By Debra Sweet Friends: Saturday, 100 people gathered in New Orleans for the Gulf EMERGENCY Summit. We heard from people affected by the catastrophe, from people with expertise, passion, and ideas. We…
Category: Environment
The People Must Act to Stop Gulf Oil Catastrophe
Thank you to artist Stephanie McMillan for this! She’s offering this print as a fundraiser for the Gulf Emergency Summit. Please support! By Debra Sweet, Director of World Can’t Wait I‘ve been here in…
Obama’s Capitalist Drilling + Oil Spilling + Planet Killing!
By The Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait On April 20th 2010 the world witnessed what is becoming one of the worst man made environmental disasters in history. The oil spill from…
Gulf Oil Disaster: Obama Protested in Mississippi
While Barack Obama was visiting Gulfport Mississippi and promising to do something and having no scheduled public appearances, Larry Everest and Tracy Stern, organizers for the coming Emergency Summit to Stop…
An Extraordinary Crisis Requires an Extraordinary Response – the People Must Act to Stop the Gulf Catastrophe
Saturday, June 19, 2010 10 am—End Time TBA First Unitarian Universalist Church Sanctuary 5212 South Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, LA Website: gulfemergencysummit.org; Email: gulfemergencysummit@gmail.com The BP oil blowout is an…
A Forum of Misinformation: Confronting BP’s Shills in Slidell
By Elizabeth Cook A so-called “community forum” was held June 1 in Slidell, east of New Orleans. It was organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and not by…
New Orleans: Protesters Rage at BP
By Tina Susman and Nicole Santa Cruz Despite pelting rain and occasional blasts of thunder, some 200 people gathered in New Orleans’ French Quarter on Sunday to hear speakers demand the ouster…
How Big is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster?
On April 20th, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon left 17 workers injured and 11 missing and presumed dead. Oil is spewing from a well 5000 feet below sea level, discharging 200,000 gallons of crude…
Ecosystem Facing Disaster, A System Not Fit to Be Caretaker of the Earth
by Orpheus Reed and Larry Everest When you stick your finger into one of the orange-brown or black, asphalt-smelling globs of oil now washing into the wetlands where the Mississippi Delta…
BP and Administration: Lies, Deceit, and Coverup in the Gulf
by Stephen Lendman From the start, Obama administration and BP officials lied and deceived the public about the Gulf spill’s severity, BP CEO Tony Hayward saying (on May 18) its environmental effect…