Hands Across the Sand 2011

Hands Across the Sand event in Atlantic City, New Jersey - June 26, 2010.

Hands Across (and around) the Sand event in San Francisco - June 26, 2010.

This Saturday, June 25th, Hands Across the Sand will take place around the world. At twelve noon, participants are asked to join hands as a symbol to the world that we do not want oil drilling off our pristine beach. Last year, this small group assembled at Pelican Beach (Satellite Beach), was among the 100,000 participants in all 50 states and 43 countries.

This year’s Hands Across the Sand could not come at a more important time. With memories of the BP Horizon disaster fading from the public memory, and gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon, the oil industry and their allies in Congress are mounting a major effort to dramatically expand oil drilling in US waters. They are even bringing back a proposal that seemed unthinkable a year ago—oil drilling on New England’s Georges Bank, one of the richest fisheries on earth. The truly scary part is that Big Oil is making progress. In Washington DC the House of Representatives recently passed 3 bills that would have required a massive expansion of offshore drilling, and a recent poll shows that public support for drilling is on the rise as gas prices tick up. Join hands Saturday to send a message to our representatives. Read more at:
http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/