BP gets DC office building stormed over spreading oil spill

At lunchtime on the 4th of June, protesters stormed the doors of BP’s corporate office building at 1101 NY Ave.

After a rally outside featuring a giant oil drum, people crossed the street and pushed through the outer doors of the lobby, intending to make a “citizen’s arrest” of BP executives for the oil spill off the Gulf Coast. The spill was described by Rev Yearwood (who is from Louisiana) as “worse than Katrina” for African-American and Native-American fishermen on the Gulf Coast, as it will probably result in a possible permanent end to their way of life.


There was CONSIDERABLE mainstream press interest in this event-usually when I go into a building with protesters, I am the ONLY reporter present-not this time! Let’s see if any of that footage the big cameras shot ever comes out on TV…

The attempt to take BP executives into custody for their crimes was not a success, though someone brought old-school striped jail jumpsuits for them. perhaps some better luck with Gitmo(and DC Jail)-orange jumpsuits and a Black Bloc to arrange delivery next time? Or how about none of us at all-just a bunch of pissed-off fisherman, their boats docked on the Potomac River, seeking to take these BP bastards out on a cruise?