WNBR NYC

Where will Body Autonomy ride go? Come to our meeting tuesday...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:54:57 -0400

Where will Body Autonomy ride go? Come to our meeting tuesday 6/5 to help decide!

8pm 99 s 6th st Bklyn

nevver:

You can’t there from here

World Naked Bike Ride. We need it in NYC!

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:24:44 -0400

World Naked Bike Ride. We need it in NYC!

"We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re..."

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:26:34 -0400

“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.”

- Will Smith in Parade Magazine on Willow’s hair (via fuckyeahfeminists)

bitchcakesny: Good thing the city issues 3 times as many...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:05:41 -0400

bitchcakesny:

Good thing the city issues 3 times as many tickets to cyclists as truck drivers. Obviously cyclists are the real menace. (Taken with instagram)

WIKI PAGE UPDATED!! HUZZAH #WNBRNYC #BODYAUTONOMY

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:54:04 -0400

WIKI PAGE UPDATED!! HUZZAH #WNBRNYC #BODYAUTONOMY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! BODY AUTONOMY RIDE JUNE 9th!

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:01:58 -0400

PRESS ADVISORY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Body Autonomy / Liberation Ride
in Solidarity with Clinic Defense and World Naked Bike Ride

“Body autonomy means hands off our bodies,” declare activists. “Exercise your rights! Love your body, ride your bike!”

Contacts:

Benjamin Shepard – 917 586 7952

What: A two part clothing-optional bike ride calling for the state, police, and the Church to keep their hands off our bodies.

Saturday June 9^th, 2012

Part One Starts: 8:15 AM

Where: 43rd Street & 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn

Body autonomy ride joins the Brooklyn Pro-Choice Network, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and the Church Ladies for Choice at a prayer vigil of Bishop DiMarzio and the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants (“HOGPI”) to let them know: “YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE”
Part Two Starts: Gathering 5:30 PM

Where: Grand Ferry Park on the Brooklyn Waterfront. Ride departs at 6:30 PM

New York, NY (June 9th, 2012) –Saturday, June 9th, Time’s Up!, a direct action environmental group,will call attention to the need for free autonomous bodies, safe from interference from the state, cars, police or the moralists.

“From mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds to stop and frisk policing to the hyper restrictions on our right to gather together in public space, our bodies have been under assault,” declares Times Up! volunteer Ellen Levin. “Fight back and have some fun with body autonomy.”

“Clinic defense in the morning and support for the World Naked Bike ride in the afternoon, June 9^th will be a day to celebrate liberation of our bodies and minds,” notes Times Up! volunteer Benjamin Shepard.

A joyous and liberating protest aimed at reducing the dangers posed to our world and our bodies by automobiles and oil dependence! The ride takes place in solidarity with the World Naked Bike Ride, in its 10th year internationally, with rides happening across the Northern Hemisphere on this date. While the ride is clothing optional, many will be clothed yet still ready to celebrate body autonomy in any way they see fit. Feel free to come as dressed or bare as you dare. Creative costuming is also highly encouraged. Body painting and bike decoration will start at 5:30 PM, with the ride departing no later than 6:30pm. Activists will provide a know your rights training and teach-inn on consent. Be sure to bring lights, bells, a sense of humor , a positive attitude, and respect for all riders.

The ride is endorsed by the OWS Bike Coalition.

“The cops ripped off my clothes, that’s why I’m riding naked,” declares Cara of the OWS bike coalition, who will join the ride.

“I can’t afford clothes,” notes Audrey Hephburn of the OWS Bike Coalition. “We’ve got nothing to hide. Come and stop and frisk us.”

The body autonomy ride is established to critique the over policing of public space and the social imagination. Riders are encouraged to participate in the June 17^th March to End Stop and Frisk action as well as the drag march on June 22.

Reclaim your body! Reclaim your streets! Reclaim your planet! Ride your bike! The Body Autonomy Ride is a safer space for all bodies to ride free of harassment or pollutants in the physical or mental environment. To participate each rider is asked to respect that the liberation of bodies requires freedom, autonomy, and justice for all. This begins with joy and commitment to self determination for all.

For more on Times Up’s Safer Spaces Policy, see:
http://times-up.org/index.php?page=safer-spaces-policy

For scenes from Previous Rides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJKt8Etu64

TIMES UP! is a non-profit environmental group that has been using educational outreach and direct action for the last 25 years to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city.

www.times-up.org

Now THAT is some #BodyAutonomy! hottybikes: Philly Naked Bike...

Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 -0400

Now THAT is some #BodyAutonomy!

hottybikes:

Philly Naked Bike Ride

breasy3: World Naked Bike Ride - New Orleans - Saturday 9 June...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:24:44 -0400

breasy3:

World Naked Bike Ride - New Orleans - Saturday 9 June 2012

#BodyAutonomy #WNBR #BikeNYC JUNE 9thSTAY TUNED FOR MORE...

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:15:25 -0400

#BodyAutonomy #WNBR #BikeNYC JUNE 9th

STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS, JOIN IN ORGANIZING EFFORTS

nippletape: RAD nipple taped girl at #WNBR

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:12:05 -0400

nippletape:

RAD nipple taped girl at #WNBR

allnudist: Nudists: Love Thyself First Body image,...

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:09:47 -0400

allnudist:

Nudists: Love Thyself First Body image, self-esteem, self-loathing - what it it GOOD for? Absolutely nothing! (article & link)

#BodyAutonomy Ride #BikeNYC #WNBR #WNBRNYC JUNE 9th! Call for organizers!

