This Saturday, March 1st, Portland will join 74 other cities in a protest against Tesla, the company owned by Elon Musk. And of course someone has organized a group ride to the event.
Musk has become a lightning rod of controversy since President Donald Trump took over the presidency last month. As an unelected member of Trump’s inner circle, Musk has haphazardly slashed workforces at government agencies, throwing thousands of lives into disarray. His motivations and actions have been based o personal grudges and business interests. Musk also made a Nazi salute at an event in January, then brushed it off as if it were just a joke.
“The news is pretty grim these days. If Congress won’t act, how can anyone stop a hostile government takeover by Nazis?” reads the Ride to Tesla Takedown Protest event description. “#TeslaTakedown is a grassroots, leaderless movement to take down Elon Musk’s greatest source of wealth: his over-inflated car company.”
Organizers behind Tesla Takedown say 74 cities across America have signed up to participate. The plan is to meet up and make signs, then ride to a Tesla dealership to discourage new customers, implore existing owners to sell their Teslas, and to dump stock in the company.
“If you know of someone who owns a Tesla, encourage them to sell it and trade up for an E-Bike or Electric Cargo Bike (or one of the many other better EV’s on the market!” organizers of Saturday’s event say.
The ride will meet at 9:00 am at Floyd’s Coffee in Ladd Circle, then ride to the Tesla showroom on South Macadam. More details on the Shift calendar.
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Conveniently located next door to the ICE building.
Portland “don’t end up on Fox News again” challenge
loooool
Nah, let’s keep ending up on Fox News until one or both of these things happen 1) the rule of law is restored and/or 2) Fox viewers take us off their vacation destination list
As a fed employee I wish you luck, safety and thank you for your efforts!! It’s been insane the last little bit and bringing peaceful attention is good attention!
Great idea to trade T*slas for e-bikes 🙂
If the South Macadam location isn’t convenient, there are dealerships in Tigard, Vancouver, and Salem as well.
One thing I’ve noticed is that Tesla drivers especially WankPanzer operators are very careless about how they park. Anyone can take a few minutes out of their day to report these parking violations which I have been making a point to do anytime I see a Tesla abandoned in an illegal way. The Portland enforcement hotline can be reached at 503-823-5195.
Please, please, please no vandalism. I too despise Elon, but messing up his stuff makes Portland and Oregon look bad and builds sympathetic support for the richest man in the world. Vandalizing musk’s junk could also result in painful retribution on all Oregonians, from a cruel and vindictive president.
Meanwhile Tesla is not the attractive brand it once was and it is losing market share without outside help.
Strange that the thousands of pedestrians and bicyclists killed and maimed last year were done in by the likes of Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, etc and no one cares. I do however remember a while back some radicals down in Eugene fire-bombed some SUV’s made my GM and Ford.