By Daily Press staff
Members of the Westside Greens will join citizens from various West Los Angeles cities today in a rally in front of the Chevron and Shell Oil gas stations located at the corner of Olympic Avenue and Bundy Avenue. The event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., is an attempt to draw the link between the United States’ oil addiction and the Bush administration’s drive towards war in Iraq.
The rally is sponsored by a broad coalition of groups, including Greenpeace, Global Watch, Democracy Rising, Peace Action, GlobalExchange, Sierra Student Coalition, Amazon Watch, and Power Shift.
“If our rush to war were about liberating oppressed people, we could be talking about Chechnya, Columbia, and a dozen other countries,” said Danny Meyer, the Westside Greens steering committee member. “If this were about weapons of mass destruction, we’d be in North Korea. But one thing is clear: Iraq is a potential menace to our oil supplies, and that is unacceptable to this administration.”
The organizers say that they are not attacking the station owners or motorists filling up, but trying to educate them about the impacts of fossil fuel and what people can do to alleviate the security and environmental threats posed.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 4, 2003. Read the original PDF.