Over the weekend the BP’s “Green Curve” gas station at Olympic and Robertson was once again the target of a collective protest, this time by a Critical Mass of Los Angeles bike riders.
After the demonstration, certain dickless piglets harassed the bike riders as they passed through Hollywood, and then tackled a videographer who caught an incident on tape:
WeHo Daily first covered the story here, the laist picked it up here, KPCC here. The LAPD met with an LA bicycle advisory committee yesterday to discuss the incident, which the LA.streets blog covers here.
Los Angeles Critical Mass has a twitter feed here, where you can get updates on the story and info about future rides, etc.
Meanwhile the ecocide in the gulf will continue to unfold over the next decades. Google has tool that can be used to compare the current size of the oil spill to the size of your own city. Here is ours:
[...] Over the weekend the BP’s “Green Curve” gas station at Olympic and Robertson was once again the target of a collective protest, this time by a Critical Mass of Los Angeles bike riders. After the demonstration, certain dickless piglets harassed the bike riders as they passed through Hollywood, and then tackled a videographer who caught an incident on tape (Permalink). [...]
Just wanted to say that the gogole earth based app mentioned above states roughly 500,000 gallons a day is flowing. That is an conservative understatement …
Estimates:
Department of Energy 1,470,000 gal/day
BP (Worst Case) 2,520,000 gal/day
Experts’ Worst Case 4,200,000 gal/day
Here’s a link to another app allowing you to see the flow in “real-time”… http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/05/newshour-oil-widget-2-including-spillcam.html
Thanks for the update Just Ali.