The crowd was lively and at times heckled the Navy representatives that were there to try to answer questions from concerned citizens of the north coast.
Former City Councilman Dave Meserve is featured in the grainy videos I took holding my camera over my head standing in the back with the overflowing crowd. The audio is pretty good as he asks about sonar and it's effects on whales.
I couldn't get the video to play from the embed so if it doesn't play, use the link below it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHqxQOUM-O8
Here is one more where a letter from State Senator Noreen Evans of Ca. District 2 is read followed by uncle sam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU3YNy9lX8
Here is another one where a guy suggests that the crowd could detain the Navy speakers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrXZ6PoDa0
Here is another one where a guy suggests that the crowd could detain the Navy speakers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrXZ6PoDa0
I am unable to get the first video to play. I'll see what I can do to fix that.
ReplyDeleteDave Meserve said he played the sound of a sonar on a large P.A. to a protest crowd that had gathered at 4 pm. He said the Navy uses it at 110 decibles but they only had to get it up to 80 decibles before people were like WTF? I missed that.
ReplyDeletedecibels that is.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.californiaskywatch.com/
ReplyDeletebe good to connect with this org, they are out of mendo.
To me it is questionable that the Navy really needs high decibel sonar for national security. There could be a grid of devices placed in the world's oceans which could operate at levels safe to marine life. In fact, there are some systems probably in place, used to gather data for the NOAA.
ReplyDeleteWhat is driving the Navy's insistence that this technology is absolutely necessary may be the fact that the oil industry wants to use it to find oil, and may be already planning to make extensive use of it. They all are part of the military-industrial complex, after all.