Here are materials to help you organize in your community around responses and solutions to BP's Oil Drilling Disaster.
Please distribute these materials among your friends and family!
Online Petition
The Gulf Coast must be defended from the oily onslaught from BP's drilling disaster, but BP’s efforts have fallen short. The government must take control of the clean up while BP remains solely responsible for writing checks.
Once you have used this online form to send a message calling on the government to federalize the response, spread the word to your friends and family and encourage them to join the call.
Ask your friends to get involved in the fight for the Gulf!
Written Petition
Restore the Gulf, Defend Our Communities, Protect the Gulf Future! Printable Petition
Start to organize your community around the BP drilling disaster issue by printing out this petition in PDF format. Be sure to get your family, friends, and neighbors to sign! Take it with you to work, school, church, or when you're out and about.
Once you have gathered some signatures, please label with date collected and a description of the event and mail them ASAP to Sunshine Bond (address below).
Outreach and Educational Materials
Defend the Gulf! 8.5" x 11" Fact Sheet - This sheet provides visuals and quick talking points about BP's drilling disaster's negative impacts on the Gulf region, and about the practical solutions for disaster response and to avoid future catastrophes.
Gulf Wildlife Are Threatened - Take Action! Flyer - BP's oil drilling disaster is threatening the Gulf of Mexico's marine wildlife. Here's a quick and easy way to get people involved in the issue - just print out some of these flyers, put'em in your pocket and go! The flyer lists the www.bpdrillingdisaster.org informational action website.
BP Drilling Disaster Talking Points - An easy, reference guide to talking about the catastrophe and what needs to happen next.
BP's Oil Drilling Disaster Response Organizing Toolkit - This 12-page toolkit covers talking points, event organizing, and generating media to help make sure the federal government and BP stick to their promises about restoring the Gulf, making our comunities whole, and ensuring this type of calamity never happens again.
If you need more information about the materials or about how to start organizing in your community, please contact:
Ayn Pivonka, Campaign Assistant
504.525.1528 x 217
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Gulf Restoration Network
338 Baronne Street, Suite 200
New Orleans, LA 70112
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