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April 15, 2011

Activists Denied Entry at BP Shareholders Meeting 
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In Britain, five people with a delegation of fishermen and residents
from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast area were blocked from entering
the annual shareholders meeting of the oil giant BP. One of the five,
Diane Wilson, covered herself in an oil-like substance to protest
environmental damage to the Gulf Coast. Byron Encalade of the Louisiana
Oysterman's Association said he had come to press BP on compensating
Gulf Coast residents.

Byron Encalade: "Those interim claims are not being paid. Our people's
backs are up against the wall, we are facing poverty now."



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