Skatin' Place - The 2008 Skate Against Violence Roadskate - Part 1
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“Homicides Way Up In 2007 – Most In 12 Years”. “Youth Violence Out Of Control”. “Violence Tears At The Fabric Of The City”. “Shooting Victim’s Friends Mourn”. These are headlines seen nearly every day in nearly every major newspaper and television news. Many people are trying to do something about it, but it is a difficult problem to deal with. One way to combat this is to create positive images and examples of people coming together and living together and living healthier lifestyles.
The Skate Against Violence Campaign is a three pronged effort to strongly raise awareness of the positive aspects inline skating can bring to the lives of youth and to give young people a fun, healthy alternative they can enjoy. This may not end violence in the street, but it can have an enormous impact in the minds of young people who will benefit from the social interaction and the physical conditioning skating will bring into their lives.
PART 1 – SKATE AGAINST VIOLENCE ROADSKATE
The Skate Against Violence Roadskate is a 450 mile skate-a-thon from San Francisco to Santa Monica. The event is a rolling anti-violence campaign that starts at San Francisco City Hall and rolls through San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, Visalia, Porterville, Bakersfield, Santa Monica and ends at the Santa Monica Pier
Teamwork, working together as one unit, is the focus of this event. There will be 11 skaters involved in the skate-a-thon. The skaters will be broken down into 3 teams. Each team will skate for an hour, rotating skating duties every hour. The skate-a-thon will go nonstop 24 hours a day. We want to show camaraderie and working together to reach a common goal as an example to others while at the same time show that skaters can actually skate these distances.“Homicides Way Up In 2007 – Most In 12 Years”. “Youth Violence Out Of Control”. “Violence Tears At The Fabric Of The City”. ...all »“Homicides Way Up In 2007 – Most In 12 Years”. “Youth Violence Out Of Control”. “Violence Tears At The Fabric Of The City”. “Shooting Victim’s Friends Mourn”. These are headlines seen nearly every day in nearly every major newspaper and television news. Many people are trying to do something about it, but it is a difficult problem to deal with. One way to combat this is to create positive images and examples of people coming together and living together and living healthier lifestyles.
The Skate Against Violence Campaign is a three pronged effort to strongly raise awareness of the positive aspects inline skating can bring to the lives of youth and to give young people a fun, healthy alternative they can enjoy. This may not end violence in the street, but it can have an enormous impact in the minds of young people who will benefit from the social interaction and the physical conditioning skating will bring into their lives.
PART 1 – SKATE AGAINST VIOLENCE ROADSKATE
The Skate Against Violence Roadskate is a 450 mile skate-a-thon from San Francisco to Santa Monica. The event is a rolling anti-violence campaign that starts at San Francisco City Hall and rolls through San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, Visalia, Porterville, Bakersfield, Santa Monica and ends at the Santa Monica Pier
Teamwork, working together as one unit, is the focus of this event. There will be 11 skaters involved in the skate-a-thon. The skaters will be broken down into 3 teams. Each team will skate for an hour, rotating skating duties every hour. The skate-a-thon will go nonstop 24 hours a day. We want to show camaraderie and working together to reach a common goal as an example to others while at the same time show that skaters can actually skate these distances.«
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