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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:42:42 -0700
From: Culture Jammers Network <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: WORLD CAR FREE DAY
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Jammers,
If you spent your summer choking on Interstate fumes as you tried to
find some scrap of wilderness to camp in, here are seven words to
lift your spirits:
September 21 is World Car-Free Day.
A future without cars is a tantalyzing prospect. A *day* without cars
is a glimpse of that future. Imagine: People walking, people smiling,
a man selling ice-cream. (Hold on a sec, we're having a '70s Chicago
flashback. There, it passed.) Certainly, there will be a measure of
silence, a measure of peace. Conversations will be heard. Desk
jockeys will get a little exercise. People will miss appointments
they didn't really need to make.
After experiencing a city without cars - or, more realistically, part
of a neighbourhood without cars - many folks will find it hard to
allow the traffic back the next day.
This is World Car-Free Day's inaugural year. Let's kick it off with
feeling. Download a poster at http://www.adbusters.org, organize a
rally or make a personal statement on foot, bike or bus. It matters.
Send your pics and stories to [log in to unmask]
Cheers from the staff and volunteers at Adbusters.
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D.J. McKnight
Room 107
Department of Geography
Roxby Building
University of Liverpool
Liverpool
L69 3BX
(0151) 794 6422
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