[van-announce] Re: Stop E$$O Day of Action BC

[gpvancou at yvr.greenpeace.org]

                       Stop E$$O Day of Action

                         August 24 From 12-3
                           www.stopesso.ca


E$$O (ExxonMobil or Imperial Oil in Canada) has been caught at 
their
dirty tricks again, this time E$$O is sabotaging the Earth Summit in
Johannesburg (Aug. 26- Sept 4)- an article and links can be found
below.

E$$O will continue to be naughty until we stop them so let us give
them a message on the eve of the Earth Summit, shall we?

E$$O stations in the lower mainland and Victoria will be picketed 
and
drivers encouraged to buy gasoline elsewhere- we need as many 
people
as possible so pass this message on!

How to Spank E$$O in 5 Easy Steps

Step 1

Reply to dfields at yvr.greenpeace.org asap with the following details:

1. Your Name
2. The closest E$$O station to you ( if you don't know, call E$$O's
Instant Station Locator Line at: 1 800 567 3776) 
3.Your phone number

We will then connect you with other people in your area.
If you are interested in being a "team leader" please state
in your reply. 

Step 2

Go to http://www.stopesso.ca and download the DIY Action Kit. 

Check out the slideshow in the Updates section to see just some of 
the
previous Stop E$$O activities in Vancouver. You can also follow the
links to find out how people are stopping E$$O elsewhere in the world.

Step 3

Get Creative  Get Active!

There are some ideas in the kit on info pickets- use them or come up
with something on your own...anyway you want to do it, download
materials from www.stopesso.ca if you need them. We also have
materials in the Vancouver Greenpeace office (1726 Commercial Dr.)-
stop by and pick some up! If you need logos mention it in your reply
and I will send them to you.

Step 4

Show up at your adopted E$$O station and let the show begin!

Be sure to bring a camera or video camera and do not get in the way 
of
drivers or intimidate any customers or employees. 

Be Safe, Have Fun, Save Planet, Stop Esso.

Step 5

Send your pictures/ video and a brief description of what went on to
www.stopesso.ca- we will post them for the world, and E$$O, to see!


See, pretty easy, eh?

Now to fuel the fire, read on...


HOW TO SABOTAGE A SUMMIT
Exxon and Republican Lobbyists Work to Stop Johannesburg 
Progress

 Leading Republican Party and conservative lobbyists - many funded 
by
 Exxon Mobil - have combined to try to stop progress at the
 Johannesburg Earth Summit. Environment pressure group Friends of 
the
 Earth today published a letter to President George W Bush from 31
 political groups and individuals, demanding that he not attend the
 Summit and calling on him to ensure that his negotiators prevent any
 progress on climate change.


 The letter, dated August 2nd, says "we applaud your decision not to
 attend the Summit in person ... Even more than the Earth Summit in
 Rio in 1992, the Johannesburg Summit will provide a global media
stage for many of the most irresponsible and destructive elements
 involved in critical international economic and environmental
 issues. Your presence would only help to publicize and make more
 credible various anti-freedom, anti-people, anti-globalization, and
 anti-Western agendas."

  It also claims that "the least important global environmental issue
  is potential global warming and we hope that your negotiators at
 Johannesburg can keep it off the table and out of the spotlight." And
 the letter also says that "in our view the worst possible outcome at
 Johannesburg would be taking any steps towards creating a World
 Environmental Organization, as the European Union has suggested". 

 Signatories include:

 * Fred L Smith and Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise
 Institute
  - funding from Exxon $280,000 in 2001

 * Craig Rucker from the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

 (CFACT)
>  - funding from Exxon $35,000 in 2001

> * Steven Hayward from the American Enterprise Institute

>  - funding from Exxon $230,000 in 2001

> * Terrence Scanlon from the Capital Research Center

>  - funding from Exxon $25,000 in 2001

> * Joseph L Bast of the Heartland Institute

>  - funding from Exxon $90,000 in 2001

> * Deroy Murdock of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (AERF)

>  - funding from Exxon $150,000 in 2001

> * H Stirling Burnett of the National Center for Policy Analysis

>  - funding from Exxon $20,000 in 2001

> 

> (all funding details from

> http://www2.exxonmobil.com/files/corporate/public_policy1.pdf, an

> official Exxon document)

> 

> Many of these groups have long been active in trying to frustrate

> progress on tackling man-made climate change and other global

> environmental crises. For example, the CFACT sent fifty "trained"

> Republican students to the Bonn climate talks in 2001 to demonstrate

> against the Kyoto Treaty. The AERF promotes and supports the work of

> leading US climate sceptic S Fred Singer.

> 

> Friends of the Earth Director Designate Tony Juniper commented:

> 

> "This letter casts a grim light on the iron triangle of the Bush

> White House, corporate polluters such as Exxon Mobil, and

> conservative lobbyists.

> 

> They are determined to block any progress at the Johannesburg

> Summit. They have already leaned on President Bush not even to show

> up, and are now demanding that his negotiators do their best to

> wreck any hope of agreement. These lobbyists cannot live off the

> support of ordinary citizens - who would react with incredulity or

> anger to their claims that climate change is an issue of no

> importance..

> 

> So they rely instead on handouts from corporations such as Exxon.

> Exxon doesn't have the courage to promote its political agenda

> directly. So it relies on the lobbyists to do its dirty work.

> 

> The case for a binding international agreement to control the

> behaviour of destructive corporations has never looked stronger."

> 

> Notes:

> [1] Friends of the Earth is a member of the Stop Esso Campaign,

> launched with fellow coalition members Greenpeace and People &

> Planet in response to the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol in

> Spring 2001.  ExxonMobil were the most prominent members of the

> fossil fuel lobby opposing US involvement in the vital Kyoto climate

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