In Detroit, Michigan, the Freedom from Oil team, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), students from Wayne State University and the Detroit Green Party teamed up to hold our own No War, No Warming action at a PENSKE-owned Toyota dealership. A 15-foot banner with the message, “Toyota: Driving War and Warming,” was dropped from the roof of the dealership. Down below, Oil Enforcement Agents ticketed gas-guzzlers such as the Toyota Tundra, “impounded” high-emitting vehicles, and performed drill routines.

The action culminated another Oil Enforcement Agency mission accomplished, an act of solidarity with those arrested in Washington, D.C., and a bold message to Toyota Motor Company that expanding into the truck market and suing states for regulating greenhouse gas emissions are not the actions of an environmental leader.