See Consumers for Peace for more
information on the boycott
March 21, 2006
The ExxonMobil War Boycott campaign announces endorsements by Cindy
Sheehan, Howard Zinn, and a host of internationally known activists
and writers, with support from national and regional peace and
justice organizations. (The full list of endorsers is given below.)
Consumers for Peace launched the boycott campaign on December
29, 2005, seeking an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and
mercenaries from Iraq and the impeachment of George W. Bush and
prosecution of U.S. officials responsible for war crimes and crimes
against humanity.
The campaign urges consumers to boycott of ExxonMobil products
and to purchase of CITGO products as an alternative.
ExxonMobil has been selected for boycott because of its apparent
active involvement in U.S. policy in the Middle East in general and
Iraq in particular, and its power to help change these policies.
The campaign urges the boycott of products and services of nine
consumer products firms connected with ExxonMobil through its board
of directors. They are: Campbell's Soup; Carlson Companies
(Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday's); Corning Inc. (Steuben Glass);
Metlife; Novartis; Pfizer; Verizon; Wells Fargo and Wyeth.
ConsumersforPeace.org describes connections between ExxonMobil and
U.S. Middle East and Iraq policies and seeks to mobilize consumer
pressure that will persuade the oil firm to start to lobby on behalf
of the boycott's goals. ExxonMobil says it spent $7.7 million on
lobbying in 2004.
ConsumersforPeace.org is an organizer of the March to Redeem the
Soul of America, to be held in Texas April 1 -16. The march will
begin with a press conference at 10 a.m., April 1, at ExxonMobil
headquarters in Texas and other a two-week period will go from there
to Dallas, then south to Waco and west to Crawford and the Texas
White House. It will conclude on Easter Weekend at the celebration of
the 3rd Anniversary of the Crawford Peace House, in Crawford.
These organizations and individuals endorse the ExxonMobil War
Boycott called by Consumers for Peace.
Organizational Endorsers:
After Downing Street
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org
Bloomington Peace Action Coalition
http://www.bpac.info
Campus Antiwar Network
http://www.campusantiwar.net
Coalition Against War and Injustice (Baton Rouge) http://www.cawi.info/
Covington (Louisiana) Peace Project
Consumers for Peace
http://www.consumersforpeace.org
Democrats.com
http://www.democrats.com
Goldstar Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org
International Socialist Organization http://
www.internationalsocialist.org
Midsouth Peace and Justice Center http://www.midsouthpeace.org
Progressive Democrats of America http://www.pdamerica.org
Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org
Wespac Foundation
www.wespac.org
Individual Endorsers*:
Adam Roufberg, Natural Philosophers International
Annie and Buddy Spell, Louisiana peace activists (Annie is president
of the Greater Covington, LA branch of the NAACP)
Anthony Arnove, author, "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal"; co-editor
with Howard Zinn, "Voices of a People's History of the US"
Charles Jenks, Chair of Advisory Board - Traprock Peace Center
Cindy Sheehan, Co-founder - Gold Star Families for Peace
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist who spent over 8 months
reporting from occupied Iraq
David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
Dennis Kyne, Gulf War veteran, activist and author of "Support the
Truth"
Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq and member of the Executive
Committee of the Brussells Tribunal, Belgium
Don DeBar, correspondent, WBAI, New York
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, National Coordinating Committee - Campus
Antiwar Network
Eric Ruder, reporter - Socialist Worker newspaper
Gabriele Zamparini, freelance journalist and film maker living in
London; co-editor of www.thecatsdream.com
Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and activist; author of "A
People's History of the United States" and co-editor with Anthony
Arnove of "Voices of a People's History of the US"
Jacob Flowers, Director - MidSouth Peace and Justice Center
Judy Linehan, Military Families Speak Out
Kathy Kelly, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, co-founder - Voices For
Creative Non-Violence
Lindsey German, Convener - Stop the War Coalition (UK)
Michael Letwin, Co-Convener - New York City Labor Against the War
Nick Mottern, National Director - Consumers for Peace
Nada Khader, Executive Director, Wespac Foundation
Norman Solomon, Author of "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits
Keep Spinning Us to Death"
Paola Pisi, professor of religious sciences (Italy) and editor of
www.uruknet.info
Phil Gasper, Chair - Department of Philosophy & Religion, Notre Dame
de Namur University, Professors for Peace
Sharon Smith, author of "Women and Socialism : Essays on Women's
Liberation"
Stan Goff, Master Sergeant Retired, US Army
Sunny Miller, Executive Director - Traprock Peace Center
Tim Baer, Director - Bloomington Peace Action Coalition
Tim Carpenter, National Director - Progressive Democrats of America
Ward Reilly, SE National Contact - Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
Veterans for Peace, Baton Rouge
*Affiliations are for identification purposes only.
