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| Man, look at the moobs on these guys. We do it for the environment and to be our natural selves. |
WARNING: (Tom Saxer) World Naked Bike Ride 2024, London, UK, meeting at Tower Hill
Naked Bike Ride 2024 was covered by Allison Barr for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Even though the official ride was put on hold this year, a spin-off of the World Naked Bike Ride pedaled through Portland on Saturday afternoon.
The “official” World Naked Bike Ride took a hiatus this year. But protesting cyclists still wanted to gather for a ride.
As one of the speakers before Saturday’s ride explained: It’s an effort to bring their qualms with Zenith Energy into the limelight. They also want to inspire others to commute via bike and celebrate body positivity.
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| Put a bra on, Old Timer! There are children here. |
The ride organizers emphasize that it’s first and foremost a protest against fossil fuel dependency.
Second, it’s a communal place to celebrate being ourselves, exactly how we are.
- LA RADIO: Sebastian goes to Nude Bike Ride (The Woody Show Podcast, 12/17/24) | iHeart (Approximately Minute 90)
- Tom Cruise awarded by US Navy for inspiring recruits: Hey, Tom, recruitment is down, make another Top Gun propaganda reel for us, maybe a spy flick where you do your own stunts! Woo! Go, Tom!
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| I also love riding bikes! - Luigi Nicki Mangione |
Saturday afternoon, hundreds of bodies gathered at Colonel Summers Park in Southeast Portland around 4:00 pm. This was a change from the ride’s usual nighttime slot.
After people painted each other, danced to music blasting from multiple speakers, and delivered emotional speeches into microphones, a sea of naked and nearly-naked people on bikes headed out.
Their plan is to lie down at the Zenith Energy building in Northwest Portland for ten minutes before ending the ride at the waterfront.
As the ride organizer going by the name Spartacus said, “Give yourself permission to know it’s your body. And feel a sense of belonging to your life and your body because your body chooses clean air, clean water, clean rivers.” Source
- Allison Barr, oregonlive.com, Sept. 21, 2024 (inspired by Agent Sebastian "Seabass" from The Woody Show, 12/17/24); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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