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Top 6 to Boycott

How much have G.W. Bush and John Kerry received so far?

(Source: www.opensecrets.org; Date of last report: October 13, 2004)

Presidential Candidate

George W. Bush (R)
President
Total Receipts: $360,651,752

Presidential Candidate

John Kerry (D)
U.S. Senator (Massachusetts)
Total Receipts: $317,788,245

TOP 6 to boycott: contributions to Republicans and Democrats 1999-2004

(29th Oct. 04; Source: www.opensecrets.org)

The following figures are based on the official information provided by The Federal Election Commission of the United States. This information is available on the web site of the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org), a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy:

TOP 1	Altria Group	Source
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs
2004	988247	403940	583057	41%	59%
2002	4062175	935905	3126270	23%	77%
2000	3880651	722197	3157754	19%	81%
2000 - 2004	8931073	2062042	6867081	23	77
		$2.060.000	$6.860.000	23%	77%
TOP 2	Exxon Mobil	Source
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs
2004	550717	63495	485722	12%	88%
2002	1180246	108950	1070846	9%	91%
2000	1391955	144550	1242705	10%	89%
2000 - 2004	3122918	316995	2799273	10	90
		$310.000	$2.800.000	10%	90%
TOP 3	ChevronTexaco	Source
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs	Link
2004	390081	66101	323980	17%	83%
2002	1307081	328481	978600	25%	75%
2000	1565826	423872	1140954	27%	73%
2000 - 2004	3262988	818454	2443534	25	75
		$810.000	$2.440.000	25%	75%
TOP 4	PepsiCo Inc
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs	Links
2004	262199	89147.66	170429.35	34%	65%	Source
2002	1324326	225135.42	1099190.58	17%	83%	Source
2000	852255	144883.35	707371.65	17%	83%	Source
2000 - 2004	2438780	459166.43	1976991.58	19	81
		$460.000	$1.970.000	19%	81%
TOP 5	Coca-Cola Co
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs	Links
2004	263004	92051.4	170952.6	35%	65%	Source
2002	849208	356667.36	492540.64	42%	58%	Source
2000	779753	389876.5	389876.5	50%	50%	Source
2000 - 2004	1891965	838595.26	1053369.74	44	56
		$830.000	$1.050.000	44%	56%
TOP 6	McDonald's
Election Cycle	Total Contributions	Dems	Repubs	% to Dems	% to Repubs	Links
2004	277314	55462.8	221851.2	20%	80%	Source
2002	270994	62328.62	208665.38	23%	77%	Source
2000	466787	98025.27	368761.73	21%	79%	Source
2000 - 2004	1015095	215816.69	799278.31	21	79
		$210.000	$790.000	21%	79%

ExxonMobil/Esso

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Exxon is responsible for the fact that Bush did not sign the Kyto-treaty, Exxon is also a big donor of the Republican Party. This company is also responsible for a part of the CO2-polution.

Name: ExxonMobile

Chairman and CEO: Lee R. Raymond

Postal address: 25 East John W Carpenter Freeway Irving TX75062-2298 USA

Phone number: not known

Fax number: not known

Website: http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/

Email address: postmaster@exxon.com

Important date(s): In 2001, the President of the United States Council for International Business(USCIB), from which ExxonMobile is a member, did write a letter to President Bush in which he asked US Government for the withdrawal of Kyoto.

Activities: exploration and production of oil and gas to the manufacturing and marketing of fuels, lubes and chemicals.

Bush donor: ExxonMobile is one of the sponsors of Bush. They are sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, ExxonMobile have given US$2.800.000 to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Involved in oil production in Malaysia, Chile, Indonesia, Colombia, and elsewhere.

Damaging the environment: In March 1989 the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground and broke open, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound, Alaska. The US National Transportation Safety Board, investigating the causes of the spill, partly blamed the "higher-ups"at the Exxon Shipping Company for poor management. It also criticised the Alaska pipeline consortium, of which Exxon is a partner, for it's 'massive failure' in reposonse to the spill, which greatly contributed to its severity.

