Visual Resistance

This Sunday, Time’s Up! will be leading a memorial ride for the twenty-one bicyclists killed on the streets of New York in 2005. The rides will cover all five boroughs of the city and will pass ghost bikes for bicylists killed by cars. Visual Resistance will be installing a number of new ghost bikes for cyclists killed in the past year whose names have only just been made public. We will also be installing a memorial for the eight cyclysts whose names are unknown to us at the present time.

The police department and Department of Transportation are highly selective about the information they make available to the public. We know that 21 bikers were killed in 2005, but we have only been able to track down information on 13 deaths. Tragically, we are unable to honor the remaining 8 deaths by name. The tragedy of each loss is compounded by its coverup. In creating ghost bike memorials, we wish only to do a nice thing for the stranger who could be us. Sadly, the city bureacracy won’t allow this remembrance.

So, Sunday we honor them all together. We will gather at 1pm in five different locations around the city, and meet up in Manhattan. The full details and locations are available on the Time’s Up website. See you there.

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