Jul 20 2010

‘Be the One’

(2PM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)

In ‘Be the One’ video, Sandra Bullock, Drew Brees, Lenny Kravitz come together for the Gulf

July 20, 2010 First Sandra Bullock, then Blake Lively, then Wendell Pierce.

Each actor holds up a finger and looks straight into the camera. Saints quarterback Drew Brees urges viewers to “be the one for all the people whose livelihoods depend on the Gulf.” “Be the one for healthy, flourishing wetlands,” says musician Lenny Kravitz. “Be the one for sea turtles,” says actor John Goodman. For another famous quarterback, Eli Manning, “long days at the beach” are what’s at stake.

How, exactly, to “be the one” for all these things?

The dizzying array of celebrities flashing across the screen in the 100-second video has the answer: Sign a petition demanding more money to restore Gulf Coast ecosystems in the wake of the BP oil spill. Continued

“Restore the Gulf” Campaign Petition, Sign On

There is only some 750plus signatures so far, be quick to add yours!!

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  1. Finger-pointing over Deepwater Horizon explosion grows heated

    July 19, 2010 Testimony before a panel investigating the cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion grew heated Monday as lawyers for various companies connected to the rig attempted to place blame on one another and angled to expose maintenance problems they say existed before the April 20 accident.

    BP lawyers sought to highlight unfinished work by the rig owner, Transocean, and a rash of equipment problems. Witnesses who worked on the rig for BP’s contractors were guarded in their testimony, but at times piled more fuel on a growing pile of evidence suggesting BP authorized corner-cutting, cost-saving measures in the hours leading up to the accident. Continued

    The People, We, got to take on these corporate giants and bring them down to size, literally, All of them connected to this disaster are at fault, as are their investors especially in not pushing for the needed investments into worse case scenario’s and up to date better technology for clean up when something like this happens, and it does all the time but not on this scale, All For The Bottom Line And Personal Wealth!!!!!!!!!

  3. I signed on.

    BTW, heard Ed Schultz earlier today, he said that BP had sent the “blowout preventer” (I believe that what he called it) to China, and an overhaul, in order to save money.

    I know we’re all being asked for money for this and that, but if you give a little to the Environmental Defense Fund, it would help them a great deal in all their efforts to help clean up restore, etc. along the Gulf coast.



    EDF President Fred Krupp

    scooping up a tarball on a

    recent trip to the Gulf.

    Please donate now to our

    $2-for-$1 Gulf Recovery

    Match Campaign.

    Our online goal is to raise

    $100,000 by August 5th.

  4. There’s nothing there about accountability for damages already done (read: BP for financial accountability, Congress, Bush Admin, and Obama Admin for moral accountability), nor is there anything there about about preventing more catastrophes!!!

    The government could fulfill this petition’s single demand by just creating a plan that would slap a tax on working people, and make us pay for BP’s greed, and Congress’ corruption!!

    If they want to reword it to at least say “and make BP pick up the tab”, then I’ll sign it (even if it ignores the main culprits, which are Congress, Bush and Obama).

  5. I think they should have gone with John Goodman from Treme…

  6. Unfortunately, I can’t provide a link, because of the way that it’s encoded by msnbc.com

    If you want to see it, bring up msnbc tv (from msnbc.com), and look for the July 30 video called “Bullock questions big oil ties to group”.

    Turns out that Big Oil funded that campaign, which is what I suspected.

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