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Save Lake Perris BMX Track update

The kids and parents all hit McDonalds by the track and had signs up and we made the paper again:) (unfortunately they keep dismissing the fact that this debt was caused by the previous track owners and not the new current track owner) Here are some pictures from tonight, and the link to the LAKE [...]

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Phoenix Plans New BMX Park!

Press Release Phoenix, Arizona, 6-6-11 –  The Bike, Blade and Board Coalition is stoked to announce that the City of Phoenix has decided to build its first public bikepark!  The bikepark will be concrete and will be located at 67th Avenue and Encanto Blvd at Desert West Park, just across the parking lot from Arizona’s first public concrete skatepark.

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Media coverage of the Protest for the Ben Soto skate park

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — They had iPods in their pockets rather than guitars on their laps, and the flowers in their hair more likely hailed from the Mall than San Francisco’s hillsides. But the spirit of the 1960s, of civil disobedience and of fighting for what’s right, pulsed just the same yesterday through the crowd [...]

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Staten Island’s New Dorp High School protests demolition of skate park.

Commissioner Long Where’s our Park? Arthur     Crowd I love BMX 300 Students protesting Front of New Dorp High school BenjaminSoto Deserves our Respect. Sit in. Skate on the Bull Horn. Tommy John speaking to the crowd.   Ed Pollio speaking to the crowd.   Protesters tied up.       Charlie, Steve, and Alissa. [...]

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