Reply #128: no, you're defending a corporation. by your logic, nothing can be done about anything, because [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

everything is connected and application of any kind of economic pressure hurts someone "innocent".

bp (halliburton, transocean) has destroyed the livelihoods of millions, destroyed the ecology of the entire gulf region, killed untold numbers of wildlife & sealife, killed a number of workers, introduced health risk to clean-up workers, & the effects continue to build with the leak no closer to being fixed.

and you're worried that boycotting BP branded stations might hurt some gas station owner.

I haven't seen you exercise the same sympathy for other folks losing jobs & incomes for other causes here -- just for BP station owners.