Norman Siegel
Civil Rights Attorney, Candidate for Public Advocate 2005

Norman began his civil rights career with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Southern Justice & Voter Law Project in 1968, following his graduation from Brooklyn College and New York University Law School.

As Executive Director of the NYCLU (1985-2000), Norman was involved in some of the City’s most critical civil rights and civil liberties struggles.

As a contributor to the City’s major papers—the New York Times, Newsday, the Daily News, and the Amsterdam News—Norman has enriched the public debate on civil rights, race relations, and civil liberties. Demonstrating his commitment to engage NYC’s youth in public affairs, he co-taught a class-“Civil Rights and Race Relations”-at his alma mater, New Utrecht High School, from 1989 to 2002. For more than 25 years he has served on the board of directors of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and he is a founding board member of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

Trudy Mason
Democratic State Commitee Member, Advisor to C. Virginia Fields for Mayoral Campaign

Trudy Mason is the Democratic state committeewoman from the 73rd Assembly District. She is also a member of the New York City Transit Riders Council and an advisor to the Virginia Fields for Mayor campaign.

Billionaires For Bush

Billionaires for Bush is a grassroots network of corporate lobbyists, decadent heiresses, Halliburton CEOs, and other winners under George W. Bush's economic policies. Headquartered in Wall Street and with over 60 chapters nationwide, we'll give whatever it takes to ensure four more years of putting profit over people. After all, we know a good president when we buy one. See more at www.billionairesforbush.com.

Rude Mechanical Orchestra

The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a New York City-based radical marching band that infuses political action with celebratory energy and music. We formed before the April 2004 Women's March in Washington D.C. and subsequently focused our organizing energies on the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Since the RNC, we've continued to make noise in the street of New York. Our multicultural repertoire ranges from klezmer to turkish discos to Indian folk songs to Fishbone to Bollywood. Look for us at political actions, benefits, and other local happenings.

We love to support events that create social change and foster community development. To recruit us for your cause, e-mail us at rmo@riseup.net. See you in the streets!

Kelly Moore
Sociologist, Bike Commuter, Ranter

Kate Crane
Journalist/Activist

Tim Doody
Environmental Activist

Donna Lieberman
Executive Director
New York Civil Liberties Union

Donna Lieberman has been Executive Director of the NYCLU since December 2001. She served as Interim Director for nearly one year and before that she was Associate Director from the beginning of her tenure at the NYCLU in 1988. Concurrent with being Associate Director, in 1990 she founded and led the NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project.

New York Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York NY 10004
212-344-3005
fax 212-344-3318

Bill Weinberg

Bill Weinberg is the host of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI. Bill is also a writer and journalist, author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso, 2000), and editor of the electronic weekly World War 3 Report.

Reverend Billy & The Church Of Stop Shopping Choir

Come hear Reverend Billy preach, the choir sing and the spirit be raised. Thus says the Reverend:

"AH, THE LULLABY OF EVIL! You think the air in the city is polluted? The air in the city is agog with lurid painted eyes and that's fine, but then there's the part of my brain that needs a rest to have an original thought. What's that? Up there on that great wall above me? IS THAT ANOTHER UNASKED-FOR SECONDARY EROGENOUS ZONE? Amen... Oh is it the 40 foot tall cost-effective, wholesale UMA THURMAN? Uma with a vengeance. And oh, I am a sinner. And yes, my desire is in league with Uma, my desire turns on me, desires me like a predator, then hates me, then is bored with me and dumps me and I am left gaping anonymously on the curb with a mental erection. I can’t move. I need Vaseline just to cross the street.

LET US PRAY. We ask the God-That-Is-Not-A-Product. We ask the Goddess-Who-Swims-In-The-Part-Of-The-Sky-Not- Yet-Slapped-With-Plastic-Logos -- is it possible that The End of the World has come and gone unnoticed? We are feeling strange. It is the Time of Dullness. Give us a sign. Amen."

