America needs to be outraged by what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico! [View All]

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Run time: 09:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzAfuHMyPYY   Posted on YouTube: October 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: AwakeInLA Views on YouTube: 233   Posted on DU: October 03, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 708

 
This is an interview with John Wathen of Hurricane Creekkeepers, a Gulf Coast Activist/Environmentalist. The interview was done by Glynn Wilson of the Locust Fork News-Journal. Everyone should be as outraged about what is going on in the Gulf of Mexico as John Wathen is. Please take action and help to spread the truth. Help support John's efforts and visit these websites:

http://www.waterkeeper.org
http://www.hurricancreek.us

Here is a partial transcript of the interview:

We're going to have years of health issues that are coming. I think there's going to be a lot of instances like what we're seeing in Little Lagoon where police are running roughshod over journalists and over citizens, and that needs to be documented.

America needs to be outraged by what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico. It's not over! The cap may be on this, but the story has just begun..

We've got a long way to go and we've got a serious story to tell.

I don't know any better way at this time, than to use the free media like Youtube, Facebook, Myspace to communicate the truth.

There's a lot of information out there. You can take or leave whatever you find.

When you talk to people who are from the community and they talk about their sickness and they talk about their children with lesions on their bodies, and they talk about their grandchildren with headaches and throwing up and bleeding internally, there's a lot of credibility.

The impacts of this are not just going to be felt on the Coast. Because of the dispersants that were used on the oil, the hydrocarbons, the oil itself is now part of the water column.

Mixed with this other toxic chemical, this Corexit, it will evaporate, it will get into the rain clouds and it will come back down on us. The prevailing winds are taking this stuff across the Southeast. People as far north as Washington DC are impacted by the Gulf breezes. In reality the entire Southeast section of the US is potentially in the line of toxic air and acid rain.