From San Diego, where the WNBR is endangered:
Nude Bike Protester to Sue City for Right to Ride
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/gover...cc4c002e0.html
The organizer of a June 12 naked bike ride protest is heading to federal court on a mission to overturn San Diego's anti-nudity ordinance, saying it doesn’t protect her right to engage in free speech by going without clothes in public.
"We think it's too broad and sweeps all nudity into one big category," said attorney Mitch Wallis, who plans to file a request for an injunction Wednesday on behalf of organizer Sarah Bush. She and others want to use the ride -- and the nudity -- to promote biking and oppose the country's dependence on oil.
The legal brief, which says the nudity ordinance violates the First Amendment, puts Bush's case this way: "The Plaintiff Is Entitled To Strip Naked, Paint Her Body With Political Slogans and Protest Important Public Issues."
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Bush, a 20-year-old Grossmont College student, has been publicizing San Diego's World Naked Bike Ride online and through fliers. She became interested in the events after reading about the World Naked Bike Ride in a Cosmopolitan article on 50 Fun Things to Do Naked and attended an event in the Bay Area with a friend.
"I was really was inspired," she said, "but realized how ridiculous it was it to drive to San Francisco to do a protest against oil dependency." So she decided to organize a ride here.
The purpose of the event is to show how vulnerable bicyclists are, she said.
"There's definitely a shock value to it," she said, "and you grab people's attention."
Bush is aware that the bike rides attract photographers who have posted thousands of photos and videos of naked participants online, and she's not happy about the prospect of observers with sleazy motivations. But she said, "I don't know how to get around it."
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Wonder if anything came of this. If she attended the WNBR in San Francisco, there must be pictures of her. If you look closely, you can see she has a lip ring on the right side of her mouth. Perhaps this girl in 2009 is a match...