Five reasons to hate ExxonMobile:
1. Esso/ExxonMobil tries to convince the public that global warming isn't happening even though Esso/ExxonMobil is one of its main causes. It spends millions of dollars on misleading propaganda every year.
2. Esso/ExxonMobil has played a leading role in sabotaging international attempts to stop global warming. It would rather sell more petrol than protect future generations.
3. Esso/ExxonMobil doesn't believe renewable energy has a future. "With no readily available economic alternatives on the horizon, fossil fuels will continue to supply most of the world's energy needs for the foreseeable future." --Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO, 1997
4. Esso/ExxonMobil is the biggest oil company in the world - its profits totalled more than US$12 billion in 2000. If anyone can afford to help stop global warming it's Esso/ExxonMobil.
5. Esso/ExxonMobil was one of the main financial contributors to George Bush's election campaign. As soon as George Bush became president, he announced that the US would pull out of international agreements to stop global warming - exactly the position that Esso/ExxonMobil was promoting. http://www.stopesso.org/background?text_id=whyesso

ExxonMobil and the pro-war lobby groups:

ExxonMobil has a record of funding right-wing industry front groups who lobby on their behalf to 'protect US business' and keep the US addicted to oil. It is no coincidence that many of these groups have an analysis of foreign policy that leads them to lobby for an attack on Iraq.

the American Enterprise Institute - a 'think tank' to whom ExxonMobil donated $230,000 in 2001.

Another pro-war front group funded by ExxonMobil is the Heritage Foundation, who received $65,000 from ExxonMobil in 2001.

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies received $135,000 in ExxonMobil funding in 2001.

In 2001 ExxonMobil also gave $20,000 to the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. http://www.stopesso.com/pdf/tigerinthetanks.pdf

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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ChevronTexaco

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Wherever they work, from Ecuador to Iraq, Nigeria and the US ChevronTexaco has demonstrated irresponsibility and lack of concern for public health, human rights, and the global environment. They have former director Condoleezza Rice on the inside and send millions every year to Bush Jr

Name: ChevronTexaco

Chairman and CEO: David J. O'Reilly

Postal address: ChevronTexaco Corporation, 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA

Phone number: +1 925 842 0050

Website: http://www.chevrontexaco.com/

Email address: comment@chevrontexaco.com

Important date(s): In 2001, Texaco merged with Chevron, forming the second largest energy company in the world.

Activities: ChevronTexaco is world's fourth largest oil company based in California, USA. They are drilling for oil in 24 countries, and their international holdings include refineries, petrochemical plants, and an international trading and transportation network. ChevronTexaco also owns gasoline stations and convenience stores around the world -14,000 in the U.S. alone. Operations continue in Colombia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Indonesia and elsewhere.

Bush donor: ChevronTexaco is sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, ChevronTexaco has given $2.440.000$US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org

Iraq War Profiteering: According to ChevronTexaco's own spokesman, "We still have an interest in Iraqi crude." Former CEO, Ken Derr said it best when he said, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to."

Lobbying against the Kyoto Protocol: Chevron and Texaco executives advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy. Parent company Texaco Inc is a member of the Global Climate Coalition.

Toxic Pollution: Wherever they work, ChevronTexaco has continued to place executive salaries and corporate profits over the health and safety of the community and workers. They have destroyed environment and contaminated local people with their toxic wastes in Richmond (California, USA), in Ecuadorian Amazone, in Nigeria, in Indonesia, and in the U.K.

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Chevron has no moral thoughts to work with dictatorial regimes in Burma, Haiti, and Nigeria

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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PHILIP MORRIS, KRAFT

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Altria is the new name for tobacco and food giants Phillip Morris and Kraft foods. Wherever they work, Altria has demonstrated irresponsibility and lack of concern for public health, human rights and the global environment.

Name: Altria (Philip Morris, Kraft Foods)

Chairman and CEO: Louis C. Camilleri

Postal address: Altria Corporate Services, Inc., 120 Park
Avenue, 19th fl., New York, NY 10017, USA

Phone number: +1-917-663-2144

Fax number: +1-917-663-5544

Website: http://www.altria.com/

Important date(s): Philip Morris acquired General Foods in 1985 and Kraft Foods in 1988. In April 2002, Philip Morris changed it's name into Altria, a corporate umbrella, this to have a distance from the controversy surrounding the tobacco industry.

Activities: Philip Morris produces seven of the top 20 best-selling international brands, including Marlboro, the world's top-selling cigarette brand, Lark, Chesterfield and L&M. Kraft Foods is the second-largest branded food and beverage company worldwide. It sells its products in more than 150 countries.

Bush donor: Altria is one of the top ten sponsors of Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, Altria has given 6.860.000 $US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org).

