Hands Across The Sand - stories, photos, video

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

What a great event!

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!

..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"

..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

Even Mississippi go tinto the act.

YouTube- Gulfport - Hands Across The Sand, 2/13/10, part 1

YouTube- Gulfport Hands Across the Sand slide show

YouTube- Gulfport - Hands Across The Sand, 2/13/10, part 3

From Johnny Earles on Grayton Beach

YouTube- Grayton Beach Hands Across the Sand 2010

..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"

Below is the link to join. Make sure when it ask which area you want to be a member of check Emerald Coast.
Once you are in the system we will keep you updated. As far as being a surfer no worries at all. Many member do not surf but are on board to help protect the surf area!

Mission Statement

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education.


https://www.surfrider.org/surfrider_membership/join/member_main.cfmhttps://www.surfrider.org/surfrider_Onc/join/member_main.cfm

Kurt,

These videos are awesome!

Looking back at the replay, it almost looks like Ft. Desoto whipped our butts. Not only did they seem to have more people, but they seemed gosh darn almost "organized". Surely the Beaches of SoWal can play that game. We demand a recount... let's see if DeSoto (wherever that's at) can field more HATS than we can, in the middle of March. I bet, if we did it again, pooled our resources, our handshakes, (and rented a dad-bum helicopter!) We could beat that beach...