Summer-Long Protest for Exxon Presence at Green Baseball Stadium in DC
by David Sassoon - Jun 16th, 2008
The Washington Nationals' new $600 million baseball stadium is LEED Silver certified. It's the greenest in the majors, located near the Anacostia river minutes from Capitol Hill. If ever there was a venue ripe for greenwashing potential of outsize national visibility, this is it.
And if ever there was a corporation in need of greenwashing, arch-climate criminal ExxonMobil is the wealthiest of them all. So the company has plastered the eco-diamond with its advertisements and bought the sponsorship for the seventh inning stretch. And there's concern that when the bidding for naming rights is done later this year, Exxon will win them. Its name will be attached to the greenest stadium in baseball in the nation's capital.
That's why protesters are organizing to make sure "it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game" for Exxon. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is organizing volunteers to conduct "a sustained, summer-long campaign to publicly demand Exxon voluntarily discontinue advertising at Nationals Park."
We will begin with a well-publicized press conference outside the park on June 20th. This will be followed by the presence of volunteers - including lots of folks in polar bear suits — distributing literature and broadcasting anti-Exxon messages at EVERY remaining home game in 2008 until the advertising stops. Our goal is to get fans to boo loudly during the ExxonMobil 7th inning stretch.
First five volunteers for each game get free tickets -- they will be like the five smooth stones David took with him to face Goliath.
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