Subtitle: Is Detroit Transportation Challenged Enough?
I am passing along an invitation from Nick Magel. Have your heard about Transportation Challenge? “It’s a campaign of Energy Action partners to cut greenhouse gas emissions from one of the largest pollution sources – dirty gas guzzling vehicles.”
Given the events of the last couple weeks…
- 15 states suing the EPA for blocking cleaner cars and lower emissions,
- Unprecedented $100 barrels of oil, and
- Big, continuing advertising campaign to get consumers to purhcase gas guzzling SUVs that the car makers continue to produce.
Makes even more timely a demonstration to highlight our need to break the addiction to oil.
Given Obama’s success with a campaign emphasizing change, making noise in Detroit about curbing climate change is going to have an impact. Political action on campuses can show how the next generation is concerned for the future of life on the planet.
Come to the Transportation Getaway Jan 11-13 Detroit MI! For more info: contact Brandon Knight – Freedom from Oil Midwest Organizer brandon[at sign]globalexchange or 248-521-4219
Take Action against Auto Makers in Detroit this Weekend! We refuse to Drive the Cars that are Driving Global Warming.
Young people around the country are gearing up to reverse climate chaos through the Campus Climate challenge, and many of you are doing so by taking on tailpipes and advocating for transportation alternatives that end oil addiction and slash global warming pollution.
Global Exchange (GX) and Rainforest Action Network (RAN), two founding member of the Energy Action Coalition, are helping students run the Challenge by making transportation changes on campus. We know that we need a renewable grid, better efficiency, and the elimination of fossil fuels, right? Well, the Transportation Challenge is a great place to start making our campuses and our planet carbon free.
The Freedom from Oil team, a joint campaign of RAN and GX is holding the first ever Transportation Challenge Weekend Getaway in Detroit, MI. Learn how to run hard-hitting effective transportation campaigns on your campus: January 11-13, 2008.
Friday a range of speakers will speak to breaking our addition to oil and clean transportation solutions build though greening the economy. Speaker will include mass transit activists, community members for an oil free future, and members of UAW, and students creating clean transportation solution on their campus.
Saturday is an opportunity to build skills and develop regional relationships and allies. Whether your goal is more bike paths, fewer vehicles, clean fleets, or better mass transit, we will offer training to help you achieve your campus’s goals of a carbon free future.
Then on Sunday RAN, GX, Energy Action and students from across the Midwest will take our demands directly to the automakers! The worlds largest auto show opens in Detroit on Sunday the 13th at the Cobo Convention Center downtown.
With a fun and creative rally that YOU will design and build, lets tell the automakers that the next generations will not settle for anything but the cleanest, oil-free vehicles. Lets bring our generations voice to the corporations that are trying to dictate our future and the future of our earth.
You can register for the weekend of training, networking, action, and satisfaction at: http://ran.org/transportationchallenge
