29 jan 2002
new york
environmental, human rights, labor,
religious groups issue challenge to corporate
leaders at world economic forum
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) meets in
New York City, major national and
international organizations will challenge
corporate leaders meeting at the WEF to
support efforts to hold corporations
accountable for their actions
internationally.
The groups include Friends of the Earth
International, Oxfam America, Amnesty
International USA, Berne Declaration, and
Public Citizen.
In what is probably the biggest direct
challenge ever made to the corporate sector,
Friends of the Earth will deliver letters to
the 1200 corporate executives in the WEF
meeting challenging them to support binding
global rules for corporations.
WHAT:
PRESS CONFERENCE (AND PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
BEFORE)
WHEN:
PRESS CONFERENCE - THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 AT
10:30 A.M.
WHERE:
YWCA of the City of New York (YWCA-NYC),
53th & Lexington Avenue in Midtown
Manhattan 3 Blocks North of the
Waldorf-Astoria (610 Lexington Avenue -
Hitchcock/Rockefeller Auditorium)
WHO:
Tony Juniper, Vice-Chair, Friends of the
Earth International
Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the
Earth (United States)
Barbara Fiorito, Chair of the Board, Oxfam
America
Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive
Director, Amnesty International USA
Matthias Herfeldt, Public Eye on Davos
Coordinator, Berne Declaration,
Switzerland
Mike Dolan, Deputy Director, Public
Citizen's Global Trade Watch
and others
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY:
Let's play The Weakest Link! Special Edition
with Corporations! at 10:00 a.m. in front of
the Waldorf-Astoria
(We will be on the northern side of the
security cordon, if Park Avenue is closed. We
will proceed from there to the press
conference.)
10 Anne Robinsons dressed in black, some
carrying whips, will be outside the Waldorf
Astoria to meet and greet corporate
executives as they arrive at the World
Economic Forum. The Annes will say to
executives at the WEF *You are the Weakest
Link* and tell them that the strongest link
would be global rules to control
corporations.
INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA:
Mark Helm, Phone (202) 783-7400 Ext. 102,
Cell: (202) 270-3650,
mwhelm@foe.org
Carol Welch, Cell: (202) 491-3197,
cwelch@foe.org
David Waskow, Cell: (202) 258-1348,
dwaskow@foe.org
Colleen Freeman, Cell: (202) 422-3588,
cfreeman@foe.org
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