Oil industry attempts to co-opt ’99 Percent’ movement

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Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster



A new radio ad campaign and website sponsored by the oil industry’s largest firms seeks to conflate union solidarity with the “Occupy” and “99 Percent” movements with the Keystone XL pipeline, which the White House delayed last week for approximately a year for greater study.

Called “Jobs for the 99,” the campaign has released two radio ads decrying “the Hollywood crowd” who’ve ostensibly taken over Washington, D.C., holding it hostage from creating jobs for oil industry workers. Both ads end with a credit that claims they were paid for by unions.

The truth, however, is that the campaign is sponsored by the Oil & Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, an umbrella group that, while unionized, is led by the chiefs of Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil and The American Petroleum Institute.

The “Jobs for the 99″ website urges viewers to contact the White House and pressure the president to support the Keystone XL pipeline. It also features a tool that will connect participants directly to the White House via telephone, simply by typing in their number.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/14/oil-industry-ads-attempt-to-co-opt-99-percent-movement/

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1. The heart of darkness

is what the oil bidniss is. The oiligarchy. They have the whole planet by the throat.