SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! SEE BELOW FOR EVENT AND CONTACT INFO.
Amazon Watch will have a busy spring organizing and hosting three delegations of indigenous leaders from the Amazon as they attend the annual shareholder meetings of Chevron, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and ConocoPhillips.
The leaders will demand that Chevron and Oxy clean up the messes they left behind in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian rainforests respectively, and will also be urging ConocoPhillips and Oxy not to press ahead with plans to drill on indigenous land in Peru. The leaders will also participate in various speaking events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Houston.
Chevron’s annual general meeting will be held in San Ramon, California, on April 25, 2007. Oxy will hold its shareholder meeting on May 4 in Los Angeles. In Houston, ConocoPhillips will hold its meeting on May 9.
Delegation participants will include Goldman Environmental Award winner and former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Luis Macas; Achuar indigenous leader Andres Sandi; Sarayaku indigenous leader Patricia Gualinga; Secoya indigenous leader Humberto Piaguaje; Guillermo Grefa, Kichwa from Rumipamba; and Pablo Fajardo, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney in Chevron’s landmark Ecuador trial.
Chevron is now just months away from a potential multi-billion dollar damages bill over the corporation’s unnecessary contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Oxy has still managed to avoid cleaning up a similar environmental disaster it left on Achuar lands, in northern Peru, and may now be planning more drilling. Meanwhile, ConocoPhillips has bought oil blocks in Achuar territory in Peru and appears set to drill too.
EVENT CALENDAR
Show your support for Amazonian communities standing up to big oil!
San Francisco:
-April 24th, AM, Press conference/NGO briefing, TBA
-April 24th, 6-8pm, Public speaking event with Luis Macas, Pablo Fajardo, and Steven Donziger. World Affairs Center, 312 Sutter Street, #200.
-April 25th, 7-11:30am, Demonstration at Chevron’s Annual General Meeting
Chevron World Headquarters, 6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon, CA
Los Angeles:
-May 3rd, 7-9pm, A Special Evening with Achuar Leaders from Peru. Bonsorte Design Studio, 2401 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA (between Pico and Ocean Park) Admission is free. Please RSVP to [email protected].
-May 4th, 9:00-10:30am, Demonstration at Oxy’s Annual General Meeting, the Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Miramar Hotel, 101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA (corner of Ocean Avenue)
Houston:
-May 8th, TBA, Public speaking event with Peruvian and Ecuadorian leaders
-May 9th, 7-11:30am, Demonstration at ConocoPhillips’ Annual General Meeting, ConocoPhillips’ Headquarters, 600 North Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX
If you are interested in supporting the delegations in any way, please contact:
Zachary Hurwitz, Corporate Accountability Organizer:
415-487-9600 / [email protected]
