[sustran] CAR BUSTERS #2 TO BE RELEASED

[Car Busters]

As long as we're publicizing our respective publications...

Randy Ghent 
(new listserve subscriber)

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CAR BUSTERS Magazine & Resource Centre
44 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon, France
tel.: +(33) 4 72 00 23 57; fax: +(33) 4 78 28 57 78
carbusters at wanadoo.fr

- Please DISTRIBUTE widely to those interested -

* Dear everyone: Please consider subscribing right away so we can mail you
issue #2 with the rest of the mailing at the end of the month. More
importantly, we still need 80 more subscriptions in the next three weeks to
put out the
same print run of issue #2. We're excited about the raving response to
issue #1, and issue #2 will be even better. Please help us make the
magazine succeed! *

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CAR BUSTERS #2 TO BE RELEASED
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"Car Busters is a great creation--fun to read, inspiring activist news,
scrappy attitudes and spot-on analysis."  - Earth Island Journal

In late June, an activist-editorial team in Lyon, France, will release the
second issue of CAR BUSTERS--a 32-page (to be 40-page) magazine critiquing
our society's "car culture" and exploring positive alternatives.

Jane Holtz Kay, author of Asphalt Nation, called issue one "lively,
engaging and informative." James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography
of Nowhere, called it "an excellent journal, which, I hope, will infect the
world with a great idea!"

Serving both as a information source and call to action, CAR BUSTERS
will provide the full range of content on the subject four times a
year--everything from direct action to cutting-edge research to cartoons
poking fun at the car manufacturing and oil industries. 

The goals: to maintain and build the international car-free movement,
publicize campaigns, facilitate international cooperation, inspire new
activists--and share information, ideas and resources within the movement.
The magazine maintains an international focus not only through its
reporting. It provides summaries of each article in five languages.

The CAR BUSTERS magazine and resource centre was launched by October's
successful "Towards Car-Free Cities" conference, also held in Lyon.

Those wishing to subscribe or assist the effort in any way can contact the
address below. Contributions are requested in the form of articles,
artwork, letters, subscriptions* and distribution help. The deadline for
submissions to the autumn issue (issue no. 3) is September 1. Please send a
small donation to receive a sample copy.

CAR BUSTERS Magazine & Resource Centre
44 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon, France
tel.: +(33) 4 72 00 23 57; fax: +(33) 4 78 28 57 78
carbusters at wanadoo.fr

* Subscriptions cost the equivalent of 82 francs or U.S. $17.50.
International postal orders are preferred, but the equivalent cash in major
European currencies and dollars is accepted. Checks accepted from France,
the U.S., Britain, Germany and Holland.

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*MAGAZINE REVIEWS*

---from Fact Sheet 5 (U.S.)

 -  Car Busters  -  For a World Without Cars
This exciting new zine encompasses so many critical issues of the car-free
movement. Born in Lyon, France as part of a 7-day conference, it has
extensive coverage of Europe and the world. While most articles are in
English, summaries are printed in French, German, Spanish, Russian, and
Esperanto. Taking a cue from the Londoners, France held its first Reclaim
the Streets party and rallied in support of car-free cities. Despite the
televised car-walking and flyers ("I walked over your car because I didn't
want to slide under it"), and the Day of the Dead mass demonstration that
tied up traffic, they seemed to get widespread support without people
calling them "radical." Then in Sydney, Australia, 750 cyclists took over
all 8 lanes of the Harbour Bridge. It's news like this that makes those
solitary bike commutes feel a little less lonely. In the open debate over
"Park and Ride" schemes, they give the pros and cons of this half-solution,
and present some surprising news of how it can increase traffic, or at
best, only deflect it to the countryside. Of course those free parking lots
are ideal for a quickie mart and as an excuse to cut other bus funding.
They also look at the social impact of driving with features on the
sexuality of automobiles, Westernization encouraging further car
dependency, and the positive economic impacts of a reduction in driving.
Beautiful layout, an unrivalled news section, and respect for non-English
speakers makes this one of my all-time favorites.   - Chris Becker


---from "Tubular Times" (San Francisco):

The first issue of France's Car Busters has just been released. It's an
amazing publication that features activist news from all over Europe and
the rest of the world. It's mostly printed in English, with many summaries
in French, Russian, and Esperanto. Among the dozens of reports, there are
stories on France's first Reclaim the Streets party, Sydney's Greenhouse
Mass that blockaded all eight lanes of the Harbour Bridge, and
Vancouver's fight for a car-free street.


---from Eco-Action/Earth First! France's newsletter

When a publication of quality comes out, you just have to talk about it:
Car Busters magazine is just that publication! All you have wanted to know
on current international actions (and in several languages) you'll find
here. This Lyonais journal is prepared by an international team of
activists, and gives a new perspective on a variety of subjects, linked
with traffic or not, and which affect our "Mother Earth." Wow! The editing
and layout are class, so subscribe now without delay (and, moreover, it's
not expensive).


---from A SEED Europe's "Roots" newsletter (Amsterdam):

* Who are you gonna call? Car Busters!*****
As is clear time and time again, transport problems are 
international, and need to be acted upon internationally. Therefore 
it's more than good to know that brand new transport activist 
quarterly magazine has evolved from the EYFA Lyon Car-Free Cities 
Conference of October 1997. It's called Car Busters, 32 pages, 
beautifully laid-out, and full of action news on cars and how to bust 
them (especially out of cities). The magazine is not only reporting 
on and calling for action, but also oriented towards alternatives. 
The Europe-wide (and beyond) focus is well-developed, and the 
five-language summary of articles definitely adds up to the Global 
Action Feeling that is so badly needed! So subscribe (20 ECO's until 
June 1st, 24 afterwards) and send all transport stuff before May 1st 
to Car Busters - 44 Rue Burdeau - 69001 Lyon FRANCE - tel: 
+33-47200-2357 - fax: +33-47828-5778 - email carbusters at wanadoo.fr 
Great cartoons too.


---from Maloka newsletter (Dijon, France):

Car Busters is a new magazine, the fruits of the international conference
"Towards Car-Free Cities" and the work of (among others) the former editor
of Auto-Free Times. Car Busters is also produced in collaboration with
EYFA, the goal is to provide a tool distributed on a large scale (5,000
copies) that assists the building of an international movement against the
car, publicize existing campaigns, facilitate communication between groups
and provide motivation and inspiration to newcomers in the marvelous world
of alternative transport. The result is so cool that it would almost pass
as a skateboarding magazine (especially the color cover with an urban
surfer on the roof of a car!!!), you will find several things about the
conference, an article on the sexualization of the car, the problems posed
by believers of the car in Eastern Europe, how to organise a street party,
etc., etc. The presentation with lots of photos and graphics is really
excellent and there are also articles in French and German, seeing that
it's international and all and all...