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By scarletredthread • 16 years ago

Get Your Activism On! Hold BP Responsible.

Crossposted at A Bookish Beemer

MoveOn.org is sponsoring a rally in Louisville, Kentucky this Thursday. The rally is to urge Congress to  make BP take responsibility for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf. Here are the details:

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. It will take years and billions of dollars to repair the damage to the Gulf Coast’s ecosystems and fishing and tourism industries.

Who will pay for this awful mess? If BP gets its way, you will.
So I’m working with the local MoveOn Council to organize a rally in Louisville—to tell Congress to make BP pay!

The event is on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010, at 5:00 PM in Louisville. The location of our event is: Douglas Loop.

To RSVP for this event, click here. To search for a rally in your area, click here.

I’ll be attending the one in Louisville this Thursday. I urge you to go to this rally. Protests and rallies are a great way to participate in this political system, and a good way to show that your support making BP take personal responsibility for cleaning up after itself–in an ocean that belongs to everyone.
By scarletredthread • 17 years ago

Irresponsible Journalism

I am a third-year college student, and am running for Vice-President at my school’s Student Government Association. I’m a political science major, and I’ve been involved for a couple of years, so I know how nasty elections can get. However, this really pisses me off. 

For the link-squeamish, I’ll summarize. It’s a blog by the editor of a online campus magazine, who was invited to moderate the debate for all the executive candidates for our yearly election.

In this blog, she is complaining about the lack of attendance at the debate, blames SGA, and launches into a tirade about how much SGA "sucks" and gives us "suggestions" on how to get more students involved.

Those suggestions are to set up tables in ...

I am a third-year college student, and am running for Vice-President at my school’s Student Government Association. I’m a political science major, and I’ve been involved for a couple of years, so I know how nasty elections ...