Federation of Random Action Calls for a VR Sit-In on Occidental Petroleum - Feb 3, 2000

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FEDERATION OF RANDOM ACTION

CALLS FOR A VIRTUAL SIT-IN
ON
OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM
**( Oxy and CdnOxy )**


IN SUPPORT OF THE U’WA’S
CAMPAIGN TO STOP THEM.

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WHEN?

FEBURARY 3, 2000

FROM 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM (BOGATA, COLOMBIA )

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

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WHERE?

Europe:
http://www.lamtar.com/guest/%5b...%5d/fra/fidox/

U.S.A
http://www.this.is/etoy/fidox/


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WHY?

The U'wa of the Colombian cloud forest are in a
life-and-death struggle to protect their traditional culture
and sacred homeland from an oil project slated to begin
on their land at anytime. The U'wa are adamantly opposed
to the drilling and warn that the project will lead to an
increase in violence as seen in other oil regions of Colombia.
Despite this, Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum
and the Colombian government continue to move forward
with plans to drill. The U'wa have made a call for
international support; now is the time for us to answer.

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 DISCLAIMER

 FRA supports Uwa's campaign against Occidental Petroleum
( Oxy and CdnOxy ) and Rainforest Action Network ( ran.org ).
We have built a mirror site to their mailing action, so you can
send a fax  or a send mail as you can on RAN’s website.

http://www.ran.org

This Virtual Sit-In is independent of both RAN
and RAN’s mailing project.

Federation of Random Action movement is entirely
responsible for this Virtual Sit-In.


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URGENT COMMUNIQUE! Colombian Military Invades U'wa Land!

CALL AL GORE'S CAMPAIGNS HQ IN NEW HAMPSHIRE!
603-622-8303

AL GORE HAS HALF A  MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF
OCCIDENTAL STOCK.  DEMAND THAT HE USE BOTH
HIS PERSONAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE
TO DEMAND THAT THE COLOMBIAN MILITARY
AND OCCIDENTAL PULL OUT OF U'WA LAND!
(see article below)

FEB 3!  ORGANIZE AGAINST FIDELITY INVESTMENTS!
FIND THE NEAREST ONE TO YOU :

 http://personal400.fidelity.com/gen/centers/invstctr.html.tvsr

CALL YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM
TO VOTE AGAINST CLINTON'S $1.3 BILLION MILITARY
AID PACKAGE TO COLOMBIA

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK
1-800-989-RAIN

IF YOU ARE IN LOS ANGELES CALL ACTION RESOURCE CENTER
310-392-7656

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Communique from the U'wa People
January 20, 2000

URGENT URGENT URGENT
COMMUNICATION TO THE NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC
OXY INVADES U'WA TERRITORY
THE COLOMBIAN ARMY HAS 5000 AGENTS
IN THE SERVICE OF OCCCIDENTAL OIL

On January 19, 2000 more than 5,000 agents of the
Colombian Military, heavily armed, invaded our
traditional territory, exactly at Cedeno, where
Oxy's oil drilling site Gibraltar 1 is situated.
Faced with opposition presented by the U'wa people,
headed by our representative and indigenous
leader Roberto Cobaria, military forces declared
that "the oil will be extracted even over and above
the U'wa people." Also police forces were
dispatched to the zone for the security of
Occidental's engineers.

Since the 15th of November 1999, more than 250
U'wa people have occupied Cedeno, part of our
ancestral territory, resisting the exploitation brought
on by Oxy. Now we are being surrounded by the
5000 military agents and Colombian police who
have put at risk our physical integrity.

With this deed, Occidental and the Colombian
government are insisting on ignoring our territorial
rights over land we have occupied for thousands of
years. We are the owners of the territory on
which they aim to exploit petroleum, without
recognizing the constitutional rights of
community lands for our ethnic group which
are inalienable, non-negotiable, and irremovable,
protected by public laws over collective property.

