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title: "Hands Across the Sand: Over 800 Rallies for Clean Energy"
date: 2010-06-26T18:24:03Z
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![](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4735882682_5f1617806e.jpg "Hands")

Over 700 800 900! "[Hands Across the Sand](https://www.handsacrossthesand.org)" events are happening today in all 50 states and around the world to protest oil-drilling and call for clean energy solutions.

At events taking place on beaches, near waterways, and in land-locked towns, participants are joining hands to form symbolic barriers against spilling oil. The events represent the largest-yet outpouring of grassroots activism in response to the disastrous April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent, devastating oil damage in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Check out Google News](https://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22hands+across+the+sand%22) for the hundreds of media hits the events are generating!

The rally also represents a new surge of climate organizing since the oil disaster. More so than ever, Americans are calling for strong action to move our country away from fossil fuels and towards a sustainable future. We're putting our hands to work, now it's time for President Obama to pick up his hand, grab a pen, and sign some strong climate and energy legislation!