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View BADA press release in Jan/07 on Chevron http://www.badasf.org/2007/WhyChevron.htm
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Chevron, the Greatest Regime's enabler
STAND UP FOR BURMA
Join ACTION At Chevron Headquarters Shareholders' meeting

WED, MAY 28, 7am to 10:30am
Mass Theater Action and Demonstration
Chevron Corporate Headquarters
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA

Tell Chevron Executives and Shareholders We Demand:

PEACE, CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE,
AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

CHEVRON: FUELING WARS AND
ABUSING HUMAN RIGHTS & THE ENVIRONMENT

From Richmond to Ecuador, Nigeria, Canada,
Philippines, Burma and Iraq

Bay Area environmental justice, solidarity, antiwar,
and human rights groups will join together to
demonstrate at the gates of Chevron Corporate
Headquarters (please come on time so we can greet the
shareholders who arrive by 7:30am). At the same time
supportive shareholders and organizers inside the
shareholder meeting will confront Chevron executives
and urge shareholders to support environmental and
human rights resolutions.
http://www.chevrontoxico.com/article.php?id=381

Special Guests addressing Chevron shareholders:
Luis Yanza, Ecuadorian Community Organizer and 2008
Goldman Environmental Award Recipient

Emergildo Criollo, Ecuadorian Indigenous Leader

Omoyele Sowore, Nigerian human rights, pro-democracy
and anti-corporate leader.

Larry Bowoto, Plaintiff in the lawsuit against Chevron
for their 1998 flying of Nigerian soldiers by
helicopter to attack a nonviolent occupation of
Chevrons Parabe offshore oil platforms, during which
two activists were killed, others injured, and Bowoto
himself was shot.

MASS THEATER: We need 100 people to join the "Clean Up
Team," wear white HazMat coveralls, and help us Clean
Up Chevrons human and environmental rights abuses and
oil wars. If you can join us, please send a
note: info@chevrontoxico.org

OUTREACH: We need your help; Can you put up big
colorful posters and get out color postcards in your
hood or at events? Call to get some: 510 967-7377 A
flyer is downloadable from ActAgainstWar.org

Sponsored by:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Direct Action to
Stop the War, Amazon Watch, Laotian Organizing
Project, Justice for Nigeria Now, Global Exchange,
Burmese American Democratic Alliance-SF, Filipino
American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
(FACES), Rainforest Action Network, US Labor Against
the War, United for Peace and Justice-Bay Area, West
County Toxics Coalition, Richmond Greens, Richmond
Progressive
Alliance

GETTING THERE:
TAKE BART to Walnut Creek BART: We will provide
shuttles from Walnut Creek BART to the demonstration.
Or you can take short ride on County Connection
shuttle 121, or it's a flat 12-mile bike
ride.
CARPOOLS: (if you have space in your car or need a
ride):
SF: Meet @ 6am; Safeway parking lot, Church and
Markets Sts.
EAST BAY: Meet @ MacArthur BART @ 6:15am
DRIVE/CARPOOL DIRECTIONS: A quick 25 miles E. of
Oakland.
Take 580 to Hwy 24 E. to I-680 S to exit #34/BOLLINGER
CANYON ROAD. Left over Hwy. 1st left into Shopping
Center. Park. Walk back to Chevron entrance across
Bollinger.


For more information:
info@chevrontoxico.org
(510) 984-2566
ActAgainstWar.org

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Related events:
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WED. MAY 21st, 7pm
Direct Action to Stop the War;
Anti-War Mobilizing for May 28 Chevron Actions
SF Quaker Meeting House
65 9th Street, San Francisco
Between Mission and Market, close to the Civic Center
BART

SAT MAY 24, NOON-4pm
ART (NOT OIL) PARTY
Make art and visuals for May 28 Chevron Shareholder
Meeting/June 5 Richmond Planning Commission Hearing
Blue House; 3208 Shattuck @ Woolsey, Oak/Berkeley
border
2 blocks from Ashby BART
Bring food/drink to share

TUES. MAY 27, 5:30-9pm
CHEVRON BASH
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
(Minna @ 2nd St, between Mission and Howard. 1 ½
blocks S. from Montgomery BART)
On the eve of the Chevron Shareholder
Meeting, join locals and international guests affected
by Chevron's human rights and environmental violations
as they share their stories and inspire our continued
struggle for justice.

THURS. MAY 29, 7pm
COMMUNITY FORUM: Capping Chevrons Crude
Richmond Recreation Complex, 3230 Mac Donald Ave.,
Richmond
Teach-In about Chevrons Dirty Crude Richmond
Refinery Expansion plans that will go before the
Richmond Planning Commission on June 5. With Antonia
Juhasz, Henry Clarke, Greg Karras, and Marleen Quint
Info: 510 232-4493
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