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Hands Across The Sand - stories, photos, video

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Go to your favorite stretch of beach at 12 noon central time (1PM Eastern) and help protect it by drawing a line in the sand!

Please post here which beach you are headed to.

Post from the beach on your smart phone - bookmark www.SoWal.com/bb

Let us know afterward what you saw.

Email photos to us - or post on this thread, or the gallery.
Your photos may be published in news sites and publications anywhere in the world, including SoWal.com - include your name if you would like credit.


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Thanks Everyone!!! 😀 Time to draw the line!



Thanks to Dave Rauschkolb for his vision, leadership, and energy!

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Miss Critter avatar
Miss CritterBeach Fanatic
#102
What great photos! And I'm both impressed and heartened by the level of participation statewide.

Make sure you contact our Senators, too, to let them know of your opposition to this absurdity. Contact info is in post #7.
Caroling avatar
CarolingBeach Fanatic
#106
Song, message, beach clean-up

YouTube- Hands Across The Sand Feb 13 2010.avi
Post #103 is a great video. Wonderful idea to begin with beach clean-up. Ending with birds skimming the waves is really moving. Looking at the St. Pete aerial, started thinking that someone should make a super video tacking together videos and photos of all the lines on individual beaches.

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Caroling avatar
CarolingBeach Fanatic
#107
Where send content to Sierra Club?

Today's email from Sierra Club.


Please send your content to http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157177

Click here for Bill Nelson’s office locations: http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/offices.cfm

Click here for George LeMieux’s office locations: http://lemieux.senate.gov/public/?p=OfficeLocations


Meet me atFlorida Climate Crossroads:
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GRP_FLA_CC&autologin=true

It says to send content to a YouTube Help page, clearly an error. The link to FLorida Climate Crossroads invites me to join the group, which seems to be more than I want to take on now. Is there a simpler way?

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Smiling JOe avatar
Smiling JOeSoWal Expert
#108
Caroling, where ever you decide to post your video, tag it with "Hands Across the Sand" and it can be found by people looking. Just remember to send it to your elected "representatives" including state and US senators and representatives, along with Gov Crist.
bluemtnrunner avatar
bluemtnrunnerBeach Fanatic
#109
View attachment 16354Thanks to all who joined hands all across Florida!


Every time I see this photo I think, Dave (and all of us) is being held hostage by Big Oil and our own out of control energy consumption. That is a pretty powerful image.

I am very proud to have been part of the beginning of this fight that no doubt is going to continue for a long time to come.
Thanks for all of your hard work organizing this Dave. It was a monumental feat.

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Dave Rauschkolb avatar
Dave RauschkolbBeach Fanatic
#110
Meet Florida Senator Dave Aronberg at Bud Bud & Alley's this Wednesday at 5:50 p.m.!

Meet Florida Senator Dave Aronberg with us at Bud & Alley's Restaurant this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m! Senator Aronberg is running for Attorney General and has been a vocal opponent drilling for oil in Florida's waters
Susan HornBeach Fanatic
#111
from Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Email - Advocate: Human Chain Creates Line Around Florida

Thousands of people at scores of locations throughout Florida showed up to hold hands and form a human chain to protect Florida's beaches. Images of people standing in bright, cold weather showed that communities from the Keys to the Panhandle are united in opposition to proposals to open Florida's nearshore waters to drilling.

In the meantime the House continues its stubborn slog toward crafting legislation that grants leases to Texas wildcatters to explore and drill for oil in Florida's nearshore waters. Last week Speaker Designate Dean Cannon held a committee hearing where the Coast Guard testified on cleaning up oil spills and a compelling presentation conveyed the threat leasing and pipelines may pose to future sand management of Florida's eroding beaches.
scooterbug44 avatar
scooterbug44SoWal Expert
#112
What a great event! :clap:

It was wonderful to see so many friends and neighbors (more than 350 at my location) coming out to the beach to support this!

Hope it sent a very clear message to the politicians that offshore oil drilling in Florida is NOT what the voters want!

Kudos to Dave for organizing such a wonderful event! :wub:
GoodWitch58Beach Fanatic
#113
..and to the Surfriders...I am so impressed with this group--they were all over the state organizing this event.

Where/how can I become an associate member? The days of my thinking about hopping on a surfboard are 'way past, but I would love to support their cause as a thank you for all they did, and will do, for "Hands"
Kurt avatar
KurtAdminAuthor
#114
..and to the Surfriders...I am so impressed with this group--they were all over the state organizing this event.

Where/how can I become an associate member? The days of my thinking about hopping on a surfboard are 'way past, but I would love to support their cause as a thank you for all they did, and will do, for "Hands"

Contact : Surfrider Foundation Emerald Coast Chapter

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