"The city of tomorrow will offer efficient public transport, but will be above all walk- and bike-friendly, for they are methods of transport that are fast (enough), fun, safe, healthy, ecological and cheap."
The M.A.V. collective
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About the Die-In
Understand
History
The Die-In is a symbolic, theatrical event (as a Sit-in or a Bed-In). In 1976, the collective Le Monde à Bicyclette (http://www.impacs.org/charities/Resources/monde) organized the first
Die-In in Montreal. This organization, carried out by Claire Morissette and Robert Silverman, with constant effort, militated for the cause of the pedestrians and the cyclists, especially on Montreal island. For the foreword of the book "Deux roues, un avenir", Robert Silverman described with emotion the atmosphere of this autumn day of of the year 1976.
Context
Every day, cyclist, pedestrians and motorists alike realize that the situation is getting constantly worse in our metropolis: the number of cars on our streets increase every year. In its Transport Plan, published earlier this year, the Tremblay administration seems to have a desire to change this tendency, but its acts are really not up to its It is urgent, for the health and safety of Montrealers, that we work towards a better future than the one that awaits us...
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Role-Play
A Die-In ask for its participants to mimic death at the intersection of two streets. Ketchup, bindings or other significant elements are welcome. We wish to commemorate the death and the wounds caused by all kinds of motorized vehicles. Theses represent thousands of montrealers and millions of people in the world annually.
What we want
- To feel less vulnerable when one circulates downtown.
- To commemorate a recent near-accident experience, wounds of a friend or even death of a close relation.
- To promote an ecological alternative.
- To protest against the vast occupation of the majority of our public and Community spaces by the motorized vehicles.
- To give back to the car its first role which is to assume long and difficult displacements in order to limit its excessive use.
We want to see several concrete measures which actually converge in a point: To rather give precedence to the human being than to the car in the urban development.
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Contact us
Communicate
For questions or to send comments, or to know what you can do to help:
write to us : info@dieinmtl.org.
Be assured that we will answer you as soon as possible.
