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• Comment by Ken on June 5th, 2006 at 1:27 pm:

  If I understand correctly, the next ride will leave from Central Park, as have the previous three regular Critical Masses this year (excluding the Charging Bison ride).

  I have a feeling the June 30th ride will be unmolested, as the police can’t afford to make themselves look even more foolish while high-profile community members are in attendance.

• Comment by tom on June 5th, 2006 at 1:34 pm:

  fucking elites. fuck them. but isnt a paragon a type of bird or something?

  there’s a 1-speed bike song called: “any movement that forgets about class is a bowel movement.” hahahhahahaha quite fitting for this topic. i love that critical mass remains class-less.

• Comment by C-Wipe on June 5th, 2006 at 1:56 pm:

  ken,

  the critical mass winnipeg site (http://members.shaw....nplease/critical.htm) indicates Old Market Square as the starting point. Has this changed for sure? Let us know.

  I hope you’re right about the cops, but without broad public outrage against their abuse of authority in addition to the their easy access to a compliant local media (both the Free Press and Canwest Global sponsored Guiliani’s “more cops, more crackdown” speech here in winnipeg), they can pretty much afford to do whatever they want i’m afraid.

• Comment by Ken on June 5th, 2006 at 4:24 pm:

  Yeah, I that site is providing confusing information. I’ve emailed them to ask them to change it. At the April ride I consulted others and it was agreed that Central Park will be the starting point from then until further notice.

  Perhaps there isn’t broad public outrage, I don’t have a clear sense. It’s hard to get the word out when the big media drop the story after a couple of days. I do know that two city councillors are planning to show up to the ride; it would be a media circus if they personally witnessed brutality.

  Uptown printed the phone number of a police officer who wants to “work for a solution to the problem” for June 30th. I left a message saying the solution is to let us ride! There was no problem until the police showed up; they blocked traffic far more than we were.

• Comment by Anthony on June 5th, 2006 at 9:00 pm:

  Fuck The Police-N.W.A.

• Comment by Sam on June 5th, 2006 at 9:57 pm:

  CRITICAL MASS CRITICAL MASS CRITICAL MASS CRITICAL MASS if your city doesnt have a CRITICAL MASS ride then start one.

• Comment by gertty on June 6th, 2006 at 12:12 am:

  wow fucking weird / scary.i’m gonna ramble incoherently as i vent and relax my bowels. obstruction of traffic this is fucking winnipeg, who cares about obstruction of traffic – where do people have to go? even if they had somewhere that was so-called important to go to, so what? do people get roughed up when traffic jams occur, should they? are we seriously not even allowed a token nearly unnoticable ripple of a protest to voice our opinion? we couldn’t vote on these issues ourselves so can we not participate in democracy some other way? what is the extent to our democracy? you’d pretty much have to be a political science student with alot of time, devotion and intellectual sources to get any know precisely whats going on with all the cigar smoke, veneer, masks complexities and contexts. I do maintain a high level of awareness not without effort and not without ill effects to my mood. I work, go to school, work a second job, work out and have a social life. All which society desperately wants me to have. Its nearly impossible to manage the current events and their global contexts without strain. In lieu of this strain i am faced with a few options. Ignore it all go with the flow, lube up my conscience whilst rocking back and forth in fetal-position with bulging eyes, doubt protesters and any checks and balences while applying cynisism ten-fold in relation to how i apply it to actual politicians. sacrifice my health for humane causes – for how or should i coach myself not to feel these disasters as though they were happening inside me? I do feel like the left is in dire straights. How can i jump headlong into the left when such confrontation and stalemate seem so permanent? How does the left operate within a exclusive money-centric planet with an economic plan that is so doubtful to so many.

  All i know is that people really really need to start listening to their conscience and to each other. And i would suggest that anything the left proposes necessarily has to included everyone from the haves to the knuckle dragging meatatarians. Everyone needs to study their asses off to these days i think and i think more cross disciplinary work should be undertaken. Dont leave your enemies enemies. fuck rhetoric everywhere unless it litterally illustrates your factual point. hug every muslim you see. I long for the abolition of money and the militaristic / environmental invitations to the appocylpse and some human fucking decency.
  sorry for the puddle of uselessness.

• Comment by gertty on June 6th, 2006 at 12:19 am:

  oh ya. i saw the propagandhi video and the interview. man crush alert wee ohhh weee ohhh those are sirens. not the same kind of siren that chris is though. seriously propagandhi is the only band the sends shivers through me without the need of heavy drugs, cold breezes or hypothermia. i just hope the accept, appreciate and consider criticisms from blah-fx. thanks for the therapy.

