jim submits:

Critical Mass East Coast Book and Video Tour

With editor Chris Carlsson and other contributors

New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, College Park, Washington, Richmond

July 24-30, 2003



A book reading and film screening to celebrate Critical Mass bike rides.

Critical Mass is a noncommercial,

noncompetitive monthly bike ride held in hundreds of cities in dozens of

countries.The Book:

Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (Chris Carlsson, ed. 2002

AK Press) 256 pgs. Essays, personal anecdotes, photos and flyers by

dozens of activists and theorists from San Francisco, Montreal,

Stuttgart, Milan, Sydney, and seven other cities.

This leaderless, grassroots social movement cuts through the noise and

inertia of car-clogged urban transportation and teaches us to carve a

wedge of our city for our dreams. So says essayist Anna Sojourner in

this pushy and irreverent collection of inkworthy social critique and

optimistic celebration. Four dozen contributors document, define and

drive home the beauty of a quiet ride with a thousand friends, the

anarchy of grassroots inspiration, the melodrama of media coverage and

the fight for the survival of our cities.

Website: www.akpress.org



The Film:

(We aren't blocking traffic,) We Are Traffic! (Ted White, 1999)

Documentary 50'

Interviewees include many of the contributors to the newly released

book. WE ARE TRAFFIC! chronicles Critical Mass, a movement of thousands

(and twice as many wheels) as they reclaim public space and put

bicycling and transit smack-dab in the middle of contemporary politics.

The film explores the fun, complexity and struggle involved in social

change.

Website: www.tedwhitegreenlight.com



Thur July 24th Manhattan

Bluestockings Women's Bookstore

172 Allen Street, New York, NY, 10002 -- (212) 777-6028

http://www.bluestockings.com



Sat July 25 Brooklyn

Clovis Press Books and Zines

229 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11211 -- (718) 302-3751 -- no website



Sun July 26 Philadelphia

Woodenshoe Bookstore (event may be offsite)

508 S. 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 -- (215) 413-0999

http://www.woodenshoebooks.com/



Mon July 27 Baltimore

Black Planet Bookstore

1621 Fleet Street

Baltimore, MD 21231 -- (410) 537-5005 -- bp@mobtown.org



Tue July 28 College Pk MD

Vertigo Books

College Park Shopping Center

7346 Baltimore Ave, College Park MD 20740 -- (301) 779-9300

no website



Wed July 29 Washington DC

Brian Mackenzie Infoshop

1426 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

http://www.dcinfoshop.org/index.html -- no phone yet



Thurs July 30 Richmond VA

Location TBA