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The Committee for Full Enjoyment is a loose affiliation of radicals and agitators who have appeared in various configurations since the early 1990s, and later in the WTO protests in Seattle and the IMF-WB protests in DC in April 2000. More than 40 people have at one time or another participated, but lately a few have been working to promote the 10th anniversary of Critical Mass, the extraordinary monthly seizure of public space by bicyclists. Using the good graces of counterPULSE, a poster campaign was launched, featuring three stunning images created by Mona Caron, Hugh D’Andrade, and Beth Verdekal. Tubes of posters have been sent all over the world, even some hand delivered to Switzerland, England and Italy. (Critical Mass has exploded on the Italian scene since February of this year. Already there are vibrant rides in Mian, Turin, Rome, Bologna and smaller cities.) Posters have been put up since mid-summer around San Francisco and have made it to most major U.S. and Canadian cities too.
Chris Carlsson, one of counterPULSE’s reluctant directors and a regular Committee for Full Enjoyment stalwart, also finished editing a new book, Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration (AK Press, www.akpress.org). The posters and book are the most recent output of one wing of counterPULSE that we’ve begun calling the Radical Media Clubhouse. Other projects that have emanated from the same quarters (1095 Market St., Suite 210) over the years are Processed World magazine, Shaping San Francisco (public kiosks, CD-ROM, www.shapingsf.org, a City Lights book Reclaiming San Francisco), countless Critical Mass xerocratic missives, Committee for Full Enjoyment flyers and postcards ("Life Not Trade" and the "DebtWipe Card"), and a host of ad hoc signs, posters, and other scurrilous radical media publications.
If you have a project in print or electronic media for which you need help, advice, or resources, contact Chris at 415-626-2060. While we can’t promise that we’ll be able to help, we often can, and it is our mission to flood the streets with beautiful, edgy, poignant and cutting edge expression.
-- counterPULSE calendar, Fall 2002
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