NYC demo: UNOCAL

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Well done One and All. Thank you for your effor and sending the message
out loud and clear. ds
> 
> To all Burmese Democratic friends,
> 
>       Today 11/12/99, We, New Yorkers, Democratic Burmese students, and all
> American activist groups joined together in front of the Plaza Hotel at 5th
> Avenue and 59th Street corner, Manhattan, New York. Our demonstrated against
> UNOCAL U.S Oil Company's share holder meeting. We are protesting against
> UNOCAL because they doing business with Burmese military junta. Their deal
> with Burmese Military dictators will strengthen military dictatorship and
> destroy our democracy movements and our national resources and environments.
> 
> Summary
>           Unocal, a California Oil corporation, is involved in a
> joint-venture signed a contract with junta to extract and transport natural
> gas using a pipeline from the undersea Yadana field located off Burma's
> coast. Pipeline crosses from southern Burma to neighboring Thailand. UNOCAL
> is a 28.26% shareholder in this project.
> The pipeline of the gas run for 218 miles, 41 miles cuts across southern
> Burma's Tenasserim region to Thailand. The pipeline area is the homeland of
> the Karan, Mon and Tavoyan peoples. These ethnic minorities have been under
> attack by the junta's troops which are seeking to suppress rebellion and use
> civilian for forced labor on army projects. To completely control the
> pipeline region, thousnad of people have been forcibly relocated and their
> homes and farms destroyed by the junta's troops. This project is connected
> to some of Burma's worst human rights violations. The pipeline traverse
> through a variety of ecosystems including dense tropical forest, disrupting
> the habitat of rare animals such as tigers, rhinos and elephants. This
> entire region is a war zone due to the ethnic peoples need to defend
> themselves against SPDC ( Burmese Junta ) ataacks, making the region highly
> unstable. This project destroyed wetland areas and demolished a wide swath
> of forest. UNOCAL are accountable for this environmental destruction, and
> are showing disrespect to local people. Unocal and others parters{ Total of
> France with 32.24%, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand with 25.5%, and the
> Myanmar(BURMESE)Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) with 15% }  will get $400
> million annually from Thailand for the this project.
> 
>        We started our demo at from 1:00 Pm: to 2:30 Pm:. We chanted slogans
> as follows:
> 
>             UNOCOL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA
>             UNOCAL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA
>             UNOCAL UNOCAL- GET OUT FROM BURMA
> 
>             FREE FREE FREE BURMA
>             FREE FREE FREE BURMA
>             FREE FREE FREE BURMA
> 
>             UNOCAL, YOUR DOLLARS ARE SUPPORTING DICTATORSHIP
>             UNOCAL DESTROYS RAIN FORESTS
>             UNOCAL DESTROYS PEOPLE IN BURMA
>             UNOCAL WHERE ARE YOUR ETHICS?
>             UNOCAL STOP THE PIPELINE PROJECT UNTIL WE GET DEMOCRACY
> 
>            And also we hand out flyers
> 
>        UNOCAL + BURMESE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP = HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE &
>       ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION  Flyers from Los Angeles Burma Forum
> 
>       Imagine waking up in a country where...... from Free Burma
>        Coalition
> 
>     Our protest ended in 2:30 Pm:. We are expressing to UNOCAL Oil company
> that the position against corporate investment in Burma until we restored
> democracy and human rights in Burma.
> 
> Regards,
> Looking forward to Democratic Burma.
> 
> Ko Zaw Win
> New York.
> 
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