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FreeWheels News 2006
David Lee Roth
—Village Voice: Critical Mass Bike Trials: Is it Worth it?
—Newsday: Critical Mass Bicyclists Prevail in Permit Case
—Village Voice: Bikers Win One: Judge Nixes City Law on Parade Permits
—NY1: City's Parade Law Ruled Unconstitutional
—Utne Magazine: Freedom to Ride
2005
—Metro: Cyclists to City: Ease Up, August 26-28, 2005
—Time Out New York, October 27-November 2, 2005
—The Villager, Bicycling activists don’t take a summer vacation
—New York Times, Critical Mass Bicyclists Acquitted, (last item)
WFMU radio broadcast, June 11, 2005


—See FreeWheels featured on Bike TV's piece from
The City Reliquary's Bike Fetish Day.

FreeWheels in the Blogs / Gossip / &c.
judge tells city, critical mass can go on, Gothamist, February 17, 2006
bikeblog.blogspot, May 4, 2005
gothamist, May 1, 2005
bikeblog.blogspot, May 1, 2005
our mediated world, April 30, 2005
Stay Free!, April 30, 2005
gothamist, April 29, 2005
overstated.net, April 13, 2005
Big Apple Blog, April 11, 2005
Big Apple Blog , March 30, 2005
our mediated world, March 29, 2005
bikeblog.blogspot, March 26, 2005

Critical Mass News
—New York Post, opinion, February 20, 2006
Gothamist, February 19, 2006
—Columbia Spectator, court says city can't stop cyclists, February 16, 2006
—New York Times, city rebuffed in trying to bar mass bike rides, February 16, 2006
—NY1, judge denies request for premilimary injunction, February 16, 2006
—Village Voice, judge: city can't stop critical mass ride , by Sarah Ferguson,
—Free Metro, critical mass victory—judge: bike rides not parades [PDF], February 17, 2006
—New York 1, city denied request for injunction to stop critical mass bike rides, February, 16, 2006
—WNYC, critical mass wins court battle, February 16, 2006
—The Villager, Critical Mass bicyclist aids police hurt in collision, February 1, 2006
—Common Dreams:World Car-Free Network sends Legal Observers
—The Village Voice, Riding to the Rescue, August 29, 2005
—The Villager, At anniversary of Critical Mass crackdown, 48 arrests, August 31, 2005
—The Villager, Politicians chase votes, as police chase bicyclists, August 3-9, 2005
—Indymedia, Milwaukee cops take a lesson from the NYPD, July 30, 2005


New York Times, June 30, 2005

—FreeWheels Press Release, June 29, 2005.
—Moscow News, Moscow Police Break Up Critical Mass Cyclist Rally, June 13, 2005
—The Villager, Mass goes to church, senses grace period from police, June 1, 2005
—New York Times, Mass Bicycle Ride Leads to Few Arrests, May 28, 2005
—San Francisco Gate, GREEN Merging with Traffic, May 25, 2005
—The Indypendent, May 25, 2005
[download PDF]
—The Villager, Critical Mass tries new tactics, but not the police, May 4, 2005
—New York Times, About New York: Flouting Arrest on 2 Wheels, for the Monthly Crime of Pedaling Without a Permit, May 4, 2005
—New York Times, 34 Arrested in Bike Protest, May 2, 2005 (second item)
—NY1, More Arrests Made At Monthly Critical Mass Ride, April 30, 2005
—New York Times, At Least 18 Arrests Made in Tense Night of a Monthly Cycling Protest, April 30, 2005
—Community Board No. 2 Passes Resolution: Critical Mass is Constitutional,
April 21, 2005 [download (one page)]

—The Villager, With lawsuit and nets, city keeps chasing Critical Mass,March 30, 2005
—New York Times, New Complaints By Cyclists, March 28, 2005
City Wants To Limit Bike Protest, March 25, 2005
—The Villager, 14 arrested, as Critical Mass crackdown continues, March 2, 2005
—The Villager, Critical Mass gets ‘ride of way;’ injunction denied, December 29, 2004
—The Villager, Critical Mass to regroup for ride, September 15, 2004


Republican National Convention News
New York Times, July 7, 2005
New York Times, May 3, 2005

The House Judiciary Committee's Letter of Request
to the Justice Department Seeking Investigation into
Violations of First Amendment Free Speech and Assembly
Rights During 2004 Political Conventions
[download 62K PDF ]  

New York Times, April 26, 2005
New York Times, April 16, 2005
[Download New York City's RNC settlement]
[Download the press release from the NLG]
[Read the statement from the NYPD]
New York Newsday, April 15, 2005
Democracy Now, April 14, 2005
nyc.indymedia.org, April 13, 2005
New York Times, Opinion, April 13, 2005
New York Times, April 12, 2005
CNN.com, August 28, 2004
Boston Phoenix, April 9, 2004

Safety / Advocacy
Bike Sales Up! October 7, 2005
WNYC, June 16, 2005
New York Times, June 16, 2005 (Budnick's Revenge)


New York Press, April 6, 2005
(see person # 17)



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