Wed Rally at ChevronTexaco HQ in San Ramon

Friends of the Amazon...

Please come out and show your support! (forward widely)



Join Amazonian Leaders, Local Community Leaders, Investors and International Human Rights Advocate,
Bianca Jagger, at Chevron Texaco's Annual Shareholder's Meeting!


Rally at ChevronTexaco's World Headquarters in San Ramon


Wednesday, April 28, 2004

7:30am - 10:30am (or until the meeting ends)

6001 Bollinger Canyon Road/ChevronTexaco Way in San Ramon (off I-680)






For further directions and/or carpool information call 415-487-9600.

Sponsored by: San Ramon Valley Cares About Ecuador, Contra Costa Labor Council, Amazon Watch and local
communities concerned about ChevronTexaco's effects on the Amazon and its inhabitants.



Community Event on Eve of ChevronTexaco Shareholder Meeting


Tuesday, April 27, 2004 
7-9pm 
Danville Congregational Church
989 San Ramon Valley Blvd.



Join Amazonian leaders, San Ramon community leaders, international human rights advocate Bianca Jagger and
concerned investors in an evening of testimonies and presentations on ChevronTexaco's toxic legacy in the
Ecuadorian Amazon.

 


For more information on events leading up to the shareholder's meeting and rally, go to
http://www.amazonwatch.org for a schedule of events or see below.





In peace and solidarity,

Leila Salazar
Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Organizer
Amazon Watch (http://www.amazonwatch.org)
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Schedule of Events for Amazonian Leaders in the Bay Area/ San Ramon Valley:


Sunday, April 25
-Amazonian Leaders speak at churches in the San Ramon Valley (see bios below)
(9:30am Danville Congregational Church, 10am Peace Lutheran Church)
-(2-4pm) Earth Day Celebration in Oakland (http://www.spiritualallianceforearth.org)

Monday, April 26
-(10am) Press Conference in San Francisco with Amazonian Leaders and Bianca Jagger at Amazon Watch office (1 Haight St., Suite
B/Gough St. in San Francisco)

Tuesday, April 27
-(11am) Press Conference at San Ramon Community Center (12501 Alcosta Blvd/Bollinger Canyon Rd. in San Ramon) with San
Ramon Community Leaders (Rev. Steve Harms and Pastor Margaretta Dahlin-Johannson from Peace Lutheran Church and others),
Amazonian Leaders and Bianca Jagger

-(7-9pm) Community Event on Eve of ChevronTexaco Shareholder Meeting
Danville Congregational Church (989 San Ramon Valley Blvd.)

Wednesday, April 28
-(7:30am)- Rally with community groups in front of ChevronTexaco World Headquarters.
-(8am)- CVX Shareholder Meeting
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Biographies

Toribio Aguinda
Delegate of the National Cofan Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FINCE) from Dureno
Toribio is the former president of FINCE and a teacher. He has been actively involved in the campaign to hold Texaco, now ChevronTexaco, accountable
for the last 10 years. In 1997, he led his people in demanding that Dureno #1, a former Texaco well, be shut down because of its continued contamination
into the environment and that the people be supplied with clean water. The well was shut down, but clean water has never been delivered. Toribio has
traveled to the Bay Area twice. He has returned to talk to the San Ramon community and ChevronTexaco investors about the irreversible cultural effects of
the the oil exploitation of ChevronTexaco on his people. He blames ChevronTexaco for the cultural and spritual devastation of the Cofan people. He also
blames ChevronTexaco for the poverty in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He says, 3We1re the owners of the oil, yet we have not received any benefits from it.2

Rosa Moreno Chalaco
Representative of the San Carlos community, Orellana-Ecuador
Since 1984, Rosa Moreno has lived in San Carlos, one of the most contaminated towns in the Amazon. In the 1999 Yana Curi study, 8 cases of cancer were
found in her community. Some of these cancers have led to the deaths of her father, father-in-law and her aunt. As a nurse, she believes that the sicknesses
are due to the remains of Texaco1s operations in San Carlos, which are 58 oil wells and 42 open pits of toxic waste. She wants the San Ramon community
and investors to know that 3the people of the Amazon do not want an Amazon full of money, but one full of clean water and life2.

Bianca Jagger
International Human Rights Advocate
Bianca Jagger is an international human rights campaigner who has traveled the world for more than two decades advocating for victims of repressive
corporations and governments. Born in Nicaragua, when she was young, she witnessed the brutality of the Samoza regime. She has worked to help
indigenous groups such as the Miskito of Nicaragua and the Guaraní and Yanomami of Brazil to maintain control over the ancestral lands. For these efforts,
in 1995, she was given the Earth Day Award by the United Nations. During the war in Bosnia, she organization the evacuation of 22 children to the United
States to receive medical attention. She has testified before the Helsinki Comisión for Human Rights, the Human Rights Caucaus of the United States
Congress, the British Parliament, and the European Parliament. Since the mid 19901s, she has become a tireless activist against the death penalty in the
United States. More recently she traveled to Zambia under the auspices of Christian Aid to document the impacts of the tragedy of AIDS among women
and children and to Iraq with scholars against the war. Bianca is a member of the executive council of Amnesty International of the United States and works
on behalf of Human Rights Watch, Amazon Watch, and the Coalition for International Justice. She has written numerous articles and editorials which have
appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Observer, and the Guardian. In October 2003, she traveled with Amazon Watch to Ecuador and
witnessed the devastation left behind by ChevronTexaco. She is now committed to supporting the forest peoples affected by ChevronTexaco's oil
operations.

Shelley Alpern
Assistant Vice President and Director of Social Research, Trillium Asset Management
Through Trillium Asset Management, Ms. Alpern filed a shareholder resolution to ChevronTexaco shareholders on December 17, 2003. This resolution
calls for ChevronTexaco1s Board to prepare a report on new initiatives instituted by management to address the specific health and environmental concerns
of villagers living near un-remediated waste pits and other sources of oil-related contamination in the area where Texaco operated in Ecuador ( See
http://www.trilliuminvest.com for full text of resolution). Ms. Alpern recently traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon with other investors who are also concerned
about their investments in the company. The other investors represented the New York State Pension Fund and JOLT (a religious shareholder's
organization in California).

Ms. Alpern joined Trillium Asset Management in 1994. She received her bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania
and her master's degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin. Ms. Alpern was named one of The Advocate
magazine's "Best and Brightest Activists" in 1999, and part of the "Gay Financial Network Power 25," in 2001, a listing of prominent openly gay corporate
executives.  Prior to joining Trillium Asset Management, Ms. Alpern worked for several arms control and human rights organizations in Washington and
Boston.