{"id":1303,"date":"2012-05-30T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-06-03T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:06:49","slug":"underwear-protest-on-wellington-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/underwear-protest-on-wellington-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwear Protest on Wellington Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">Original article by Michael Forbes, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\">Dominion Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Generation Zero &#8211; Young people at work on Transportation Choice!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2012\/05\/Gen0.8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1310\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2012\/05\/Gen0.8-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2012\/05\/Gen0.8-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2012\/05\/Gen0.8-430x300.jpg 430w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2012\/05\/Gen0.8.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There were more than a few raised eyebrows on the train from Ngauranga to Wellington today as 40 young people did the morning commute in their underwear.<\/p>\n<p>They were part of a youth environmental group called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/generationzero.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Generation Zero<\/a><\/strong>, which fights for climate change action and inter-generational justice.<\/p>\n<p>Group organiser James Young-Drew, 22, said the stunt was designed to launch their 50:50 campaign, which is protesting the government&#8217;s plans to spend $14 billion on highway projects over next decade but not nearly as much on &#8221;smart transport options&#8221; such as light rail, buses and cycleways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/news\/7006213\/Underwear-protest-on-Wellington-trains\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Michael Forbes, at the Dominion Post Generation Zero &#8211; Young people at work on Transportation Choice! There were more than a few raised eyebrows on the train from Ngauranga to Wellington today as 40 young people did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/underwear-protest-on-wellington-trains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6844,6849,62,146,6830,6845],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-freedom","category-new-zealand","category-policy","category-tdm","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}