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DESCRIPTION:Press Conference,\nWHAT: Press Conference, Report Release, and Chevron 
 Toxic Tour \nWHEN: Tuesday, May 24 at 10am \nWHERE: Starts at Chevron Gas 
 Station, 1298 Howard Street (9th & Howard), San Francisco \n\nWHY: On May 
 25, dozens of local, national, and international community leaders and 
 advocates from and for communities harmed by Chevron's operations from 
 Angola, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria, Alaska, Texas, and more will attend 
 the company's annual shareholder meeting in San Ramon, California while 
 supporters rally outside to demand that Chevron agree to change its ways. 
 \n\nAs oil and gasoline prices – and public outrage at the generous 
 government subsidies handed out daily to the oil industry – are on the 
 rise, Fortune Magazine announced that for the fourth year in a row, Chevron 
 – California's largest company – is the nation's third largest 
 corporation and the world's sixth largest. Chevron brought in nearly $20 
 billion in profits last year. What did it do with its vast wealth? 
 According to its Annual Report and the actors in its “We Agree” Ad 
 campaign, Chevron supported human rights, alternative energy, the 
 environment, and local economies. \n\nThe reality is much different and the 
 people who know best will expose the true cost of Chevron in three ways: 
 \n\n1.With the release of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual 
 Report. \n\nEmbargoed until May 24, the report includes accounts by more 
 than 40 authors – led by those on the front lines of Chevron's operations 
 – recording egregious corporate behavior in locations as diverse as 
 California, Burma, Colombia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines 
 and the U.S. Gulf Coast, including new sections detailing Chevron's pursuit 
 of ever-riskier and ever-deeper offshore projects in the South China Sea, 
 the North Sea, and the Canadian Arctic and its role in the Deepwater 
 Horizon disaster. The report also profiles the historic victory and 
 ongoingbattle over Chevron's crimes in Ecuador. \n\n2.Many report authors 
 have traveled to the Bay Area to be available to speak at the Press 
 Conference, including: \n\n■Humberto Piaguaje, Amazon Defense Coalition, 
 Ecuador\n■Emem Okon, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, 
 Nigeria\n■Elias Isaac, Open Society Initiative, Angola\n■Jessica Tovar, 
 Communities for a Better Environment, Oakland, CA\n■Mardan Pius Ginting, 
 WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia, Indonesia\n■Gitz Crazyboy (Ryan 
 Deranger), First Nation Dene/Pikini (Blackfoot), Alberta, 
 Canada\n■Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA, co-editor of 
 the True Cost of Chevron report\n3.Following the press conference, a Toxic 
 Tour of Chevron's operations in Richmond will be led by local activists for 
 the press and our national and international allies.\n\nThe True Cost of 
 Chevron\nAn Alternative Annual ReportThis year's report – the third 
 installment by the True Cost of Chevron Network – will be available for 
 download here soon. It features new sections on Chevron's pursuit of 
 ever-riskier and ever-deeper offshore projects in the South China Sea, the 
 North Sea, and the Canadian Arctic, as well as accounts of Chevron's 
 ongoing negative impacts in the U.S. Gulf Coast. \n\nThe report will be 
 released to the public at our press conference on May 24th. \n\nIn the 
 meantime, the 2010 and 2009 reports are still available below.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/22/18680301.php
SUMMARY:Press Conf, True Cost Report Release, & Chevron Toxic Tour Prior to Shareholder Mtg Wed.
LOCATION:Starts at Chevron Gas Station \n1298 Howard Street (9th & Howard) \nSan 
 Francisco, CA \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/22/18680301.php
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