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The New York International Auto Show opened its Javits Center doors to the press today. While lots of car manufacturers were showing off more environmentally friendly models, one activist group made its distrust of Toyota's claims known.
Freedom From Oil had members scale the interior walls of the Javits to hang a sign spoofing the Toyota ad campaign. It reads: "The Truck That's Changing It All The Climate" and "Toyota: not an environmental leader."
A statement from the co-director of the Freedom from Oil campaign for Rainforest Action Network, Sarah Connolly, says, "Building Priuses does not give Toyota license to mass-produce the Tundra. If Toyota really believed in curbing global warming, why did they argue with the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in the Supreme Court that CO2 is not a pollutant and that the EPA should not have the right to help regulate greenhouse gas emissions?”
The activists were harnessed in and refused to come down, so the NYPD needed to get a cherry picker to take them down. We hear they were arrested and later released. More photos after the jump - the sign seems to have been taken into NY State Police custody!
Photographs by Tien Mao
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This is brilliant. Good for Freedom for Oil.
Love the cop on the escalator's hat with the blue ribbon.
I don't know why NYC hosts the auto show. What could be more anti-city than cars?
GM sells more cars in the US that get 30 mpg or more than any other company. GM's trucks and SUVs are more fuel efficient than Toyota's.
And why does NYC host an auto show? Maybe because NYC is the media capital of the nation? Duh!
Sweet!
This fake banner gets an "F" for cleverness.
I wonder how long it is going to take the environmental extremists to link exercise and increased heart rates to increased CO2 emissions! Maybe somebody should mandate purchase of (bullshit) "carbon credits" as part of your gym membership?
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A history lesson. Robert Moses, the most pro-car person, like, EVER, dipped the entire NYC metro area in asphalt, coating it with the West Side Highway (off of which the Javits Center exists), the FDR, the Cross-Bronx, the LIE, the BQE... you get the picture. If there is a place that is NOT anti-car - at least, a place that isn't laid out like it was anti-car - it's NYC.
That said, I wish NYC was more anti-car.
Also - the Javits Center is a state facility, thus manned by State Police. How the protestors managed to clamber up the Javits's walls is beyond me, but bravo fellows!
New York may or may not be anti-car. But cars are, without a doubt, anti-urban.
Glenn, your first sentence doesn't make any sense to me.
And yea, how did he pull this off? Impressive!
My customer was one of the protestors, she said it was like a secret mission trying to get in there and put the banner up.
She was very proud.
Adam... We exhale CO2, so excercise will cause people to have a larger "carbon footprint." :rolleyes: