Workers Protest Sky High Gas Prices in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Around the U.S.

Yesterday, over fifty activists from Working America and the AFL-CIO demonstrated outside a BP   station in downtown Columbus, Ohio.  The demonstration highlighted the burden $4/gallon gas is putting on working families, and pointed out the connection between John McCain, George W. Bush, and the Big Oil lobby.  Both men are proponents of tax cuts and subsidies for the oil industry, and neither have substantive plans for real relief for working families, or for energy independence.  (See previous post.)  From the television media, WCMH Ch 4 (NBC), WBNS Ch. 10 (CBS), WSYX Ch. 6 (ABC), and Ohio News Network (ONN, Statewide News Net) came to film the event and speak to demonstrators.

Also yesterday, 75 protestors demonstrated at a parallel action in Cincinnati. The TV stations WLWT Ch. 5 (NBC), WCPO Ch. 9 (ABC), WKRC Ch. 12 (CBS), WXIX Ch. 19 (FOX) showed up, along with radio stations WLW 700 AM, WNKU 89.7 FM (NPR).  A photographer from Mother Jones magazine was also there – you can view his gallery of photos here. 

In the meantime, AFL-CIO members are staging similar actions in states across the country -- in Wisconsin, Indiana, New Mexico, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, to name a few.

Here's a short clip of some footage of the Columbus event: