Tomorrow is Worldwide Protest BP Day, and Seattle, never one to miss out on a good protest, will be hosting its protestation of BP at the usual spot and the usual time:
Start: June 12, at 12:00pm
Meeting Point: Westlake Center – 4th & Pine Downtown Seattle
If you’re going to go, you should join the Facebook Group for the Seattle event. And guess who’s advertising on that very page? It’s everyone’s favorite protector of the environment, and my old spring roll eating competitor:
I hope Dino Rossi comes out for the protest. Is he for BP or against it? I don’t know; he still doesn’t have an issues page.
Seattle is to protests what PCU is to protests.
(and Dino Rossi is Rand McPherson)
For the record, fb ads generally appear according to the demographic of the viewer, not the content of the page, which lends itself to the possibility of seeing a Rossi ad on some pretty salacious pages if one were so inclined to spend some time to get the screen shot.
So we’re having another protest which will be as effective as all those anti-war protests?
Maybe I’m numbed by American pols saying “I’ll control spending . . . “, but I cannot help but look at this and realize what they really mean by “controlling spending” is not so much “tamping down on too much spending”, but rather “control spending with an iron grip and a steely, manipulative gaze.”
With Rossi’s case, he means “control spending” like he tries to control the real estate market.
Not to marginalize BP’s practices or defend them in any way, and not to squelch current protests, but I find it hard to believe that the practices of any of the other oil companies are in any way more up to snuff than BP’s. The problem is not BP, but I’m probably preaching to the choir. I just find it hard to get pissed at BP as a company when I feel like this could have happened to ANY of the oil companies… or maybe it wouldn’t have happened to some of the other gigantic companies that are totally careful about production at the sacrifice of profits.
@4, I’d say an I for incomplete; they stopped shortly after January 2009 for some odd reason. Makes you wonder if they’d still be going on had the election gone the other way?
Sorry, not impressed with hypocrisy from either side of the political landscape.
we could drill for oil on dino’s face and we’d never run out
I think Rossi is using the Alvin Greene method of getting elected.
#6, actually BP is much worse. From this report:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bps-dismal-safe…
According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the “egregious, willful” violations handed out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The violations are determined when an employer demonstrated either an “intentional disregard for the requirements of the [law], or showed plain indifference to employee safety and health.”
OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 “egregious, willful” safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation.
I hear Rossi is busy trying to get our federal tax dollars diverted away from Washington State to his comrades in the failed Red States.
While walking on baby ducklings in spike heeled steel-shod boots.
Dino is sorry BP got caught.
So for those of us who don’t do “Facebook”, are there any other ways to get information about this?
I marked his facebook ads as ‘offensive.’
I was at the protest in Westlake yesterday, and it went off without a hitch. There were two main groups of protesters: those who came to protest BP and those who came to protest against Israeli/USA policy in Gaza and other parts of Palestine. Lots of people saw and heard us; most were very supportive as they came by to do shopping or just hang out in downtown on a beautiful day. There were also a few religious fundamentalists scattered about too, but I think they go down there every weekend, and didn’t have anything to do with the two larger groups who came to protest yesterday.
The great thing was that everybody was very peaceful, and groups were very supportive and even collaborative with each other. The cops were there on bikes, but didn’t give us any grief since we weren’t blocking traffic or doing anything illegal. Thank you, downtown Seattle bike cops. We did cross the crosswalks and walk around a bit as we held banners, said chants, and passed out literature/accepted donations from those willing, but basically we just wanted to make sure we were being heard.
My favorite part of the protest was when the Palestinian rights group marched with the group protesting BP (who I was with), in solidarity against American imperial policies that hurt human lives by seeking oil wherever and however it can be extracted, and in doing so, supporting governments such as Israel’s that violate Palestinian human rights. Yes, Hamas has done much to hurt Israeli civilians too, but this group wasn’t representing Hamas–just Palestinian civilians. Both sides spoke, and it was a very powerful moment, for me at least, to see a group of mostly white, leftist protesters standing up against BP with a group of mostly Palestinian/Arab protesters standing up against Israeli policy in Gaza, marching and speaking together, to show how their messages overlapped.
The fact that it was also one of the sunniest, warmest days of the year so far just made it that much better 🙂