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From: "Kris Moorman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Kathy Dinkel" <[log in to unmask]>,
        "Tom Mathews" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: Chevron CEO Creamed By 3 Pies
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:43:41 -0600
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>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:33:17 -1222
>For Immediate Release: March 10, 1999
>
>CONTACT: Biotic Baking Brigade via e-mail at [log in to unmask]


>
>San Francisco, CA - The Ecotopia Cell of the Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB)
>swung into action today in its first post-'Cherry Pie 3' sentencing
>action, delivering just desserts in the form of three pies to the head
>(quite literally, as well as the suit and tie) of Chevron, CEO Kenneth T.
>Derr.
>
>This latest pastry incident occurred outside of the Galileo Academy of
>Science and Technology at 10:35 a.m., shortly before he was to give a
>corporate greenwash speech to kids at the school's "National Engineers
>Week" program. BBB Agent 3.14 launched the first strike after saying to
>Derr, "Do people really kill Nigerians for oil? People Do," in reference =
to
>Chevron's "People Do" ad campaign. The multiple pie-throwers successfully
>tossed three pies, and then disappeared without a trace.
>
>Derr was targeted because the BBB believes in thinking globally and actin=
g
>locally. Abroad, Chevron engages in destruction of indigenous cultures an=
d
>ecosystems; murder of nonviolent activists in Nigeria; obstruction of any
>meaningful efforts to address global warming; and repeated labor
>violations. Closer to home, Chevron is one of the worst corporate pollute=
rs
>in California. Here in the Bay Area, its Richmond refinery earned top
>billing from a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency, which
>designated the Richmond plant as the nation's biggest toxic waste produce=
r,
>releasing about 1 million pounds of poison to the air and 500,000 pounds =
to
>the Bay.
>
>"From the forests of Columbia to the platforms of Nigeria down to the
>waters and workers of own Bay, large petro-chemical corporations display
>callous disregard for human life and the future of this planet," says BBB
>Agent Blueberry of the Cherry Pie 3 Solidarity Committee. "We have
>witnessed toxic spill after toxic spill. We have seen our fellow workers
>perish in refinery 'mishaps,' and we have watched oil companies take off
>their gloves and get directly involved in the murder of indigenous people=
s
>the world over. To their lies, we respond with pies."
>
>This action comes in light of new information about direct collaboration
>between Chevron and Nigerian security forces in the continuing repression
>of protesters in Nigeria's Delta region. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich
>(D-OH) and several members of Congress are calling for a congressional
>investigation into the allegations of killings of innocent Nigerian
>civilians, human rights abuses and harassment of environmental activists =
by
>Nigerian security forces with the help of Chevron, a U.S.- based oil
>company.
>
>The BBB is not afraid to name and identify the destroyers of our future.
>After all, the Earth is not dying: it is being killed, and the people doi=
ng
>the killing have names and faces. As Chief Executive Officer, Derr has th=
e
>greatest share of Nigerians' blood on his hands, and yet this corporate
>killer walks the streets a free man. But not free from our delicious
>resistance. . . .
>
>This action kicks off a campaign of international solidarity pie actions
>for the Cherry Pie 3, who were jailed for 6 months by Judge Ernest
>Goldsmith in order to "deter" pie-throwing. To the forces of law and orde=
r
>in San Francisco, Agent Blueberry says, "Deter This!"
>