Young people and Environmental Groups in St. Petersburg Florida are holding a Crude Awakening rally to raise awareness around the one month anniversary of the BP oil drilling disaster and the need for a clean energy future. The event will remember the eleven workers whose lives were lost. Youth and Environmental Groups are also calling on President Obama to transition us towards a safe clean energy future.

Youth and Environmental Leaders will speak. We will also have a moment of silence along with eleven candles to remember the workers who lost their lives.

Visuals include: A large Crude Awakening sign and a mock oil spill on the beach.

Please feel free to bring signs! Invite anyone and everyone!

Join hands on your beach with a growing list of coastal states on June 26th for Hands Across The Sand. The message is: NO to coastal drilling and Yes to Clean Energy. Step 1. Go to the beach at 11:00am in your time zone. Step 2. At 12:00 Join hands for 15 minutes forming lines in the sand against drilling in our coastal waters. Step 3. Leave only your footprints.

Join hands with us America!

More info to come shortly…

Today and Tomorrow, folks from the Hands Across the Sand coalition will be meeting up to spread the word.

Goal is to talk to the people on the street to effectively recruit more volunteers for relief efforts and a prevention campaign.

Friday, May 7th meet in Gulfport at 5:30 pm for a brief training session prior in front of Peg’s Cantina at 3038 Beach Blvd., directions: http://www.pegscantina.com/directions.html.

You will be talking to people attending the Art Walk: http://www.gulfportflorida.us/gulfport-art-walk The Arts Walk event runs from 6-10,they only ask for assistance from 6 – 7:30.

Saturday, May 8th, meet at the Gulfport pavilion at 10:00 am for a brief training session before going out to local beaches and/or the Saturday Morning Market in downtown St. Petersburg. People will be teamed up into groups of 4 where we’ll talk to people for an hour before coming back to the Gulfport pavilion at 12:00 noon.