[Peace] Caterpillar Shareholder Meeting Protest in Chicago, Wed. 6/10

[Stuart Levy]

Via IL Coalition for Justice, Peace & the Environment (to which AWARE belongs):

The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
is organizing a demonstration at Caterpillar's stockholder meeting
in Chicago on Wed. June 10th.  ...


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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:56:01 -0500
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Subject: New Action (ICJPE) - Caterpillar Shareholder Meeting Protest
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ACTION NAME: Caterpillar Shareholder Meeting Protest

DATES: Jun  10, 2009 through Jun  10, 2009

ORGANIZATION: Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine

MORE INFO: www.endtheoccupation.org

DESCRIPTION: Protest at Caterpillar Shareholder Meeting

Wednesday, June 10, 12:30 PM
Northern Trust Bank – 50 South La Salle Street Chicago
International Day of Action Against Caterpillar, Inc.
Mobilization at the Caterpillar Shareholder’s Meeting


Caterpillar bulldozers are a symbol of the destruction that military occupation
has brought to Palestine and Israel. Caterpillar sells armor plated D-9 and D-11
bulldozers to the Israeli government. These machines are used to demolish
Palestinian homes, uproot olive trees, build illegal settlements and the
apartheid wall.

Since 1967, Caterpillar bulldozers have destroyed 12,000 civilian homes in the
Palestinian Occupied Territories, leaving over 50,000 men, women and
children homeless. The bulldozers have crushed several people to death
including Washington state native Rachel Corrie.

Human rights organizations, members of the Office of the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights,
religious and social justice organizations and the victims themselves have
called on Caterpillar to investigate the ethics of selling
bulldozers that are used to commit human rights abuses. This not only violates
international law but Caterpillar’s own corporate code of ethics.

On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, Caterpillar shareholders will meet again in
Chicago. Join human rights advocates across the country in using
Caterpillar's annual shareholder meeting to draw attention to Cat's crimes in
Palestine/Israel and call for corporate accountability!

Ask the shareholders to vote YES on resolution 5.
For more information www.endtheoccupation.org

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