Join Burma Freedom Protest Against Chevron
CorporationBurma Freedom supporters to join in with Richmond community and environmental groups (West County Toxics Coalition, Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice, Communities for a Better Environment, Richmond Environmental Health & Justice Leadership Academy, Community Healthy Initiative, Richmond Greens; and ANSWER) in a protest against Chevron Refinery Expansion in solidarity, to make connections and also to raise awareness about Chevron involvement in Burma.
Saturday November 10, 2007
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Assemble at the Richmond BART Station Parking Lot @ 12 Noon and March to the Richmond Chevron refinery (Families welcome.)
Address of Richmond BART station: 1700 Nevin Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801 (The final station on Richmond Line BART)
Chevron Refinery Address: 841 Chevron Way, Richmond, CA 94801
Please make signs: Chevron Out of Burma; Chevron: Burmese Blood on your hand; Chevron Prospers, Burmese Suffer; Chevron Pipe line = Burma Dictator's Life Line; Chevron: Your wealth is our Blood; Chevron Gains, Burma's Pain
For more information: Contact: Dr. Henry Clark, West County Toxics Coalition, 510-232-3427; Jennifer 415 722 2907
WHY: Chevron Corp. of San Ramon (formerly Unocal), a California oil corporation, is involved in a joint-venture with Burma’s brutal and repressive military regime. The military maintains its stranglehold on Burma’s people with weapons bought with foreign currency gained from natural gas sale to Thailand through Chevron's pipeline, regime's lifeline. While the electricity is scare in Burma, the regime pockets more than $2 billions annually. In the latest developments in Burma, soldiers have been crushing the recent pro-democracy protests. Many activists and monks have been disrobed, beaten, humiliated, tortured, and killed, and there are reports of a massacre in the jungle. The military junta is raiding monasteries and private homes in the middle of the night and dragging away those they suspect of involvement. Over 4,000 protesters have been arrested and the Burmese population is living in fear.
Human rights activists are calling on the company to leave Burma to cut off regime's lifeline. The people of Burma need your help. Despite this brutal military crackdown, the brave protests continue, but both protestors and innocent onlookers are being beaten, arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed. To stop the killings in Burma, we must stop the Chevron involvement in Burma.
Thanks,
Nyunt Than