Christopher Stevens San Francisco Bike Messenger Association collection
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of flyers, posters and other ephemera related to the bike messenger community in San Francisco, from 2000-2010; includes materials for the ILWU Local 6 campaign to organize Express Network, 2000-2001; materials related to the Flash Messenger Service strike; scattered issues of Cognition, the newsletter of the San Francisco Bike Messenger Association, 2000-2010; and other bike messenger-related event flyers and leaflets collected by Stevens.
Dates
- circa 2000-2010
Creator
- Stevens, Christopher Scott (Person)
Availability
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives and Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Biographical Note
Chris Stevens was a San Francisco Bike Messenger Association (SFBMA) member and active messenger (bike and car) from 2000-2013, and volunteer organizer for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in 2000-2001. Chris co-founded independent messenger company Docket Rocket in 2001 after his employer Express Network Inc. (ENI) closed and fired all employees in 2001, rather than allowing them to vote in a scheduled union election under the auspices of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Chris closed Docket Rocket in 2014 and moved to Seattle to become a deckhand with Washington State Ferries, and is currently a member of ILWU's maritime division, the Inlandboatmen's Union (IBU).
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet ( (1 box))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection consists of flyers, posters and other ephemera related to the bike messenger community in San Francisco.
Arrangement
Collection arranged as received.
Location
Collection is available onsite.
Location
Vault: 09:08:E
Acquisition
Collection donated by Christopher Stevens in 2014.
Processing Information
Processed by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Creator
- Stevens, Christopher Scott (Person)
- Title
- Christopher Stevens San Francisco Bike Messenger Association Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alexandria Post.
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu