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Moon
11-18-2006, 09:21 PM
<o:p> Here's the letter i'm sending to the head of Chevron Texaco; plagarize! </o:p>
Dave O’Reilly, CEO<o:p></o:p>
Chevron Texaco<o:p></o:p>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">575 Market St.</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">CA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">94105-2854</st1:postalcode></st1:address><o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>Dear Mr. O’Reilly:<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>I am writing, first, on behalf of Guadalupe De Heredia, Julio Marcelo Prieto Mendez, Alejandro Ponce Villacís, Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, Ermel Chávez <o:p></o:p>
Parra, Cármen Allauca, and Luis Yanza, the legal team representing indigenous communities in action against the oil company ChevronTexaco. As the press officer of the legal team taking legal action against Chevron Texaco in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ecuador</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Guadalupe de Heredia has been the target of a campaign of intimidation, which has included violent attacks and death threats. I fear that her life and those of her family may be in danger. I urge you to call off the unofficial Chevron Texaco agents who are menacing Guadalupe de Heredia and her family, as well as the human rights defenders from this legal team.<o:p>
</o:p> From 1964 to 1992, Texaco “frugally” dumped carcinogens into unlined pits. Since de Heredia’s legal team started its lawsuit against the oil company, its members have suffered repeated acts of intimidation and death threats. A truck without license plates once attempted to force de Heredia’s car off the road and into a ditch. Another time, a female friend came to visit Guadalupe at her home and was attacked by two men, who might have mistaken her for de Heredia.<o:p>
</o:p> This letter is, second, on behalf of all the residents of, and refugees from, <o:p></o:p><st1:place w:st="on">
Darfur</st1:place>. The Janjaweed, paid by the Semitic African government, is committing mass murder and Nazi-level torture, including chaining children together and throwing them into burning buildings, on the Black African civilians of Darfur. <o:p></o:p>
The only reason for this is to drive them out of their homeland, in order to be<o:p></o:p>
in an even better position to steal all the profits from the oil being drilled there.<o:p></o:p>
Chevron Texaco, like all other petroleum companies operating in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region>, needs to suspend operations in the country until a fair and binding agreement on allocation of oil profits is reached between the Sudanese government and <o:p></o:p>
the people of <st1:place w:st="on">Darfur</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p>

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