Posts Tagged with "Toyota"

GM Uses RAN’s Blog to Call Toyota Nazis

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Yeah, so this is almost too crazy to be true. Yesterday Brant blogged about his run in with Toyota executive Bob Carter at the LA Auto Show and included a nice video of the encounter. In the comments someone using the name “fugazi48″ wrote that “Toyota is a money grubbing company. Buy a car from [...]

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RAN Stumps Toyota: Why Not?

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Blogging late after a great day of cloak and dagger infiltration at the LA Auto Show. Here’s what the AP had to say about incident in this video: After the Sequoia was introduced Wednesday, an environmental activist with a video camera approached Toyota’s general manager for U.S. sales, Bob Carter, and asked why the company [...]

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RAN at the LA Auto Show

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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It’s auto show season again. That’s right—the beginning of the annual cycle where the automakers roll through LA, Detroit, New York, (and thousands of smaller cities in between) launching their new concept cars. This week, Freedom from Oil is blogging from the Los Angeles Auto Show—the “green” autoshow of the year. Like last year we’re [...]

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Revving it Up at Santa Monica Toyota

Monday, October 29, 2007

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Under the haze of smoke from forest fires in southern California on the day of No War No Warming, Freedom From Oil Campaign, Global Exchange, Plug In America, Interfaith Power & Light and RAN supporters rallied at Toyota Santa Monica to tell Toyota to drop out the Pavely lawsuit and to be a leader in [...]

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No War, No Warming

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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WASHINGTON D.C. The arrests are still being tallied, the YouTube videos posted, and cars returned from impound lots – all residuals of Monday’s No War, No Warming mobilization that sent ripples from Washington D.C. to Santa Monica. Peace and climate activists banded together on October 22 to engage in an historical act of nonviolent civil [...]

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Toyota plugs in: Online petition works!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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Today is my third day as RAN’s new online organizer. My job is to figure out how we can all use the internet to organize and push for crucial environmental change. Luckily, looks like we’re already doing something right. Toyota unveiled a plug-in Prius today and they’re going to start public road testing soon. While [...]

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