Links #5: Bike caravan, Ban on Abortion, Ban on Gas-Powered Cars, Cycling Diary, Velocipedia

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. DIY micro mobile home Mass Mobilization Against the Ban on Abortion in Poland The Netherlands Will Ban New Gasoline-Powered Vehicles By 2025 Cycling in the north: Travel diary of a cycling trip in the north of Germany and in Denmark Velocipedia: 3D models of bike sketches that people have drawn

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Biketour in Stockholm

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the 21st of August 2015, the Biketour arrived in Stockholm. Our sleeping place was meant to be Kulturhuset Cyklopen, a cultural centre in the south of Stockholm. Arriving there, it turned out that there was not really a lot of space to sleep, so we decided to only spend one night there and have a look for new sleeping opportunities for the other 4 nights…

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Links #4: Blocking a Pedestrian Crossing, Consensus, Białowieża Forest Logging, Unusual Bikes

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Random guy shows car driver how a pedestrian crossing really works! Beyond ‘Consensus’ decision making (written by a former Biketour participant) Poland approves large-scale logging in Białowieża forest, one of the only original forests left in Europe. The Biketour will cross it on the way from Warsaw to Minsk. Cycling scarecrow Artist rides dinosaur bike across Norwegian Bible Belt  

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Biketour in Uppsala

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The discussion about how many days and when exactly to go to Uppsala almost lasted longer than our actual stay there, but in the end we decided to stay for two nights, but spend the second night a bit further in the direction of Stockholm so that we wouldn’t have problems making it to the Anarchist Bookfare two days later. We had gotten a request by…

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Learning about the roots of the Biketour at Färnebo folkhögskola

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On August 17, the Biketour visited Färnebo folkhögskola, a folk high school in Österfärnebo, about 150 km north of Stockholm. Folk high schools are a Scandinavian concept of people’s education, where people have the opportunity (usually between finishing school and starting university) to do a one-year course about a subject of their choice (read more here). Färnebo folkshögskola is, by what people have told us, the…

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Biketour visiting Permakultur Stjärnsund

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Stjärnsund (pronounce: Shairnsoond) is a small village of about 430 inhabitants somewhere half-way between Oslo and Stockholm. The Biketour stayed there for two nights in the middle of August. Originally an industrial village that started to slowly be abandoned because of people moving to the cities, a lot of Hippies moved there during the 70s and started to live in communes. As part of their spiritual connection…

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Wild-camping in Norway: Woken up by the Vikings

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first night after Oslo, we wild-camped somewhere far off the road in the middle of the forest on a lake. In the morning, the Vikings came and had a fight in between our tents.

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Biketour in Oslo

Przepraszamy, ten wpis jest dostępny tylko w języku English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. In the beginning of August, the Biketour stayed in Oslo for 4 full days. It was half-time for the tour, and more than half of the group left, but the same amount of people joined. We stayed at Blitzhuset, a famous anti-fascist squat and social centre. Blitzhuset is open as a volunteer-run vegan café almost every day, and the money earned is donated to political groups in different…

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