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DESCRIPTION:Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:55:44 -0700\n\nPlease copy and widely circulate 
 this action and transport info: \n\nNO War on Iraq & NO Toxic War on Our 
 Communities. \nSHUT DOWN CHEVRON-TEXACO WORLD HEADQUARTERS! ChevronTexaco: 
 Toxic \nTerrorists and War Profiteers \n\nMass Nonviolent Civil 
 Disobedience and Support Rally \n\nMonday April 14, 2003 Gather: 6:00am; 
 continues to 5pm \n(rain or shine; come when you can!) \nBollinger Canyon 
 Road (at Sunset, immediately East of Hwy 680), San Ramon 
 \n\n************************************ \nTRANSPORTATION \n(more info/map 
 at http://www.actagainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=33 ): \nBART: 
 Take BART to Walnut Creek stop (First BART leaves MacArthur at \n4:45am). 
 Wait outside for an action shuttle or a public shuttle (County \nConnection 
 Bus 121). Shuttles will run until 5pm. \n\nBIKE:From Dublin BART: Ride bike 
 on Iron Horse Trail (from right outside \nBART station), north for about 5 
 miles to SanRamon Central Park and \nBollinger Canyon Rd. \n\nCARPOOL:If  
 you are driving and have space or if you need a ride at 5am: \nSF: Church 
 and Market: Safeway Parking Lot \nEAST BAY: Mac Arthur BART 
 \n\nDRIVING:From SF, North Bay, Oakland: Get on Hwy 58O East. Drive 20 
 minutes \npast Oakland. Take Hwy 680 North/Walnut Creek. Exit at Bollinger 
 Canyon \nRoad. Turn right on Bollinger Canyon, drive 1/2 mile past 
 ChevronTexaco. \nPark at Central Park on left or turn left on Alcosta and 
 park in \nresidential area/ right turn. (exit at Crow Canyon, next exit, if 
 Bollinger \nis blocked. Turn right on Crow Canyon and right on Alcosta. 
 Drive over a \nmile and park at Central Park or residential area/left turn 
 on Overlook). \nCentral Park is quarter mile from ChevronTexaco. 
 \n********************************************* \n\nSCHEDULE \nWe need as 
 many people as can come to shut down at 6am, but we will be \nthere all 
 day--til 5pm, so please come as early-but come whenever you \ncan. Tell 
 your freinds. \n\nSUPPORT RALLY \nWe will have a soundsystem and spoken 
 word poets, musicians, performers and \nspeakers all day long-- the program 
 begins around 10am at Bollinger Cayon \nand Camino Ramon across the street 
 from Chevron Texaco. \n\nCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE \nPlease consider participating 
 in this historic civil \ndisobedience/nonviolent direct action. We need as 
 many people as possible \nto shut ChevronTexaco down and show that our 
 movements against war and \ntoxic war at home are growing and won't be 
 intimidated! If you don't choose \nto risk arrest we also need as many 
 people as possible to support those who \ndo. The support rally and support 
 demonstrations across the street from \nChevron Texaco are intending to 
 stay safe and not risk arrest.   \n\nLEGAL \nLegal Support to Stop the War 
 and the National Lawyers Guild are providing \nlegal support for this 
 action. In past Contra Costa County actions (Concord \nNaval Weapons 
 Station) most people with ID have been cited out the same \nday. The legal 
 support # will be available at Spokescouncil and action \norientations. 
 \n\nNONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING \nSunday April 13, 4pm-6pm 
 \nSpokescouncil Meeting (Spokescouncil Site) \nH.E.R.E. Local 2850 \n548 
 20th St., between Telegraph and San Pablo \nOakland (19th ST BART) 
 \n\nACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL MEETING \nTo coordinate the action/affinity 
 groups. If you are part of a group \nparticipating in the action please 
 send a spokesperson for your group. \nH.E.R.E. Local 2850 \n548 20th St., 
 between Telegraph and San Pablo \nOakland (19th ST BART) \n\nORIENTATION 
 \nThere will be an orientation team to brief you on the action plan and how 
 \nto stay safe, be effective and plug in. Please look for them and get 
 \noriented before you join/support the actions. \n\nWHAT TO BRING \nFood, 
 water, warm/rain clothes, friends, signs and banners, art, music... 
