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Protest Exxon-Mobil May 28 in Dallas

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Brent Herndon will appear on KNON radio's "Workers Beat" program 8-9 am on Wednesday, May 21. 89.3 FM to share our report from the Jobs with Justice conference. On May 28, the same program will feature regular reports from the Exxon-Mobil protest downtown.

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ExxonMobil shareholders will gather at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas on May 28. The media extensively covers this event, and it is a good time to voice concerns about how the largest energy company in the world is affecting people's lives and the planet.

A coalition of environmental, faith and peace organizations are planning environmental justice hearings, news conferences and a demonstration to increase shareholder and public awareness about ExxonMobil's irresponsible pollution and how it is causing illness and death, and destroying quality of life for people living in the Texas Gulf Coast.

The news conferences and demonstration also will seek to hold ExxonMobil accountable for it's contribution to global warming and lack of efforts to move toward clean, renewable energy. War profiteering and excess profits while consumers pay outreageous prices for gas also will be addressed.

Key messages: It's time to tell ExxonMobil . . . enough!

The Hearing:

We will invite state and national representatives to hear from experts and victims about the environmental justice issues related to ExxonMobil's emissions from refineries and chemical plants in the Texas Gulf Coast. The media will be invited to this event.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Munger Place United Methodist Church. 5200 Bryan St. Dallas TX 75206-7806
Proposed Agenda: 11 a.m. News Conference noon Lunch 1 p.m. Hearing

A news conference will be held on war-profiteering, excess profits and high gas prices, and ExxonMobil's lack of investment in clean renewable energy the morning of the ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting.

May 28, 2008 8 a.m. In front of Meyerson Symphony Center
Demonstration: The entire coalition, victims of refinery pollution and high cost of gas, as well all in favor of ending war will gather with banners to loudly voice objections to the ExxonMobil is doing business. We will say: ExxonMobil Enough!

Coalition members include:
Dallas Peace Center
Consumers for Peace
CLEAN (Citizens League for Environmental Action Now)
Many concerned individuals

How you can participate:

We need your help in making these efforts a sucess. The coalition has a phone conference every Friday at 4 pm. You can participate in that meeting or just let us know how you want to participate.
We need funding to pay administration of all the details involved in creating this event. We also need to pay for transportation and housing for people who are travel from the Texas Gulf Coast to tell their story as well as others who are coming in to participate.
We also need volunteers to help organize the event and participate at the hearing, the news conference and at the demonstration. We need to get a very large crowd to the demonstration.

Contact: Vicki Wolf phone: 214-354-5977 :vicki@vickiwolf.net

Brent Herndon is heading up Jobs with Justice support for this action. He writes:

GET OUT AND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
May 28 8 a.m.
Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX

You! Take the day off from work, bring your friends, bring your family, this protest will be covered on all the news stations around the world because all the world is outraged!

AND HERE'S TEN REASONS why YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED TO:
10. Exxon-Mobil has long maintained that it is an oil company and that renewable technologies should be left to renewable energy companies!

9. The Rockefeller family, who own major shares of the company, has asked Exxon-Mobil to make a transition to renewable energy, but has lacked any progress in an era of soaring profits.

8.Exxon-Mobil has repeatedly ignored a resolution to explicitly prohibit employee discrimination based on sexual orientation!

7.Exxon-Mobil is currently in a court debacle with the Venezuelan government to claim $12 billion from the already-struggling Venezuelan economy.

6.One major contribution to the hike in gas prices was a recent union protest by oil workers in Nigeria that demanded Exxon-Mobil pay them 25% more and improve the working conditions!

5.Recent violence in Nigeria from members of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta movement have demanded that Exxon-Mobil's oil revenues from the region be redirected to the Nigerian economy to help improve schools, hospitals, and living conditions!

4.In 2006, Exxon-Mobil's CEO Lee Raymond was given a $400 MILLION retirement package, which U.S. Congressman Byron Dorgan of North Dakota called, "a shameful display of greed!"

3.Exxon-Mobil makes $1,385 per SECOND, and they just reported their highest quarterly earnings ever in December 2007 at $11.66 BILLION!

2. Exxon-Mobil has made $39 BILLION in profit off the Iraq war alone! Of which $4.2 BILLION comes directly from the Pentagon! One petition floating around the internet DEMANDS that this money be given to war victims!

1. AND YOU! YOU'RE PAYING $4.00 AT THE PUMP! DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D SEE THE DAY?
GET OUTRAGED!

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The Meyerson Symphony Center is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas at the Intersection of Pearl and Flora Streets. The street address is 2301 Flora St. Dallas, TX 75201.
When traveling from the North or South on I-35 Stemmons Freeway, exit onto Eastbound Woodall Rogers Freeway (to I-45 Houston) and then exit Pearl St. At the first light, the Meyerson will be to your left.
When traveling from the Southeast on I-45, exit at Main/Elm St. and take Elm St. at the split. At the first light, turn right. This will become Pearl St. Follow Pearl to Flora and the Meyerson will be to your right.
When traveling from the East on I-30, follow signs for I-75, (to Sherman) and stay in the right lane to exit I-35 (to Denton) and then exit St. Paul. Cross over Woodall Rogers Freeway, and take an immediate left on the eastbound Woodall Rogers service Road. At the third light take a right on Pearl St. The Meyerson will be on your left.
When traveling from the West on I-30, stay in the left lane taking I-35 North (to Denton). Exit onto Eastbound Woodall Rogers Freeway (to I-75 Sherman) and then exit Pearl Street. At the first light, the Meyerson will be to your left.
When traveling from the North on I-75, Central Expressway, exit to westbound Woodall Rogers Freeway (I-35 Waco) then take the first exit Pearl Street. At the light, turn left onto Pearl, crossover the freeway and the Meyerson will be to your left.
When traveling from the North on the North Dallas Tollway, stay in the left lanes after the last tollbooth plaza. Take Harry Hines downtown to Pearl Street and the Arts District. The Meyerson will be on your left at Pearl and Flora.

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