PUT THE FUN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS: Become the Bike Bloc

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Everything we take for granted: the weekend, gay rights, contraception, women wearing trousers, the right to strike, to form a union, the abolition of slavery. Everything was won by disobedience, fought for by people who refused and resisted, claimed back from those in power. Their disobedience was a gift to our future.

Every form of rebellion we know, from protest marches to lock-ons, barricades to boycotts, factory occupations to street parties, super glue actions to climate camps was invented, dreamt up and designed. More often than not, by a small group of people huddled together, laughing and creatively conspiring with each other; engineering the art of resistance.

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Camp are plotting together to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen, during the UN climate summit in December. Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

Bike hackers, welders, climate campers, artists and engineers will be working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities: Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th 30th Nov.) and Copenhagen (4th- 18th Dec.) Come and take part, either designing and building the prototype in Bristol, putting together the real thing in Copenhagen or swarming with us on the day of civil disobedience on the 16th of December.

*Put the fun between your legs, become the bike bloc.*

For times and how to get involved:

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bikebloc@climatecamp.org.uk

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[shibbyshitegeist]

Thanks for positive feedback... I made the soundtrack for the film... doesn't have a name... Shibz x

[calitocalito]

I wish I had met anyone of the labofii when I was livin in UK. All your great ideas inspire me to do something about these great challenges of today!

[munchcrisps]

YEEAAA BOI!

[SupperStu72]

So true. If we had no civil disobedience. We would all be soldiers dying on foreign soils in the name of power and greed for those precious few that control all the wealth and politics. If you feel this world can be a better place you better get a little emotional about it and fight for it. Otherwise follow your orders and do what your told like other pathetic cowards. Their is so much wrong in this world you don't need to look far to find a noble cause. Don't let fear motivate you. Fools ar

[vkcelik]

hell yeah.. awsome

[kerniani]

Dont be afraid to spread the civil disobedience outside Copenhagen. You will be able to find support on most of Zealand, SO GO NUTS WITH THOSE SPRAYCANS!!

[mortenstyrer]

awesome! i have an old bike that you can have

[Rad1ka1]

Hope to see yall in copenhagen!

[xwildzerox666]

troubauk - Didn't the pink bloc actually get much futher than the black bloc at the Prague IMF protests in 2000? Maybe pink dresses aren't the way to go now, but we definitely need something more imaginative and militant than black hoodies.

[webcelt]

The hard thing is we never know what's going to work, and when something good happens, it's hard to know with certainty what made the difference.

[troubauk]

Dancing in front of the police will not bring any change...unless of course we use pink dresses!

[Usayd]

excellent video, well done