Hit the showers, Exxon!

Launched! The campaign to get Exxon’s advertising dollars out of Nationals Park is officially underway. There was a healthy press turnout, with FOX News, WJLA and WAMU radio among those present to get the scoop on the campaign to Strike Exxon Out at Nationals Park.

A successful and well attended event with representatives from CCAN, Greenpeace, Hip Hop Caucus, Friends of the Earth and Oil Change International addressing Exxon’s attempt to piggyback on the Nationals’ LEED Silver Certified stadium to “green-wash” their brand. Not on our watch! Keep Nationals Park truly green!

Now we’ve got to keep the ball rolling. The first five volunteers to sign up to hand out literature at Nationals home games will get free tickets to the game. You read correctly, free tickets. To Nationals home games. For the rest of the season. If you want to help educate the public about Exxon’s long history of environmental destruction and funding of global warming denial groups AND get free tickets to a Nationals home game, this volunteer opportunity is for you. But you’ve got to act soon, spots are filling up. Here’s where you sign up.

VP of Exxon is a Fossil Fool!

Watch as our very dear billionaires for oil try to present one of their brethren, J. Steven Simon, Director and Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil, with his Fossil Foolie Award! Unfortunately, Mr. Simon didn’t accept the award, though “the body guards somewhat acknowledged us.”

Billionaires for Oil greet oil executives

Today, Director and Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil J. Steven Simon, President of Shell John Hoffmeister, Vice Chairman of Chevron Peter J. Robertson, Executive Vice President J.E. (John) Lowe, and Chairman and President of BP America Robert A. Malone arrived at the Cannon Office Building to report to the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. These men were greeted by “Billionaires for Oil“, a giant piggybank, and students who were asking them to invest in their future, not new gas.

This action was part of a nation-wide student-lead campaign called, “Fossil Fools Day,” a day of activism and non-violent direct action to bring awareness of global warming. Students in Boston chained themselves to a bank, residents in North Carolina stopped construction on a coal plant, and more. Students greeted the executives in front of the Cannon building with boos and signs that said “, for pictures, go here.
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