[Recent Entries][Archive][Friends]

March 22nd, 2006

12:36 pm [Link]

The ExxonMobil War Boycott CINDY SHEEHAN, HOWARD ZINN AMONG NOTED LEADERS FOR PEACE ENDORSING THE EXXONMOBIL WAR BOYCOTT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nick Mottern nickmottern@earthlink.net , http://www.consumersforpeace.org/ http://traprockpeace.org/pace_repression/index.php/nick-mottern-consumers-for-peace/ The ExxonMobil War Boycott campaign announces endorsements by Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, and a host of internationally known activists and writers, with support from national and regional peace and justice organizations. (The full list of endorsers is given below.) Consumers for Peace launched the boycott campaign on December 29, 2005, seeking an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and mercenaries from Iraq and the impeachment of George W. Bush and prosecution of U.S. officials responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The campaign urges consumers to boycott of ExxonMobil products and to purchase of CITGO products as an alternative. ExxonMobil has been selected for boycott because of its apparent active involvement in U.S. policy in the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, and its power to help change these policies. The campaign urges the boycott of products and services of nine consumer products firms connected with ExxonMobil through its board of directors. They are: Campbell's Soup; Carlson Companies (Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday's); Corning Inc. (Steuben Glass); Metlife; Novartis; Pfizer; Verizon; Wells Fargo and Wyeth. ConsumersforPeace.org describes connections between ExxonMobil and U.S. Middle East and Iraq policies and seeks to mobilize consumer pressure that will persuade the oil firm to start to lobby on behalf of the boycott's goals. ExxonMobil says it spent $7.7 million on lobbying in 2004. ConsumersforPeace.org is an organizer of the March to Redeem the Soul of America, to be held in Texas April 1 -16. The march will begin with a press conference at 10 a.m., April 1, at ExxonMobil headquarters in Texas and other a two-week period will go from there to Dallas, then south to Waco and west to Crawford and the Texas White House. It will conclude on Easter Weekend at the celebration of the 3rd Anniversary of the Crawford Peace House, in Crawford. These organizations and individuals endorse the ExxonMobil War Boycott called by Consumers for Peace. Organizational Endorsers: After Downing Street http://www.afterdowningstreet.org Bloomington Peace Action Coalition http://www.bpac.info Campus Antiwar Network http://www.campusantiwar.net Coalition Against War and Injustice (Baton Rouge) http://www.cawi.info/ Covington (Louisiana) Peace Project Consumers for Peace http://www.consumersforpeace.org Democrats.com http://www.democrats.com Goldstar Families for Peace http://www.gsfp.org International Socialist Organization http://www.internationalsocialist.org Midsouth Peace and Justice Center http://www.midsouthpeace.org Progressive Democrats of America http://www.pdamerica.org Traprock Peace Center http://www.traprockpeace.org Wespac Foundation http://www.wespac.org Individual Endorsers*: Annie and Buddy Spell, Louisiana peace activists (Annie is president of the Greater Covington, LA branch of the NAACP) Anthony Arnove, author, "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal"; co-editor with Howard Zinn, "Voices of a People's History of the US" Charles Jenks, Chair of Advisory Board - Traprock Peace Center Cindy Sheehan, Co-founder - Gold Star Families for Peace Dahr Jamail, independent journalist who spent over 8 months reporting from occupied Iraq David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org Dennis Kyne, Gulf War veteran, activist and author of "Support the Truth" Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq and member of the Executive Committee of the Brussells Tribunal, Belgium Don DeBar, correspondent, WBAI, New York Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, National Coordinating Committee - Campus Antiwar Network Eric Ruder, reporter - Socialist Worker newspaper Gabriele Zamparini, freelance journalist and film maker living in London; co-editor of http://www.thecatsdream.com Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and activist; author of "A People's History of the United States" and co-editor with Anthony Arnove of "Voices of a People's History of the US" Jacob Flowers, Director - MidSouth Peace and Justice Center Judy Linehan, Military Families Speak Out Kathy Kelly, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, co-founder - Voices For Creative Non-Violence Lindsey German, Convener - Stop the War Coalition (UK) Michael Letwin, Co-Convener - New York City Labor Against the War Nick Mottern, National Director - Consumers for Peace Nada Khader, Executive Director, Wespac Foundation Norman Solomon, Author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" Paola Pisi, professor of religious sciences (Italy) and editor of http://www.uruknet.info Phil Gasper, Chair - Department of Philosophy & Religion, Notre Dame de Namur University, Professors for Peace Sharon Smith, author of "Women and Socialism : Essays on Women's Liberation" Stan Goff, Master Sergeant Retired, US Army Sunny Miller, Executive Director - Traprock Peace Center Tim Baer, Director - Bloomington Peace Action Coalition Tim Carpenter, National Director - Progressive Democrats of America Ward Reilly, SE National Contact - Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Baton Rouge *Affiliations are for identification purposes only. Charles Jenks Chair of Advisory Board Traprock Peace Center UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545 From ufpj-news -------- Join The ExxonMobil War Boycott Vote with your dollars. When governments and/or corporations perpetrate gross injustice and war - or do nothing to stop it - we, the people, must take action to end the violence and exploitation. http://www.consumersforpeace.org/ From Information Clearing House -------- The ExxonMobil War Boycott http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1682806/ -------- Exxon Exxposed http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0322-21.htm Informant: Teresa Binstock