Another paradise lost! A surrealist program of demands on the gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

O octopus, with your silken look! whose soul is inseparable from mine: you most beautiful inhabitant of the terrestrial globe, who have your disposal a seraglio of four hundred suckers; you in whom, linked indestructibly by a common accord, the sweet communicative virtue and the divine graces are nobly present, as if in their natural residence, why are you not with me, your mercury belly against my aluminum breast, both of us sitting on some seashore rock, to contemplate the spectacle I adore!

--The Songs of Maldoror

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We are through with, rational, reasonable, and scientific solutions of faith-based positivism, Instead, we make the following demands and dedicate them to Judi Bari, an Earth First! liberator and lover of old growth trees who was car-bombed by the forces of law-'n-order twenty years ago on May 24th. Long live Judi Bari! Solidarity with Marie Mason, Oso Balanco Chubbock, Mumia Abu Jamal, and the Taranc 9!

1. CLARIFICATION: It needs to be made clear that this is not an "oil spill." This is a manmade disaster. Depending on which official version you chose to believe anywhere between 5,000 to 200,000 gallons of oil have been gushing into the ocean every day since April 22, 2010. A "spill" is what happens when a drinking glass of water tipps over; this is and always has been an unstoppable, unpluggable, uncontrollable, unleashed manmade geyser of disaster.

2. PEOPLES TRIBUNALS FOR ECOTERRORISTS: An injury to one is an injury to all! We charge every BP America executive and governmental overseer of offshore oil drilling with manslaughter and ecocide. The mansions, yachts, and private jets seized from these executives and bureaucrats will be converted into sandboxes, tree forts, rain gardens, greenhouses, and amusement parks. The accused must face a people's tribunal and stand trail in the Gulf Shore communities that their actions (and inactions) have affected. The jury will be made up of those drawn from the communities that their actions (and criminal inactions) has most affected, particularly the families of those eleven workers killed when the BP rig exploded. Bussed in from the cities, the underground, and the countryside, members of the Earth Liberation Front and Earth First! should be on hand to witness the proceedings, especially those who are currently serving harsh prison sentences for their work in defense of the natural world.

3. DISMANTLING OF ALL OIL, COAL, AND NUCLEAR POWER COMPANIES: The obscene...