Hands Across the Sand in Boulder

UPDATE: The Boulder Hands Across the Sand event is this Saturday, June 26, from 1-3 p.m. We will meet on the lawn area between the Boulder Municipal Building and the Boulder Public Library. The Boulder Municipal Building is located at the southwest corner of Broadway and Canyon. Hope you'll join us!

Hands Across the Sand

What's it going to take to protect the nation's beaches from more oil drilling once and for all? A historic outpouring of support -- one that overshadows all the money and influence Big Oil has in politics.

Vox is participating in gatherings of hundreds of thousands of Americans, standing together on June 26 to permanently protect our shores from offshore drilling.

Hands Across the Sand began with a flash rally earlier this year in Florida and quickly turned into the largest-ever gathering of citizens united against drilling -- and for protecting the state's famous shores. The statewide movement, called Hands Across the Sand, helped put to rest plans by the Florida legislature to repeal the state's long-standing moratorium against more drilling.

Sign up here to attend a Hands Across the Sand gathering near you, on June 26. The Boulder gathering will be from 1-3 this Saturday on the lawn area between the library and municipal building on Canyon Blvd. Hope to see you there!

an idea

a hole in the bottom of the sea; the strangulation of the entire ocean

food chain. the engine of our lives- oil! what we kill the earth to feed

to our machines: oil! it's like the black plague, but more insideous,

heartbreaking and endless.

we don't know how to process it.

we don't know how to react.

so we don't and it goes on and on, they say till next year.....what!!

isn't this oil catacysm tragic and insane and totally overwhelming!

oil, woven as it is like oxygen, into every aspect of our lives.

we were born into a world already wrapped in it's web, but there's another

world, another web.

i haven't known what to do, but i know this. and i'm exhausted from

feeling so powerless and deeply freaked out.

but i have an idea:

i think everyone's feeling it, and none of us, lacking solidarity networks

and the ability to truly LINK UP, (beyond digital devices and other

bullshit), knows what to do.

what if we started to organize in order to gather in big groups to mourn,

to grieve and to, feel it, to face it directly, let it in, and then

figure out how to take responsibility for stopping it.

fuck b.p. !! why do they get to be the only ones held "responsible"?

they are incapable of any honest response and can't feel any of it cos

they're a dead entity. and they bring death to all they touch.

we of the living, breathing hearts need to step up.

or otherwise, we are granting our consent to these criminal projects run

by insane strangers. and we don't want that. i know we don't want that!

this isn't about feeling guilty and culpable.

this is about community and grassroots power and living solutions.

we may not all be deep-sea engineers, but we can move. we are alive and

attached to this one planet, and we know what needs to be done.

hope is so close to denial that i don't trust it anymore. but hope has 2

beautiful daughters: anger and courage. anger at how things are and

courage to change these things.

let's see what's really possible. let's mobilize and start talking about it.

any ideas for where and when?

in love and rage, oak