BP oil spill: the growing onslaught of public anger

Accusatory messages and arrows on the beach at Dauphin Island, Alabama highlight tar balls from coagulated oil washed ashore
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Grave markers in a front garden in Grand Isle, Louisiana articulate some of the wildlife and holiday activities lost to the pollution, the worst environmental disaster in US history
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One of many signs appearing on Grand Isle chastising BP for the oil that continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico two months after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig
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Tonia Lipscomb of Rockford, Alabama sits and cries as oil continues to stain a local beach
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Eli Torres of Orange Beach, Alabama protests with his mother under the Perdido Pass bridge in Orange Beach, Alabama
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Protesters shout slogans against BP during a demonstration in front of the BP Amoco government affairs office in Washington DC
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Reinterpretations of BP's icon and colours make for powerful protests as anger spreads against everything the company stands for. This one took place outside a Berkeley college campus building that is being funded by the oil giant
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With protesters behind him, BP America chairman and president Lamar McKay (centre) waits to testify before the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee
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A protester outside BP's Chicago offices
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A stark sign of public regard for BP
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Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink anti-war group, leads a demonstration outside the company's US headquarters in Houston, Texas
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Drenched in water and paint to resemble oil a protester takes her demonstration to a BP petrol station in New York. Huge financial penalties and a slump in share price are hitting the company in the pocket
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A rally gathers in New Orleans
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Doorstep protests continue as the US president, Barack Obama, makes his fourth visit to the Gulf Coast since the explosion and rupture of oil pipes on April 20 unleashed America's worst environmental disaster
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Protesters march along Florida's Pensacola Beach where gobs of congealed oil have come ashore as the poluttion spreads through the Gilf
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Commercial fisher Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Texas makes a dramatic protest by pouring a jar of an oily substance over herself at a hearing of the Senate energy and natural resources committee into the oil spill
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A protest sign takes a bizarrely patriotic turn
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Frustration with the Obama government is as strong as approbation of BP. The latest estimates – revised upwards again – suggest that 1.7 million gallons of oil are pouring into the gulf from the ruptured well every day
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The damage to wildlife and the ecosystem is incalcuable and may not be fully known for many years
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Cheryl King and other demonstrators take their protests to a highway outside Gulf Shores, Alabama
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A hand-painted sign with characters from Spongebob Squarepants covered in oil sits by the road in Grand Isle, Louisiana
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Angry slogans outside a BP petrol station in Los Angeles
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