Moving Together Conference 2008

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October 14, 2008
Courtyard by Marriott Tremont Hotel
275 Tremont St
Boston, MA

Moving Together 2008. Bicycling and walking are becoming increasingly visible and important across the country as well as across the Commonwealth. The invited keynote speaker, Gabe Rousseau, Ph.D, National Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager for the Federal Highway Administration, will provide his timely perspective on current initiatives and trends. Based in Washington DC, Rousseau draws upon his extensive experience with the Federal government as well as work with the States. Moving Together’s workshops and exhibits feature up-to-date information that help you to improve bicycling and walking conditions locally, regionally and statewide.

The $40 conference registration fee includes a continental breakfast, refreshments, lunch, and conference materials. For registration information contact: Baystate Roads Program, tel: (413) 545-2604, or register on-line. Please note that registration is limited, so register early to secure your place.

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Broadway Bicycle School Gallery Opening

Come get your art on, WHILE getting your bike on. Broadway is run by some cool cats, and now they have some cool art to prove it.

Thursday the 12th is the Grand Opening of the new Door 3 Gallery at Broadway Bicycle School. A two artist show on the theme of bicycles.

Wine and Cheese will be available 7pm-830pm NOTE: the shop will be open for regular business at this time. Come on people wine AND cheese AND art AND bikes, pure win.

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Free Book Reading: Involves “Outlaw Bicyclists”

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Free Book Reading/Signing/Discussion- May 17th 7pm
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot
Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!
by Chris Carlsson (AK Press)

Lucy Parsons Center
549 Mass Ave.
www.lucyparsons.org

Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.

Nowtopia uncovers the resistance of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely defining themselves by what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of labor in their “non-work” time, creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The social networks they create, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.

The practices outlined in Nowtopia embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential. Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project “Shaping San Francisco,” is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. He has edited four collections of political and historical
essays. He helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, and was the longtime editor of Processed World magazine.

web site: http://www.chriscarlsson.com/

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Rush Hour In Copenhagen – Bikes Are Awesome

Sure as hell beats the rush hour in Boston. Were some of those people actually having friendly conversation?!? Was that a smile I saw!?! Are those people working out and having fun and commuting home all at the same time!!!

I am pretty sure they are having a good time. You could tell cause you could hear them, you know cause the horn symphony was turned off, and the roar of diesel engines was gone. Someday Boston… someday.

*to be clear, this is not some event, this is every day in this city, thousands of people use the bicycle as their main form of transport.*

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Bold Sprints March 2nd 6-9:30

Sunday March 2nd 6 to 9:30

BE THERE!

If you missed it the first time, be sure to get out and race at this one!

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