page_title: Time's Up!
section_title: 2000s and beyond
hierarchical_section_title: Time's Up! / History / 2000s and beyond
caption_attribution_description: English: Time's Up! Bike Repair Class in Williamsburg
context_page_description: Time's Up! Environmental Organization was founded in 1987 to help educate New Yorkers about environmental awareness. One of its main focuses is to promote non-polluting transportation, by advocating biking. Among other activities, Time's Up! helped found New York City's Pedicab industry, and takes an active role in maintaining community gardens. Recent initiatives include supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
  Time's Up! is run completely by volunteers, currently with over 150. Time's Up! also has a video documentary team. Dr. Michael Nash, the director of Tamiment Library, wrote: “Time's Up has been at the center of a new generation of activist politics in New York."
context_section_description: In 2004, Time's Up! hosted the Bike National Convention. Also in 2004, Time's Up! helped launch a bicycle co-op in downtown Manhattan in space donated by Steve Stollman. The co-op offered workshops 5 nights a week showing riders how to repair their bicycles in a skilled share format.
   This indoor space also housed a video-editing studio, puppet/prop making, offices, weekly educational movie nights, and eco-seminars.
  
  In 2005, Time's Up teamed up with Visual Resistance to begin the white Ghost Bike Project. Ghost bikes are memorials placed at sites of accidents involving bicycles. In 2006, Time's Up! campaigned in defence of New Yorker's First Amendment Rights. Part of these rights are the freedom of speech and public assembly. Included in that are the rights to protect bicyclists riding together in a group and the growth of the Pedi-cab movement. Time's Up's first amendment lawyer, Norman Siegel, the NYC Bar association, and the National Lawyers Guild helped out with this campaign.
  In 2008, Time's Up! opened its Manhattan space, located at ABC NoRio community center on 156 Rivington Street. The Brooklyn space on 99 South 6th Street opened in 2010. 
  
  In 2011, Times Up! stepped up their efforts on education and direct action towards renewable energy by pointing out the harmful effects of fossil fuels and nonrenewable energy sources. They began a partnership with Viridian Energy, a wind power company. They campaigned against  nuclear power. In one campaign, they worked with Clearwater Environmental Organizations to focus on shutting down the Indian Point power plant. Later in the year, Times Up! at the Brooklyn location created its own mechanical energy using energy bikes. Volunteers designed these bikes to generate electricity. 
  Also in 2011, Times Up! helped create educational materials on environmental issues as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As the movement continued, people living in Zuccotti Park needed their bikes to be repaired. Time's Up! brought tools and parts to hold free fix-your-bike workshops. 
  One of Time's Up's events is the annual Occupy Fountain Ride. The fourth annual ride was held in 2012. Time's Up! utilizes privately owned public spaces such as Zuccotti Park that contain fountains by swimming in them.
  In 2012, Time's Up! helped launch an innovative museum in New York City's Lower East Side called the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS). MoRUS is a living archive of the Lower East Side's squats and community gardens. It will display photographs, posters, underground newspapers etc. to show how local residents cleaned up vacant lots and buildings and created organized spaces for the community. The museum's tentative opening date is late July 2012. 
  Time's Up! is helping fundraise for the museum by spreading the word through documenting the construction process. Also in 2012, Time's Up introduced the 1000 Dutch-Style Bike Program, refurbishing used city-friendly bicycles to promote environmentally friendly transportation.
caption: Time's Up! bike repair class in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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