Oil Campaign

Organizing a grassroots base of communities and activists in the United States -- a resistance network opposing destructive activities of oil companies of worldwide.

Latest Updates: 

• OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM:
  The New Heavy Crude Pipeline in Ecuador: Fueling A Second Oil Boom in the Amazon
  Amazon Watch Mega-Project Alert
  468kb PDF download from www.amazonwatch.org
  

• CHEVRONTEXACO:
  COUNTDOWN: Mobilizations in San Francisco and Richmond
  Press Advisory and Facsheets on Oil and Globalization, November 9,10 2001
  

• EXXONMOBIL:
  "No to Corporate Rule: Support The Kyoto Protocol"
  Text of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria Press Briefing for ExxonMobil/Esso International Day of Action
  July 11, 2001
   
• COMMUNITY VOICES:
  The Kaiama Declaration
  Full text of declaration issued in December 1998 by Ijaw youth, decrying oppression and ecological devestation in the Niger Delta
   
• COMMUNITY VOICES:
  Obasanjo has Maltreated the Niger Delta
  interview with Mr. Oronto Douglas, deputy director, Environmental Rights Action
  from The Week
   
• POLITICS:
  Greasing The Machine: Bush, His Cabinet and their Oil Connections
  Drillbits & Tailings 6/30/2001
   
• SHELL:
  Good News: Shell Pulls out of National Park in Pakistan under International Pressure
  Drillbits & Tailings 5/17/2001
   
• SHELL:
  Oil and Gas Blow-out Underway at Shell Well in Ogoni
  MOSOP Demands Action, Denounces Shell's Attempts to Shift the Blame
  May 3, 2001
   
• NEWS:
  The True Cost of Oil: A Roundtable Discussion
  Democracy Now! radio program featuring Sarah James, Oronto Douglas, Amit Srivastava, Roberto Perez and others
  posted May 2, 2001
   
• POLITICS:
  Dirt on Dick Cheney?- Oil & Politics Do Mix
  updated January 2001
   
• U'WA STRUGGLE/OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM:
  Help Stop Drilling on U'wa Ancestral Lands:
  10 Things You Can Do for the U'wa
  (updated Jan. 2001)

Reports:

• Raiding the Treasure House: Oil and Mineral Extraction in China’s Colonization of Tibet
  Oil and Mineral Extraction in China’s Colonization of Tibet (Oct. 2000)
• The Real Price of Oil
  Info-poster (Sept. 2000)
• Shell Shocked
  The struggle of Ogoni refugees forced out of delta region of Southern Nigeria by Royal Dutch Shell (Dec. 1998)
• Visit the World of Chevron
  Informational poster on the Nigerian peoples struggle against Chevron and other oil companies in the Niger Delta (Mar. 2000)
• Drilling to the Ends of the Earth:
  The Ecological, Social, and Climate Imperative for Ending New Petroleum Exploration (Sept. 1998)
• Blood of Our Mother
  The U'wa People, Occidental Petroleum, and the Colombian Oil In (Aug. 1998)
• 1997 Independent Annual Report on Shell
  

Coalitions & Allies:

• OilWatch
  
  • Endorse Oilwatch's Global Vision on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
  • Kyoto Oilwatch Declaration (Dec. 1997)
     
• U'wa Defense Working Group
   
• Environmental Rights Action 

ExxonMobil:

Indonesian Military Continues Its Brutal Counterinsurgency War in the Oil-Rich Province of Aceh: A Conversation with a Leading Activist from his Prison Cell
Democracy Now! radio program
July 17, 2001


Backgrounder on ExxonMobil Activities Aceh
"Dark ages of a fortune 500 company"
June 28, 2001
The Atjeh Times and International Forum for Aceh