In this way, the Colombian government headed
by the Minister of Mining and Energy with the
compliance of INCORA, in a shadowy process
is seeking to declare U'wa territory a special
petroleum reserve zone with the false argument
that the national petroleum industry is covered
by the law as a public utility or social interest,
with the sole purpose of permitting and
facilitating petroleum exploitation by the
multinational  corporation Occidental. We
are making an  urgent call to the national
and international community, and to all
groups who have  supported us, to mobilize
against this last attempt to trample upon the
U'wa nation,  which threatens our existence
and culture. WE U'WA WILL NOT CEDE
OUR CULTURAL, HISTORIC  AND ANCIENT
RIGHTS.  WE PREFER GENOCIDE SPONSORED
BY THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT RATHER
THAN HANDING OVER OUR MOTHER EARTH
TO OIL COMPANIES.


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Financial Times, 1/19/00
World News / Americas


Gore attacked over Colombia oil project
By Matthew Jones

Environmentalists and human rights activists
are accusing Al Gore, the US vice-president
and candidate for the Democratic party presidential
nomination, of hypocrisy over his shareholding
in an oil company prospecting in Colombian rainforests.

Mr. Gore has targeted the environmental and
human rights vote as part of his election campaign
and was last week rated "the most knowledgeable"
presidential candidate on green issues by the
influential League of Conservation Voters.

But the U'wa Defense Working Group, which
represents the U'wa indigenous tribe from the
north east of Colombia, says Mr. Gore is inextricably
linked with Occidental Petroleum, the US oil group
which plans to start drilling on its ancestral lands in
the next few months in search of an estimated 1.5bn
barrels of oil.

According to Mr. Gore's official Public
Financial Disclosure Report for 1998, the
latest information available, the vice-president
owned between $250,000 and $500,000 in
Occidental stock inherited from his father,
Albert Gore Sr., who died in 1998. Mr.
Gore Sr. became a board member of Occidental
Petroleum after losing his Senate seat in 1970.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, a
non-profit organization that analyses ethics
in politics, Ray Irani, the Occidental chief
executive, made a donation of $100,000 to
the Democratic National Committee in the
early 90s following a stay in the Lincoln Room
of the White House.

The campaign group is urging environmentalists
not to vote for Mr Gore and to protest about his
links to Occidental on the campaign trail.

Neither the White House nor Mr. Gore's campaign
team has responded to requests for comment.

Stephen Kretzmann, U'wa campaign co-ordinator
for Amazon Watch, a California-based environmental
group, said: "This will not look good for Al
Gore in the midst of an election campaign. It
is clear that he could stop the drilling with a
phone call and if he doesn't do something about this he
will lose the environmental and human rights vote."

The U'wa, who number 5,000, first hit the
headlines in 1996 when they threatened to
commit collective suicide if Occidental's
drilling plans were not halted.

The drill site falls 600m outside the legally
recognized U'wa Unified Reserve but the
tribe claims it is within larger, traditional
ancestral territory.

The UDWG claims development of the site
would be damaging to the tribe and the environment
because of the likely increase in oil-related violence
between different armed factions in the politically
unstable region.

It says Occidental's existing pipeline has been
attacked more than 600 times in the last 12
years leading to 2.1m barrels of crude oil
spilling into the soil and rivers, and that
U'wa members and humanitarian workers
have been killed or injured in the cross-fire.

Occidental said earlier this month that
it planned to start building roads to the test
site at the end of January and would sink
the first test well at the site in May.

Ken Hufmann, Occidental's vice-president
of investor relations, refused to comment
on Mr. Gore's stock holding in the company
or any political donations that it had made.

He would say only: "We're moving ahead
with plans to drill the well but I have
no specific dates."

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FEDERATION OF RANDOM ACTION’S

VIRTUAL SIT-IN ON
OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM
**( Oxy and CdnOxy )**

IN SUPPORT OF THE UWA’S
CAMPAIGN TO STOP THEM.

++++++++
WHEN?

FEBURARY 3, 2000

FROM 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM (BOGATA, COLOMBIA )

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

++++++++++
WHERE?

Europe:
http://www.lamtar.com/guest/%5b...%5d/fra/fidox/

U.S.A
http://www.this.is/etoy/fidox/


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                        -el subcomandante marcos, EZLN



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