The U.S. government must seize BP and seize all of its assets, and place those funds in trust to begin providing immediate relief to the working people throughout the Gulf states whose jobs, communities, homes and businesses are being harmed or destroyed by the criminal negligent actions of the CEO, Board of Directors and senior management of BP.

200,000 gallons of oil a day are gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deep water disaster and is already reaching the shores of the Gulf states with devastating effects on human beings, wildlife, natural habitat and fragile coast ecosystems. This is a man made disaster and constitutes an act of environmental violence.

Under the Oil Pollution Act, signed into law to protect oil corporations after the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1990, BP is liable for only $75 million in damages- a pittance for a company that made $5.6 billion in profits in the last three months and is expected to make $23 billion in pure profit this year.
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