Re: bloody oil...is chevron clean?

[ernie yacub <yacinfo@mars.ark.com>]

  >	STOP DRIVING FRIGGIN' CARS! GET IT!
  >
  >By creating a unified network of activists and concerned individuals,
  >some who are already working on one or more of the above mentioned oil
  >corporations, we can concentrate on the underlying consumption levels
  >that drive corporations to exploit oil extraction. There are too many
  >NGO's and activist affinity groups that are focusing on the "brush
  >fires", i.e., Shell's actions in Nigeria and Peru, Texaco in the Amazon
  >and Burma, Oxy in the Amazon, the various spills and operations of
  >Chevron.
  
  the main reason for such work is to support the people's struggles in those
  lands, especially those who are at deadly risk.
  
  and one way, as you say above, is to stop driving cars.
  
  however it is a huge and complex issue that requires many minds and hearts
  working in support of each other in many different ways.
  
  for instance, the work that the vancouver osn has done to lobby local
  governments to use other suppliers...hence the question about chevron.
  
  
  >
  >Consumption is the Pandora's box that is driving the destruction. Let's
  >work on closing the box. I'm not saying stop working on the individual
  >oil companies, but focus some of that energy into alternative
  >transportation, energy, and conservation. We can't fix the symptoms if
  >we don't identify and cure the disease.
  
  agreed...there is incredible strength in diversity and unity.
  
  >
  >Some feed back on this is welcome and wanted!
  >
  >Peaceful,
  >
  >Shannon Mayorga
  >Seattle Rainforest Action Group
  >
  
  >------------------------------------------------------------------------
  >Mitsubishi Corporation is one of the largest corporate destroyers of the
  >world's forests. It fully or partially owns logging  operations around
  >the world. It also buys millions of cubic feet of timber from other
  >logging companies, making it one of the largest importers of timber in
  >the world. Mitsubishi is devastating thousands of square miles of
  >forests and broadly contributing to cultural disintegration.
  >
  >Mitsubishi Corporation is the trading company of the Mitsubishi Group,
  >which consists of 190 interlinked companies. These include Mitsubishi
  >Motors, Union Bank of California, Kirin Beer, Nippon Kogaku (maker of
  >Nikon cameras), Mitsubishi Heavy industries, Bishi Metals, and many
  >more......
  >
  >Seattle Rainforest Action Group
  >tribal@earthlink.net
  >http://home.earthlink.net/~tribal/
  
  
  regards
  
  ernie yacub