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Title: Protest LA Auto Show
START DATE: 1/10/2004
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
LA Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street
Event Topic:
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Labor/Community Strategy Center
Contact Email: cleancars@globalexchange.org
Contact Phone: 213-387-2800
DESCRIPTION:
Protest LA Auto Show January 10!

Call for an End to Our Oil Addiction and Demand Improved Mass Transit

Rally and Demonstration

Saturday, January 10, 2004

12:00 Noon

Los Angeles Auto Show

LA Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street

(Drive a hybrid car? Join our hybrid parade on Jan 10 at the Auto Show!) http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/oil/hybridparade.html

The LA Auto Show is one of the car industry's most important annual events, a chance for the auto makers to show off their new models and concept cars. But when it comes to improving fuel economy, there's not much to boast of.

That's why Global Exchange and the LA Bus Riders Union are coming together to demand cleaner cars and improved mass transit.

Our over reliance on cars endangers us all. Pollution from our primitive, gas-guzzling vehicles poisons our air and damages our health. The economy shudders with every increase in fuel costs. In LA, predominantly working class communities and people of color are reliant on under funded mass transit systems and are hard pressed just to get from home to work. People around the world are put in harm's way by wars and conflicts spurred by oil dependence. It doesn't have to be this way. Using existing technologies, the auto makers could give us cars and trucks that would go much farther on a gallon of gas, which would improve our environment, our economy, and our health. In addition, the more viable our mass transit systems are, the more cars we get off the road. Fewer cars mean fewer air toxics in our children's lungs and in our environment.

Yet the auto companies refuse to increase the fuel economy of their vehicles. And public officials continue to resist calls for improving mass transit. It's time for this to end.

What You Can Do:

Join with bus riders, environmentalists, Green Party members, community activists and others to:

? double the average car fuel efficiency by 2010

? double LA MTA's bus fleet to 5,000 and

? cut by half the 8 million cars in LA to 4 million.

Come to a rally at the Los Angeles Auto Show January 10 and join the call for no more business-as-usual.

For more information, contact: Labor/Community Strategy Center, 213-387-2800 or Global Exchange, 415-558-9490. Or write to cleancars@globalexchange.org.

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