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PROTEST CHEVRON with the YES MEN and GLOBAL EXCHANGE
More information here
West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice and Action! September 18-21, 2009
Richmond, CA
west.actforclimatejustice.org
Email: mcjbay@gmail.com, Phone: 510-550-2836
We invite you to join community leaders of Richmond, CA and activists from around the country to spend 3 days learning, building, & preparing for action!
The 2009 West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice is a three-day training and movement-building convergence followed by a collective action on Monday, September 21st. Join us to learn about climate change and climate politics, support local communities in their ongoing fights for climate justice, & build a stronger Climate Justice movement on the West Coast leading up to the international days of action on October 24th and November 30th and international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December.
Trainings and workshops at the convergence will cover: - Political education around climate justice
- Practical sustainability skills (traditional knowledge, local food systems, solar energy, etc)
- Direct action
- Media messaging
- Organizing and campaigning
- Movement building.
Antonia Juhasz, Chevron Program Director, will lead the following workshops: - FRIDAY, SEPT 18 11:00- 1:00: Chevron 101 - What's Chevron doing locally, nationally, internationally, so we know what to do to counter them.
- FRIDAY, SEPT 18 2:30 - 4:00: Corporations vs. the climate - what corporations are up to between now and Copenhagen so we know what to do to counter them.
Check out climateconvergence.org/west for the most updated schedule!
The Convergence will highlight the Richmond community's climate justice struggle against Chevron. For more details, see http://climateconvergence.org/west/background/about-chevrons-richmond-refinery/
This Convergence is part of an annual series of climate camps all over the world. This year there will be camps in the UK, Australia, France, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States. The Convergence is also the second in a series of events organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a network of environmental and social justice organizations organizing to generate "street heat" around climate justice in the lead-up to the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December.
Registration is limited to 200, so apply today! For the detailed schedule visit and more info please visit climateconvergence.org/west.
I will continue fishing even though the fish are gone - Chevron pollutes fresh water in Nigeria
THE TRUE COST OF CHEVRON:
AN ALTERNATIVE ANNUAL REPORT
May 2009
TrueCostofChevron.com
May 2009
Antonia Juhasz,
lead author and editor.
Sponsored by: Amazon Watch, Crude Accountability, Global Exchange, Justice in Nigeria Now, and Rainforest Action Network.
With: CorpWatch, Filipino-American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Trustees for Alaska, Communities for a Better Environment, Mpalabanda, Richmond Progressive Alliance and EarthRights International.
Features the writing of: Mitch Anderson, Nnimmo Bassey, Agostinho Chicaia, Victoria Clark, Stephen E. Cotton, Charlie Cray, David Cullen, Paul Donowitz, Sarah Dotlich, Daniel Herriges, Michelle Kinman, Laura Livoti, Marilyn Langlois, Brant Olson, Aileen Suzara, and Jessica Tovar, and the contributions of dozens of organizations.
Chevron's 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company's most profitable year in its history.
What Chevron's annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against Chevron's abuses.
Thus, we, the communities and their allies who bear the consequences of Chevron's operations, have prepared an alternative annual report of Chevron entitled "The True Cost of Chevron."
Never before has one report brought together the information, stories, and struggles of communities from Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines and across the United States directly impacted by, and in struggle against, Chevron's operations.
WILL YOU JOIN US?
Download and share the report. The unprecedented report was just released to the public before Chevron's annual shareholder's meeting. Designed by Design Action.
Purchase a hardcopy of the report for $15 by e-mailing  Kirsten Moller at kirsten@globalexchange.org.
Contribute Online -- this unprecedented report has stretched both our minds and our pocketbooks.
Or send your tax-deductible contribution to:
Chevron Alternative Annual Report
c/o Global Exchange.
2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
Please indicate "Chevron Alternative Report" in the memo field of your check.
Questions about your contribution? Contact Kirsten Moller at Global Exchange. kirsten@globalexchange.org
Questions about the report? Contact Antonia Juhasz.
antonia@globalexchange.org
Visit the website, truecostofchevron.com -- a coalition site with our partners:
Amazon Watch
CorpWatch
Crude Accountability
Environmental Rights Action
EarthRights International
Filipino-American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
Justice in Nigeria Now
Mpalabanda
Rainforest Action Network
Richmond Progressive Alliance
Trustees for Alaska
US Labor Against the War
West County Toxics Coalition
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I will try to survive
while my country
is exploited--Chevron
is profiting from
the war in Iraq
I will try to ignore
the toxic waste pits
in my village
--Chevron dumped
over 18 billion gallons
of toxic waste
into the Amazon
I will try not to get cancer
--Chevron's refinery in Richmond, California
poisons the community
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