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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Emergency NAKED Bike Ride Planned in Portland After Troop Deployment
Description: Portland organizers are planning an âemergencyâ World Naked Bike Ride in response to the federal governmentâs decision to deploy National Guard troops to the city.â¡ About 200 soldiers are preparing at Camp Rilea as legal challenges from Oregon officialsâincluding Governor Tina Kotek and Attorney General Dan Rayfieldâseek to block the deployment.ð² The Naked Bike Ride, already a long-standing Portland tradition, is being framed as both a protest against militarization and a show of the cityâs unique activist culture.