 \n\n\n********************************************* \n\nPosted on Fri, Apr. 
 11, 2003   \n  \nRefinery accused of fueling Iraqi war \nChevronTexaco in 
 Richmond will reap the benefits of the fighting, activists \nsay \n\nBy Tom 
 Lochner \nCONTRA COSTA TIMES \n\nRICHMOND - The war on terrorism should 
 begin in Contra Costa County, where \nChevronTexaco is waging chemical 
 warfare against communities of color, a \ngroup of anti-war protesters said 
 Thursday at the gate of the oil giant's \nRichmond refinery. \n\nThe group, 
 Direct Action to Stop the War, held a news conference to \npublicize a 
 "massive, non-violent direct action" scheduled for Monday in \nfront of the 
 company's San Ramon headquarters. \n\nThe group pinned responsibility for 
 the war in Iraq on oil companies which, \nthey say, helped orchestrate it 
 and are lining up for the spoils "like \nvultures circling a carcass," as 
 one demonstrator, Gayle McLaughlin of the \nRichmond Green Party, put it. 
 \n\n"They will be processing stolen oil," said Henry Clark, executive 
 director \nof the West County Toxics Coalition, "and bombarding the 
 communities of \ncolor with toxic pollutants." \n\nGopal Dayaneni of Direct 
 Action, added: "Gandhi said making money off war \nis as bad as pulling the 
 trigger." \n\nChevronTexaco stopped processing Iraqi oil earlier this year, 
 said \nspokesman Stan Luckoski. \n\n"Iraqi oil belongs to the Iraqi people 
 and how they choose to develop it is \nup to the Iraqis themselves," 
 Luckoski said. "We do believe, though, that \nU.S. companies should be 
 permitted to pursue investment opportunities on an \nequal basis. \n\n"If 
 an opportunity presented itself, we would certainly be interested." 
 \n\nSeveral speakers pointed to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice 
 as \nthe smoking gun linking the war to oil profits, by virtue of her past 
 \nmembership on the ChevronTexaco board. \n\n"Chevron and others have been 
 lined up to reap billions and billions of \nprofits," said John Dalrymple, 
 president of the Contra Costa Labor \nCouncil. "There should be no excess 
 profits from this war." \n\nLuckoski scoffed at the notion the war in Iraq 
 is about oil. \n\n"The U.S. administration has said repeatedly that the 
 conflict is over the \nissue of weapons of mass destruction," he said. 
 \n\nSeveral protesters complained that North Richmond and other largely 
 black, \nSoutheast Asian and Latino communities downwind from the refinery 
 bear the \nbrunt of the toxic effects of oil refining, including elevated 
 rates of \nasthma, cancer and other illnesses. \n\n"This is terrorism. This 
 is chemical warfare," said Dayaneni. \n\nThey accused ChevronTexaco of 
 skimping on pollution controls, of fomenting \nmore consumption of oil and 
 eschewing alternative technologies, all in the \nname of corporate profits. 
 \n\n"They're in my back yard," said Mary "Peace" Heard, 82, of Parchester 
 \nVillage. \n\n"Chemicals are destroying people's lives here," Heard said. 
 "It's just like \na war." \n\nLuckoski said the refinery has operated 
 safely in the community for more \nthan 100 years, providing jobs for 
 residents, and pouring taxes into \ngovernment and the local economy while 
 supporting community organizations. \nThe company has significantly reduced 
 emissions in the past 20 years and \ncomplies with all governmental air and 
 water regulatory standards, Luckoski \nsaid. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/18313.php
SUMMARY:Shut Down Chevron-Texaco World Headquarters!
LOCATION:Bollinger Canyon Road (at Sunset, immediately East of Hwy 680), San Ramon 
 (a short shuttle from Walnut Creek BART)\n
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