Gulf Residents March 1,200 Miles to Congress to Call for BP Spill Action

[sasha031]

(video)

We're almost upon the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf spill. And though much of the nation seems ready to forget about the devastation wrought on the region, Gulf residents are still coping with the impacts from the spill even today. Rising gas prices have lead politicians to opportunistically call for more drilling, even while citizens and ecosystems around the Gulf remained imperiled and neglected. A group of Gulf residents and activists, fed up with the lack of action, set out from Louisiana for Washington by foot, in a symbolic act of protest. Today, they arrived in DC, where they're demanding a meeting with the president.

Matt Smith, Heather Rally, Gavin Garrison, Justin Daly, Lamar Billups of the nonprofit Project Gulf Impact, marched along with Drew Landey and Cherri Foytlin, two prominent residents of the region whose lives were irrevocably changed by the spill, in order to draw attention to the ongoing plight of the Gulf. The activists walked 1,243 miles over 31 days to make it to the nation's capitol.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/gulf-residents-march-1200-miles-congress-call-bp-spill-action.php

[polichick]

1. Call your Congresscritters people - Gulf residents need us to have their backs.

[marions ghost]

2. k & r

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