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Everyone was super friendly… lots of waving! Madrileños, probably almost 3,000-strong, take to the streets on the last Thursday of every month for their Bicicrítica, or Critical Mass… it was wonderful! Got to ride in Madrid’s Bicicrítica last night, a long luxurious ride all over town. It was very familiar […] It was a wonderful four days in Porto Alegre, February 24-27! I met hundreds of people, was wined and dined, interviewed nearly 20 times in local and national Brazilian media (including a bit for their equivalent of ESPN, SportTV!), and got to ride in two big rides including the largest ever Critical Mass in Porto […] A wide coalition of housing activists, clergy, leftists, unionists, anarchists, and others in San Francisco staged an “Occupy Wall Street West” day of action in downtown San Francisco on Friday, January 20. (The Committee for Full Enjoyment was out too, including yours truly.) It was a cold and soggy day, but a couple of thousand […] |
 NOW AVAILABLE! Buy one here (Spuyten Duyvil, October 2023)  NOW AVAILABLE! Buy one here (Pluto Press, Spring 2020)  Shift Happens! Critical Mass at 20 (2012)  Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78 (2011)  Nowtopia (2008)  After the Deluge (2004)  The Political Edge (2004)  Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (2002)  Reclaiming San Francisco: History Culture Politics (1998)  Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology (1990)  Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay (2nd edition: 2011) All books available at chriscarlsson.com/stuff. |
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