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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>BIKES NOT BOMBS’ 23rd Annual BIKE-A-THON!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 6th, 2010</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ride with Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) to support unique bicycle-based social justice work, through youth programs in Boston and the donation of over 5,000 bicycles annually to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. As a grassroots organization, BNB depends on YOU to join the ride to keep this work going in its 26th year!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Choose from three scenic rides: 15, 25, or 65 miles. Join hundreds of other riders and roll at your own pace! The 15-miler is especially great for families with children. We provide mechanics check-ups, rest stops with food and drink, maps of the beautiful routes, lead riders, support vehicles, great prizes, and a gourmet meal at your afterparty - the Green Roots Rides Festival! Rides start and end in Jamaica Plain, 02130. Pre-registration is required, and riders must raise a minimum of $150 of pledges for BNB. All riders are required to wear helmets. Register on our website - <font color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.bikesnotbombs.org%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank">www.bikesnotbombs.org</a>/bat10</u></font> - or call 617-522-0222.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It's not too late! When you register on our website you can make your own online fundraising page - just email out the link and people can sponsor you online with a credit card. Also, you don't need to turn in all your fundraising money on June 6th, you just need to at least have pledges that people will sponsor you. Join us!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">*****************************</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>GREEN ROOTS FESTIVAL</b> – a public celebration of environmental action and an afterparty for Bike-A-Thon riders!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 6th, 2010</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Bikes Not Bombs’ 3rd annual Green Roots Festival will celebrate sustainable urban living in a park that was only saved from becoming a highway by the grassroots efforts of local communities. Cheer heroic Bike-A-Thon riders (or be one yourself) as they return from their ride to an outdoor gathering of environmental organizations, neighbors, and friends: featuring live street bands, food, artisans, and thoughtful content on issues of environmental sustainability. Come on out, Noon to 5:30, in the park in front of the Stony Brook T station, Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. See <font color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.bikesnotbombs.org%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank">www.bikesnotbombs.org</a>/bat10</u></font> or call 617-522-0222.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>INTERACTIVE STREET</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">At the Green Roots Festival, Boylston Street in front of the Stony Brook T station will be closed to cars, and instead will become an interactive human-centered transit zone. Come out and test ride a variety of bikes, cargo-carrying bike trailers, and family cycling options such as trail-a-bikes and kid trailers. Ride through a temporary installation of bike lane and separated cycle-track to learn how these ideas are changing Boston now and can do more in the future (separated cycle tracks are common in Europe but not well known in America). This exhibit is especially timely as Jamaica Plain has just gotten the approval for its first bike lanes coming in 2010. Pin the bike lane on Boston, in a game designed to bring more public participation into the planning of where bike lanes will change Boston next. Bikes Not Bombs Bike Shop, the T-Riders Union, Walk Boston, Livable Streets, and the Boston Cyclists Union will all be on the street to run these activities and talk with festival-goers.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>EXHIBITORS</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Try out a pedal-powered corn sheller and grinder plus other pedal-powered machines, brought by the MIT D-Lab and based on designs from a group in Guatemala that receives bike shipments from BNB. Talk with environmental and social justice activists and vendors, including Clean Water Action, herbal remedies, Boston Climate Action Network, Centro Presente, and many more.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>SCHEDULE - MUSIC AND SPEAKERS</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">12:00 - 1:00 Incus (world tribal rock, powered by bicycle generator)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1:10 - 1:55 Opposite People (afrobeat, powered by bicycle generator)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1:55 - 2:15 Speeches</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Bob Terrell, from the On The Move Coalition (of transportation groups, from public transit to bicycles and walking)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2:15 - 3:15 Marcus Santos w/ Bloco AfroBrazil (all-drum samba dance music)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3:15 - 3:35 La Piñata (youth dance program from Spontaneous Celebrations)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3:35 – 4:00 Speeches</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: 0.4px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Taisha O'Bryant, from the T-Riders Union, of Alternatives for Community and Environment, based in Dudley Square</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.4px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bikes Not Bombs teen Youth Instructors</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">4:00 - 4:30 Branches Steel Pan Orchestra (Caribbean dance rhythms from Dorchester)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">4:30 - 4:45 Speeches</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.4px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Sam Wechsler, Bikes Not Bombs, Executive Director</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.4px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- David Branigan, Bikes Not Bombs, International Programs Director</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.4px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Raffle winners</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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