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SHAME ON BUSH ! THE US HAS TORPEDOED THE EARTH SUMMIT : WE PROTEST AT THE US EMBASSY, SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER, 12.00 pm
On Saturday 7th we protested ouside the US embassy against US obstructionism at the Earth Summit.
This demo was got together at very short notice and so turn out was not high. Nevertheless we got 4 Radio interviews and also appeared on London Weekend TV luchtime news.
So we did manage to 'catch the moment' and it was well worth it - thanks to everyone who turned out for this and made this possible ! At the summit
the US went out of its way to prove to any doubters that its Environmental Public Enemy Number 1. It did its utmost to obstruct every positive measure
and succeeded in blocking targets for Renewable Energy (as championed especially by the Latin American countries). For all its shortcomings the summit represents something desperately
needed, namely effective international cooperative
action to halt the world's slide towards economic polarisation and environmental self-destruction: the US has trampled on the fragile hope that this summit offered that something might at last be done.
And its clearer than ever that it is short term economic interests, above all those of the fossil fuel interests to which the Bush regime remains so closely tied, that are driving US policy. For that reason
above all future generations will never forgive it. In particular ExxonMobil, through front organisations, has been a major driving force behind the sabotage of progress on renewable energy (see our earlier action...
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HOW ESSO IS SABOTAGING THE EARTH SUMMIT: WE TAKE THE MESSAGE TO EXXON/ESSO's LONDON OFFICES
The CCC was back at the Central London offices of ExxonMobil on the evening of Thursday 22nd of August,
making sure once more that they are not left in peace as long as they continue to be Corporate Enemy
Number 1 of the World's Climate. We had our shiny new Display Stand with enough materials for a seminar
or two on Exxon's anti-environmental activities while Exxon employees and the passing public, alike, were
leafleted with all the info on the latest Exxon exposure. This concerns their attempts to sabotage the
Earth Summit in Johannesburg. A leaked letter from 31 'organisations and individuals' to GWB is clearly an attempt to
do just that. It says
"We applaud your decision not to attend the summit in person" and
" we...strongly support your opposition to signing the new international environmental treaties or creating new
international environmental organizations at the Johannesburg Summit.."
and (get this !) "the least important global environmental issue is potential global warming,
and we hope that your negotiators can keep it off the table and out of the spotlight"
So who were these 31 organisations ? Well some of them have been heavily involved in anti-Kyoto activities before and we know
that seven of them are funded by ExxonMobil ! So if you thought that last quote looks like its got Exxon's fingerprints all
over it you'd be right ! Of course this is typical of the way ExxonMobil works ....paying other people to do their dirty work
and then denying blandly that they are trying to influence the US government, or sabotage the world's efforts to safeguard the global environment,
in any way at all.
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