environment - Gulf Emergency Summit

My friend Jason King sent me this link. The site provides detail I have yet to see on TV. I believe it speaks for itself.

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The Emergency Committee to Stop the Gulf Oil Disaster:
504-644-7214
gulfemergencysummit.org
gulfemergencysummit@gmail.com

The BP oil blowout is an environmental catastrophe, bringing great peril to marine and wildlife in the Gulf and threatening ecosystems of the planet. The spill is still out of control and spreading. It jeopardizes communities and livelihoods. The government and BP have proven unable and unwilling to stop the disaster, protect the Gulf, or even tell the truth. The people must come together now to stop this nightmare.
This 15-minute video of Kindra Arneson, the wife of a Louisiana fisherman is well worth watching. Not that it is any surprise but, guess what, we're not getting the whole truth from the media.

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IMAGE CREDITS: 1- Code Green cartoon by Stephanie McMillan, who also maintains an entertaining weblog named Minimum Security, "The thrilling story of revolutionaries saving the world from ecocidal maniacs!"; 2- Fishing Closure Map US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

fitful online wanderings

 • At A Poor Wayfaring Stranger photos of BP Oil's contribution to the Gulf of Mexico's environmental culture.
 • Tim Herrick's strange meanderings around Jersey City
 • Wood's Lot goes a-traveling.
 • Digby, at Hullabaloo wonders why folks get upset at Helen Thomas but not at the wing-nut xenophobic governor of Arizona.
 • Jim Gottstein continues to crusade against forced psychiatric confinement. More people should look into this effort, especially folks who don't have much to do with the industry known as "The Mental Health System"
 • "The Ahnold" thinks now is a good time to beg the federal government for money for high speed rail transport in California.

 • until next time th-th-that's All Folks!