Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:42:05 -0700
From: Michael Givel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Conference: Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
A MOVEMENT FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM:
LAUNCHING THE STUDENT ALLIANCE TO REFORM CORPORATIONS -- STARC
NOVEMBER 5-7, YALE UNIVERSITY
1000 students will gather on November 5th, 1999 at Yale to
articulate the principles of a new movement demanding environmental
and social justice from corporations. We will launch a unified campaign
for more socially responsible investing at our schools.
Most of the money spent by you or for you goes to your university. Your
university invests its money in corporations like Lockheed Martin, which
manufactures landmines, Walmart, which forces under-age garment
manufacturers to work up to 24 hour shifts, Chevron, which colludes with
Nigeria's oppressive military regime, Philip Morris, which hooks
teen-agers on cigarettes, and Home Depot, which sells off rainforest
wood
and some of the last old growth in the US. Most universities blindly
support corporate management, resisting greater representation of women,
minorities, and lesbians and gays in the workforce and at the executive
level.
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How to get involved:
To keep hearing from STARC about the movement and the conference e-mail
Josh Glasstetter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to
www.onelist.com/subscribe/studentsforchange
We have two full-time organizers and over ten part-time organizers for
the
conference already! Join us--we need:
--coordinators at school, state and regional levels. (Contact Ben
Seigel,
(203) 865-8628 [EMAIL PROTECTED], or Jonah Zern (607)275-9327,
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
--People to work on media, outreach, workshops, fundraising, speakers,
and entertainment (Call Terra Lawson-Remer at (203)562-6909 or e-mail
her
at
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
To get more involved in the planning of the conference subscribe to our
discussion
listserv by e-mailing Josh Glasstetter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or going to
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/planningandstrategy.
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Put your mouth where your money is: raise your voice for more ethical
investment practices on your campus! Investing ethically does not mean
that your school will have less to give back to you for your tuition.
Students around the country are often simply asking their schools to use
their votes and voices within corporations to reform corporate
practices.
Some schools are already switching parts of their endowments to socially
and environmentally screened funds that consistently have higher returns
than Standard & Poor's 500 index of large-capitalization stocks.
Corporations are the point of intersection in a system of power that
promotes environmental destruction, perpetrates human rights abuses
abroad, perpetuates class, race, and gender discrimination at home, and
systematically exploits workers worldwide. The economic strength of many
transnationals dwarfs the GNP of a medium size country. Corporate
business
practices have a profound effect on the daily lives of people around the
globe.
Before the 1890s, United States corporation's charters used to be
revoked
for egregious crimes against society. As recently as the late 80's,
university divestment from South Africa helped end apartheid. With your
help, we can challenge and reform the corporate power structure in the
new
century.
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