Benefit screening: "Still We Ride"

BENEFIT SCREENING: "STILL WE RIDE"
Elizabeth Press, Andrew Lynn and Christopher Ryan
2005, 40 minutes, DV., Total program time: ca. 90 minutes.
Friday July 8th 7 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at Second St.
(212) 505-5181

The producers of STILL WE RIDE and Anthology Film Archives present a benefit screening of this documentary on Critical Mass. Proceeds will benefit the legal defense of the New York City Bicycling Community.
On Friday August 27, 2004 in New York City, just days before the start of the Republican National Convention, 264 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and parading without a permit during the monthly bicycle celebration. Critical Mass began in 1992 in San Francisco and has since spread around the world to over 300 cities.
The August, 2004 crackdown in NYC was the beginning of an ongoing effort to suppress free assembly for group rides. The monthly cycle of arrests and bicycle seizures has forced the bike community into a legal battle with the city and politicized the very act of riding a bike.
A forty-five minute program of more light-hearted shorts will accompany the film.