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NO WAR, NO WARMING, NO MORE POLLUTION
Saturday, March 15th – 11.00am RALLY, 1pm DIRECT ACTION
For more info: www.actagainstwar.net; 510 984 2566
The purpose of this action is to support community efforts to stop Chevron
from expanding its refinery, which will increase pollution emissions that cause
asthma, cancer and death rates in surrounding communities. We want to expose the
corporate link behind the War in Iraq, which is now entering its fifth year.
Chevron is driving the war and occupation in Iraq, refining over a million
barrels of stolen Iraqi oil in Richmond a month, and actively lobbying for the
privatization of Iraq’s oil fields so companies like Chevron can seize control
of them. We also want to expose the multitude of human rights abuses that
Chevron commits across the globe, from Nigeria to Ecuador to Burma. In fact, by
keeping us addicted to oil Chevron is contributing to global climate chaos that
puts all life on this planet in unprecedented peril. We can stop the war, clean
up our communities and transition to a green economy by pushing back the
Pusher-Man. Join us.
11am. Rally. Judge G. Carroll Park, W. Cutting Blvd & S. Garrard Blvd,
Richmond. Community groups from Richmond and other impacted communities will
be speaking. Speakers at the rally include Henry Clark of West County Toxics
Coalition, Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, and Jessica Tovar from Communities
for a Better Environment. Performers include DJ Jermiah and Afrobeat Nation, DJ
Zeph and Azeem, spoken word artist Ariel Luckey, and the Raging Grannies.
1pm. Nonviolent Direct Action. Chevron Refinery, 100 Chevron Way, Richmond.
Our goal is to stop all stolen Iraqi oil from exiting and entering the
refinery by land, by boat, by bike. We’re also planning a street party with
awesome DJs, bands and local artists.
This action is endorsed by: West County Toxics Coalition, Richmond Greens,
Richmond Progressive Alliance, Community Health Initiative, Direct Action to
Stop the War, Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and Greenaction
PRESS ADVISORY
DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR
http://www.actagainstwar.net <http://www.actagainstwar.net>
WEST COUNTY TOXICS COALITION
http://www.westcountytoxicscoalition.org/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
March 11, 2008 Moira Birss, 734-834-2356
Mitch Anderson, 415-342-4783
MEDIA ADVISORY
Non-violent Land, Sea and Bike Blockade of Chevron Refinery to Kick Off National
Anti-War Protests on Fifth Anniversary of Iraq Attack
Rally and nonviolent direct action at Richmond Refinery will target Chevron’s
war profiteering and toxic pollution of Bay Area community
WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 2008, 11 AM Rally; Nonviolent Direct Action, 1PM
WHERE: Rally begins at Judge G. Carroll Park, W. Cutting Blvd. & S. Garrard
Blvd, Richmond; Nonviolent Direct Action at Chevron Refinery, 100 Chevron Way,
Richmond
WHAT: Just days before the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, concerned
Bay Area residents will engage in peaceful civil disobedience aimed at the war
profiteers who have helped shape the Bush administration’s disastrous foreign
policy, using “bikes”, “blockades” and “boats” to stop all Stolen Iraqi Oil from
entering or leaving Chevron’s Richmond refinery for 1⁄2 a day.
Chevron, the US’s second largest oil company, processes more than one million
barrels of crude oil from Iraq every month at its refinery in Richmond,
California, allowing the company to profit as Iraqi men, women and children die
and US taxpayers foot the bill for an unnecessary war that is costing trillions
of dollars and the lives of thousands of US soldiers.
The protest at the Richmond refinery will kick off a series of nationwide
anti-war demonstrations expected in some 300 cities. It also seeks to illustrate
the connection to the oil industry’s disregard for human rights at home and
abroad; carcinogenic and asthma-causing emissions from the refinery are causing
health problems among the people of Richmond. Despite this, the company seeks to
expand the refinery to process more dirtier grades of oil, increasing the threat
to community health in Richmond.
“In Richmond we pay with our health; in Iraq they pay with their lives; in
Ecuador and Nigeria they pay with their human rights; and we all are paying with
Global Warming. If you think the price of Chevron gas is too high, you’re right.
It is time that Chevron pays for the loss of lives and environmental damage,”
said Dr. Henry Clark of the West County Toxics Coalition.
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So far, independent experts have estimated that the war in Iraq has cost the
lives of more than one million Iraqis* – in addition to the official US
statistics regarding the loss of 3,900 US soldiers – as well as costing US
taxpayers approximately $2 trillion, according to a recent report released by
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz.
“We are gathering on March 15th because Chevron is profiting from the blood
spilt in Iraq, from the hospitalization of children in our communities here at
home, and from continuing to promote oil consumption despite everything the
scientists are telling us about the gathering impacts of global warming. Chevron
must be held to account,” said Jess Bell, organizer with Direct Action to Stop
the War.
WHO: Sponsors of the Chevron rally and direct action include Direct Action to
Stop the War, Greenaction, West County Toxics Coalition, Amazon Watch, Richmond
Progressive Alliance, Richmond Greens, Community Health Initiative, Communities
for a Better Environment, Global Exchange, and Rainforest Action Network.
Speakers at the rally include Henry Clark of West County Toxics Coalition,
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, and Jessica Tovar from Communities for a Better
Environment. Performers include DJ Jermiah and Afrobeat Nation, DJ Zeph and
Azeem, spoken word artist Ariel Luckey, and the Raging Grannies.
For more information about the Richmond action and the 5th anniversary action on
March 19, see http://www.actagainstwar.net <http://www.actagainstwar.net> . For
a list of actions throughout the United States, including a massive nonviolent
civil disobedience planned for Washington, DC, see http://www.5yearstoomany.org/
<http://www.5yearstoomany.org/>
*Opinion Research Business, London, 2007
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