Thread: 'The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest'
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Old 06-11-20, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Arthur Peabody
'Bicycles take over Flatbush Ave. during a protest.
'Bicycles are powerful things--inexpensive, versatile tools that can be used by dissenters to sneak up and speed off, to organize and mobilize and elude.'
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...cle-of-protest
Why would you need to "sneak up" and what would you have done to need to "speed off"?

I grew up during the later 60s and we protested and stayed to get arrested.
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