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DESCRIPTION:It's that time to tune up those bikes and toss those riding duds in the 
 wash, you won't need them for the World Naked Bike Ride in San Francisco. 
 It's the third WNBR of the year, in conjunction with Earth Day and the 
 Eighth anniversary of the British Petroleum Deep Horizon explosion and 
 Macondo Well oil spill disaster, the worst oil spill in history that 
 occurred on April 20, 2010. Ironically, environmentalist John Muir's 
 birthday.\n\nIt is time for the 8th Annual Earth Day World Naked Bike Ride 
 - San Francisco.\n\nThe BP oil spill left dead sea life and birds as well 
 as the environmental devastation of the gulf that will impact sea life and 
 the economy of the gulf's fishing industry for decades. With the Japan 
 quake & tsunami 6 years ago all but forgotten, environmental issues are 
 more important than ever. There still remains to this day a huge blanket of 
 oil at the bottom of the Gulf. Don't let clear waters above fool you into 
 thinking the clean up job is finished. What better way to refresh the 
 public's memory than with a World Naked Bike Ride.\n\nOur San Francisco 
 contingent will meet Saturday, April 21nd at 11:00AM at the northwest 
 corner outside of the Ferry Building, between the Farmer's Market and 
 Starbucks. Our group will have time to gather and renew old acquaintances 
 as well as help initiate new riders. Also slogans and signs can be 
 finalized with body paint & markers.\n\nThe ride is scheduled to start just 
 after Noon.\n\nYou decide how much bare you can dare, you can go all out in 
 the joy of sun clad nakedness, go topless, bikinis, body paint or latex, 
 leotard or lingerie, or tuxedos, whatever you feel like. For this ride, 
 however, since an oil spill is the target of our angst, an appropriate 
 statement can be made to mimic spilled oil. Nude riders can use black body 
 paint splattered or coated. Those a little timid about nudity can use black 
 trash bags that resemble spilled oil. Or you can be even more creative and 
 artistic with black latex body paint to achieve a sheen and gloss that 
 really looks like spilled oil. Since it is Earth Day we are celebrating the 
 environment, so if you don't go the bare route or the oil spill look, then 
 adorn yourself with green colors; shoes, hats, scarves, capes, whatever, to 
 promote a greener way of life.\n\nSkates or skateboards have ridden along 
 with us in the past. Also we had our first tandem bike in our last ride. 
 How about a nude unicyclist? And music maestro please. How about some of 
 you musical bikes from Rock The Bike sounding off with us?\n\nAs always, 
 our ride is in continued protest of an unsustainable energy policy in all 
 nations around the globe. We support the innovation of alternate and 
 improved energy technologies, the social commitment to a more sustainable 
 energy consumption and generally the pure fun and joy of riding naked to 
 draw attention to these issues. However, this time the main protest is 
 about the BP oil spill and since this is Earth Day, special reverence for 
 our ecosystem and respect for Mother Earth.\n\nOur ride will focus on 
 downtown SOMA areas, Embarcadero, and most flat areas along the financial 
 area downtown. We will go down to Fisherman's Wharf and then back toward 
 the Earth Day Festival at the Civic Center where we will pass by its outer 
 edges before ending our ride in the Castro.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/30/18808025.php
SUMMARY:8th Annual Earth Day World Naked Bike Ride - San Francisco
LOCATION:Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building Place, The Embarcadero, San Francisco\nWe 
 meet on the elevated portion by the pier between the Farmers Market and 
 Starbucks.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/30/18808025.php
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