BOYCOTT EXXONMOBIL

Why Boycott Shell?
Since the Nigerian government hanged 9 environmental activists in 1995 for speaking out against exploitation by Royal Dutch/Shell and the Nigeria government, outrage has exploded worldwide. The tribunal which convicted the men was part of a joint effort by the government and Shell to suppress a growing movement among the Ogoni people: a movement for environmental justice, for recognition of their human rights and for economic justice...
Why Boycott Exxon-Mobil?
ExxonMobil is suing Greenpeace aimed at silencing us from exposing Exxon's corrupt environmental policies...
Here are five reasons why ExxonMobil is worse than other oil companies.
1. ExxonMobil tries to convince the public that global warming isn't happening even though ExxonMobil is one of its main causes. It spends millions of dollars on misleading propaganda every year.
2. ExxonMobil has played a leading role in sabotaging international attempts to stop global warming. It would rather sell more petrol than protect future generations.
3. ExxonMobil doesn't believe renewable energy has a future. "With no readily available economic alternatives on the horizon, fossil fuels will continue to supply most of the world's energy needs for the foreseeable future." --Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO, 1997
4. ExxonMobil is the biggest oil company in the world - its profits totalled more than US$12 billion in 2000. If anyone can afford to help stop global warming it's ExxonMobil.
5. ExxonMobil was one of the main financial contributors to George Bush's election campaign. As soon as George Bush became president, he announced that the US would pull out of international agreements to stop global warming - exactly the position that ExxonMobil was promoting. For further information, download our briefing document The Case against Exxon (PDF file 41k). Also see Decade of Dirty Tricks (PDF file 230k), Greenpeace 's latest report on Exxon's attempts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol.
Why Boycott Chevron-Texaco?
From its purchase of drilling rights in Nigeria from a British government of conquest and colonization, to its partnership with military dictators, to calling in soldiers during nonviolent protests, ChevronTexaco's business strategy has been clear. ChevronTexaco tries to maximize profit through operations that undermine the health of local communities and ecosystems and by ignoring calls from increasingly impoverished communities to share the wealth taken from their land.
Why Boycott BP/Amoco?
Human Rights Groups to Boycott BP-Amoco for Investment in PetroChina “Slave Stock"
March 27 – The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) today unveiled a national boycott of Amoco gas stations in response to BP-Amoco’s coming stake in an oil project that fuels slavery and genocide of blacks in the Sudan. AASG President Dr. Charles Jacobs stated the boycott "unites a diverse and powerful coalition of activists, from the black church to labor to Free Tibet." (BP Amoco funnels American capital to China, oppressor of Tibet.)
BP-Amoco seeks to invest $1 billion in PetroChina, subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). CNPC has been linked to war crimes in Sudan: Africans are cleared off oil-rich land with slave raids, and Sudan's fundamentalist regime – deemed “genocidal” by the US Congress – bragged that oil proceeds fund its war.
Do people really get killed so that oil companies can make a profit?
People do.
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