Lobbying against the FCTC: Philip Morris uses every resource at its disposal to block or weaken the World Health Organization's proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), who establishes an important precendent for international regulation of corporations that profit at the expense of our health, our environment and human rights such as the agribusiness, oil, pharmaceuticals, water and weapons industries.

Killing people: In high-income countries, 15.000 youth become addicted to tobacco every day, 84.000 in middle- and low-income countries. Tobacco is responsible for one death every ten seconds worldwide, killing nearly 5 million people every year. If current trends continue, tobacco will become the world's leading cause of death by 2030.

Aggravating world famine: The fertile land appropriated for the production of tobacco is enough to feed millions of people worldwide.

Chemical pollution: Tobacco growing can deplete the soil in 2 years and requires the heavy use of dangerous chemicals which contaminate our environment and put tobacco farmers at risk.

Exploiting child workers: The use of child labourers in tobacco production is widespread in major tobacco producing countries. Children are directly exposed to a cocktail of highly toxic agro-chemicals.

Deforestation: Tobacco is a major cause of deforestation. Worldwide, between 1.2 and 5.5 million ha. of forest - one in eight trees cut down in the world - is due to tobacco growing or curing. Clearing forests for tobacco production causes soil erosion and related ecological damage. Curing, - or drying out - by burning wood the harvested tobacco leaves from their natural green to the brownish colour seen in cigarettes, uses huge amounts of wood fuel, especially timber -- trees which could be used for cooking and heating by local peoples.

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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Pepsico (Pepsi Cola)

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Pepsico works in countries that have oppressive regimes, it uses animals to test nutronial studies, it's also a big sponsor of Bush.

Name: Pepsico

Chairman and CEO: Steven S Reinemund

Postal address: PepsiCo Inc. Anderson Hill Road Purchase N.Y. 10577 USA

Phone number: not known

Fax number: not known

Website: www.pepsico.com

Email address: postmaster@pepsi.com

Important date(s): Pepsico announced on 16 January that it's returning back to Iraq after 13 years.

Bush donor: Pepsico is one of the sponsors of Bush. They are sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, Pepsico have given 1.970.000$US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: The main criticism of PepsiCo Inc. is the fact that it operates in countries considered to be oppressive regimes. PepsiCo has subsidiaries in Burma, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey. It also has a joint venture in India and bottling plants in China. During the years of economic sanctions against South Africa, PepsiCo continued a sales and licensing agreement with a South African company. [The Ethical Consumer Guide to Everyday Shopping published by the Ethical Consumer Research Association. ]

Abusing animals: PepsiCo has in-house animal-testing facilities, where it conducts nutritional studies on laboratory rats. It also sponsors experiments to test the safety of certain ingredients. The Ethical Consumer Guide to Everyday Shopping published by the Ethical Consumer Research Association. http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/pepsico.html

Iraq war profiteering: Pepsico returns to Iraq after 13 years, because of the sanctions it could not do business in Iraq.

Multinational: PepsiCo Inc. operates in many countries considered to have oppressive regimes. It has subsidiaries in Burma, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey, bottling plants in China and during the years of economic sanctions against South Africa, continued a sales and licensing agreement with a South African company. PepsiCo owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, the world's largest quick-service chicken restaurant with outlets in 58 countries. KFC has been the focus of recent protests in India.PepsiCo is part of the food & drink industry.It is not only the specific practices of individual companies that cause problems. The attitudes created by the currrent system of exploitation gives power and profits to the few, at the expense of people, animals and the environment. It is important to expose the unethical practices of specific companies as their behaviour is often indicative of the entire system.

Press Cutting: Pepsi returns to Iraq after 13 years
By Cecile Feuillatre in Baghdad

BAGHDAD Soft Drinks chief executive officer Hamid Jassim Khamis has returned from New York and he is fizzing with excitement. After 13 years of UN sanctions his firm is back in the PepsiCo fold.

The US soft drinks giant signed a franchise agreement last week with Baghdad Soft Drinks, Iraq's leading producer, authorising it to produce and distribute Pepsi, Seven-Up and Mirinda in central Iraq. Baghdad Soft Drinks Company first became a Pepsi franchisee in 1984. However that relationship ended in 1990 when PepsiCo had to pull out of Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait and the imposition of international trade sanctions on Saddam Hussein's regime.

