Media Advisory For Events on Wednesday April 27, 2005
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Rally Outside the Company’s Annual Meeting in San Ramon
WHAT: Amazonian Indigenous leaders, religious and community leaders from San Ramon, and human rights and environmental advocates join CalPERs and other major shareholders to challenge ChevronTexaco’s human rights and environmental practices around the world at the company’s Annual Meeting. Inside the meeting, shareholders will present resolutions on the company’s clean up liabilities in Ecuador – one of the worst oil-related disasters in the world – as well as on its plans to drill in sensitive areas including ANWR. Meanwhile, concerned organizations will hold a rally outside on the company’s human rights record from Burma to Nigeria.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27TH 7:00am – 10:30am
Rally Begins at 7:00am with speakers representing the organizing organizations
Shareholders Arrive 7:00am – 8:00am
Shareholder Meeting: 8:00am – 10:00am
Report Back from Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders Attending Meeting: 10:00am
WHERE: ChevronTexaco’s World Headquarters, 6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon (At Sunset, immediately east of Hwy 680; Walnut Creek BART)
WHO: Amazon Watch, Amnesty International, the Burma Project, Communities for a Better Environment, Corporate Accountability International, Greenpeace Mexico, West County Toxics Coalition and a host of Bay Area Anti-War Organizing Groups
WHY: To support indigenous Ecuadorian leaders coming to face ChevronTexaco and demand reparations from past oil operations that have destroyed their environment and created a cancer epidemic in the Amazon. To support soldiers who do not want to die or kill For ChevronTexaco’s bottom line and peace activists exposing the company’s war profiteering in Iraq. To support Richmond community members fighting ChevronTexaco’s toxic pollution of their homes, lives and livelihoods. To support conservationists’ efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To support the people of Burma calling on ChevronTexaco to sever all ties with the brutal military ruling Burma. Burma’s military is notorious for committing human rights abuses around its oil and gas projects. To support communities in Nigeria’s oil zones pressuring Chevron Texaco to stop irresponsible and dangerous actions like gas flaring. And to support communities in Baja opposed to a dangerous ChevronTexaco liquid natural gas (LNG) facility that threatens an island of endangered seabirds.
