a nice mix
§riding home
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by zoe
Thank you to everyone on bicycles...you saved us countless times today...i cannot even express how greatful i (and i'm sure countless others) am...keep it up...
by cycle tactic
The bicycle rides are perfect because they're allowed to be in the streets, it's a fundamental legal right under the vehicle code.

Right now police have declared near zero tolerance on any march in the streets.

On Day X bikes did a tremendous amount of support running from lockdown to lockdown and keeping mobile for many things. As your photos show, bikes did a lot of good today helping marchers.

Bikes can do a lot of good supporting people but the rides need to be smart about how they do things if they're going to avoid police repression or even worse, bringing repression to others. Tonight it was really awesome when a group of riders tagged alongside a group of sidewalk marchers flanked by a line of riot police. But it went on too long! Especially when it turned out that Deputy Chief R. Bruce was on the scene, looking super tweaked. The support, even though peaceful and well intended, probably made the cops tense and thus the sudden increase in numbers and the motorcycle platoon driving straight into the crowd of bikes and the wrong way on a one-way street. Stay out of trouble and stay mobile.

Today I have to wonder if the group really made a mistake getting too close to the marchers near City Hall, early on. When the police motorcycle crashed and police ran in for the "officer down" call -- all their own stupid fault of course -- bikes had gotten too close to the march and mixed in, probably slowing down the march and definitely losing our cohesion and mobility.

Marchers: also please try to respect the boundary with the bikes, we can better support each other that way. Nothing personal I march too. (smiley).

Other photos and a flyer for the daily rides are posted here:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/03/1587194.php
by Elizabeth Creely (ecreely [at] yahoo.com)
Last night mass was meditative, peaceful, determined, connected...It was wonderful. Even as we sat, handcuffed on the curb, after having been surrounded by cops at Hyde/Market, I looked at my fellow bicyclists and realized that this is one of the best ways to protest the brutality of the past few days.
One quick request- for folks who need to drag newspaper racks, garbage cans, anything, into the street...please don't drag or drop anything without making sure a bicyclist isn't directly behind it. Someone ran out onto Ellis last night, and dropped a newspaper rack directly in front of me and I almost went over the handlebars. Be conscious of the different space that people inhabit, especially on mixed marches. Besos.
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