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Please join me in signing this petition demanding that Chevron stop bankrolling the Myanmar military.

As Myanmar’s generals look for revenues to prop up their new dictatorship following the February 1 coup, there’s one source of money they can count on: natural gas projects backed by foreign investors including France’s Total and Chevron of the US, South Korea’s Posco and Malaysia’s Petronas.

Myanmar earns close to US$1 billion a year from natural gas sales. Much of this money is not paid directly from oil companies to the government. It flows through Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), a state-owned enterprise with deep links to the military’s business empire. Alarmingly, the recent military coup places MOGE and the rest of the government under direct military control.

Chevron is the largest U.S. corporate investor in Burma (Myanmar). In partnership with Total of France and the Burmese government-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), Chevron owns the Yadana gas field and pipeline that generates billions of dollars for the Burmese government. In March 2015, Chevron entered into an additional production sharing contract with MOGE to explore in the Rakhine Basin off the coast of Rakhine State.

No Business With Genocide joins Justice For Myanmar in calling for all businesses with commercial ties to MOGE to immediately stop bankrolling the Myanmar military. The people of Myanmar have mobilised against dictatorship through a national campaign of civil disobedience and boycotts against military-owned products. Even MOGE's own staff are publicly protesting.

We must back up the peoples of Myanmar in their struggle against the Myanmar military dictators.

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Thank you for taking action to urge Chevron to stop immediately bankrolling the Myanmar military dictatorship.

The people of Myanmar have mobilized against dictatorship through a national campaign of civil disobedience and boycotts against military-owned companies. Even MOGE's own staff are publicly protesting. But we need now to pressure Chevron until it stops bankrolling the Myanmar military.

Please share this action widely!

Please share our petition on your social media and send your friends this link: https://bit.ly/nochevron

Follow up your action by contacting Chevron directly.

Leave protest messages on the social media of Chevron and Total. Here's a sample message for you to adapt and post.

I will boycott you until you stop the flow of money from the Yadana Project in Myanmar to the Burmese military junta. Learn the truth about Chevron and Total in Myanmar here: https://bit.ly/nochevron

Like their Facebook pages and regularly post protest messages
- https://www.facebook.com/Chevron/
- https://www.facebook.com/TotalEnergiesUSA
Follow Chevron on LinkedIn and send its employees protest messages through connection requests
Post on their Instagram pages
Call out Chevron on Twitter @Chevron
Call out Total on Twitter @Total

Do you want to organize a demonstration at your local Chevron office or gas station? If so, contact Mike Haack at mike.haack@newmyanmar.org

Like the Coalition Against Chevron in Myanmar - Stop Paying Myanmar Military Facebook page for up-to-date news and campaign materials.

Thank you for your support! With your help, we can stop corporations from bankrolling the genocidal Myanmar military dictatorship.

Simon Billenness, Alyson Chadwick, and Mike Haack

No Business With Genocide

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For more information:

Khin Ohmar of Progressive Voice moves a shareholder resolution at Chevron's annual shareholder meeting, 26 May 2021

"Chevron Lobbies to Head Off New Sanctions on Myanmar," New York Times, 22 April 2021

"Open letter: Chevron's business operations in Myanmar," 23 March 2021

"How Oil and Gas Majors Bankroll the Myanmar Military Regime," Justice For Myanmar, 8 February 2021

"Total Impact: The Human Rights, Environmental, and Financial Impacts of Total and Chevron’s Yadana Gas Project in Military Ruled Burma (Myanmar)," EarthRights International, September 2009

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