amoore writes:

"Lightwheels" Festival

Free Speech, Bikes, Transit, Public Space

New York City, June 24-July 4, 2005

New York City is the site of an 11-day exploration of cycling, free speech, public space, transit and community self-empowerment starting this June 24 th, continuing through the July 4 th weekend. The 49 East Houston Street home of LightWheels, Time’s Up and the NY Bicycle Messenger Foundation is the site of most of the activity.

Dissent and the law, regional rail and the MTA, police harassment of Critical Mass rides, privatization and loss of access to our own public spaces, will all be examined. All sessions will be free and some web-cast live. Attendance is on a first come, first served basis. Seating is limited for workshops.
As part of the event, a Town Hall meeting will take place at the Theater For The New City on Sunday the 26 th at 6pm. Plans and actions already taken by the city, in regards to gatherings in parks, billboards in schools and on sidewalks, and bikes on streets, are being done without real public processes and against the public interest. Many of these moves also seem intended to stifle expression, especially of a political nature. Such offenses to the Constitution, as well as our potential to improve our lives, can not be allowed to stand unchallenged.The Bike Messenger World Championships XIII will take place in the NYC area from July 1 st to the 4 th. More than a thousand racers from dozens of countries will register here at East Houston Street , and also spend some time at the LightWheels event, in roundtable discussions on subjects from fixed gears to broken governments. While spectatorship for those events are free, participation is by registration only.

http://lightwheels.com

49 East Houston Street

home of:

LightWheels

Time’s Up

and the NY Bicycle Messenger Foundation

See:
http://lightwheels.com
for Program and Event Schedules, news and updates

The LIGHTWHEELS FESTIVAL Happenings:

JUNE Fri 24

"Green Day:
Getting Words, Ideas & People Around Easier"

Parks, Greenways, Community Gardens, sidewalks and rooftops, Green Maps

Presenters include: Wendy Brawer, Dave Lutz, John Dowlin

Still We Speak Rally

Critical Mass Ride

Presenter contact: John Dowlin

JUNE Sat 25

"Making Things:
Designing and Building Our Future, Starting With Bikes"

Techniques and technology. insurance, cargo carrier and other HPV.

Presenters include: John Tetz, Rob Cotter

Presenter contact: Olaf

JUNE Sun 26

"Branding:
Privatization & Access
To Public Space"

Parks, Street Furniture, Newsstands and Neighborhood

Information/Transportation Structures and Outdoor Advertising.

"Town Hall Rally at Theater for the New City":

Are our Public Spaces
Still Ours?

Presenter contact: Steve Stollman

JUNE Mon 27

"The LAW:
Protecting Speech,
Dissent & Expression"

Lawyers and civil libertarians will discuss strategies to resist the
breakdown in long established Constitutional protections of free speech
and assembly, on the streets and in our public spaces, especially in
parks and on sidewalks.

Presenters include: Norman Siegel, Steve Hyman, Gideon Oliver, Deborah
Berkman

Presenter contact: Gideon Oliver

JUNE Tues 28

"Mass Transit:
Regional Rail - Waking the Sleeping Giant"

Bring your ideas for Regional Rail, buses and

transit hubs/shelters

Presenter: George Haikalis

Presenter contact: George Haikalis

JUNE Wed 29

"Machines:
Shared, Electric,
Wild, Art And Real"

Bicycle and tricycle vehicle design issues

Pedicab and utility vehicle businesses

Shared, Advanced, Electric, Kinetic Sculpture
Presenter: George Bliss

Presenter contact: George Bliss

JUNE Thurs 30

"Messengers:
Making A Living
On A Bicycle"

Racing and riding

Working conditions for messengers

Expanding the field into food and goods, legal and insurance issues.

Presenters include: Kevin "Squid" Bolger, Ben Stewart, Hodari Depalm

Presenter contact: Ben Stewart

JULY Fri 1

"Advocacy:
Creative Activism"

Advocacy leadership including decision making, recruiting volunteers,
managing funding. Critical Mass in other cities/countries.


Working with the community, relationships with the press, police, and
politicians.

Presenters: Bill DiPaola, Lin Wefel, Sara Stout

Presenter contact: Ryan

Cycle Messenger

World Championships

CMWC produced by New York Bike Messenger Foundation, Inc.

All rights reserved.

JULY Sat 2

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY

JULY Sun 3

JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY

JULY Mon 4

KISSENA VELODROME, QUEENS, NY