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DESCRIPTION:Bike the SF Shoreline! Get your bikes ready for underwater pedaling! Pull 
 out your floaties and snorkel masks! \n\nWe are riding on one of many 
 future shorelines of San Francisco to dramatize the inevitable rise in 
 oceans and the subsequent inundation most coastal cities face due to 
 catastrophic human-induced climate change. As we approach the December 
 global climate summit in Copenhagen, we ride in solidarity with thousands 
 of others around the planet, demanding real action—not bogus 
 market-oriented, cap-and-trade, smoke-and-mirrors inaction. Drastic 
 reductions in carbon emissions are a straightforward and urgent necessity, 
 and will not be achieved by auctioning off the last true commons, our 
 skies.\n\n \n\nWe bicycle, too, to demonstrate one of the many ways we can 
 change our daily lives towards a just world that provides a good life to 
 everyone as a matter of right. Because addressing the climate involves the 
 way we live as much as it does planet-wide agreements on technology and 
 public policy. The failure of the U.S. to enact strict federal rules to 
 promote clean, green technologies and restrict, reduce and eliminate 
 dinosaurs like coal, oil and nuclear is paralleled by a failure of 
 imagination among activists here. Too many of us think we can solve the 
 ecological crisis by recycling more, or shopping responsibly. Our 
 individual behaviors ARE important, but they are far from sufficient.\n\n 
 \n\nSo join us in raising the temperature of public pressure. Start 
 changing how you live by using less energy, water, and resources. But 
 industrialized food production, a car-centric transit system, oil 
 dependency, and a long list of bad technological choices cannot be solved 
 by good shopping. They require a sudden, dramatic, and forceful shift at 
 the national and state levels. This inevitable shift cannot be made at the 
 expense of those who have already been left behind or left out, subjected 
 to polluting factories, toxic waste dumps, power plants, and incinerators. 
 We can create a healthy, prosperous life for everyone, not just in the Bay 
 Area, but across the country, and crucially, across the world. But not if 
 we leave power in the hands of the same business and government leaders who 
 have profited so handsomely from the mess they’ve already 
 made.\n\n—Committee for Full Enjoyment, Oct. 24, 2009\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626415.php
SUMMARY:In Cas of Global Warming: Bicycle: Global Climate Action Day!
LOCATION:This action will start at 2pm from Plaza lawn a few hundred feet to the 
 south of Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market St. between Steuart St. 
 and The Embarcadero, on the south side (toward Mission St). Look for the 
 yellow flags and banners!  \n\nSign up to be one of 350 bicyclists to ride 
 along SF’s future post-climate-changed shoreline as part of this Global 
 Day of Climate Action. When you sign up, you’ll have the option of 
 receiving a number, being contacted with updates, and getting a “The Tide 
 is Rising” flag or Patch to keep.  \n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626415.php
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