lying on the floor, wearing all black — bring out the serious, pressing nature of the issue.
Obviously very serious people. Bwhahahahahahahahaha!
Posted on 04/21/2014 9:58:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A human oil spill spread across Dwinelle Plaza on Monday — a silent demonstration against fracking that is the first in a series of events to kick-start Earth Week 2014.
The day after the four-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, about 20 students, clad entirely in black, circled and sprawled around a miniature wooden oil rig covered with protest signs. Protesters wanted to illustrate the environmental effects of fracking by using human bodies as symbols of the devastation.
“An oil spill is a very visible and recognizable example of the corruption and destruction wrought by the fossil fuel industry,” said Jake Soiffer, a freshman and an actions coordinator at Fossil Free Cal, in an email. “The details — lying on the floor, wearing all black — bring out the serious, pressing nature of the issue.”
Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, involves extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water, sand and chemicals — many of them toxic — into underground shell rock.
The protest, which was planned and sponsored by Students Against Fracking and by Fossil Free Cal, comes a month after a similar demonstration on Sproul to pressure Gov. Jerry Brown into banning fracking in California. Like last month’s protest, students Monday aimed to raise awareness of fracking — but, this time, through a symbolic display.
Suspended from the 12-foot-tall small-scale oil rig was a list of chemicals involved in fracking operations that are injected into bedrock to break it up. At the foot of the rig were students, quietly reclining on the ground.
The protest then kicked into another gear as a student protester wielded a megaphone, chanting “leave the oil in the soil” and “hey hey, ho ho, Keystone XL has to go.”
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Good little Marxists fighting against the lifeblood of America.
Pray America wakes up
These little spoiled brats and their parents need to be bundled up and sent to live in a foreign country that is totally third world without their cell phone, iPad, internet, or microwave and is totally void of anything powered by water, oil, gas or nuclear energy. Leave them there for about five years, let them cook over an open campfire and ride on a camel wherever they go and if they’re still alive at the end of that time they can come back - maybe.
When the people of California did away with affirmative action for admission to the U.C. system and instead instituted a merit system, the makeup of Berkeley radically changed. The majority of Berkeley’s students are now the children of Asian immigrants and much better qualified to be students at Berkeley. They are not interested in this protest nonsense but rather in doing well in college and getting a good job or going on to medical or law school. So the spoiled brat radicals are much less than they used to be.
Because of this, U.C. Berkeley in my opinion is now a much better place than it was when I was there 30 years ago. But the Democrats in Sacramento are still trying to figure out how they can again implement anti-Asian exclusionary quotas at the U.C. schools, in order to once again let unqualified students attend because of they are from a favored racial minority.
After 6 years of Obama, I would not be in the least bit surprised if the BP oil spill wasn’t an inside job.
Hey Jake Soiffer - Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son...
More of our system of schooling but little education. These “minds full of mush” absorb what is told to them However, critical thinking is missing. Similar to Global Warming, GMOs, etc, etc.
lying on the floor, wearing all black — bring out the serious, pressing nature of the issue.
Obviously very serious people. Bwhahahahahahahahaha!
Morons.
These are the kids you want to walk over to and smack. My niece turned into one of these kids. A head full of mush and no common sense whatsoever.
Leland Yee was busted a few weeks back for, well, you’ve heard about it — he and two others of Asian ancestry from the Assembly put their foot down regarding yet another attempt to end-run around Proposition 209.
If they can’t even STAND up with a sign, can you EVEN IMAGINE what
kind of worker they would be!!!!!
Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, involves extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water, sand and chemicals — many of them toxic — into underground shell rock.
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The left-wing dweebs lie again!
A few months ago on The Five, Kimberly Guilfoile drank from a glass filled with the fluid used in fracking. It’s not toxic!
...Fossil Free Cal...
OK, let these kids go first. No energy, no food, no iPhone, no internet, nothing but roots and nuts.
Oh cool. These young people with high ideals are going to live lives free of all petroleum products. Either that or they are just some mindless hypocrites.
their parents are freaking hippies
A small business nail store owner here put his kid on a plane back to Viet Nam to live with the relatives on the farm when the kid got too cocky.
on the farm you work from morning to night just to be able to eat that night and get up and do it again the next morning. It was an eye opener for the kid.
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