Fwd: Opportunity for Investor Activism at Chevron

[Burma Action Committee]

> Friends,
>
> My "day job" is VP at Newgound Social Investment in Seattle (www.newground.net
> ). We engage extensively in shareholder advocacy, seeing that as
> the best way to move companies toward better social and
> environmental practices. In the past year we've had numerous
> successes, at Microsoft, McDonalds, Starbucks and elsewhere.
>
> Right now we are looking for Chevron shareholders. We need someone
> with more than $2000 of shares, held for at least one year.
>
> We have one client whose shares we've used for the last couple of
> years at Chevron, supporting a resolution calling for transparency
> regarding their "country selection criteria." But our friends at
> Oxfam have just filed a new one at Chevron calling for transparency
> of payments to governments, and we'd like to support that as well.
> In the case of Chevron's partnership with the Burmese junta, the
> regime has been using accounting trickery to book less than 1% of
> revenues into the national budget. The rest goes into personal
> accounts abroad, even as the generals cry for more foreign money to
> help the victims of 2008's cyclone Nargis.
>
> If you or someone you know holds Chevron shares in these amounts and
> would like to join an effort to promote basic transparency and
> accountability, please contact me at L...@newground.net. Time is of
> the essence, we have about 10 days to get this done.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Larry Dohrs
>
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