Bipedal, By Pedal 2: Confidential Mad Libs

Edited by Joe Biel
$4
64 pages

The long-awaited second issue of the Expozine Award Winning Bipedal, By Pedal. Last time around we got a social history lesson and evaluation of tactics about the Critical Mass bicycle activist movement. For this issue, editor Joe Biel collected legal documents pertaining to the Portland Police Department’s interest in the local Critical Mass movement dating back to 1993.

Portland is one of the best North American cities for cycling, yet Critical Mass is no longer riding in the Rose City. Biel shows once-secret police and court documents, obtained by Freedom of Information Requests, demonstrating that Portland’s Critical Mass was undermined by the police force in an organized campaign of intimidation and spy work.

As if that weren’t interesting enough, the documents are redone as Mad Libs.

This zine is a companion piece to Biel’s upcoming documentary, Aftermass: A Post Critical Mass Portland.