Auto Show Invasion: Hummer Action!
This Sunday, we wake up and jump into Nancy's car and zoom through San Francisco, Moscone Center-bound. Today is the San Francisco Auto Show- the annual chance for Bay Area consumers to feast their eyes on gas guzzling giants, everything from standard black suvs, to cherry red ferraris (in the upstairs "exotic cars" section), to new hybrids like the Honda Accord and the Toyota Prius. But we- Ariel, Nancy, me, and the seven other outstanding Codepink women who converged at the show- weren't there to peruse and purchase. We showed up to protest Hummers, the military vehicles made popular by our gubernator that have become popular toys for the rich and wasteful.
The action is incredible: 10 women holding big pink banners with anti-Hummer slogans and chanting. We completely comandeered the central H3 hummer, which was rotating with grand hubris in circles on a large white stage. Ariel and I hopped onto the roof and flashed our peace signs high in the air. We stayed afloat the huummer for quite a long time before we climbed down and met with the police. We were "escorted" out of the show, and as we walked out we created something of a parade with our banners and cheers.
After being threatened with "dammage" to the Hummers- as if!- we leave without being charged and go on our merry, celebratory way.
Channel 2's 10 o'clock news covers the event and shows us atop the hummer before each commercial break until they tell the story, which is a pretty weak rendition of an incredible action.
The action is incredible: 10 women holding big pink banners with anti-Hummer slogans and chanting. We completely comandeered the central H3 hummer, which was rotating with grand hubris in circles on a large white stage. Ariel and I hopped onto the roof and flashed our peace signs high in the air. We stayed afloat the huummer for quite a long time before we climbed down and met with the police. We were "escorted" out of the show, and as we walked out we created something of a parade with our banners and cheers.
After being threatened with "dammage" to the Hummers- as if!- we leave without being charged and go on our merry, celebratory way.
Channel 2's 10 o'clock news covers the event and shows us atop the hummer before each commercial break until they tell the story, which is a pretty weak rendition of an incredible action.
posted by rae @ 8:08 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:27 AM,
Anonymous said…
I think it would be appropriate for me to come to San Francisco or whereever you live with my little demostration. At that time I think I will take 10 or so folk to stand on your vehicle and jump up and down on it. After all it does use oil products and it does contribute, alledgedly to the pollution of my planet. And more to the point, I just don't like it. So, I think I will just destroy it because I don't agree with you. Perhaps I will also go onto your private property and glue my signs to your door, jump up and down on your lawn, and rip up your flowers because I think they are not natural. I think perhaps we should all take a "Pro-Hummer Action". I am actually very anti-you because you put out carbon dioxide as a waste product. Of course that would make me anti-me as well. I think it would be appropriate for someone to come and demonstrate at your house by pulling the wires that lead electricity to your house because I don't like the fact that you use electricity. You also use computers which contribute to the pollution of the Earth because of the fact that they incorporate all manner of plastics made by big industrys. They incorporate all kinds of metals that were "gasp" mined. I think also that someone should dig up the plumbing to your house because I just don't like the fact that you put your body waste into our water. Oh my. And you live in a house that used "oh my" wood. You caused the killing of living trees. You print your screeds on PAPER "gasp". Paper has to be processed with acids and other chemicals to make it white. And I bet you have used colored paper to print of your CODE PINK screeds. So I think I will come in and stand on your computer to protest your support of the big industrial computer companies that give thousands of people their jobs. Oh my.
Next time you decide to jump up on someone elses property you might think about your own rape of the environment. You might also show the respect that you would like given to your belongings. Because to me, if you want to jump around on my Hummer, you wont mind me jumping around on your roof or your lousy Prius that was made by another huge industry that employs thousands of people and gives them the means to support their family. You malicious hypocrite.
At 10:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
Well Said David, I so agree with you... I hate these people who just want to force their opinion on me..... and why just pick on Hummer..... go and chase the ferrari, aston martins, drag races, they use much more gas than a Hummer..... and I drive one to work everyday, I also keep a baseball bat with me, coz some prick threw a brick at me once....
I love my car, i fill it with gas from my own money , what is your fucking problem..... me and my friends have now decided that if we come up against any other unruly protest such as scratches on our vehicles and stuff... we are going to give the pransksters a taste of their own medicine.....
You want to protest... stay away from my vehicle and do whatever you want with your sign... but jumping on vehicles like lunatic monkeys or spray painting them etc is so uncalled for.
And stop giving me the crap about our soldiers fighting for oil thing.... a aeroplane uses a lot more fuel, the ferraris, aston martins, coal plants gas generators.... they all use more gas then a Hummer.... and the price of oil is going up because of increased consumption in china...
Let other have their share of privacy... don't push your opinion on others
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