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Fear and Loathing the World Naked Bike Ride
It happens every year. In metropolises the world over from London to Chicago to Cork to Mexico City, tens of thousands of in-the-buff bicyclists swarm the streets wearing barely a stitch for the World...
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Love and Cherishing the World Naked Bike Ride
Last week, Rebel Metropolis took a look at the haters trolling online coverage of Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride. Every year, these self-righteous naysayers infest the interwebs with their...
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Kids These Days: Climate Conscious & Car-Free
While observing the reporting on America’s decline of car use for many years now, what stands out is the market-based viewpoint, often claiming GenX/Y/Millenials are simply cogs in a system temporarily...
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Le Tour de Gentrification: a Serious Fucking Bummer, but also Beer.
I used to live in a run-down shack of a house on the corner of SE 50th and Lincoln built as a general store in the 1920s. The floors were all uneven, there were drafts everywhere, and the kitchen was...
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Better Block PDX Pops-Up Plaza at 26th & Clinton: VIDEO
People belong in the street. For generations, the through-ways between urban structures were the gathering places of society. Streets were where we shopped, conversed, laughed, watched one another....
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Critical Mass returns to Portland
Critical Mass returned to Portland last Friday, and by the accounts of those in attendance, not a moment too soon. While mass thrives in cities all over the world, Portland, Oregon hasn’t seen this...
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July 4th and a Celebration of Cycling
“On this July 4th, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be...
View ArticleLiberals and their Love of Law Enforcement
Growing up I’d always thought of being Liberal as a virtue. During the last Bush administration, it was liberals who were anti-war, who marched for peace, who demanded action on global warming, who...
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Bike Swarming for a Free Palestine
A massacre is happening in Gaza right now, and the people doing the killing are Israeli occupation forces. To date, 802 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including over 190 children. More than...
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Police Worry Girl In Park Might Get Kidnapped, Do It Themselves, Arrest Mother
The above headline might sound sensationalist. There’s a few other less alarming versions out there. Possibly due to recent world events rightfully dominating the news, this story didn’t garner nearly...
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Be Proud Americans Still Know How to Riot
Michael Brown was murdered by the police in Ferguson, Missouri this week. He was shot ten times in cold blood, his teenage body left lying in the street for over three hours. As an outraged community...
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Portland Solidarity March for Ferguson: PHOTO ESSAY
Last Thursday saw rallies, marches and actions taking place in over 90 cities across the United States in solidarity with the unfolding events in Ferguson, Missouri. While the situation is ongoing,...
View ArticleHow Can You Blog About Bikes at a Time Like This?
How anyone can blog about bikes these days astounds me. Obviously, bikes consume my life, as they should yours. If you live in the city, this city, then you know why. All bikes, all funs, at all times....
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BDS Targets G4S Prison Profits In Portland
Today, activists with the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement staged a protest at the local office of G4S, a private prison and security firm, in opposition to their operation of apartheid prisons...
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Bike Touring ‘Forest for the Trees’ with the Portland Street Art Alliance
As part of the 2014 ‘Forest for the Trees‘ mural-making festival, the Portland Street Art Alliance hosted a casual bike tour of works in progress. Thanks to legal hurdles blocking most public murals...
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Bike Loud PDX Lauches, Reclaims SE Clinton St.
A new bicycling brigade calling itself Bike Loud PDX has launched, and their inaugural ride has proven very much in line with the tactics and goals of protest rides from years past. Having come...
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A Gift for Jeff Merkley and Cory Booker
Something’s always troubled me about the attitudes and discourse in the US regarding Israel’s ongoing crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank - how otherwise caring, intelligent people...
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Portland’s Morrison Bridge Honored with Flag of Palestine
A curious trend has been developing in Portland, Oregon. Denizens here are developing a continued and sustained sense of solidarity with the plight of the people of Gaza and the West Bank, despite...
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Labor Day of Rage: Portland Streets Shut Down for Ferguson
Answering a national call-out by Ferguson organizers to fill the streets with marchers similar to solidarity actions carried out in Washington DC this weekend, Portland organizers were quick to set up...
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Where’d All the Angry Cagers Go?
Seriously. Where did the raging cagers go? It’s been a year since I published this blog’s highest viewed post, in which I fell slightly short of a full on rant against the sociopathic behavior of...
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