Drive Exxon out of Nationals Park
Friday, June 20, 200811am
Location: Nationals Park
Washington , DC
As you know, the nation's capital has a brand new Major League baseball park, the first ever built with so-called "green building" features. The $600 million park for the Washington Nationals includes such eco-amenities as an in-house recycling center, copious bike racks, energy efficient lighting, and a special low-flow plumbing system.
This is all good. But visitors to the new park have also seen a lot that is decidedly "ungreen." The most dominant advertiser at the park is controversial oil giant ExxonMobil, a bigger contributor to global warming than any other company in the world. The entire left field outfield wall, in fact, is plastered with the ExxonMobil logo. And the 7th-inning stretch is announced as "the ExxonMobil 7th inning stretch," with the company's ads dominating the huge scoreboard as parents and children sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."
This blatant "greenwashing" in an era of rapid global warming is, of course, an outrage. Several concerned organizations now plan to publicly protest Exxon's presence at Nationals Park. We plan to creatively and noisily use this situation as a chance to educate the public about both Exxon and climate change.
Want to join us? Come to a press conference in front of Nationals Park at 11am on Friday, June 20th. Then spend the evening educating game-goers about Exxon and global warming. More details to come...
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