New Focus on Chevron

Global Exchange has launched a new program focusing on the ravages of Chevron:

Riding on a 25% increase in revenues, in 2009, Chevron moved from the sixth to the fifth largest global corporation in the world. Only 36 countries on the planet had GDPs larger than Chevron’s $263 billion in 2008 revenues. Chevron is the largest corporation in California, the second-largest U.S. oil corporation and the third-largest corporation in the nation.

But while Chevron is one of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is also the target of one of the most organized resistance movements in the world. Global Exchange is a proud member of this movement.

By expanding, strengthening, and highlighting this movement, we can build more allies and create a powerful advocacy base for real policy changes, such that, for as long as we continue to use oil, its operations will be as clean, safe, humane, and equitable as possible. We will also help to put a human face on the true cost of oil, thereby strengthening the movement working to move us away from oil as an energy source altogether.

Global Exchange has hired Antonia Juhasz to direct their new program. She is the lead author and editor of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report, which was released by Global Exchange and several other organizations in May 2009. Juhasz also authored a very insightful book last year, The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry–And What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins 2008), among other books and articles.

If you’re in the vicinity of Richmond, CA, you can join Global Exchange and the West Coast Mobilization for Climate Justice on Saturday, August 15, for a rally and march on a Chevron oil refinery.

Read more about Global Exchange’s Chevron Program.