Chevron Can Run,
But, With Your Help,
It Can't Hide
May 11, 2010
Media Contacts:
Mitch Anderson, 415-487-9600 x305
mitch@amazonwatch.org
Antonia Juhasz, 415-846-5447
antonia@globalexchange.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
On May 26, 2010, Chevron will move its annual shareholder meeting from San Ramon, California (where it is based) to its Houston, Texas headquarters (in the infamous Enron Building). Chevron is trying to run from its critics.
Well, it can run, but, with your help, it can't hide!
For over a decade, a powerful movement has been building to expose the true cost of Chevron's operations and the communities in struggle against them. Communities harmed by Chevron's operations have increasingly united and built more allies to demand human rights, environmental, economic, and climate justice, and corporate responsibility. Chevron's shareholder meetings have, and continue to be, a critical organizing moment when the demands of these communities are brought into to the public (and corporate) eye.
With a particular focus on native, First Nation, and indigenous communities, we plan to be joined in Houston by impacted-community members from Colombia, Texas, Nigeria, Utah, Ecuador, California, Indonesia, Burma, Mississippi, Angola, Australia, Florida, Thailand, Cambodia, Louisiana, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, the Canadian Tar Sands, and more! Chevron's coal operations will be highlighted by the participation of those coal communities from Wyoming, Alabama, and New Mexico. Iraq Veterans Against the War will be represented. And More! We are well on are way to accomplishing this incredible goal!
In Houston, our network will promote the new and improved 2010 True Cost of Chevron Alternative Annual Report. We have been working closely with Houston organizers to coordinate a fun and colorful rally outside of the meeting while, through proxies, impacted-community members go in to the meeting. We will then host a landmark two-day strategy retreat to discuss how to expand and formalize this network to not only support our individual campaigns, but to build a movement capable of reining in not just Chevron, but the entire oil industry.
Click here for an author and interviewee contact list.
AGM Events:
True Cost of Chevron Outreach Event
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at 7 pm
Thomas J. Buonomo, a member and former Board Member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer and Antonia Juhasz, director of The Chevron Program at Global Exchange and the author of The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry –and What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins, 2009), will be at Monkey Wrench Books to recruit YOU to come to Houston on May 25 and 26th for a landmark gathering of community leaders harmed by – and fighting back against – the Chevron Corporation.
Location: Monkeywrench Books
110 E North Loop Blvd
Austin, TX
(512) 407-6925
Contact: Antonia Juhasz - antonia@globalexchange.org
True Cost of Chevron Press Conference
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 11 am
Authors of the newly updated True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report, 2010 will be available for press interviews the evening of May 25th. Speakers from Angola, Burma, New Mexico, Australia, Kazakhstan, Alaska, Ecuador, Texas, Nigeria, California, Colombia, Mississippi, Canada, Thailand, Wyoming, and more will be there.
Location:
1400 Smith Street
Houston, TX
Contact: Antonia Juhasz - antonia@globalexchange.org
The True Cost of Chevron Public Forum
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 from 6 to 8 pm
On May 25, community leaders from Angola, Burma, New Mexico, Australia, Kazakhstan, Alaska, Ecuador, Texas, Nigeria, California, Colombia, Mississippi, Canada, Thailand, Wyoming, and more will share their stories of struggles and success against the oil giant at a Public Forum. Download a list of speakers here.
Location:
Rice Media Center Rice University
6100 Main MS-549
Entrance #8 on the Rice Campus
Stockton @ University Blvd
Houston, TX
Contact: Antonia Juhasz - antonia@globalexchange.org
Special Screening of Sweet Crude and Q&A
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Come to a Special screening of Sweet Crude, followed by Q & A with Macon Hawkins, an oil worker held hostage by armed militants who remains sympathetic to the needs of those living in the Niger Delta; Emem Okon, a leader of Nigeria's women's movement; and Omoyele Sowore, an activist from a Chevron production area in Nigeria.
Location:
Angelika Theater
500 Texas Street
Houston, TX
Contact: Abby Rubinson - abby@justiceinnigerianow.org
Protest Rally at Chevron in Houston
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 7 to 11am
On May 26, 2010, Chevron will move its annual shareholder meeting from San Ramon, California (where it is based) to its Houston, Texas headquarters (in the infamous Enron Building). Chevron is trying to run from its critics.
Chevron can run, but with your help, it cannot hide!
Community leaders from Angola, Burma, New Mexico, Australia, Kazakhstan, Alaska, Ecuador, Texas, Nigeria, California, Colombia, Mississippi, Canada, Thailand, Wyoming, and more will go inside the meeting to address the gathered shareholders. Outside, there will be a celebratory, colorful, and fun protest rally at Chevron's headquarters at 1500 Louisiana. Please join us!
Location: Chevron's Houston Headquarters
1500 Louisiana
Houston, TX
Contact: Ginger - info@changechevron.com
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