Photo by Graham Boyle.

Opposition to the 18th Street streetscape project in Adams Morgan is starting to mount. But it’s not only business owners concerned about perception who are upset that the city is tearing up one of its busiest stretches of pavement.

A group of community activists and artists who reside in the neighborhood are none too pleased that the city is cutting down several trees as part of the project. So they took to the street and gave one tree a human makeover, and “creating a huggable, protesting ‘treeperson’.” The sign around the tree’s trunk reads “Give me libertree or give me breath!”

While it’s certainly a fairly adorable protest, we’re sure that this won’t stop the city from cutting the trees down. Of course, the District Department of Transportation’s plans for the project calls for trees to line the street again after the project is completed.