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Go By Bicycle #1 32 pages, 1/2 size, copied (3 oz) $1.50

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the dark side of car culture. He has a positive, upbeat, yet realistic attitude about showing people the value of riding bicycles and using alternative transit. This issue talks about how cities are built around car culture, London setting up fees for people who drive private cars into the city, information about oil shortages, and local public transit issues affecting us in Portland.

Go By Bicycle #2 32 pages, 1/2 size, copied (2 oz) $1.50

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the darkside of car culture. He has a positive, upbeat, yet realistic attitude about showing people the value of riding bicycles and using alternative transit. This issue talks about how cities are built around car culture, London setting up fees for people who drive private cars into the city, information about oil shortages, and local public transit issues affecting us in Portland.

Go By Bicycle #3 24 pages, 1/2 size, copied (2 oz) $1.50

Scott writes a smart, engaging zine about bicycle advocacy, bike culture, public transit issues, and the darkside of car culture. He has a positive, upbeat, yet realistic attitude about showing people the value of riding bicycles and using alternative transit. This issue talks about how cities are built around car culture, information about oil shortages/car inferiority, and local public transit issues affecting us in Portland. Cover by Juliette Torrez.

One of the sections makes a good point about when that guy got a permit for CM. All he wanted to do was make things better- "He did what he wanted. ... t's what Critical Mass is all about." Rose

Smiling Disease: A Guide to Public Stickering 16 pages, 1/2 size, copied (2 oz) $2.00

Have you ever dreamed of plastering the city with stickers of your own design and annoying the crap out of squares? Here is a your chance:

A complete guide to placing adhesive decorations in places where the general populace will see them. Everything from how to get the best stickers printed, to going undetected, some theory, stickering scruples, and dealing with the full psychological ramifications of having your stickers removed. Clear Channel posts their ads everywhere, why shouldn't you?

Stickers are the win! hrock

As the guy who wrote this zine, I'm glad to see people talking about it. It seems that when freedom of expression comes up, almost invariably people ... e either a conservative stance, saying that an authority should decide what is acceptable, or they take a tentative stance, saying that we should chill out and not say anything at all until we decide what is acceptable and what is not. I say just let everything be said no matter what the subject matter (except for some things which we should shield children from), and things will turn out ok as long as people don't organize themselves into groups and as long as they don't take any one issue so seriously that it will lead to violence. (Not to say some issues shouldn't be taken very seriously, though) If things were democratic, most people would just laugh at someone who put up swastika stickers, as an example. It would strike them as so absurdly funny because it would have no chance of ever catching on. The point of writing this zine, as i say at the end of it, is to encourage people to become rebellious in their own way, and that starts with freedom of thought, and freedom of thought can only happen when there are no right and wrong answers to questions, only discussion. The search for truth is always an act of rebellion because truth is a mortal enemy of heirarchies. scott

Invade what space, Zac? It's called a guide to "public" stickering. Public space should belong to everyone equally. If people put stickers or posters ... front doors or inside other people's houses that would be different. But public space should only be regulated in respect to safety. That's not to say some idiot who makes public space look like shit with tagging or something shouldn't be dissuaded from doing it. But it would be totally unlikely for someone to put up ugly tags if they felt like they were participating in democracy, and by democracy I don't mean punching a hole in a card every few years. Howard

Stickering is not necessarily less invasive than advertisements, but its intention is categorically different. It spells out a different paradigm ... side of commerce and outside of thinking of people as mere tools to attain and maintain the fulfillment of one's own personal monetary interests. In any democratically run environment, there will always be some runoff of useless ideas and even dangerous ideas. But in a democratically run environment, the dangerous ideas have a snowball's chance of surviving. The proper response to abuse of free speech is not supression, but more speech. People who talk too loud indeed can be annoying, so if they have the same position is society as everyone else, it is simple for people to put pressure on them to get them to shut up for the greater good. When the person who is talking too loud basically controls everyone else in the room, there is little anyone can do about it. that's the case with corporate advertising, and that's precisely why it's ok for clear channel to put up hundreds of thousands of billboards, but someone who puts up a sticker that's thousands of times smaller that a single billboard may serve jail time. This clearly shows what is acceptable in our society, namely, commerce. Don't get me wrong, i'm all in favor of commerce and a healthy economy, but not when only a few people control it. I think everything is worth saying, even if it is dangerous or stupid or insipid or offensive. but if it's said in a fascist environment, it will not get shot down, whereas if it's said in a democratic environment, it will always eventually get shot down. the main point is who decides if something said is valuable or not, a tiny handful of elite rich people, or the people at large. stickerer

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Sticker #224: All true literature is anti-war. If it is called literature and is pro-war, then it is propaganda 9" x 1.5", screenprint on vinyl (0.05 oz) $1.00

more like, all literature is propaganda... period. Anonymous

Just because you agree with a piece of lit. doesn't mean it isn't propaganda. rustynails

Sticker #225: Irritability means too much on your mind and not enough bike riding 9x1.5", screenprint on vinyl (0.05 oz) $1.00

A good reminder to myself wajumau

In need to sticker my bike so i need proverbs or captions for my bike.... Eg: Caution! Rider is Blind........... Plz send some captions to sticker ... bike... Thanks & regards Yuvaraj Yuvaraj

all I can say - So True! Andi

Sticker #226: Personal Freedom is threatened by respect for authority 9x1.5", screenprint on vinyl (0.05 oz) $1.00

You sit in school/work all day, not usualy doing what you want, because "they" say so. I don't consider that freedom. TheDisturbedOne

Sticker #232: Books and Bikes 9x2", screenprint on vinyl (0.05 oz) $1.00

Is that the bike rack outside of the Wicker Park library in Chicago? xrugratx

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