Exxon-Mobil -- Besides denying the validity of climate change and being MAJOR enemies of the Earth,
they're the biggest proponent of "free trade", and ran advertisements in most major US newspapers
saying that US and the rest of the Americas should sign onto the FTAA.
PressurePoint has called for and is coordinating an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION against Exxon-Mobil
in response to President Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol Treaty on climate change.
The actions will be held in the first week of July in the lead up to the July 16 climate negotiations
in Germany, and will be part of an ongoing campaign on climate and fossil fuels.
World outrage is focused on the U.S. and oil companies like Exxon-Mobil, which has consistently
lobbied against the seriousness of global warming. The U.S. contributes 25% of the world's
greenhouse emissions despite having just 4% of the world's population.
Activists from Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Nigeria, Cameroon, the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, South Africa, Central America, and throughout Europe have begun moblizing for the
protests. In the U.S., PressurePoint already has commitments for ten protests at Exxon-Mobil gas
stations in the Pacific Northwest, and in many major U.S. cities. The protests are in support of the
call for an international boycott of U.S. oil companies.
Exxon-Mobil continues to fund "greenhouse skeptics", has spent millions on greenwash advertisements,
was one of the top contributors to Bush's election, and has been active in lobbying the U.S. government
to reject the Kyoto Protocol. Exxon-Mobil also has a terrible human rights and environmental record.
Targeting Exxon-Mobil, the biggest U.S. corporation and its best known oil company, will spearhead
the campaign and send a message to all U.S. oil companies that the U.S. needs to take climate change
seriously.
Join the global and regional effort to let Exxon-Mobil and George W. Bush know it's not up to them
to determine our planet's future, that we will no longer tolerate oil drilling in our last wildernesses
like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and that they have to make the shift from exploration
to renewable energy NOW.
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