From the article: “The spill in the Gulf is a tragedy...but I hope it can also be a clarion call for changing our energy and environmental policies to bring us a more sustainable future. The organizers and participants of ‘Stand in the Sand’ display the motivation not only on the Central Coast, but across the country, to make the long lasting changes required to transition to a clean energy economy in the wake of this disaster.”
Ok, now I understand. I thought maybe they were a bunch of zonked out surfers at first, but they’re a bunch of cap-and-taxers...