From our news partner seattlepi.com:
Jared Middlecalf of Vashon Island, Wash. participates in a protest at an ARCO gas station on Friday May 14, 2010 on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
Local group protests ‘unforgivable mistake’
By Joshua Trujillo
Weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, apparently taking 11 workers with it, the environmental disaster continues as oil flows from the destroyed well into Gulf of Mexico.
Now a group of Seattle area environmentalist are calling for a boycott of energy company BP, to include local ARCO gas stations.
“This is not a mistake; this is an atrocity. There has to be a significant price to pay,” said Backbone Campaign executive directory Bill Moyer who helped organize a Friday protest at the ARCO station at North 85th Street and Aurora Avenue North in Seattle.
Passing motorists honked and waved at the handful of protesters gathered on the sidewalk in front of the gas station but business continued as usual at the pumps.
