About 400 bicyclists and skaters drove through the city of Geneva to protest against the G8 summit. At 18 o`clock they startet at the river Rhone and went crisscross through the town. On the way they paint the new walls, which were built to defend business buildings, with graffitti, posters and so on. Everything stayed cool and except of a policehelicopter no cops have been seen.
Critical Maas is a form of protest to take back the streets. Originate from San Francisco in 1992 it spreat out through the states and the hole universe, too.
The name "Critical Mass" is taken from Ted White's 1992 documentary film about bicycling, "Return of the Scorcher". In the film, George Bliss describes a typical scene in China, where cyclists often cannot cross intersections because there is automobile cross-trafic and no traffic lights. Slowly, more and more cyclists amass waiting to cross the road, and when there is a sufficient number of them -- a critical mass, as Bliss called it -- they are able to all move together with the force of their numbers to make cross traffic yield while they cross the road