Hundreds gathered outside BP’s DC headquarters on Friday to call for a “Citizens Arrest” of CEO Tony Hayward on the charges of criminal negligence. Meanwhile, several dozen people converged on a BP service station in Pensacola on Sunday to mobilize support for a boycott and a minor league baseball team in Viera, FL is changing the name of “batting practice” or “BP” for short to “hitting rehearsal.”
A group of New York City immigrant advocates calling on lawmakers to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act or “DREAM” joined high school and college students for a hunger strike in Washington Square Park on Friday. Some of the demonstrators had been fasting since Tuesday.
About 100 people rallied on the California-Mexico border Thursday to protest the death of a migrant after a U.S. immigration officer shot him with a stun gun.
Eight people were arrested after chaining themselves together outside the federal building in Santa Ana, CA on Thursday as part of a protest against Arizona’s recent immigration legislation. They were also calling on Santa Ana to declare itself a sanctuary city.
Alabama fisherman, who’ve been idled by the massive ban on fishing in the oiled waters of the Gulf of Mexico, formed a blockade of the Mississippi Sound to protest BP’s hiring of more recreational boaters than commercial fishermen to aid in the cleanup.
Around 400 workers from Chicago’s Hyatt Regency hotel staged a brief but pointed walkout last Wednesday to protest poor working conditions.
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– Gaza, no further comment.
– “Citizens arrest” of Mr. Hayward for criminal negligence? I suppose asking for evidence would be too much to ask…
– DREAM Act? Where does Congress come up with these names? Come back to the US leagily if they want to be US citizens.
– So, let me get this straight: a Mexican national entered the United States illegally. “Hernandez became combative with agents” then “ignored repeated orders to stop fighting and wrestled two Border Patrol agents to the ground” and to top it all off “The coroner said Wednesday that methampetemaine abuse and hypertension contributed to the death” http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Illegal-Immigrant-Taser-Death-Ruled-a-Homicide–95449094.html
To sum up, a 100 people were protesting that a drug using illegal alien that fought with law enforcement officers was shot with a taser?
– Arizona law is both legal and appropriate. I have no idea why people are upset about this.
– Unions throwing a contract tissy? There’s a shocker. What exactly WERE these poor working conditions? Not getting $40/hour?