Approximately 75-100 people on bicycles and skateboards took to the streets of Virginia Beach, VA on Saturday June 10 in solidarity with the green scare Weekend of Resistance.
We met at the oceanfront and did a 3-4 mile loop down some of the city's busiest streets, blocking traffic wherever we went. Unfortunately the cops only gave us about 15 minutes of complete fun before they swooped in and grabbed a comrade off his skateboard for "impeding traffic" - he was arrested and friends are following up with his situation. Another rider received a ticket. But the fun part came when a driver in a car received a ticket for driving dangerously close to us! The cops let the rest of us continue on, but not without a lecture on rules of the road and that we must ride single file and keep out of the way of cars. But miraculously the cops left us alone after that and we continued our loop back to the oceanfront.
Once we got back we decided to continue the ride and rode down Atlantic Avenue, which runs adjacent to the boardwalk and is one of the busiest tourist streets in the summer. We rode from 31st all the way to the beginning (1st)and looped back to 31st St Park.
It was a beautiful sunny day and everyone was excited about the success of the ride. Stickers and pamphlets about the green scare defendants were handed out and "Support Daniel McGowan" stickers now happily grace some bicycles and public spaces in Virginia Beach.
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