Hands Across the Sand Virginia
By Joel McDonald • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Related News & Events
Join Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation in drawing a human line in the sand to protest drilling off our Virginia coast. Mark your calendar now for “Hands Across the Sand” on Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach.
“Hands Across the Sand” is quickly growing as a movement across the U.S. after first starting in Florida earlier this year when over 10,000 Floridians locked hands over 75 beaches in protest to drilling.
People of all walks of life are coming together in protest to offshore drilling. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our shoreline, our waterways, our tourism, our coastal military missions and our valuable properties.
Our national treasure that is the Chesapeake Bay, our sensitive coastal wetlands, and our highly lucrative tourism and fishing industries are completely dependent on clean beaches and healthy ocean waters. We must appreciate the bounty we have in coastal Virginia and how much we stand to lose if oil drilling were to occur.
Check out Hands Across the Sand on Facebook and at their website for more information on volunteering to help, and lending your support.
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Joel McDonald has been following Virginia politics since February 2008, starting with the Democratic Presidential Primary. Since then, he has been the primary new media contact for progressive district and statewide campaigns.
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Oh yes, let’s keep pumping millions and millions of dollars overseas to Obama’s buddies and countries who would rather see us dead. Seems suspecious Obama is against off shore drilling and now we have the BP spill, and a gas line explosion a couple weeks ago. Seems like Chicago Politics at its very lowest.
John,
Whoa buddy…let’s return to the land of reality, shall we?