Comments and Notes:
2007-10-18 Board of Directors address
Unless we find personal addresses for the board members, this is probably the best place to write for now. Tell them to use their influence to ask that the political prisoners be released. They have the power to turn off the valves at the Yadana oil rig = the flow of money to the dictatorship. If they keep them off long enough the wells will stop functioning so it is an excellent way to apply pressure to the junta.
http://chevron.com/investors/corporategovernance/contactboard/
Board of Directors
Interested parties wishing to communicate their concerns or questions about Chevron Corporation to the Lead Director or to non-employee Directors may do so by U.S. mail:
Lead Director or Non-Employee Directors
c/o Office of the Corporate Secretary
Chevron Corporation
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA 94583
The Corporate Secretary will compile the communications, summarize lengthy or repetitive communications and forward to the Lead Director or non-employee Directors. The Corporate Secretary will also coordinate any requests from stockholders for additional communications with the Lead Director." --guest
2007-10-16 Waiting for answer; also investor relations
I tried the above and received a call back today from a woman in the Media relations dept. She said she will refer my question to the person handling the Burma issue. I am waiting for his call. Any hard answers will be posted here.
Another dept to try contacting is Investor Relations, 1-925-842-5690. We should probably also pressure mutual funds like Fidelity to disinvest from Chevron. Apparently Exxon is a clean oil company that drills in democratic countries.
Chevron has a press release on the subject,
http://www.chevron.com/news/press/Release/?id=2007-10-02
but they sidestep a lot of issues. The bottom line is that Chevron is the one group with leverage to help the imprisoned protestors and they are choosing not to use it. If you could get those people freed by a simple action - like closing the valves temporarily to get the dictator's attention, and telling them clearly that they need to take steps to free prisoners and move towards democracy - wouldn't you do it? O'Reilly would not. --gv
2007-10-16 crackdown on satellite phones http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2186651,00.html
--gv
2007-10-14 Ask them directly
It seems to me that we're members of the media, and that Chevron should be asked what they are doing about disinvestment. Call their press line:
Members of the media can contact Chevron Corporate Media Relations by phone at: +1 925.842.0050
ask them if they are disinvesting, take notes and quote their reply on your blog. --gv
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