PHOTOS FROM TODAY: 4th Generation Shrimper Protests BP CEO Tony Hayward In Congress

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Activist Diane Wilson, who describes herself as a commercial Gulf of Mexico shrimp fisherman from Texas, disrupts BP CEO Tony Hayward's opening statement before being arrested during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Capitol Hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing




A Capitol Hill police officer arrests Diane Wilson on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, as BP CEO Tony Hayward testified before the Energy and Environment subcommittee on Oversight d Investigations hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)




Protester Diane Wilson is escorted from the hearing room after disrupting the hearing of BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward (R) before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for a hearing on "The Role Of BP In The Deepwater Horizon Explosion And Oil Spill" in Washington, DC. Hayward vowed the British energy giant would repair the economic and environmental devastation caused by the oil spill. (AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong)




Activist Diane Wilson, who describes herself as a commercial Gulf of Mexico shrimp fisherman from Texas,is arrested by a U.S. Capitol police officer during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing




A U.S. Capitol police officer struggles with activist Diane Wilson, who describes herself as a commercial Gulf of Mexico shrimp fisherman from Texask, who was disrupting BP CEO Tony Hayward's opening statement before being arrested, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque




Police escort activist Diane Wilson, who describes herself as a commercial Gulf of Mexico shrimp fisherman from Texas, out of the committee room after she was arrested for disrupting a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the BP oil spill, immediately after BP CEO Tony Hayward was sworn in on Capitol hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque




Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., holds an Associated Press photo taken by Charlie Riedel, of an oil covered pelican, the state bird of Louisiana, as he questions BP CEO Tony Hayward, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, during the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on 'the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)




Actor and Ocean Therapy Solutions partner Kevin Costner, left, talks with Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010 following a hearing on Gulf oil spill cleanup proposals.« Read less (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)




Actor Kevin Costner and his daughter Annie listen to BP CEO Tony Hayward testify about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque




BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Sen. Landrieu - who said that, though that oil derrick in Australia was on fire last year, "19,999 were not on fire." http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hissyspit/7743

[xultar]

1. Landreau is a dispicable woman and I cannot stand her.

[Hissyspit]

2. She made a complete ass of herself last year in defending BP.

FLASHBACK: Landrieu mocks offshore drilling safety concerns

This has got to be an uncomfortable fact for Mary Landrieu: six months ago, in a hearing on offshore oil drilling safety, Landrieu sided with David Rainey, BP's Vice President of Exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, who had just vouched for the safety of drilling in the Gulf.

Moments after Rainey said drilling in the Gulf of Mexico "has been going on for the last fifty years, and it has been going on in a way that is both safe and protective of the enviroment," Landrieu derisively mocked drilling safety concerns, dismissing the risks of drilling as inconsequential.

Landrieu's comments focused on a offshore drilling disaster in Australia in which just over 800,000 gallons of oil were spilled, saying that such an accident could not occur in the United States because our safety regulations wouldn't allow such a mishap. At the time, The Hill reported:

An oil spill halfway around the world has flowed all the way to Capitol Hill and the Senate fight over offshore drilling.

The spill off the western Australian coast spewed oil into the ocean for 10 weeks, eventually engulfing a platform and the attached drilling rig in flames.

Opponents of offshore drilling are now using images from the spill as a warning sign of what could happen off the U.S. coast if expanded drilling is allowed. ... At the same hearing, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), a strong oil industry ally, warned against using the spill to smear the industry’s safety record – or block new drilling off U.S. shores.

Remarkably, Landrieu made her comments sitting in front of an image of the Australian rig engulfed in flames. Pointing to it, Landrieu said: "This rig would not be allowed to operate in the United States of America."

"The fact is these things happen... Since we have 4,000 structures like this in the Gulf, I'm going to rough that we have 20,000 in the world. So, 19,999 were NOT on fire.... The oil spills from this would fill up one-third of the Reflecting Pool outside the Capitol."

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3. How does this disgusting woman

get re-elected?



BTW Costner's daughter is very lovely.

[Mimosa]

8. I always wondered about that

Her office staff is totally contemptuous of 'the unwashed' when we'd call with our petty concerns about the environment or health care. Louisiana's Democratic politicians are no different from Republicans. Before Landrieu and Vitter, we had the likes of John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston. The former was owned by big energy interests, the latter by big health care (BC/BS) and pharmaceutical corps.

I learned long ago that at least in Louisiana there were very little differences between Rs and Ds.


I hope her brother Mitch will be a good mayor for New Orleans.

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4. .

:cry: :cry: :cry:

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5. At first I thought that woman was a Code Pinker

but then I saw that she wasn't, and I decided to be supportive of what she was doing.

[Hissyspit]

6. Unless it is a different Diane Wilson, she is a shrimper AND with Code Pink:

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5446

Distraught Gulf Shrimper Arrested for Pouring Oil on Herself in Senate Energy Hearing

June 9th, 2010

Protesting Senator Murkowski's Refusal to Make BP Pay

*Check out press coverage of the action here*
Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf, poured oil on herself at today’s Senate Energy Committee hearing to protest Senator Lisa Murkowski's refusal to make BP pay for the disaster that has devastating Wilson's shrimping community. Republican Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Senate Energy Committee, blocked the bill that would have lifted the oil companies' liability cap (the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act). Wilson was removed from the hearing and arrested.

Wilson traveled from Texas, where her livelihood and those of her fellow shrimpers has been ruined. She had this to say, “My name is Diane Wilson. I am a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf. With this BP disaster, I am seeing the destruction of my community and I am outraged. I am also seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe. She stopped the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act and wants to keep the liability cap at a pitiful $75 million. This is outrageous. How dare she side with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this manmade disaster.”

“We want people to call Senator Murkowski’s office and tell her to stop supporting big oil and support a healthy environment and American livelihoods instead," said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, who was with Wilson at the hearing. "Our members from across the country have sent Murkowski thousands of emails already. We also want the Senator to call for Diane Wilson to be exonerated. BP CEO Tony Hayward should be in jail, not a distraught shrimper!”

Wilson has been working for decades fighting the polluting of the Gulf. She wrote the book An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas detailing her years long fight against oil and chemical companies in her community. She went on to say, “I have seen the oil and chemical companies destroying our air, water, our wildlife--and the government going along with it. Politicians like Murkowski take campaign money from big oil and then get in bed with the same oil and chemical corporations. This must stop. Enough is enough.” Read the full text of Diane's statement here.

Wilson is also a co-founder of the organization CODEPINK Women for Peace. She was in front of BP HQ in Houston, Texas two weeks ago to protest the oilspill and draw attention to BP’s legacy of negligence. Read her most recent article, “The BP oil gusher is just the latest in a long line of assaults on the Gulf of Mexico” published on Grist.com.

For more info contact Medea Benjamin cofounder of CODEPINK and human rights group Global Exchange at [e-mail] or call 415-235-6517.

[G_j]

7. She is the one in the photo confronting Condi Rice nt

[Hissyspit]

9. You mean the one with the bloody hands?

I think that was Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, although there may be a different incident you are referring to.

[G_j]

11. not sure

I googled it:

http://www.google.com/images?q=Diane%20Wilson%20Code%20pink&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

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10. Why is it always women who protest in Congress?

:shrug:

[G_j]

13. good question nt

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12. Hayward looks like Killroy n/t

:rofl:

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14. Yeah, but he sounded like Albert Gonzalez

With a slightly different tune and a fancier accent.
Watch this video starting at 3:30 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697//vp/37765120#37765120 (Sorry about the ad)