Agence France-Presse
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8407028%255E1702,00.html

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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Coca-Cola

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Coca-Cola sponsors Bush and does not care about human rights or the environment. In Columbia have union workers who bottle Coca Cola products been kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

Name: Coca-Cola

Chairman and CEO:Douglas Daft

Postal address: Coca-Cola Company P.O. Box Atlanta, GA, USA 30301

Phone number: not known

Fax number: not known

Website: www.cocacola.com

Email address: http://www2.coca-cola.com/mail/eQuery_other.html

Activities: Coca-Cola Company is known for it's drink Coca-Cola. Sprite, Fanta and other softdrinks are also owned by Coca-Cola.

Bush donor: Coca-Cola is one of the sponsors of Bush. They are sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, Coca-Cola have given 1.050.000$US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: http://www.opensecrets.org

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Coca Cola stand accused of complicity in the assassination of 8 Sinaltrainal trade union leaders in Colombia since 1990. Many other leaders have been imprisoned, tortured, forcibly displaced and exiled. Of course, Coca Cola deny any responsibility for the murders, pointing out that 100s of union leaders are killed every year in Colombia. However, many of Sinaltrainal's victims were killed inside Coca Cola plants while negotiating collective agreements. Coca Cola management were reported in the national press as meeting and contracting members of the AUC death squads to "sort out their labour problems".

Environmental damage: Coca-Cola has illegally occupied a portion of the common property resources of the village Mehdiganj(India) and was found guilty of evading payment of land revenue by a local court. Protesters were met at Coca-Cola's factory gates by about 200 police personnel, sent to "protect" the plant along with 50 gun-toting private security guards. This was not all for show-- the demonstrators were beaten up.

In yet another community, this time in Kudus village in Thane district, villagers are forced to travel long distances in search of water which has dried up in their area as a result of Coca-Cola's operations.

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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McDonalds

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?

Behind the smiling face of Ronald McDonald lies the reality - McDonald's only interest is money, making profits from whoever and whatever they can, demonstrating irresponsibility and lack of concern for public health, human and animal rights, and the global environment.

Name: McDonald's

Chairman and CEO: Jim Skinner

Postal address: McDonald's Corporation, One McDonald's Plaza, Oak Brook, IL 60521, USA.

Telephone: +1 (708) 575-3000

Website: http://www.mcdonalds.com/

Email address: postmaster@mcd.com

Important date(s): McDonald's Corporation, founded in 1955, opened its first restaurants outside of the USA in 1967. In 1993, McDonald's and Texaco opened a restaurant, convenience store and fueling facilities on a single site for the the busy consumer. In 1996, McDonald's and Disney announced a deal giving McDonald's exclusive rights to use characters from Disney films in its promotions around the world for 10 years.

Activities: McDonald's now has over 30.000 stores in 119 countries. The company claims it serves 47 million people a day and that a new store opens somewhere in the world every seven hours.

Bush donor: From 2000 till now, McDonald's has given 790.000 $US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 29th October 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org).

Promoting unhealthy food: McDonald's spend over two billion dollars each year on advertising its junk food - high in fat, sugar and salt, and low in fibre and vitamins. A diet of this type is linked with a greater risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Their food also contains many chemical additives, some of which may cause ill-health, and hyperactivity in children.

Murdering animals: The menus of McDonald's are based on the torture and murder of millions of animals. Most are intensively farmed, with no access to fresh air and sunshine, and no freedom of movement. Their deaths are barbaric. We have the choice to eat meat or not, but the billions of animals massacred for food each year have no choice at all.

Aggravating the world famine: McDonald's continually promote meat products, encouraging people to eat meat more often, which wastes more and more food resources. Vast areas of land in poor countries are used for cash crops or for cattle ranching, or to grow grain to feed animals to be eaten in the West. This is at the expense of local food needs.

Damaging the environment: McDonald's use beef reared on ex-rainforest land - vital for life- preventing its regeneration and forcing local people to move on to other areas and cut down further trees. Every year McDonald's use thousands of tons of unnecessary packaging, most of which ends up littering our streets or polluting the land buried in landfill sites.

Exploiting workers: McDonald's have always been opposed to Unions and exploit its more than one million mostly young employees around the world making them work harder and faster in poor safety conditions and paying them with low wages to keep profits high and wage costs low. Innovations to increase the workers' speed constantly are installed. Computerised machinery regulates the pace of work at each station to the precise second: each customer should be served within 180 seconds...

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Last update: 29th October 2004

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