ART HELPS HEAL :: OIL & WILDLIFE

Art heals: Children's Illustrators help Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Victims:

http://bit.ly/9d817G

(via Twitter @IBRRC )

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A BROWN PELICAN'S JOURNEY

Wings and a prayer: One brown pelican's journey of hope

http://bit.ly/9Wus61

(via Twitter @IBRRC )

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ILLUSSION OF HEALTH

A personal account of a visit to Grand Isle, Louisiana. A very
interesting one, too.

Story link: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/59929
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[Via iPhone]

BP NOT PAYING NON PROFITS' CLAIMS

NON PROFITS HAVE LOSSES TOO!

The following is from MISSISSIPPI CENTER for NONPROFITS:

 

"If you have already approached BP for a reimbursement for financial loss using their claims process and have not been successful, we'd like to know. Send an email to Nonprofit Claims.

For information about the claims process, please go to Claims Information  to read and download the two documents. 

The MISSISSIPPI CENTER for NONPROFITS will be sending another survey soon to continue capturing data on the impact of the oil spill on our nonprofits along the Gulf Coast."

Mark R. McCrary

Executive Director

 

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TOXIC WATER SAMPLE EXPLODES!

And you LET people and KIDS PLAY in the unseen TOXIC BEACH SAND and
WATER???

What is wrong with this picture???

The states and the owners of coastal condo rentals, hotel owners,
casinos, and other business owners in beach areas are touting "the
beaches and water are fine- come on down!" (Spend your dollars!)

Because they ONLY care about their own pockets, they are getting
people, who don't "get" the magnitude of this oil spill, to believe
what they say through faux sincere, beautifully shot TV PR ads! "Come
I'd Vacation and spend money at ALL COST! Cause It's only your HEALTH,
people.

WAKE UP!!
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Video from WKRG - Gulfshores Orange Beach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekmdPCAQ0U&feature=youtube_gdata

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OS :: NEW HARBOR MASTER OFFICE

New harbor master office coming to Ocean Springs: Work has officially
begun on a new harbor masters office at the ...

http://bit.ly/8XohDq

(via Twitterrific: @WLOX )

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LARGEST KATRINA VOLUNTEER CAMPS CLOSE

Mission on the Bay, Camp Coast Care, and Camp Victor (which has been in Ocean Springs) will close on August 30th. after 5 steady years of devoted work helping with Hurrucane Katrina recovery.

Read the wonderful letter by 

Elizabeth Wheatley-Jones

Mission Director and Chaplain

Mission on the Bay

 

on the daily blog: http://www.reliefvolunteers.com/hancockdailyblog.html 

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BILOXI - OIL SPILL RESOURCES / CLAIMS

Non-profits to host spill resources and claims fair

Several local non-profit agencies will host an Oil Spill Resources and Claims Fair on Thursday, July 8 from noon to 8 p.m. at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum.

( Bmail - Biloxi Newsletter)

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HANCOCK CO. BEACHES CLOSED

Thousands of Tar Balls Wash Ashore

http://www.reliefvolunteers.com/hancockdailyblog.html

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70s BP DISASTER BOARD GAME

A 1970s Prophetic Oil Spill Board Game touted as "Fun for the Whole
Family"! Yep! That's a good one to pretend about.

What ignorance, even back then!!

Link: http://thedailywh.at/post/776960693/things-that-are-real-of-the-day-this-is-an-actual

Photo of game: http://twitpic.com/22y4z3

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ROLE of BIRDS :: OIL SPILL

On the role of birds in our world: Good column by Houston Chronicle's
Ken Hoffman:
http://bit.ly/bCWweN

Via Twitteriffic / @IBRRC

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NEWS :: OIL & COAST from TWITTER

AND GOVT/ BP / ARMY CORP / NATIONAL GUARD ALL KEEP LETTING OIL COME IN
& SPREAD!!
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@GulfOilCleanup Fishing ban in fed waters expanded; 1/3 of Gulf closed!!
http://bit.ly/asACjX

As I've said before:
COZY-CHENEY-COLLUSIVE "Laws"... This should be a crime!
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@audubonsociety RT @sejorg: "As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps
Subsidies"
http://bit.ly/9P4LCS

Should I cry? NOT!
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@GulfOilCleanup To pay oil spill costs, BP may sell Asian and South
American fields http://bit.ly/9qP7Xw

At least this is a smart move:
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@GulfOilCleanup Cleaning facility for oiled birds moved out of
hurricane zone...
http://bit.ly/aXnOVy

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SICK and DYING :: POWERFUL BRITISH REPORT

SPREAD This FAR and WIDE!

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[posted via iPhone]  -Thank you L.C. for this video!! 

Banned by BP from YouTube- Ha!!! No wonder- LOOK what YOU'VE DONE!!

  

                                    

SHIP ISLAND OIL and DYING BIRDS

OILED BIRDS SEEN DYING ON SHIP ISLAND

The above link will take you to one of the saddest stories I've read lately, mainly because visitors and children became witnesses to the outrageous scene that had reached one of our beautiful barrier islands.

The part that baffles me is the REASON this scene has been allowed to happen.

Why have people and the White House dragged their feet, ignored the catastrophy out in the Gulf of Mexico, disallowed Skimmers from coming to our aid and allowed BP to run the show? COLLUSION.

Why had the President NOT used his time wisely? Why has he NOT used his Executive Powers to over-ride STUPID and/or OUTDATED "rules/laws?" RED TAPE.

Why have the Skimmers remained in other locations? The supposed, ridiculous reason is, "they might be needed." (is there something we don't know about?)

The ISSUE IS, you idiots, those Skimmers are NEEDED NOW... they were NEEDED 70+ days ago!!! Skimmers brought in could have worked together and stopped the oil from moving in on us. RED TAPE.

More boom, at the beginning, should have been put in place. City Mayors are STILL having to plead for boom and ask "permission" to use it??? Red TAPE.

You've disallowed ships and Skimmers from other countries who've attempted to come to our aid and help us. How does this make America look? What is being hidden? Red Tape!

What are you thinking?


Oh! You're NOT thinking! You are playing games. You and all of those involved in this lack-of-management, brainless, air-headed collision course with Nature are Red-Taping the Gulf of Mexico, its people, its businesss, and its sealife to death. YOU are the problem.

You are the terrorists - proven by your lack of control over BP, the biggest oil spill in history, the largest environmental catastrophy in America, the deaths of thousands of peoples' ways-of-life, the deaths of thousands upon thousands of animal lives and undersea life forms.

You, Mr. President, have proven you are ignorant of the enormity of, the seriousness of, and the long-term effects of this Ecological Disaster. by ignoring the need for immediacy of the situation. Thus, You are aiding and abbetting BP's lies and cover-up schemes - their use of Dispersants has purposely hidden the true spill amount and delayed the ability to skim the spill. Dispersants and Burning oil have needlessly added to the ecological disaster and to the numbers of sealife deaths. Burning animals alive, most noticeably Sea Turtles- including babies - is reprehensible and evil.

All of you are cowards hanging onto ignorance, cozy associations of which you all benefit while people along the Gulf Coast are dying emotionally, economically, and literally and animal life is suffering ungodly torture and undeserved death.

YOU should be in THEIR place!!!

WAKE UP... and PRAY for yourselves.


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