• Comment by Yaniv on June 6th, 2006 at 8:33 am:

  I’m afraid I can only articulate my feelings about all this charade with one single acronym; one, by the way, that Chris may certainly empathize with: M.D.C

• Comment by Kyle on June 6th, 2006 at 6:27 pm:

  Gertty: As a political science major who has no life, and, more importantly, a nerd who attends class religiously, the over-arching reason behind the insanity isn’t too difficult to understand. It all depends on how reductionist you want to be, I guess, but I’m going to blame neoliberal economics: Privatization, deregulation, and a desire to make more money regardless of the actual cost.

  Fucking war-profiteers!

• Comment by Phil on June 6th, 2006 at 6:53 pm:

  Unbelieveable. The police pulled the same kind fo stunt here in Montreal, and got one of the best all-ages venues shut down. Surprise surprise, this was one of the main venues for punk-rock shows and activist gatherings in the city.

  The police claim that a cab driver was assaulted, and they came to help and were attacked. Witnesses report that the alleged “cab driver” was a man in a business suit wearing sunglasses and an earpiece. They also say that no less than 50 police officers showed up for the 75 person crowd, and photographic evidence seems to confirm this.

  What the hell is going on in the world? Police state indeed. Critical mass is more than just a fight against our country’s oil addiction, it’s a full-blown act of contesting police authority. Let’s get on our bikes, skateboards, longboards, and rollerblades, and thumb our noses at this kind of treatment.

  Phil from Humanifesto.

• Comment by Mikel on June 7th, 2006 at 5:10 am:

  That was quite insane… If Winnipeg wants to mimic banana republics or brutal dictatorships, that’s the way to go…
  On a different note, when will we get more radio?

• Comment by mikea on June 7th, 2006 at 8:31 am:

  Undercover cops are the elite of scum.
  I have a hard-on everytime one of them gets discovered.
  Viva resistance! Viva cycling!

• Comment by gertty on June 7th, 2006 at 6:03 pm:

  hey…
  yeah i agree it’s easy to get your feet wet but with politics through reductionism but i can’t help but think this wont amount to much (even though we should still take at what we can get) but i think that reductionism coupled with personal interests is what fucks everything up and allows things to stay fucked up.

  anyway i was just posting because i thought it interesting / funny that greg graffins new solo project has memebers of the weakerthans in the line up. HA neat.

• Comment by Orest on June 7th, 2006 at 6:31 pm:

  I’ve set up a mailing list at Google Groups for public discussion/announcements pertaining to Critical Mass Winnipeg. I invite Critical Mass participants and supporters to subscribe and take part:

  http://groups.google...riticalmass-winnipeg

• Comment by nick on June 7th, 2006 at 9:29 pm:

  Those cops look like the biggest piece of shit excuse for human beings.

• Comment by D-Rock on June 9th, 2006 at 2:31 pm:

  Here is the latest. Aside from the work-hours meeting time, seems that they know they’ve stepped in it?

  The Winnipeg Police Service is proposing to meet with members of Critical Mass and concerned citizens in an effort to negotiate the groundwork for a peaceful ride on June 30th 2006 and rides there after.

  The writer is proposing an “in camera” meeting at an “off site” where we can hold an open discussion on future rides outlining the needs and concerns of both the participants of the ride and the Winnipeg Police Service.

  The previous events are the motivating factors for this negotiation but will not be the topic of discussion due to the pending legal matters.

  I have arranged for a conference room at City Hall for a meeting on 2006-06-16 at 2pm.

  I can be reached at 986-7386 or email at fmay [at] winnipeg [dot] ca.

• Comment by tom on June 9th, 2006 at 3:37 pm:

  PHIL FROM HEMANIFESTO!!!!!!!!!:

  yes, what happened at le el salon sucks, but werent the pictures of jaggi trying to run from the cops funny though?

  tom from some band that broke up years ago and sucked anyway.

• Comment by kevin on June 10th, 2006 at 2:08 am:

  what do they prove and achieve by being complete assholes this is the scum theres mass murders and “terrorists” building bombs to catch, leave the free to speak they are only doing something better for this planet

• Comment by TB on June 19th, 2006 at 6:12 pm:

  Odd because the police here in vancouver clear traffic for our critical mass rides and even ticket/arrest drivers and motorcyclists that try to break through the ride.

• Comment by Aaron on June 29th, 2006 at 9:47 am:

  One of the many points of critical masses here in Winnipeg is that were not a parade of cyclists, or that we are blocking traffic, the point is that we are traffic.

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