Next month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is sure to attract protesters who feel global leaders aren’t acting quickly enough. One group plans to make their point with a massive bicycle sculpture infused with the bodies of activists.
That alone seemed like something Portlanders could get behind. Then I read their rallying cry — “Put the fun between your legs” — and remembered how that slogan is commonly seen on t-shirts, stickers and patches made by Portland-based Microcosm Publishing.
Here’s a snip from a press release about the protest a reader sent me this morning:
“An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists’ bodies ‘Put the fun between your legs: Operation Bike Bloc’ is a collaboration between Climate Camp and art activist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
… Bike hackers, welders, activists, artists and engineers will team up to design the resistance machine in Bristol, UK. It will then be built and launched in Copenhagen as part of the Climate Justice Action mobilizations. The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance tool, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival. We invite you to put the fun between your legs and become the bike bloc.”
That sounds like something right out of the backyards of Portland’s many freak-bike builders.
Check out a video trailer of the Bike Bloc project below and visit FunBetweenYourLegs.info for more:
Any readers plan on being at COP15?
This is amazing. Plus the solidarity of the 350 actions – albeit a blip on our radar. I am very interested to see what unfolds in Copenhagen.
There is no such thing as “clean coal” & “the market” isn’t going to solve our CO2 problems. That’s what Obama & The United States of Privilege & Over-Consumption is possibly bringing to the table?!
People of the western world — Listen up! You can’t clean it up until you make a mess!