Chevron bars shareholders from meeting, 5 arrested

Today, Chevron changed and bent its own policies and corporate governance laws to once again avoid accountability for its actions across the world. Its reprehensible silencing of 30 voices of dissent from The True Cost of Chevron Network at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, leaves no doubt as to the falsehood of Chevron’s “commitment” to hold an open and inclusive dialogue about their environmental and human rights policies and their consequences on the impacted peoples and communities.

All 30 individuals who were denied their right to participate in the meeting held validly executed proxy statements granting them permission to do so. Almost half of these individuals were indigenous peoples who traveled here from countries as far away as Burma, Australia, Ecuador and Nigeria to express their concerns about Chevron’s policies and consequences directly to shareholders, but only two had the opportunity to do so. To add insult to injury, one of these compañeras was removed from the meeting and arrested after being allowed in just for daring to speak the truth about what Chevron is really doing to her country’s people and land.

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