Take Action against Auto Makers in Detroit this Weekend! We refuse to Drive the Cars that are Driving Global Warming.
Heard about the 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. 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 reaking our addition to oil and clean transportation soltions 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.
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 and continuing to produce gas guzzling SUV’s only highlights that breaking our addiction to oil and curbing climate change is going to have to begin from our generation on campuses.
Than 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.
Register for a weekend of training, networking, action, and satisfaction at: http://ran.org/transportationchallenge
Check this blog tomorrow for the action alert for Sunday!
For more info: contact Brandon Knight - Freedom from Oil Midwest Organizer brandon@globalexchange or 248-521-4219
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