Today we marched through the streets of downtown Detroit towards the Cobo convention center where the North American International Auto Show is taking place. We were going to the heart of the auto industry to tell them loud and clear -with a bullhorn and banners in hand- that we are not going to be driving cars that drive our addiction to oil and global warming. We were more than 60 strong -including students from a half-dozen schools across Michigan and organizers for the Freedom from Oil campaign.
It was a high-energy affair with drumming, dancing and chanting -not to mention spray-painted coveralls and green hardhats. Too bad police stopped us a block away, opting to protect the automakers’ greenwash instead of young people’s voices for green jobs and green cars. But that didn’t prevent us from reaching out to the public on the intersection with our message.
