TOP 10 REASONS TO TAKE THE MORNING/DAY OFF AND PROTEST HALLIBURTON MAY 19
1. BRINGING HOME THE HALLI-BACON. Pig snouted activists, corporate pigs-pockets and Pigaseus the massive floating pig will be out in front of
Halliburton's Annual Shareholders Meeting at the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Houston on the morning of May 19. It will be a veritable barnyard of resistance. Here’s some of what we’ll be protesting …
2. CRONYISM RUN AMOK. Halliburton’s Iraq contracts are valued at an astounding $9 billion. Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney continues to receive annual payments from Halliburton in excess of $178,000. And Halliburton’s campaign contributions between 1999 and 2002 – 95% of which went to Republicans – totaled more than $700,000.
3. RIPPING OFF IRAQIS. Halliburton was supposed to rebuild Iraq’s oil production infrastructure, but here we are a year after a war in which there were very few oil well fires, and Halliburton is delivering gas at fraudulent prices to a country that has the second largest amount of oil in the world.
4. HALLIBURTON: POSTER CHILD OF FRAUD AND CORRUPTION. Halliburton’s pattern of fraud and corruption has been so pervasive that the Defense Department recently asked the Justice Department to investigate Halliburton for possible criminal wrongdoing related to its Iraq contracts. Among other things, Halliburton has been accused of overcharging $61 million for fuel transported to Iraq from Kuwait and has repaid the Pentagon $27.4 million in overcharges for food that was never served to U.S. troops. In January, the company admitted that two employees involved in Iraq work took kickbacks worth $6.3 million from Kuwaiti contractors.
5. DOING BUSINESS WITH DICTATORS, INCLUDING SADDAM HUSSEIN. Under then-CEO Dick Cheney, Halliburton did business with Saddam Hussein during the 1990's and then received the first no-bid contracts from Hussein's arch-nemisis, the Bush Administration, to do business in the "new" Iraq.
6. NO REGIME IS TOO BRUTAL OR CORRUPT TO BE A HALLIBURTON BUSINESS PARTNER. Halliburton also does business with the ruthless regime in Burma. The company continues to do business with Iran, a member of the administration’s own so-called “axis of evil,” and with Libya. In Nigeria, Halliburton is under investigation in a massive bribery scandal.
7. RIPPING OFF U.S. TAXPAYERS. Whistleblowers have come forward to expose the company’s reckless waste of taxpayer dollars as a result of “cost-plus” contracts in Iraq, where the more the company spends, the more it makes.
8. TAX-DODGING. In Their Patriotic Fervor, they forgot to mention.... Thanks to offshore tax havens, this multi-billion-dollar company pays a scant $15 million a year in taxes.
9. SOLIDARITY FOREVER – WITH HALLIBURTON AND IRAQI WORKERS. Halliburton and its subsidiaries operate as a non-union company in the U.S. Of roughly 530 locations, only ten sites have workers under union contract. In Iraq, in an attempt to keep Iraqi workers from organizing, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root contracted with a Kuwaiti company to rebuild the Bargeseeya Oil Refinery in Southern Iraq. KBR then imported 70% of the workers from abroad. Poor conditions exist at a number of Halliburton/KBR oil reconstruction projects in Iraq.
10. JUSTICE FOR THE WAR PROFITEERS. It's time to take back your country and democracy. As Halliburton and other corporations are invading and occupying Iraq, poll after poll is showing that the American people are fed up with corporations manipulating the political system and having too much influence in all aspects of our lives. Now they have brought about a senseless war and brutal occupation costing hundreds of American lives and thousands of Iraqi lives. The time is now to mobilize and bring justice to the war profiteers!!
JOIN US ON MAY 19! For more information, see
http://users2.ev1.net/~geosynch/reasons.htm
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