{"id":7359,"date":"2013-05-29T00:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2013-05-31T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:36:01","slug":"protesters-rally-against-money-in-politics-environmental-impact-at-chevron-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/05\/29\/protesters-rally-against-money-in-politics-environmental-impact-at-chevron-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Protesters rally against money in politics, environmental impact at Chevron headquarters <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanramonexpress.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=7498\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7360\" alt=\"Protesters rally against money in politics, environmental impact at Chevron headquarters \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/130531_chevron.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Activists called on Chevron to refrain from political spending and oust CEO John Watson outside the company&#8217;s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning. A coalition of citizens&#8217; groups and non-governmental organizations chided the energy giant for failing to address human rights abuses at home and abroad. &#8220;Almost everyone who spoke (at the shareholders meeting) had some kind of a major beef with Chevron&#8217;s disclosure of what they spend on renewables, what they spend on politics, what they spend on the environment,&#8221; said Dublin resident Eloise Hamann, a member of MoveOn Council, one of the participating activist groups. &#8220;Money is the root of all evil in this country right now and getting money out of politics is about the only way that we&#8217;re going to control\u2026.Politicians are bought by big money and corporations.&#8221; While Hamann called the corporation&#8217;s answers to activist questions &#8220;glib,&#8221; Chevron Media Advisor Brent Tippen said the company appreciates the &#8220;positive and robust conversations we had in the shareholder meeting and we look forward to continuing those conversations.&#8221; &#8220;We always take into consideration the comments from the public,&#8221; Tippen said, adding that he could not speculate on any actions Chevron might take following meeting. &#8220;We&#8217;re just very glad to be able to have conversations on our business operations around the world as well as the many investments we make around the world.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanramonexpress.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=7498\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: Chevron\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanramonexpress.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=7498\" target=\"_blank\">San Ramon Express<\/a><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists called on Chevron to refrain from political spending and oust CEO John Watson outside the company&#8217;s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning. A coalition of citizens&#8217; groups and non-governmental organizations chided the energy giant for failing to address human rights abuses at home and abroad. &#8220;Almost everyone who spoke (at the shareholders meeting) had some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chevron","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}