Stanley Aronowitz

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, and author and editor of over 20 books. He was the Green Party's New York State gubernatorial candidate in 2002. His latest books are How Class Works (Yale 2003) and Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of Jobless Recovery (Temple 2005). He is the Managing Editor of a new journal, Situations: A Project of Radical Imagination. (travel schedule permitting)

Adam Purple

Activist icon of the Lower East Side, creator of the world-renowned community garden, Garden of Eden

Kit Bland

Founding Member of Freewheels, an advocacy group for arrestees dedicated to providing the resources necessary to fight New York City's attack on the civil rights of bicyclists and assisting those arrested, ticketed, or harassed for bicycling.

Contact: Kit Bland (347) 675-4660
webmaster@bicycledfensefund.org

Aresh Javadi

Aresh Javadi, co-founder of the More Gardens! Coalition, a group of community people, gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists who promote the development and preservation of community gardens.

Ben Mauer

Ben Mauer is from the War Resisters League

Freewheels

FreeWheels is a non-profit organization started by Critical Mass bicyclist-arrestees. They are dedicated to providing the resources necessary to fight New York City's attack on the civil rights of bicyclists and assisting those arrested, ticketed, or harassed for bicycling.

FreeWheels is a volunteer-run advocacy group for arrestees who provide arrestees with resources, information and support in defending their Constitutional Rights.

FreeWheels is urging all RNC and Critical Mass arrestees to attend the Still We Speak! rally.

Contact: Kit Bland (347) 675-4660
webmaster@bicycledfensefund.org

Matthew Roth

Matthew Roth has been an avid Critical Mass participant for the last year. He and three other activists are now being sued by the City of New
York and the City Parks Department for participating in and talking about Critical Mass. Mathew works for the Norman Siegel for Public Advocate campaign.

Jeff Fogel

Jeff Fogel is the Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The CCR is currently calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to conduct a full, independent and public inquiry into the role of high-ranking U.S. officials in the abuse and torture of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and elsewhere around the world.

Gale Brewer

Council Member Gale A. Brewer has been representing the Upper West Side and Clinton in the New York City Council since 2002. Brewer chairs the Committee on Technology in Government, she was selected to co-chair the Manhattan Delegation, and also sits on the Council's Steering Committee and the Budget Negotiating Team. Brewer has been instrumental in passing numerous laws, including legislation protecting domestic workers, a bill establishing an electronic death registration system, two bills aimed at eliminating graffiti and unwanted stickers, and legislation requiring city publications to be made available via the Web.

Brewer has received numerous awards for her service on over two dozen neighborhood and nonprofit boards. In 2001 she was cited by the Daily News as "One of 50 New Yorkers to Watch." She has taught urban policy at Barnard, Baruch, Brooklyn, Hunter, and Queens Colleges. Gale has an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and did her undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College.

Margarita Lopez

New York City Council Member Margarita Lopez represents the Second Councilmanic District in Manhattan.

Council Member Lopez was elected to the City Council in November of 1997 and re-elected in November 2001. She is a member of the Contracts, Environmental Protection, Finance, and Higher Education Committees. In January, 2002, she was named Chairperson of the newly formed Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services.

Margarita has served on the MacArthur Foundation's Advisory Committee on Mental Illness and the law, and has been associated with the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mentally Ill and has contributed to publications dedicated to working with this population.

In 1994, Margarita was awarded a Charles A. Revson Fellowship by Columbia University. She also received the Fannie Lou Hamer Award for her work toward racial and women's equality. She has served on the boards of the Astrea and North Star Foundations and helped form the Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment, (PRIDE).

Leah Rorvig

Leah Rorvig has been an avid Critical Mass participant for the last year. She and three other activists are now being sued by the City of New York and the City Parks Department for participating in and talking about Critical Mass. She finds the irony of the New York City Parks Department suing a group of environmental activists just thrilling. A graduate of Columbia University, Leah is a media liaison for the environmental group Time's Up! and works full-time at the Drug Policy Alliance, the nations' leading organization working to end the war on drugs.

Keith Crandell
October 7, 1927 - May 28, 2005

Keith Crandell reads the Community Board 2 resolution in support of NYC cycling and by extension, critical mass, at the April rally