They're calling it "The Oil Rig Gig"
It was a bit of a musical protest at the BP Station on Westport Road, Kansas City, Mo, May 31, 2010.
Local photog Eric Bowers has some great photos of the event. Check out his flickr page for a copy of the presser as well.
Musicians: Mark Southerland, Jeff Harshbarger, Helen Gillet led the group. I'm pretty sure I see Kansas City Artist Peregrine Honig there as well.
Their first youtube vid is pretty good.
The Second Video Ties Things Together.
THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE KANSAS CITY PROTESTS IN RECENT MEMORY!!!
Just like the immigration protests, while these folks aren't directly impacted by what's going in the Gulf it's really great to seem them realizing the importance of stuff that happens outside of Kansas City and is still relevant to everyone in the grand scheme of things.
Great stuff. Good find Tony!
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not great to see this; it's unfortunate that local small business owners like that BP station are subjected to crap like this when they have zero, nothing, nada to do with the gulf problems.
ReplyDeleteMaybe these protest can force the drill rigs to move into deeper waters making it even harder to control these events. Thank you environmentalists. If it wasn't for you we would be drilling in more shallow water or in ANWR and this event would have been quickly resolved.
ReplyDeletefuckin hippies
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Kyle. Instead of protesting at this small business, maybe you should protest outside the gates of the White House. After all, Obama took so much campaign money from BP.
ReplyDeleteWhy do so many dumbshit republicans read this blog?
ReplyDeleteThis just shows that no one wants to spend their efforts to do actual newsgathering, so like little fishies, they'll bite at anything in the water that's shiny.
ReplyDeleteTwenty years ago, Reverend Birmingham used to take his 'church' which was actually just his family and stage some protest in town, always on a slow news Sunday and always with lots of notice to the TV stations who have skeleton staffs on the weekends to stop by, shoot a few closeups of them, write a little cover copy and move on to a BBQ, or some Ad Hoc handwringing, or an open house for some addition to a halfway house.
Meaning they just write up the Saturday night crimes and grab video of the best of the press releases that'd been sent to the Assignment Editor.
Always little events going on worth 40 seconds. Stations only had about ten minutes to fill, so these little 'protests' about something or other worked out well and it just became incredibly easy to get sixty seconds of fame in this town.
Well, T, that was something shiny. I don't watch weekend local news... did it make local news too?
11:28 - nicely done. :60 of fame then=paragraph on TKC today. I guess inflation takes its toll.
ReplyDeleteTony is trying to suck up to the hipsters he always says he despises. He's always saying everyone hates perigrine honig than he kisses her husband's ass.
ReplyDeleteTony = DOUCHE
Who is Perigrine's husband?
ReplyDeletelame. fail. so what they picked on a local gas station? they have a huge BP logo. symbolism works. but they looked like idiots and i seriously doubt anyone took them too seriously... especially with New Hampshire's state motto on a sign.
ReplyDeletetrue dat.
ReplyDeleteMark is not hard to spot.
ReplyDeleteHer husband will always be the biggest and fattest guy in any pic that he's in.
aw damn.
ReplyDeleteNo shrimp for this bunch.
ReplyDeleteHow great for them there was so much photo/video coverage! The poor BP attendant probably called headquarters in the UK right away.
ReplyDeleteKC's art-scene/hipster elite look pretty pretentious outside of a Crossroads First Friday. That performance art would've been lame even while they were still KCAI students.
And every hour the news and lies from the Gulf get worse......
Second to last line was funny as hell!
ReplyDeleteI hope these burnouts walked or rode their bikes. Because that would be pretty damn stupid to protest at a gas station when you drove.
ReplyDeletePretty sure the car behind the band is Southerland's, so yes, they did indeed drive to their oil protest.
ReplyDeletenow that is a scoop!
ReplyDeleteBP's corporate headquarters are in Houston, TX USA.
ReplyDeleteGood job guys.
ReplyDeleteUh I think BP's headquarters are in downtown London. I have a relative who was a VP and lived there after it bought Amoco out of Chicago. Course all the major Americans from Amoco are gone now, just like in any corporate takeover.
ReplyDeleteI was quoting NBC Nightly News.
ReplyDeletevideo and some follow up.
ReplyDeleteThe protest is whatever you make it. However, this is a joyous complaint. Gas was actually purchased there. It's not a boycott.
the sign says Live or Die Free not live free or die.
At least these folks are doing something rather than puking online.
Now environmentalists are at fault for the oil spill? What crazy insanity is this?
If there were an oil spill in ANWR, it would still be an oils spill. if there were an oil spill in shallow water, it would still be an oil spill.
Regardless of where you guys want to drill baby drill, the results of deregulation and corruption and refusal to take proper precautions, all lead to environmental disaster.
To sit here and blame these folks for bringing attention to the fact that we have a gushing oil leak that has not been capped, bringing chaos and unmitigated catastrophe to our nation's water. It's been 46 days.
Protest the white house? Who cares, blame it on us, blame it on me, who cares...fix the spill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvozvlu4CE0
Let me start this off with saying that I am from Lafayette, LA and so is my whole family...I appreciate little things like this and all of you people that are here just to spew your politics, should just concentrate your "big awesome brain" on contacting your congressman and making sure that BP and all others involved do all that they can to attempt to fix this. That involves first and foremost cleaning up the oil to try and save as much of Mother Nature as possible. Secondly, supporting all of the families that relied on her fruits to live. Let's remember, all your political opinions aren't doing ANYTHING to solve the problem, just showing that the time it took to look stupid could have been used to encourage a fellow countryman!
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