Emergency Committee to stop the gulf oil disaster

"The scope of utter destruction created by the BP oil spill is too severe to even think in terms of a proverbial "silver lining." Nevertheless, this unprecedented environmental, corporate and political tragedy my succeed where the 2000 election, 9/11, and the Wall Street bailout did not in reaching a critical tipping point to serve as a catalyst for positive, sustainable, systemic change through independent political action" (Zaha, 2010).