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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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Dublin Critical Mass

category dublin | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday June 05, 2007 12:50author by bikelane Report this post to the editors

Critical Mass is a phenomenon that is believed to have started in San Francisco on Friday September 25 1992. From such small beginnings the idea has spread across the planet and gathered momentum, with a massive 30 000 cyclists taking part in the Car Free Day cycle in Budapest on September in 2005.
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There are as many reasons to go to a Critical Mass as there are participants, yet over the years an assortment of journalists have claimed that Critical Mass is either a bicycle protest about asserting cyclists rights, or others have speculated that it is about climate change.
Maybe it’s both, maybe it’s neither.
Because Critcal Masses are self organized, non-commercial events structured in a non-hierarchical way there is a multitude of ideas and opinions represented. But one thing most critical mass-ers would agree on is that Critical Mass is a celebration of cycling and other self-propelled methods of transport.

Over the last few days small flyers have appeared attached to bicycles around Dublin to publicize the cycle happening this Friday the 8th of June. One cannot rely on Internet postings or emailing leaflets to lists to publicize an open event like this as there are so many cycling commuters who are then left out.

It remains to be seen how many will turn up this Friday, but it is hoped that the numbers participating in the Dublin Critical Masses will swell over the summer so that we have hundreds of cyclists by Car Free day 2007, after all we’re not blocking traffic –we are traffic.

On yer Bike!

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author by commuterpublication date Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors



Come celebrate cycling in Dublin.
Friday June 8th 2007
6.30pm-7.30pm meet at the Garden of Remembrance

Ring your bells.
Bring bicycles, Rollerblades, Unicycles, Skateboards, Feet (or any other self-propelled methods of transport).

All are welcome.

author by office jobpublication date Tue Jun 05, 2007 13:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors



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author by jimpublication date Sun Jun 10, 2007 14:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

How did the bike ride go?
hopefully well, any photos?

author by fpublication date Tue Jun 12, 2007 15:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it was crap

author by Possible solutionspublication date Tue Jun 12, 2007 19:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Actually print off some fliers (don't just put them up here on indymedia), and flypost them around the city.

Maybe someone in Shell to Sea could get some stickers like they have , and could stick them on the bike racks around town and even further afield.

Leaflet cyclists at traffic lights.

Set up a webspace on Bebo or somewhere and send out friend requests to every email address you can find.

Ring up the radio talk stations and complain about critical mass blocking the traffic, then call up and defend the bike ride. This works with writing to newspapers as well, don't forget Northside people and the Herald etc. Get politicians to complain - get other ones to take part.

Send out a Press release that you've hired Katy French to do a photoshoot to for publicity. Then tell the press that your "commitee" has prohibited it because it's sexist- generate some publicity for free (she won't mind, soome controversy will help her career).

Spread the rumour that the next critical mass will be a nude bike ride like the one they did in London.

Take a day off work and do nothing except work on publicising CM. Just one day could make all the difference.

All easy for me to suggest, but not that hard surely?

author by cynicyclerpublication date Tue Jun 12, 2007 22:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yep - all easy for you to suggest - yet will you go and do any of it yourself.

author by dunkpublication date Wed Jun 13, 2007 01:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

why not do it YOURSELVES, come away from the virtual imc world, meet in the real world, call a time to meet up, inform others so they might come to, commit to it, work on it, print, get word out, and make it huge....

remember there were 30,000 in budapest a few years agol 2005:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/825163.shtml

from last years post for first crit mass:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75670
photos last year
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75739

a couple of hundred people did the docklands cycle, theyd be keen if they knew about it, get it organised, contact totally dublin magazine, they might put an article up for you.

good luck to yez
dunk

ps, how many people actually turned up for it, anything happen?

author by dunkpublication date Wed Jun 13, 2007 01:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

heres the san francisco crit mass on the international day of action, vids, audio, photos, text

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/09/18426228.ph...26398

london naked bike ride
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373139.html
In 2004 there were 58 riders, in 2005 a creditable 250 riders, rising to a massive 800 in 2006.

author by Jimmypublication date Wed Jun 13, 2007 13:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I used to go to the critical masses which were good until they peaked around 2003-2004 when they were piggybacked by Reclaim/Repaint the streets/DGN. I think this was a mistake as it turned CM into a march as opposed to a ride and that pissed off myself and a lot of cyclists as we were more or less sidelined by marchers.

author by knudpublication date Wed Jun 13, 2007 15:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dunk please dont lecture people about organising in the real world and getting off the internet. Every one of your posts seems to consist of links to other sites and no actual ideas or suggestions of your own, which actually alienates people from ever responding to anything you post.

author by Bikeboypublication date Wed Nov 19, 2008 01:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Any chance of getting this back together?

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