10/10
The story of spontaneous, grassroots protest cycling rides in Vancouver, story of the people living in traffic apartheid.
1 May 2013
You Never Bike Alone, an impressive film written and directed by Robert Alstead, sends the important message that "freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently" (Rosa Luxemburg). It tells us the story of a cycling minority rebellion in Vancouver, the story of critical mass rides: spontaneous, grassroots organized protest cycling rides; rides of the people living in traffic apartheid. If there is anything we can call direct democracy, than it is the right to share the public space: what the city streets and roads actually are. Following the narrative of cyclists' fight for equity on the roads and public space itself, we just cannot remain untouched. Cyclists, who offer even their naked bodies to block motorized vehicles, announce their vulnerability to politicians and all others, that they don't want to be perceived as the Other, that they are not an obstacle on the street, but are flesh and bone humans, with a basic human right to share the public space equally: they do not disturb the traffic, they are the traffic.
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