Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill Clean-up Crew Are Dying!

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PLEASE WATCH THIS AND SHARE IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY. Do you know all those ads on TV telling you the Gulf Coast is safe? Do you know those BP commercials telling you they care about their employees, that they’ve cleaned up the spill? Well, here’s a video of a woman who was a one of the thousands of clean-up crew members…

Her body is now degenerating rapidly. She’s lost feeling in her right arm, and severe neurological/nerve damage is starting to cause uncontrollable facial twitching. Her fellow clean-up crew friends are dying. This is heartbreaking and will make you sick to your stomach, but we all need to demand the media and government and BP acknowledge the true horror of this situation. This is your opportunity to use the Internet (and Tumblr) to impact the world. Look at the Middle-East, and think how much more powerful we as Internet-users are in America because of our guaranteed access to these digital tools.

If EVERY person on Tumblr who saw this (yes, you) reblogged and posted it on facebook, it will become a huge, national news story. The mainstream media will have no choice but to make it one. PLEASE. This is not about getting reblogs or followers or hits, this is about our country, our world, and our race. This is a mother who tried to service our entire country by agreeing to clean-up OUR Gulf Coast, and she is now losing her life as a result. If you don’t give a shit about this, you don’t deserve to live in this country, nor call yourself a human.

Please spread this around. Everyone needs to be informed. I know tumblr is on top of that ‘spreading the word’ stuff, so this shouldn’t be too difficult for you all. If a stupid .gif of a cat could reach 40k notes, then it shouldn’t be difficult for a video to help save these dying people reach a number near that, right? Do the right thing guys.

Wow I just… heartbreaking..

Sharing this really has nothing to do with how we feel about our country, as stated above, but how we feel about our country’s citizens who put their lives and health on the line in order to clean up somebody else’s mess. Sharing this, getting the word out about what these poor people have to deal with now, shows how much we care about, and want to stop, the inhumane treatment of people! 

I think BP should be picking up the tab on their medical care, and making sure they get the best possible care and treatment money can buy. 

Just sayin’.

(via kristynibbles)