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Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon This Sunday!
Written by Boston Biker on Jun 17
Bikes Not Bombs presents the 3rd annual GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL!
Sunday June 20th – Noon to 5:30pm
In the park at the Stony Brook T, Boylston and Lamartine streets, Jamaica Plain
See the full schedule and info at www.bikesnotbombs.org/greenroots
MUSIC & SPEAKERS!
FOOD!
Enviro & Social Justice EXHIBITORS!
INTERACTIVE TRANSIT STREET!
FATHER’S DAY!
KIDS ACTIVITIES!
BIKE GEAR RAFFLE!
FREE YOGA!
PEDAL POWER!
BIKE-A-THON!
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Bikes Not Bombs Green Roots Festival
Written by Boston Biker on May 08Bikes Not Bombs invites you to the 1st Annual Green Roots Festival on June 8, 2008! This open air environmentally-themed event will focus on urban sustainable living and grassroots activism. Author Bill McKibben is a keynote speaker, with more speakers to be announced. Live music, food, and children’s activities will add fun and celebration to the information tables and educational presentations that will tackle the hard issues and highlight work in progress and ways for festival-goers to deepen their environmental stewardship. See http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/bat08. We invite you to bring an information table, and to propose a workshop (from large presentations to small hands-on activities) which you could lead or be part of!
The Green Roots Festival combines with their 21st Annual Bike-A-Thon, which brings together hundreds of cyclists who will end their ride at this festival. The festival is advertised to the general public through 7,000 postcards, thousands of flyers, our email news and website, and 16,000 full color pullouts in the Jamaica Plain Gazette. We expect attendance to number in the thousands.
Bikes Not Bombs has spent the last 24 years directly addressing inequality and environmental degradation with bicycle programs in the developing world and here in Boston, and they’ve created a very broad community of youth and adult participants, volunteers, and donors.
The festival runs from Noon to 5pm in the park in front of the Stoney Brook T stop in Jamaica Plain. This linear strip, the Southwest Corridor, was originally cleared out to bring Highway 95 through the middle of the inner city. Community activism in the 1970’s blocked these plans and instead brought us a park with bike and walking paths over submerged public transit as subway, commuter rail, and regional Amtrak. It is fitting to celebrate in this public land which represents perhaps the greatest achievement of the environmental movement in Boston in the last 40 years.
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