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Raging Grannies Bust Tesla Motors Inc.

by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 2:07AM

The Peninsula Raging Grannies had a education event at the Tesla Motors Inc. dealership in Menlo Park on January 9, 2010. They protested the fact that the "green" company was planning to build a "green" electric assembly plant on top of a dump site in Downey California where many workers have been sickened by toxins and chemicals.

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Raging Grannies Bust Tesla Motors Inc.
The electric car developer Tesla Motors Inc. has said that it is considering building a "green" assembly plant at the highly toxic dump site in Downey California. IATSE Local Local 44 movie workers and Kaiser Downey workers have been sickened as a result of the fact that the Downey toxic dump site was not cleaned up properly.
On Jan 9, 2010 at the Tesla Inc. dealership in Menlo Park, California the Raging Grannies and the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day CCWMD had a speak-out on this insanity. The Grannies called for the NUMMI workers to be hired to build electric cars at the Fremont site. They also raised the issue of why the US DOE would give a $465 million dollar loan to Tesla Motors Inc. to build on a toxic "Brownfield" dump site.
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§Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk

by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 2:07AM

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Former CEO Paypal owner and Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk apparently has not got the word yet that the Downey site where they intend to build their "green" electric car is a highly contaminated toxic dump site where workers are still getting sick.

http://www.workersmemorialday.org

§Raging Grannies Bust Tesla Motors Inc.

by Labor Video Project (lvpsf(at)labornet.org)

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 1:37PM

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The electric car developer Tesla Motors Inc. has said that it is considering building
a "green" electric auto assembly plant at the highly toxic dump site in Downey California.
On Jan 9, 2010 at the Tesla Inc. dealership in Menlo Park, California the Raging Grannies
and the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day had a speak-out on this
insanity.

The electric car developer Tesla Motors Inc. has said that it is considering building
a "green" electric auto assembly plant at the highly toxic dump site in Downey California. IATSE Local
44 movie workers and Kaiser Downey SEIU UHW workers have been sickened as a result of
the fact that the site was not cleaned up properly.
On Jan 9, 2010 at the Tesla Inc. dealership in Menlo Park, California the Raging Grannies
and the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day had a speak-out on this
insanity.

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§Please Upload Video to Indybay

by Indymedia.

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 10:04AM

Please, upload your videos directly to Indybay. Uploading them to YouTube undermines one of the points of Indybay. We are trying to build independent media here.

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§Thank You

by Indymedia.

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 2:05PM

LVP, thank you for uploading your video directly to the Indybay server. Please keep it up and all the fantastic work.

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