Hitler finds out about the BP Oil Spill - Boing Boing

Hitler finds out about the BP Oil Spill - Boing Boing

Poor, Sammy.

Here's my press release for tomorrow.

Nation-wide Protests at BP to Demand the U.S. Get out of Bed with BP. STOP Tar Sands! Contact: Dana Balicki 202 422 8624 Rae Abileah 415 994 1723 Traci Guynup, Lancaster, PA 717 824 2524 June 18th, 2010

On June 19, 60 days after the Gulf oil spill, the women-led organization CODEPINK, Sierra Club, and Color for Change will bring their outrage to their local BP gas station at 310 Centerville Road Lancaster, PA at 2:30 p.m. to denounce BP as a criminal company that has violated human rights, caused world-wide environmental degradation, and spent millions lobbying Congress to fight regulations.. Marisa Tomei, Darryl Hannah, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ed Begley, along with mermaids, and coastal land-dwellers across the country have taken a pledge to Boycott BP and dozens of cities will take that pledge to the streets this weekend. WHEN: Saturday, June 19 WHERE: BP gas station at 310 Centerville Road Lancaster, PA at 2:30 p.m. For more information on these actions please visit our site www.codepink.org/boycottbpday or contact Rae Abileah at 415 994 1723, rae@codepink.org for more details/local contact info. For more information on the connection of BP with the Pentagon, Afghanistan and Iraq, please read, Kick Ass or Buy Gas by Nick Turse, the Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/36369/kick-ass-or-buy-gas?page=0,1 "In 2009, according to the Defense Energy Support Center, the military awarded $22.5 billion in energy contracts. More than $16 billion of that went to purchasing bulk fuel. Some ten top petroleum suppliers got the lion's share, more than $11.5 billion, among them big names like Shell, Exxon Mobil and Valero. The largest contractor, however, was BP, which received more than $2.2 billion—almost 12 percent of all petroleum-contract dollars awarded by the Pentagon for the year." Nick Turse BP has reckless disregard for ALL LIFE on this planet - human or otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP Since 1965, it has gained the reputation as the worst company in the oil industry. There are eight (8) other human and environmental disasters listed in their wiki. "We not only call for an end to the liability caps so that BP is fully responsible for all cleanup costs, criminal prosecution of BP and EPA officials whose unthinkable negligence led to this disaster, and a real commitment to clean, safe energy options,” says Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Cofounder, “but also a transparent investigation and prosecution of BP--unless BP stands for Beyond Prosecution, those in the gulf deserve to see this level of accountability." Diane Wilson, fourth generation shrimper from Texas who has made headlines recently with her creative protests in Congress in Senate Energy hearings and in yesterday's testimony from BP CEO Tony Hayward, made this statement with CODEPINK on Boycotting BP, "BP is a criminal company that has ignored safety regulations at the health of our oceans and even its own workers. Tony Hayward and BP need to be held accountable for their criminal activities as well as paying every last cent they may have to the families in the Gulf affected by their willful, criminal neglect. Our message to Obama, and Congress: BP must pay to clean up this mess and our government must move to end offshore drilling and move us into a new century of clean energy.” Even while BP has NOT managed to stop the hemorrhaging of oil from the Gulf of Mexico, they are planning to completely destroy pristine areas of Montana and Idaho, & Glacier National Park through their Tar Sands project! CODEPINK most recently made headlines with their disruption of BP CEO Tony Hayward' s testimony in Congress on June 17 and for a nearly nude action at BP Headquarters in Houston, TX to expose the 'naked truth' about BP's history of negligence and pollution. You can read more about CODEPINK's Boycott BP actions at www.codepink.org/bp

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