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Hands Across The Sands Activists Unite On Deerfield Beach "No Offshore Drilling"

On Saturday, February 13th, I went to the Hands Across The Sand protest at Deerfield Beach. The protesters gathered on the beach near the pier and at 1:30 p.m., they linked hands to form a line in the sand to raise awareness of the issues affecting Florida's coastline such as offshore drilling and gas exploration. About 70 people participated in the ten- minute event. Here's one of the pictures that I took and the rest of them are on Flickr. You can visit my Flickr page by clicking the Flickr link in the sidebar or you can go to Flickr and search, Hands Across The Sands, where you will find more pictures that were uploaded by other participants at this statewide event.

Make It A Beach Day & Join "Hands Across The Sand" At 1:00 p.m. Today

The idea behind Hands Across The Sand is to keep oil out of our waters and off of our beaches. Here's a list of the South Florida beaches where you can join hands,for ten minutes, today at 1:30 p.m. to protest offshore drilling. Either visit the Facebook pages devoted to todays event to get more informations and to see who else is going or visit the website,  Hands Across The Sand, where you will find the complete list of participating Florida beaches and links to the environmental groups that support protecting our coastline and waterways. 

• Key West  Event on Facebook                Deerfield Beach Event on Facebook              Clean Water Action                                                                                                                     

• Delray Beach
  • Event on Facebook
  • Atlantic Avenue
  • Betsy Thomason — Palm Beach Moms
  • Scott Thomason — Team Thomason, Inc.
  • dolfans03@bellsouth.net
• Ft. Lauderdale
  • Event on Facebook
  • Las Olas Blvd. and A1A
  • Matthew Schwartz
  • 954.634.7173
  • matthew3222@yahoo.com