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:10:53 -0400

Hey you radical bodies!

NAKED BIKE RIDE JUNE 9th!

Though we have had a lack of consensus among organizers over when WNBR NYC 2012 should happen, volunteers have called for a “Body Autonomy” bike ride in solidarity with WNBR on June 9th. This has been put on the Time’s Up! calendar online and in print with the minimal
following information:

BODY AUTONOMY RIDE - Saturday June 9th Time and location TBD We will reclaim our bodies and our public spaces in this amazing dance ride. Expect body painting, bands, an after party and good times!!!

http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=3708

Anyone in the NYC area is interested in participating/organizing for a WNBR-style ride on June 9th, please let us know ASAP (wnbrnyc [at] gmail [dot] com) so we can make some great decisions about how we can have the most fun on a group ride while protest against all dangers to our bodies.

More info on WNBR & WNBR NYC can be found here: http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/ & here:http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=New_York_City&oldid=23284

Please note that the phrase “Body Autonomy” has been chosen to give this ride for explicitly feminist approach, and we are especially looking for more organizers with strong feminist backgrounds. BECAUSE OTHERWISE WHAT IS THE POINT? LET’S STOP PERPETUATING TOXIC SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS THAT POISON ALL OUR BEAUTIFUL MINDS & BODIES. Sexist/sizist/body-shaming/homophobic/violent etc behavior will not be tolerated. Find a great definition of Body Autonomy here:

http://fromthemindoftinapj.wordpress.com/tag/body-autonomy/

The Body Autonomy Ride is a safer space for all bodies to ride free of harassment or pollutants in the physical or mental environment. To participate each rider is asked to respect that the liberation of bodies requires freedom, autonomy, and justice for all. This begins with joy and commitment to self determination for all riders.

For more on Times Up’s Safer Spaces Policy, see:
http://www.facebook.com/l/WAQFAxGdgAQFS7SeFE0ZEagEjHczO8B3zglnpG1cX2tkQDg/times-up.org/index.php?page=safer-spaces-policy

For scenes from Previous Rides:
http://www.facebook.com/l/_AQFlrEWmAQGOGmI1ar13AhPjHmQ8LvqjpcRUkqNJ-9booQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJKt8Etu64

We hope this answers the question of “What is up with the naked ride???”

Now help make it! Call and host a meeting! Find concensus on intentions; plot routes and contingency plans; create & distribute outreach materials; plan outfits for the day; write slogans; fix up your bike; get paint and body decor; ect! MOST IMPORTANT SPREAD THE WORD & STAY TUNED.

Ride Safe, Ride Free,

RESPECT BODY AUTONOMY!

LEGIT! #BikeNYC #WNBRNYC #Naked #J9 #Occupy #BikeSwarm #OWS

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:59:43 -0400

LEGIT! #BikeNYC #WNBRNYC #Naked #J9 #Occupy #BikeSwarm #OWS

“Reclaiming Unicorn” Replace the unicorn with the...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:46:01 -0400

“Reclaiming Unicorn”

Replace the unicorn with the bike and the underpants with none and you have a naked bike ride! Smash through the dull brick wall of reality and into outer space!

#OWS May I humbly suggest doing this #naked and on a #bikeNYC...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:38:59 -0400

#OWS May I humbly suggest doing this #naked and on a #bikeNYC every friday?

occupywallstreet:

We are on Wall Street. Right Now and every Friday.

SlutWalk needs your help! We are looking for a professional (or knowledgeable) tech person who is familiar with sound systems to look at our current supplies and make sure that all systems are a go! Please be able to commit to some travel throughout the city and to being present for our rally on October 1st. We will pay you in bear hugs and happy high fives! Send contact info to: slutwalknyc@gmail.com

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:42:54 -0400

Can we get some solidarity?

This is one of my all time favorite songs. grimwomyn: Dedicated...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400

This is one of my all time favorite songs.

grimwomyn:

Dedicated to the top 1% and their corporate structures. #occupywallstreet

grim and womyn: Sotheby’s Action Statement from #occupywallstreet

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:55:22 -0400

grim and womyn: Sotheby’s Action Statement from #occupywallstreet:

grimwomyn:

Sotheby’s Action Statement – Labor Group
Posted on September 22, 2011 by Nyccamp

This morning activists involved in #OCCUPYWALLSTREET disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s Art Auctions on the Upper East Side. Last year Sotheby’s made profits of $680 Million Dollars. Their CEO Bill…

kwikset: Another video on occupywallstreet uploaded 9/19.. I...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:48:56 -0400

kwikset:

Another video on occupywallstreet uploaded 9/19.. I mostly posted this to say RIP wall of lulz. As of midnight or 1am (I’m getting some conflicting reports on when it was dismantled) in NYC the wall of lulz was dismantled “due to fire hazard” There is an increased police presence tonight among the protesters. They have been informed that the health inspector would be by in the morning which could lead to a shut down. Also, due to the forecast of rain a tarp was donated to protect the electrical equipment and give shelter for the protestors. Erecting structures is illegal even in liberty plaza and they are currently being told to take it down, or at least being barred from tying the tarp to nearby trees in the park. Keep your heads up protestors! Those not with you are with you in spirit. <3

This is still going on, but NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Get your butts...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:46:41 -0400

This is still going on, but NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Get your butts down to Broadway and Liberty in Lower Manhattan ASAP. The naked element has already arisen. We just need to put it on Bikes.

seven-seasons:

#OccupyWallStreet Begins, and Improvises (von wagingnonviolence)