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Free mass bike ride through the heart of Brighton & Hove

Celebrating cycling and promoting a fun, healthy, sustainable alternative to petrol-dependant transport.

Bring bikes, lights and noise!

The ride meets at the Level on the last Friday of every month at 6pm.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/33391/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/33391/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/33391/#comments 50.8419 -0.1335 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:09:22 -0700 2006-02-24T17:09:22-07:00 Critical Mass Brighton bike ride 2009-07-31T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ The Level Union Road Brighton & Hove Brighton BN2 3FX United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ DATE, TIME AND DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED...

Every June, in cities around the world, people ride bikes naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency.

Be there, as bare as you dare!

2010 will see the fifth annual Brighton ride, following its massive success in 2009 when 700 people rode through the heart of the city.

Planning meetings to discuss the ride's organisation and promotion will be held monthly prior to the event, between January and May.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/46171/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/46171/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/46171/#comments 50.8419 -0.1335 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:39:27 -0700 2006-03-23T07:39:27-07:00 Brighton Naked Bike Ride 2010 2010-06-13T12:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ The Level Union Road Brighton & Hove Brighton BN2 3FX United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/11221/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/918301/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/918301/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/918301/#comments 40.4558 -79.9981 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:33:31 -0700 2008-07-19T20:33:31-07:00 Netroots Nation 2009-08-13 2009-08-16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/30845/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/30845/ David L. Lawrence Convention Center 1000 Fort Duquesne Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15222 United States http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/30845/
The parade, an annual non-profit educational and cultural event is always held on the Saturday before the anniversary of Marcus Garvey's August 17th birthday. Marcus Garvey used culture as a tool to empower people and encouraged the growth of Black institutions.

So come to the historic Black neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Saturday, August 15th 2009 and celebrate this legendary freedom fighter's birthday by participating in and watching the 10th Annual Universal Hip-Hop Parade.

Your presence and participation is what makes the celebration fun, exciting and successful!
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1211537/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1211537/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1211537/#comments 40.6925 -73.9399 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:26:15 -0700 2008-10-12T16:26:15-07:00 Universal Hip Hop Parade 2009-08-15T15:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/46351/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/46351/ Marcus Garvey Boulevard at De Kalb Avenue 167 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Brooklyn New York 11216 United States http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/46351/ "We Are Ready New: Media and creativity to transform our selves and our world"
July 16-19, 2009
Detroit, Michigan

The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.

Be a part of it at www.alliedmediaconference.org
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2411477/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2411477/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2411477/#comments 42.3738 -83.0778 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:46:07 -0700 2009-04-13T06:46:07-07:00 Allied Media Conference 2009-07-16 2009-07-19 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/896/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/896/ Wayne State University north of Warren Ave., west of the Lodge Freeway. Detroit Michigan 48202 United States http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/896/
At BarCamp Transparency we'll be talking about ways to improve transparency in government and commerce, including Internet activism, social media and technology solutions. If you're interested in a more open and democractic society, we'd love to have you there. Attendance is free: just bring your ideas.

Barcamp Transparency UK is a Barcamp style event run along the rough lines of transparencycamp.org.

This is a FREE event and the venue has plenty of space. In order for us to get an idea who is coming and so we can contact you with further details we will be releasing tickets on Eventbrite.

Visit http://barcamptransparencyuk.eventbrite.com/ to get yours!

For those who are unable to attend we are also running a virtual event, details can be found here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2988465/
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The ride gathers at the plaza starting at 5:30. We usually head out closer to 6 for a ride that usually goes for half an hour to an hour. The route of the ride can be different every month, usually just made up along the way.

Newcomers are always welcome.

Please bring noisemakers - whistles, bells, etc.

Look for folks just hanging out with their bicycle in the plaza when you arrive. Please don't hesitate to ask someone: "hey, are you here for critical mass?"

(Yes, the rides go on all year - regardless of weather.)
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The ride gathers at the plaza starting at 5:30. We usually head out closer to 6 for a ride that usually goes for half an hour to an hour. The route of the ride can be different every month, usually just made up along the way.

Newcomers are always welcome.

Please bring noisemakers - whistles, bells, etc.

Look for folks just hanging out with their bicycle in the plaza when you arrive. Please don't hesitate to ask someone: "hey, are you here for critical mass?"

(Yes, the rides go on all year - regardless of weather.)
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2976152/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2976152/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2976152/#comments 50.963 -113.9077 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:37:22 -0700 2009-06-22T15:37:22-07:00 Calgary Critical Mass Bike Ride — August 2009-08-28T17:30:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/7683/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/7683/ Eau Claire Plaza 101 - 3 Street SW Calgary Alberta Canada http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/7683/
At BarCamp Transparency we'll be talking about ways to improve transparency in government and commerce, including Internet activism, social media and technology solutions. If you're interested in a more open and democractic society, we'd love to have you there. Attendance is free: just bring your ideas.

This is a virtual event for those who are unable to attend our main offline event on the 26th.

Our main avenue is the event friendfeed account here:

http://friendfeed.com/barcamptransparency

We have prepared three virtual rooms for you to discuss issues related to:

1. open government - http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09opengoverment
2. cyber-activism - http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09cyberactivism
3. social media ethics - http://friendfeed.com/ff-bct09socialmediaethics

We will be there and hoping you will join us!

We are using #bct09 for all conversation on all platforms.

This is a FREE event, however in order to control numbers (which are limited) we will be releasing tickets on Eventbrite.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2988465/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2988465/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2988465/#comments 55.0125 -5.9894 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00:45 -0700 2009-06-23T10:00:45-07:00 Barcamp Transparency UK (Virtual) 2009-07-24T19:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/579059/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/579059/ http://friendfeed.com/barcamptransparency N/A N/A United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/579059/
"Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"

Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71755
phone order: 800-838.3006
Independent Bookstores: Pegasus Solano, Pegasus Shattuck, Pendragon, Moe's, Diesel, Walden Pond, Modern Times
$10 advance, $12 door, benefits KPFA Radio
Information: www.kpfa.org/events or 510.848.6767x609
Chris Hedges writes a weekly column for www.Truthdig.org that is published every Monday. He is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and has reported from more than 50 countries, while working for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He currently writes for Harper's, New York Review of Books, Granta, Mother Jones, and Foreign Affairs. The author of the best selling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - Hedges received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is the author of "American Fascists," a book on the Christian right, and "I Don't Believe in Atheists". In 2007 he famously debated Christopher Hitchens in Berkeley on "Is God Great?" - massively viewed on YouTube.
Media contact: ken@kpfa.org 510.967-4495

$10 advance, $12 door.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2989066/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2989066/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2989066/#comments 37.8788 -122.265 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:37:20 -0700 2009-06-23T20:37:20-07:00 Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion:End of Literacy,Triumph of Spectacle 2009-07-20T19:30:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/18464/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/18464/ The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St. Berkeley California 94709 United States http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/18464/