From DC Direct Action News:

“At lunchtime on the 4th of June, protesters stormed the doors of BP’s corporate office building at 1101 NY Ave.

“After a rally outside featuring a giant oil drum, people crossed the street and pushed through the outer doors of the lobby, intending to make a “citizen’s arrest” of BP executives for the oil spill off the Gulf Coast. The spill was described by Rev Yearwood (who is from Louisiana) as “worse than Katrina” for African-American and Native-American fishermen on the Gulf Coast, as it will probably result in a possible permanent end to their way of life.

“The attempt to take BP executives into custody for their crimes was not a success.”

The Deepwater Horizon spill, which began on April 20, is ongoing with no signs of slowing. It is having devastating consequences on the ecology of areas islands, marshlands and fisheries, and threatens to destroy the way of life of the 700-member Pointe Aux Chenes Indian Tribe.

The ancestors of the Pointe Aux Chenes settled the Louisiana marshlands more than a century ago after being driven off their original land. Because they lack federal recognition, they have had no success in getting government assistance during the ongoing Gulf disaster.

Although the Pointe Aux Chenes successfully prevented some of their sacred land from being used for an oil pipeline in the 1970s, the oil industry has devastated their lands nonetheless, destroying the marshes and causing the coast to erode. With the oil spill, the industry threatens to begin what it has started.